Category: Performance


Live Looping with Ableton and Xbox Kinect

Alexa Meade (sur)real body painting

take your time looking at these to figure out what’s happening.

DubFX… busking properly.

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Audience

This would freak you out…

by rAndom International with Chris O’Shea

Tenori On

Cool new interface for music writing/improvisation… Looks a bit gimmicky, but fun all the same…

Yamaha’s Tenori on

Andre Michelle’s take on it (flash)

Warning: Don’t compute pi

WARNING: Do NOT calculate Pi in binary. It is conjectured that this number is normal, meaning that it contains ALL finite bit strings.

Give a designer wood

and they’ll just go on, and on, and on

Awareness Test

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Count them passes.

Lightsaber Dance

Gymnasts with light sabers…
Lightsaber Dance

Improv Musical

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urghfex.. ngg ngg ngg

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Old but gold. Bill Bailey (my favourite living comedian… RIP Mr Hicks) suggests a new UK national anthem:
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Crazy Hands

See description of the previous video.

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Daft Hands

Oh internet, how I love thee, let me count the ways. You give a voice to people with waaaaaaaay too much time on their HANDS. Sublime.
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…The Zimmers!!!

Joshua Bell busking

‘formal training might be a good idea after they saw that their son had strung rubber bands across his dresser drawers and was replicating classical tunes by ear, moving drawers in and out to vary the pitch.’

Not anything to do with the article, but a nice quote.

www.washingtonpost.com

amen

So the Winstons with their classic Amen Brother. Have you ever used Amen? I wouldn’t even know if one of the regurgitated loops i’ve used is the Amen.

Anyway, interesting stuff about the rights to this killer dnb and hip hop driving force.

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Dwayne Leverock rocking the world cup
Ain’t no way Boony is the king, Dwayne be going down fighting…
And some more stunning shots: 1 2 3 4 5

invaders of the screen

screenvader.com

The visual with the aural… and some that are independent of each other.

This is proof that artificial intelligence will create better art than us humans, if they use this world and it’s creations, including us and our creations, as source materials. Whether or not they will do so without these inputs, well, we will find out too.

blue print your brain here

Staying with the skating theme….

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNaCw4yz4wQ