Imogen Heap Demonstrates Body Controller

So here is this pretty great video.

I was grinning the whole time. The combination of the fucking cool technology, her sweet music, and her shy explanations are priceless. I know for you Reaktor heads the things she does to the music will be no great surprise, but the control method is so endearing. I would see more IDM live if they could all sing this well and dance this awkwardly the whole time.

Yay.

she is rather adorable

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step - a theremin. (loljk)

That was a cool demo overall. She kind of piddled about the first seven minutes, but it got progressively cooler from there. I guess the whole idea behind it was to play music in a manner that requires the player to move their body, as opposed to just sitting in one spot and twiddling knobs (or mouse pointing-and-clicking). Probably the same idea on which the Nintendo Wii is based for gaming.

that was all sorts of awesome!

Will watch the Imogen Heap video tomorrow, but I thought it would be appropriate to rep Onyx Ashanti in this thread. The blueprints for his hardware and the Puredata software he's created is open source and available to download on his website:

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CUTIE PIE

  On 2/12/2013 at 9:04 AM, usagi said:

I've been curious about her music for a while, might check it out.

I'd definitely recommend I, Megaphone, Details (as Frou Frou) and Speak for Yourself. I'm a bit behind with music right now, so if she's released anything since then, I haven't caught up yet... Her music's wonderfully quirky.

fantastic. I really think this type of stuff will be what really bridges the gap in music production and music performance.

plus she's got my midi controller there leaning against the rack case. :)

This video should be enough material to cover the next two or three Clams Casino mixtapes

  On 2/12/2013 at 1:07 PM, ZoeB said:

 

  On 2/12/2013 at 9:04 AM, usagi said:

 

I've been curious about her music for a while, might check it out.

I'd definitely recommend I, Megaphone, Details (as Frou Frou) and Speak for Yourself. I'm a bit behind with music right now, so if she's released anything since then, I haven't caught up yet... Her music's wonderfully quirky.

°o° Wauw, really impressive! Sooo fragging awesome!

Just fell in love with this girl...

That's the dumbest shit I've ever seen.

pretty cool IMO.

the air drums are really silly. when she first demos them, it's basically a tim & eric sketch

My mate used to live next door to her in a tower block in Waterloo. She was a nice neighbour. Carry on.

You can tell they are definitely onto something with this technology. Enjoyable demo.

  On 2/12/2013 at 11:09 PM, kakapo said:

My mate used to live next door to her in a tower block in Waterloo. She was a nice neighbour. Carry on.

kimya dawson loaned me a pickaxe and it got bent so I bought her a new one

  On 2/12/2013 at 8:21 PM, Cryptowen said:

This video should be enough material to cover the next two or three Clams Casino mixtapes

lol

Pretty dam cool.

Not much of dancer but I'd dance with midi motion controllers :D

I've heard of her years back but I never bothered to check her stuff out, that demo was aight. Hats off to her.

not as cool as a laserharp

Imogen is so likable, humble, and gloriously awkward that she can demo this and make it seem like a great idea.

But just picture a guy who looks like machinedrum doing this. :cringes:

she had a youtube account where she vlogged and documented her studio/house construction

this kind of stuff would look cool in a futuristic tom cruise or bruce willis movie nightclub scene or something but i wouldn't wanna watch anyone prance around like that IRL maybe imogen heap can pull it off but this kind of act would get annoying after a couple years. 2 fancy 4 me

lol

  On 2/13/2013 at 12:30 AM, baph said:

But just picture a guy who looks like machinedrum doing this. :cringes: