Last year, we brought you some great video of game creator Will Wright and Brian Eno on generative systems. Here’s the whole enchilada – their Long Now discussion of Spore and generative music and gaming. They touch on all sorts of topics, but it includes great discussions of generative processes and ambient music, fractals, compression… Read More Will Wright & Brian Eno On Generative Music & Gaming
Joey Nariano [animal-style] demonstrates his GBC Gameboy Foot Controller.
OT: Electronic Arts has introduced the latest in its series of Sims games – The Sims DJ. The Sims DJ is a $5 iPod Game for third-generation iPod nanos, fifth-generation iPods, and iPod classics. Description: The Sims DJ lets you create a Sim character, play, mix and scratch songs from your iTunes library to make crowds of Sims… Read More iPods Get The Sims DJ Game
From the because it was there category: Sebastian Tomczak posted this video of a working prototype version of an interface that controls the sound chip inside of a (real) Sega Master System using MIDI data.
Activision announced today that it is taking its Guitar Hero franchise into new territory, with Guitar Hero World Tour: Guitar Hero World Tour will marry Guitar Hero’s guitar gameplay, with a cooperative band experience that combines the most advanced wireless instruments with revolutionary new online and offline gameplay modes. The game will feature a slick… Read More Guitar Hero World Tour Turns Gaming Systems Into Recording Studios
GeeksDreamgirl has an interesting take on using Dungeons & Dragon dice to stimulate your musical creativity. Here’s her take on two of the more important dice: d8 The d8 is perfect for learning scale degrees and practicing sight-singing. Your first step is to grab a piece of staff paper and write out the scale you’re… Read More Use D&D Dice To Expand Your Musical Creativity
Littlescale demos syncing Nanoloop, a real-time Gameboy sequencer/synth, to Ableton Live: Part 1 Nanoloop on a Gameboy (whose audio is coming in on track 2) is synchronised to the drums playing in Ableton (track 1). This is to test out a new interface I have been working on that syncs Nanoloop to a MIDI clock.… Read More Sync Nanoloop To Ableton Live
Mario Paint Composer is a remake of the music system from the original Mario Paint for the Super NES. It is a free music application made by unFun Games. It’s available for both Windows and Mac. It’s a pretty limited app – but that’s part of the fun. Here’s the Mario Paint version of Bohemian… Read More Free 8-Bit Music App – Mario Paint Composer
Here’s something out of left field: Shredz64 is a modern day game for the Commodore 64 that makes use of the Playstation guitar controller hooked through the PSX64 interface. Its design is modeled after the popular “Guitar Hero” series, geared toward the ability to play along to your favorite C64 music on the guitar. Correctly… Read More Shredz64 – Guitar Hero For Commodore 64
DJ Tech Tools’ Ean Golden posted this fun video of himself DJing with a Guitar Hero Controller: Arcade buttons are cool but taking a plastic guitar into the crowd and taping away a solo is some next level fun. In the past 5 years I have experimented with just about every piece of midi gear… Read More DJing With A Guitar Hero Controller
