01.25.08

Antiquarian’s big score

Posted in Uncategorized at 12:05 pm by The Antiquarian

monome

…well that music interface I was lusting for earlier in the week came up for sale at exactly 12:00pm CST today and I managed to snag one. Lucky for me I was sitting on the refresh button too because they sold out in two minutes! That’s insane - I feel like I just got nSync tickets circa 2000…or maybe Hannah Montana tickets(thanks, $2/hour Indian workers!).

…by the way, did you ever think you would see the day that Ticketmaster is being taken advantage of(from Hannah Montana link)?

7 Comments »

  1. mister house said,

    January 25, 2008 at 12:12 pm

    I am anxious to watch you push those buttons.

  2. jtaxx said,

    January 25, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    i <3 the little girls in that picture in that link….seriously, kill me now!

  3. jtaxx said,

    January 25, 2008 at 12:17 pm

    btw, when will you receive it? I’d like to check it out…

  4. Bobby Covert said,

    January 25, 2008 at 12:29 pm

    what the hell is that?

  5. The Antiquarian said,

    January 25, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    The ship from Philly on the 4th so I imagine I get it sometime inside of two weeks from now. If any of you know anything about graphical programming environments, I might need to lean on you because it looks like the learning curve is pretty steep.

    …to get started I don’t need to know how to program because I can use other people’s patches and the runtime environ is free, but eventually I will need to buy the editor and start working on my own interfaces as I develop the need for a customized interface. Eventually I really want to do something in MAX/MSP that processes dynamically changing loops and live sound with a sequenced phase vocoder like how this guy makes his “ambient noise ipod”.

    Thankfully someone else already developed a patch for the phase vocoder part(apparently this is the “in” thesis topic these days for compute music geeks), but I want to take that and integrate it into the sequencer environment in existing monome aps….anyway, maybe I’ll just hope someone else does it for me. Sounds like a lot of work taken away from actually playing an instrument…

    http://web.media.mit.edu/~nvawter/thesis/index.html

    http://www.cycling74.com/products/maxmsp

  6. The Antiquarian said,

    January 25, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    Check this out, Covert - it’s a guy using the looping app in a live setting on the monome. I love how the drums are instantly cut up and remixed after he lays all the instruments out.

    http://www.vimeo.com/311236

  7. Bobby Covert said,

    January 25, 2008 at 1:22 pm

    hmm

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