Two days when music was hacked
We spent the last weekend doing a workshop at the Music Hackday. The event took place at the Guardian offices in London.
To get people into doing RjDj scenes we took our Pd-ninjas, Andy Farnell and Frank Barknecht, with us. It was amazing how much effort Tom, Harold and Ian put into their scenes. Thank you guys. The RjDj-prize was a pair of really fancy Bose headphones. As it was impossible for us to decide who had done the best scene we had to use our oracle Pd patch in order to get a winner.
Harold from ookoi did a scene that creates an ambient electronic soundscape by reading through soundfiles in random speed and direction. I hope we will see more from ookoi on RjDj in the future.
Bass Race is the name Ian from darq gave to his scene. Just something more for the ladies. An excerpt from his scene is heard in the video below.
Tom was working on a looping device in funtionality similar to the Loop Stations musicians are using on stage. So you could record percussion mis-using your tea-cup, then whistle a melody to it, and finally sing on top of that all in perfect sync.
The scenes are not yet published, but hopefully will soon be ready for release.
We take our hats off from all the people behind Music Hackday. I suppose RjDj and Music Hackday share a common goal, that is encourage people in doing weird things :-)
Flo
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:15 am
Dear Tom, I want to try the looping station! The best standalone option is $10 with bad reviews.
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Unfortunately i haven’t heard from Tom since the Music Hackday. I don’t know if he is still working ln it. But i know that there are more people on similar things. So, sooner or later we will have such a thing. What would you like to use it for?
September 8th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
I like the reality-distorted soundspaces of most of the compositions that I have tried, but I’d also like more instrument-like toys.
September 11th, 2009 at 10:39 am
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