16th March 2010: Variety Of Sound has announced NastyVCS, described as a virtual console strip which finally brings the nasty signal coloration series to the next level. Built around an entirely new opto-electric styl...
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16th March 2010: MeldaProduction has announced that, after months of development, the first Mac OS X version of MDrummer Small is now available as a Public Beta version (a Windows version is also available). MDrummer ...
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16th March 2010: Stillwell Audio has announced the release of Bombardier, described as a premium quality buss compressor, tailored for smooth and musical processing of complex audio such as drum groups, vocal stems an...
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16th March 2010: Shuriken has released BitTest, a free bitcrusher VST effect plug-in for Mac OS X. It converts your data to 8 bits, then you can turn the bits off (the top row) or invert them (the bottom row) individu...
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16th March 2010: Ueberschall has announced the release of Supreme Styles, a new Elastik Player-based library of urban music with the focus on guitars. The library deals with a wide range of styles such as HipHop, Rand...
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16th March 2010: Universal Audio has announced the release of the Manley Massive Passive EQ and Precision Enhancer Hz plug-ins for the UAD-2 platform and the EMT 140 Classic Plate Reverb plug-in for UAD-1 and UAD-2. ...
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16th March 2010: G-Sonique Digital Instruments has announced the release of Twisthead VS-206, which is described as a Vintage Vacuum Tube Preamp. It's available now as a VST effect plug-in for Windows. It costs EUR18....
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16th March 2010: MidiKarval has announced the release of MidiTransposer Plus, a VST plug-in with which you can transpose your MIDI keyboard or a MIDI track/MIDI file in your sequencer on the fly, using three possible ...
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16th March 2010: Dmitry Sches has announced the release of Ambient Voices Soundset, a collection of 100 patches for u-he's Zebra. Priced at $20 until 22nd March, 2010, (then $30), the soundset contains deep and movin...
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Clavilux 2000 – Interactive instrument for generative music visualization from Jonas Heuer on Vimeo . Think of playing musical notes for a moment, or close your eyes while fingering a piano keyboard. Odds are, some visual – however abstract – pops into your mind. Visualizing musical notes is second nature in the digital realm, once a note and an image can each be represented with numbers. Clavilux 2000 by Jonas Friedemann Heuer is one of the latest works to run with the idea. As you play notes, beams of color drift up from the keyboard. In 3D mode, those beams take on a lovely, subtle quality. The model itself isn’t new, owing the notes-as-lines model to player pianos (or even music boxes), and recalling light organs. But there is something intuitive about this model – and I can imagine it being a terrific way to encourage someone to practice. (Well, that or else it could be distracting while practicing!) Description. Thanks to Yifan Mai for the link; via infosthetics.com , a fantastic resource for exploring ways of visualizing information. Clavilux 2000 is a music visualization installation that produces generative real-time animations of music. It consists of a computer running vvvv patch hooked up to a MIDI keyboard and projector. Every note played on the keyboard produces a stripe, whose proportions and color correspond to how the note was played. For instance, the color is mapped to the tonality of the note via the circle of fifths, thus visualizing harmonic consonance and dissonance. Besides looking really cool, it also thus creates unique “fingerprints” of each performance. Piano-as image media, 1995; Installation view at galerie deux, Tokyo 1998. Via New York Digital Salon . Clavilux 2000 is extremely close in design to a key 1995 work by media artist Toshio Iwai, known most recently for the Yamaha Tenori-On and Nintendo-published ElectroPlankton DS (each of which uses ideas from the earlier project). Piano–as image media and related works employed both inputs and outputs. (in the installation, visitors could use a trackball to enter note events visually on a screen; in performance with Ryuichi Sakamoto, the work used a piano. In each, events fly off perpendicular to the piano keyboard as beams of light, just as in the work here. That’s not a criticism, incidentally – even without seeing Iwai’s work, it’s a logical solution, because the keyboard organizes notes into an array of thin rectangles (the keys). Unfortunately, Iwai’s work is not well-documented online; videos of these pieces have been removed. I do have a few resources for you, however. At bottom, there is a video of a 2006 Ars Electronica talk on the visual interface for music. (I have some video of Toshio’s similar thoughts around the launch of the Tenori-On which I should publish.) And for more: Toshio Iwai talking about the visual-musical interface [artintelligence] Toshio Iwai keynote at Futuresonic [pixelsumo] http://www.nydigitalsalon.org/10/artwork.php?artwork=57
Categories: Audio Production Tags: color, digital, digital-salon, electronica, installation, keyboard, mind, note, tokyo, toshio-iwai, visual, work, yamaha