Local musician Jonathan Crayford recently completed a project that is very intriguing: “44 Pianos was a filmed and recorded performance project that was the product of being in a piano store that contained a very large number of pianos, which…
Music of Wires – part 2
This diagram & idea deserves its own post (thanks heaps to moongold for sharing!) – its a great site worth further investigation! I can tell you right now, if I had followed in my Dads footsteps I would own a…
Attack of the Solenoids!
CDM has a great image of a solenoid powered physical sequencer which amongst other things has a great physical representation of quantizing, almost like a blocky moire pattern. When I was searching for info on the music of wires post…
Music of Wires
When I was a kid there was a fairly corny ad on TV for some kind of drugs for sheep (drench) that featured farmers playing a tune on a wire fence & after a bit of a search I managed…
1980s interview with Brian Eno
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm36ZxJboUI Interview with Brian Eno on media and music. Edited by Denise Gallant for Video West, San Francisco KQED show, 1980s. Hee hee love the bit about idiot glee!
My First Cwejman
Just got my first dose of Cwejman: an ai2 module arrived today (thanks to Shawn!) & I am certain it won’t be my last, such is the reputation of certain Swedish evolution…. While it may not look like something revolutionary,…
RadiOM
The name RadiOM might sound like an FM station for meditation but is in fact an archive associated with the Other Minds site. No clearer? Well to quote: “Other Minds is a global New Music community where composers, students, and…
Live Looper #5 – David Ford
Apparently thats take four & about 15 cups of coffee were involved! previous live loopers here: Andrew Bird Zoe Keating Aaron Martin Camille
Not Given Lightly
Sad news arrived this week that Chris Knox was hospitalised on Thursday morning having had a stroke! Somehow artists & musicians as prolific as he seem unstoppable & it is moments like these that can make you reflect on how…
Prepared Piano – online (& free sample pack!)
Check out the surprisingly playable online prepared piano created by Andreas Busk-Jepsen! Apart from playing it online, Andreas has been kind enough to provide a free download of a 37 key sampleset of the prepared piano in Kontakt, Ableton Live…
Exposed Springs
The Ekdahl Moisturizer is a spring reverb desktop unit which has its springs exposed so you can ‘play’ them…. heres a good demo video: > They cost US$300 and are available here. It would be interesting to hear it played…
An MPC for Breakfast?
do bem – Suco de Laranja 100% fruta (MPC de torradas) from Hardcuore on Vimeo.
Buskers of the World
Checking out buskers on youtube is like having the ultimate teleport device; skipping between countries with none of the jetlag & dodgy airplane food… Heres the best few I found, post your favourites in the comments? Hypnotic Brass Ensemble http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDmvWtvZkfs…
So?
So Percusssion – have I mentioned them before? Shame on me if not.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WD1fdA-Plo happy clappers? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_N8YVlNrmw my favourite is a track by them called ‘February’ but I couldnt find it anywhere online to link to… c’est la vie! Check…
Interview with a Master..
..or that should be a Masterer, or in ‘proper’ english Mastering Engineer. The Interviewer: Robert Henke (Monolake) and the interviewee: Rashad Becker, of the legendary Berlin mastering company Dubplates & Mastering. Rashad has some interesting ideas on his role &…
Friday Afternoon Noise
I always flinch slightly when sitting in a mix & someone accidentally uses the term ‘noise’ when they really mean ‘sound’. I guess its due to the traditional definition of the word, noise = unwanted sound. As in signal to…
beatboxing with a thumb piano
This is beautiful atypical beatboxing, not just because of the thumb piano/kalimbra… check it out & you’ll see/hear what I mean!
Remote Control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq_SJ7CtnZI This video reminds me of that saying about how despite all the resources being poured into creating interactive content, none tend to surpass the arts that have total interactivity through the audience having zero control. As with film, complete…
Using Automation with Christopher Willits
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I know that feeling!
Funny insiteful post on the Mire (The Wires blog) today – I know exactly that feeling!