New Interfaces Stringing Up All The Time

New interaction between computer and instruments, for use with audio processing or synthesis.

http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/11/07/mcmillen.string.interfaces/

Close To My Birthday Mix

New mix preparing for possibly DJing on my birthday.

Download the mix directly here, listen online here and subscribe to my podcast in iTunes here.

Tracklisting
Sound Access - I Like A Mario (Ft. DJ Maximo)
Eddy Wata - I Love My People [DJ Starleev Remix]
Spencer & Hill - Most Wanted
Oliveros Bunito - Pornstar
Sash - Stay [Fonzerelli Re-Work]
DJ Antoine - If You Work [DJ ZAM Remix]
Sunrider - Take A Look Around [PH Electro Remix Edit] (Ft. Dolle)

Mix Of The Latest Electro Music

I had the opportunity to mix on the SU system today in a kind of ‘DJ Club’ meeting and unfortunately I didn’t have any music and didn’t have my mixer so I kinda screwed up the second mix. Not happy about that I decided to mix the most recent music I have downloaded. Some are from a great site called http://livingelectro.com/.

Download the mix directly here, listen online here and subscribe to my podcast in iTunes here.

Tracklisting
DUBNOTIZED - Boom Bang Bang [DJ Sign Remix]
Kato Darwich - Copa Cabana [Kato Darwich Electro Remix]
Starkillers - Discoteka [DJ Solovey Electro Remix]
Roy Gates - Hey [Filthy Electro Mix]
A Spencer & DJ Gollum - In The Shadows [Alex M Remix]
Rekka - Speaker Freaker
Dan Marciano & Michael Kaiser - Insanity [Dim Chris Remix]

New 3lectro Mixy Mix

A new mix. Yeah. This goes out to Fraser, making me get back on the mixing.

Click on my podcast on the right to listen or download directly from here.

New Electro House Mix

I have just completed an electro house mix which you can listen to by clicking on the podcast links to the right. The iTunes one downloads it in iTunes (obviously) and the Google one opens it in a streaming flash player in Google Reader. You can also listen to it online here or download the mp3 directly here.

Playlist
Peter Paul - Count Drak
Steve Forest - Freed From Desire [Chriss Ortega Big Room 2008 Mix]
Wink - Higher State of Consciousness [Dirty South & TV Rock Club Mix]
Andrea Bertolini - Electro Setup
Pam Pero - Shaker [Club Mix]
Stereo Palma - Dreaming [The Viron Ltd. Remix]
Digital Freq - Rock Brain
Reaves and Ahorn - Shifting Lives

Third Year

For the third year I want to experiment more with the physical and not the virtual (although I am quite partial to the virtual). So with that in mind I have been thinking about some things that interest me that I would like to investigate further.

Mood Furniture - like mood rings but furniture that changes colour depending on your mood.

Reactive Seating - using something like thermo-chromic ink or tracking and LED displays, the seat changes colour where you have been sitting on it as a gradient. The more you stay in one place the more the colour changes showing just how you have been sitting. Ideal for a club / bar / social environment.

Musical Typing - a communal project using keystrokes provided by volenteers which is then converted into note and played back. The keys are recorded and the user then submits the information to hear it played back. It is not a real-time keyboard.

I would really like to look into multi-user experiences and social collaboration. Using multiple user’s to create something larger than the sum of it’s parts. Each user adds something which is incorporated into a larger idea. I am trying to think about cumulative art or music as a starting point, each user adding to the ‘canvas’ or ’score’ in some way and then hearing / seeing the complete result.

This is something I will be updating with more ideas when they come to me. Got to keep the ideas flowing.

Guy Incogento Mixing

I recently purchased a Hercules DJ Console RMX which is a midi mapped laptop DJ mixer. Yeah… that sounds about right. Anyway it hooks up to my laptop and uses special software controlled by the physical console to mix mp3s like a proper DJ would do. I had been playing with the software for a while after an experience with it at Fraser’s birthday where he got the console and we were all having a go at being DJs. Guy Incogneto is a username I have had for a while now and it suits me as a DJ name, I never liked the ‘DJ’ part of a DJ’s name anyway.

This had such an effect on me that I had to buy one myself and play around. After a little bit of practice I can already notice myself getting better. There are still some cringe worthy moments in some of my mixing but I am learning.

Visit Fraser’s website here for links to his mixes.

You can subscribe to my podcast which will automagically show new mixes when they’re uploaded. Click ‘My Podcast’ under ‘Subscribe’ on the right hand menu to subscribe via iTunes or through Google reader with an embedded Flash music player.

Also you can download my latest mix here

Touch Screen DJ

This is a really cool use of touch screens and interactive visuals in a DJ music environment. This would have been great for Rave On Air and it seems to show great use of new digital media taking over again from the ‘analogue world’.