MIT’s Tod Machover On Hyperinstruments & Opera Of The Future

Tod Machover is head of the Media Lab’s Hyperinstruments/Opera of the Future group. An influential composer, he has been praised for creating music that breaks traditional artistic and cultural boundaries; his music has been performed and commissioned by some of the world’s most important performers and ensembles. In 1995, he received a “Chevalier de l’Ordre… Read More MIT’s Tod Machover On Hyperinstruments & Opera Of The Future

Richard Lainhart’s The Pelagic Bell

The Pelagic Bell is one of four films that comprise Richard Lainhart‘s No Other Time. No Other Time is a full-length intermedia performance designed for a large reverberant space. combining live analog electronics with four-channel playback and high-definition computer-animated film projection. The Pelagic Bell was animated in Adobe After Effects. The soundtrack was performed and… Read More Richard Lainhart’s The Pelagic Bell

Novation Launchpad vs Sherman Filterbank Jam

This video captures a little Novation LaunchPpad vs Sherman Filterbank action. via Gattobus: Yet another experiment using Sherman Filterbank and Novation Launchpad, this time running monome app Press Café. No external signal was processed: the 2 internal filters are self oscillating and they’re singing by themselves! I’m only triggering the envelopes via MIDI: the 2nd… Read More Novation Launchpad vs Sherman Filterbank Jam

New Google Project, Argos, Will Let You Create Free Multi-Touch Musical Instruments….For The iPad

Free Music Software: This is a video demo for Argos Interface Builder – an open-source drag-and-drop interface tool, for Windows and Mac, designed for building multi-touch music and visual performance applications. Argos was developed as a 2009 Google Summer of Code project. It lets you create multi-touch interfaces for MIDI or OpenSoundControl applications and instruments.