Building the live rig

Two flight cases, eleven drum machines and one very patient sound engineer.

Written by Rosa Abara, Synths, production · Oct 20, 2026 · 1 min read · Updated Oct 28, 2026

Every show on this tour is played live: no laptop playback, just drum machines, synths and whatever Rosa remembers to bring.

What breaks

Something breaks every night. In Glasgow, UK it was a power strip. We played the last twenty minutes on one synth and the crowd didn't notice.

The mistakes are where the new tracks come from.
Rosa

Tide Engine is the record we made from those mistakes. The merch table has it on 12 inch, and Jonah has the glow ink tees.