https://youtu.be/kUQMmRuuu2Y In 1980, Roger Linn designed the first drum machine with samples of a drum kit, the LM-1. Along with the LinnDrum and the Linn 900, Roger’s inventions played an important role in the sound of the 1980s, which can be heard on recordings from Michael Jackson to Prince. 40 years on, Roger is still […]
Meet Jordan Rudess, the legendary keyboard of Dream Theater. Jordan is also very well known for embracing technology in any form that allows him to seek more expressivity and performing abilities. Jordan is at heart a music hacker, who can make music with anything, and his insight has been valued over the years by many […]
Follow live on YouTube and Facebook. When performing live with computers, musicians often wonder how to visually entertain the audience. Playing music from behind a laptop gives little cues to how the music is made. The performer could be a virtuoso, or writing e-mails, they wouldn't behave differently. This is a departure from acoustic instruments, […]
Yuri Suzuki is a sound artist and partner at creative agency Pentagram. Throughout his career, he collaborated with Teenage Engineering, Will.I.Am, Jeff Mills, and designed music hardware and installations such as Ototo or the Pyramidi. In this talk, Yuri will present his latest invention, the E Z Record Maker, a device allowing you to record […]
Watch the live-stream here, 23rd April 2020, 18:30 BST / 10:30am PT. Meet Andrej Kobal, from Slovenia. Andrej is an artist and a programmer, who built GranuRise, a rich and complex granular synthesizer for the Seaboard RISE (hence the name, GranuRise). In this live-stream, Andrej presents the vision he worked on for the past 7 […]
Meet Milton Mermikides and Phelan Kane, turning the world's data into music. Watch the live-stream.
Join the live stream on Thursday 9th April, 6:30pm BST / 10:30am PT. In the past three decades, Virtual Reality has been a wall onto which many dreams have been projected. From Minority Report to Ready Player One, VR inspires worlds of possibilities. Today's world seems however far from the film industry's depiction of a […]