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, […]
In this 8th live-stream, we hosted Robin Hunter who has recently launched a collaborative, online sequencer running in the browser: Ocean. https://youtu.be/BMp5rf-js4I Online collaboration for music makers has fuelled many dreams over the past 20 years, but many of them have turned into nightmares. From Rocket Networks (acquired by AVID in 2003) to LL Cool […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kate Stone is the founder and CEO of Novalia, a UK-based company whose mission is to create "magical" interactions. Magical is the word Kate uses to explain that she aims to hide the technology away, and augment our analog interaction with the world with subtle and meaningful improvements. Imagine a musical instrument, a clarinet, say, […]
In this workshop, we will use Max/MSP to create custom, interactive A/V experiments. We will first get grounded in the concepts and workflows of Max and creative coding by making video programs in Vizzie. Then we will go through the basics of using and manipulating audio in Max through MSP objects. We will connect sound […]
We cover Max/MSP and Jitter a lot, as it is the most popular visual programming environment, especially if you want to hack audio and video in your own way. But it isn't the only visual programming language out there. We found out recently about Tweakable, and it turns out to be quite remarkable. First, it […]
The 21st May 2020 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. To celebrate this, we are exploring in our live-stream today the design practices to help make musical instruments (hardware and software) more accessible. To find out more about GAAD, please check their website. Should we make instruments easier to play? This is a question that might […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hjNS0ucQCo The patches demonstrated in this video are available here Making and controlling complex sounds on a computer where hundreds of events are happening simultaneously can be hard work. Aren’t computers supposed to make doing complex things easier? Max has a new feature called MC that can make it fun and easy to work with […]
Virtual drumming workshop with Shay! https://youtu.be/7q7FfSYsC2s Shayanna from Kinetika Bloco will lead a drumming workshop using household objects! The Kinetika Bloco is a performance group with an exuberant mix of young brass and woodwind players, drummers, steel pan and dynamic dancers all in costume creating a “unique new British Carnival sound with a decidedly London […]