The AirPiano is project by Omer Yosha, an Interface Design student from the FH Potsdam (Germany).
The AirPiano is an innovative musical interface which allows playing and controlling software instruments simply by moving hands in the air.
Above the AirPiano is a virtual matrix of keys and faders, each assigned with MIDI messages and ready to be triggered. The length of a triggered note is equivalent to the time a hand
is placed on the corresponding virtual key.
This is also confirmed by LED feedback.
The AirPiano Software allows easy setup, loading/saving presets and transposing notes.
The AirPiano is still in its prototype phase and its concept of a virtual matrix might eventually be used for other applications and purposes.
The AirPiano concept is filled as a Provisional U.S. Patent Application (Number: 60/989,986).
In this video he uses his AirPiano to control Ableton Live.
Maybe you have noticed, I’m quite a big fan of Joy Division. This video for Disorder was cut together from scenes from the movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. Excellent work!
So today is my last day at work, almost everything is done …
This time I’ll only have a fews off, till I start my new job at Plantage Berlin.
This is short clip from a live set by Etienne de Crécy, a French house producer, during the Transmusicales festival in Rennes, France, last year. 10 years ago he was quite popular with his Super Discount album, but apparently the French filtered house is still not dead … But the only reason to watch this clip is his stage show, or to be more precise the projections. He stands inside some sort of half transparent Rubik’s Cube on which some very nice animations are shown. Exyzt, an architectural collective form Paris, was responsible for this unique light show. (Their website doesn’t seem to be available now.)
So watch it now and don’t forget to turn down the sound!
An other one is the ‘BeggingBot’ by Alexander Gurko, it plays music just by floppy and hard drive mechanics. A 3³/4 and 2²/5 inch floppy drive and a very old hard disk represent different instruments playing a nice tune by just moving their heads and motors. When the tune is finished the CD drive opens asking for money. Just pay some cents and the bot plays again.
found at Aram Bartholl’s Blog
Radiohead held a remix contest for their song ‘Nude’ from their latest album ‘In Rainbows’. The original title of was ‘Big Ideas (Don’t get any)’, James Houston took that as his inspiration. He recreated the song with quite a different lineup: Sinclair ZX Spectrum - Guitars (rhythm & lead), Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer - Drums, HP Scanjet 3c - Bass Guitar and a Hard Drive array - Act as a collection of bad speakers - Vocals & FX.
This morning I had a little trouble to get up to speed, I thought that some good old Drum&Bass would do the trick. So I searched on YouTube for The Nine by Bad Company. It wasn’t this track that woke me up, but the fact that it’s 10 years old. Remember the parties back then?
Album of the day: The Bake Sale by