On 30th of December, just to say goodbye to the previous year adequately, and eager to play in my home country after a long while, I've accepted the invitation from a friend of mine Nenad Markovic, trumpet player and improviser, to play a gig in Novi Sad. It was organized by amazing people behind the name of Improstor Novi Sad . They've started series of concerts of experimental music in August this year, and this was 11th one in the row. So, I started preparing a bit more than a week before the concert, when we determined the date and all.

After working for a while on a piece which was supposed to be performed in Belgrade Philharmonic Hall on 26th of December - Daily routines, but was cancelled due to lost of my suitcase and some instrument inside, I have continued working in the same direction and developing ideas of sound as an object, sound objects etc. So I knew that I'm gonna use my computer, a controller (nano kontrol which I had with me), but needed to extract sound into couple more objects. 
One of them was my first serious circuit-bend ever, an old friend's (forgive me Senka:)), CD player. It was a perfect time (Christimas time), to buy "my dad" a new, fabulous black & decker soldering iron, and so I played with it for days. Touching the wires here and there until I found some beautiful two noises which can be played on top of a cd which is running. The sound went through one home-made speaker and changed on a mixer between that one and line out (which was going to loudspeakers).
Another electronic thing on the cover of a box is my nephew's toy-beeper which I used to start my concert. I connected the wires so that it loops whenever you put the batteries in, and at the same time, there's the LED-light looping. I was playing with the batteries so they were sending different current and loop was randomized rhythmically. I liked the idea of starting with it to get people's attention (something like S.O.S. or some alarm signal), than switching to a bigger speaker from the CD player, than to loudspeakers.

Track on a CD was totally minimalistic, material is made of feedbacks from my computer + some pure data patch I recorded using Hijack (for the previous piece actually, Daily routines), and in the style of some ppl I really started to like recently (Mattin, Phillip Julian, etc.). Here are the short extracts of the sounds I've used:

Than there's the obligatory PD patch.

It's nothing more than a sampler and one midi-random pitch and rhythm sending channel. I used it to sample individual instruments from Reaktor and to play some existing samples. Reaktor, I've used for the first time and I was very satisfied with the possibilities, and even used it quite simplified since I didn't have more time to develop the instruments but to explore the existing ones.

That's mostly it, I've just added couple of knobs and faders which I controlled with nano kontrol so that I could change parameters or send some MIDI ins.

One more object that I used in order to divide the sound picture into parts, was a small amplifier which I borrowed from a friend who runs a music shop in my hometown and has bunch of really cool stuff. I used it with some glitch-kinda samples played through (as well borrowed) mp3 player. It was placed close to ("inside of") the audience, on the floor. It sounds quite cool and loud for a small thing like this.

I was quite happy to improvise with all these things I've made in such a short while, and I felt very free to even change the form that I pre-planned, directed by the attention of the audience which was more than satisfactory. It was some 30minutes set, and I felt I could have played even longer, but there was another free-impro set that I did after with Nenad (trumpet) and another PD patch I've used to process and sample him in various ways. More about this one comes with the writing on Daily routines, since I've used some parts and processes from that patch/piece.