Avant jazz guru Bill Laswell has created Method of Defiance, a new super group that marries drum and bass electronic beats with the improvisation of jazz musicians. Inamorata is possibly one of his most ambitious projects in a prolific career that has included producing Grammy winning albums and singles for Herbie Hancock – who makes… Read More Bill Laswell Forms Jazz / Drum and Bass Super Group
The monome 40h is a reconfigurable grid of sixty-four backlit buttons, designed to be an open-ended musical interface. The buttons can be configured as toggles, radio groupings, sliders, or organized into more sophisticated systems. When the monome was introduced, the biggest question I had was whether the device’s minimal design would lend itself to expressive… Read More Monome Videos
monome, a collective based in Philadelphia that has created a open-ended configurable switch array for music and multimedia, has posted a video (below) of its upcoming monome 256 in action. The group plans three configurations: 256 (two fifty six) the 16×16 whose design has solidified 128 (one twenty eight) is an 8×16 64 (sixty four)… Read More Monome 256 Prototype In Action
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If you ever wondered how glitchtronica musicians generate random bursts of weirdness, this YouTube video may make it all clear: Here we see an ensemble of worms creating experimental electroacoustic music on an electric touch contact feedback device (battery powered). No worms were harmed, and they were hastily removed and now live happily outside once… Read More Circuit-Bent Worms Make Glitchtronica
A new web site promises to turn your genetic sequence into a musical sequence.Rie Takahashi and Jeffrey Miller of the University of California at Los Angeles describe the system in the open-access journal Genome Biology. They set up a system is to translate amino acids – the building blocks for human protein sequences – into… Read More Web Site Turns Your Genetic Sequence Into A Musical Sequence
Stijn Schiffeleers and Greg Zifcak have created Beat Blocks, a tangible interface for a rhythm sequencer. The user is able to create and manipulate an 8-track drum loop (4 tracks in the featured prototype) on the fly by physically re-arranging blocks within a matrix. Each block is actually a sub-sequence identified by a patterning scheme.… Read More Beat Blocks Offer New Way To Control Music
Google Video has an interesting free video of a historical performance of Alvin Lucier’s famous sound piece for human brainwaves Music for Solo Performer. This interpretation was done directly from the poetic score, never having heard or seen the original music performance. Performance Details Brainwave performer: Andrew Brouse Audification by Automates Ki: Maxime Rioux Video… Read More Music from Brain Waves
via Axehole: Fans of the JazzMutant Lemur Touch-Screen Control Surface will want to take a look at this video of multi-touch interaction experiments on a large-screen monitor. The video comes from Jeff Han, a consultant at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences’ Department of Computer Science. According to Han, ” My research interests have historically… Read More Giant Multi-Touch Sensor
