Screenshots from the new music-making program, Beatmaker, designed for use on the iPhone. From top to bottom: (1) pads to “trigger and manipulate” samples, (2) a sequencer with a timeline interface, (3) live performance functionality, (4) set start and end points for samples, (5) edit “velocity and groove of each track on each pattern”:
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Quick News, Links, Bits, Reads: Playing catch up on links I’ve accumulated. … Is the Nintendo DS video game Electroplankton out of print? Someone’s selling it for over 70 bucks, used, on amazon.com. (Thanks, Jeff.) … Speaking of which, amazon.com has updated its underacknowledged free-download service, now as part of the blue-light specials at amazon.com/mp3deals. […]
Once upon a time, Monolake was a duo, consisting of Robert Henke and Gerhardt Beheles. Beheles exited the duo, which specialized in dank minimal techno, to start the company that created the now popular audio-production and -performance software Live. The company is called Ableton. Henke continued on as Monolake, and he also participates in the […]
On her website regarding her Soundbook One project, soundbookone.com, composer Jennifer Stock describes the process behind her effort, which places the laptop in an ensemble setting, including electric guitar, cello, drums and, occasionally, vocals:
The idea of a “Soundbook” was to process a specific set of found sounds in Max/MSP and then to notate the acoustic […]
Open source programmers make open source music. On his jonaquino.blogspot.com blog, Jon Aquino, best known as the creator of yubnub.org (”command line for the web”), this past weekend posted a file he’d recorded in the popular freeware music construction kit Audacity (at audacity.sourceforge.net). The result is a three-minute ditty that plays with rhythms like he’s […]
A selection of recent freely viewable videos of note:
Spoken Word: Public Enemy producer Hank Shocklee interviewed (vimeo.com, via createdigitalmusic.com). … Minimal techno figure Robert Henke (aka Monolake) presentation (video.google.com, via createdigitalmusic.com). … Laptop-enabled guitarist Christopher Willits lecture on his process (xlr8r.com). … Soundtrack composer Tyler Bates on the film Doomsday (soundtrack.net). … Alex Ross, author […]
Quick News, Links, Bits, Reads: The avant-garde rises to the surface in Internet sales of classical music, reports Justin Davidson, guest-blogging for Alex Ross at therestisnoise.com. He’s discussing the charts at emusic.com:
No. 2 is Gavin Bryars‘ The Sinking of the Titanic, a minimalist portrayal of slow-motion calamity that caused one Floridian subscriber’s spouse to ask: […]
Still having some minor issues following the upgrade of the WordPress backend to this website. Nothing major, but the archive page is not functioning. The search functionality is, so everything should still be “findable” in the meanwhile.
The site is currently being upgraded to the latest version of WordPress (wordpress.org), the content management system in which it is published. The only thing left to fix is the post topic links (free, gadget, netlabel, etc.), which aren’t currently functioning.
If you’re a regular reader of this site and you come upon anything that doesn’t […]
Wondering what musical thing the DS will do next after Electroplankton? How about simulating a full-fledged synthesizer? The new KORG DS-10 from AQ Interactive reproduces the late-1970s MS-10 on the popular Nintendo handheld.
The product’s ad site (at aqi.co.jp, from which the above image is borrowed) says it’s for Japan only, but the site is available […]