You best be in line, because in this short (less than one minute) video the Techno Police are laying down the law. Although I’m having some hard times picking a better song than last week’s unreleased gem “Cthulu Sleeps by deadmau5.”
LCD Soudsystem have rented a mansion rather than a studio to record their latest music. This is the future of music, really awesome idea, create space!
A great UK House Producer, D. Ramirez reviews a piece of Dave Smith gear in his studio in this video.
About the video:
“He asked us if he could send us a load of videos of him fiddling about with sexy new kit – and so here we are.
The first episode sees him get his hands on the new DSI Prophet 8 keyboard synth – especially interesting for those producers out there who have never seen an outboard synth working up close.”
This is a demo of some of the powerful stuff you can do with Max 4 Live, the new Max API for Ableton Live 8. This is some very unique and exciting human-computer interaction.
The video demonstrates a webcam plugin that turns on-camera movements, quantizes them to pre-defined notes, and then further adjusts them to a preset musical scale. the result is an instant midi note generator that is controlled by your movement in front of a camera.
Is it musical? Maybe not, but it certainly is cool, and has some definite applications for sound design.
I wonder what this does to the artistic merit of music. If a great song gets composed using any of this technology it takes a lot of human design out of music. Theoretically your robotic vacuum cleaner can compose a symphony while you’re at work, provided you set up the software correctly before hand.