It's happening across the world, but now NOTMTV lets you see it first hand. This episode delves into the world of electronic music and VJ's. (Video Jockey's) With 7 people using 6 computers, 2 turntables, 3 processors, a live keyboardist, and 2 video projectors, this can get psychedelic. Let us introduce you to the, "The Museum of Traffic." We'll also meet VJ Fader, and show you the software that he created for the VJ world.
The Tactical Sound Garden [TSG] Toolkit is an open source software platform for cultivating public "sound gardens" within contemporary cities. It draws on the culture of urban community gardening to posit a participatory environment where new spatial practices for social interaction within technologically mediated environments can be explored and evaluated. Addressing the impact of mobile audio devices like the iPod, the project examines gradations of privacy and publicity within contemporary public space.
U-MYX, the interactive music format, enables music fans to make their own, personal mixes of major artists songs, without requiring any specialist knowledge or equipment. Launched in September 2004 by multi-million selling rock band Muse, U-MYX immediately captured the attention of the music industry, fans and press alike. Some of the world’s most influential artists are now adopting U-MYX, including Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams, The Killers, Hard-Fi, Rihanna and Robert Plant.
Simon Elvins, a graduate from MA Communication Art & Design at the RCA, has created a number of interesting works dealing with print as an interactive interface for sound.
Fashioning the Future. Tomorrow's Wardrobe, by Suzanne Lee, a Senior Research Fellow in Fashion at Central Saint Martins, London (UK).
The editor says: Spray-on dresses, growable suits and self-cleaning shirts may soon become everyday items. This visionary exploration of where fashion and clothing are headed provides the first guide to the astonishing ways in which contemporary science and technology are shaping what we wear.
Techno Fashion
QUINN, Bradley. Berg, 2002.
From digital-display dresses to remote control couture, this book exposes the revolutionary interface between contemporary fashion and technology. As twenty-first century fashion makes a dramatic departure from traditional methods, designers no longer turn to the past for inspiration, but look to the hi-tech future. The result is techno fashion, the new wave of intelligent clothing that fuses fashion with communication technology, electronic textiles, and sophisticated design innovations that express new ideas about appearance, construction and wearability. Born out of the collaboration between fashion designers, researchers and scientists, this new dialogue could be the most significant design innovation in fashions history, or indicate its eventual demise. Either way, techno fashion promises to forever disrupt the historical narrative of fashion evolution. Through interviews with designers ranging from innovators such as Hussein Chalayan and Tristan Webber to mavericks like Alexander McQueen, Bradley Quinn examines the impact of this new direction. The fusion of design and technology introduced by Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo and Issey Miyake has created another direction for clothing, creating a new breed of designer-cum-scientist who redefines the way we dress, communicate, and even respond to environmental changes. As technology begins to shape fashion's future, it redefines the boundaries between clothing, body and machine, forever transforming the ethics and lifestyles traditionally designated by codes of dress.
Russian DJ Artyom has built his own DJ audio hardware out of wood and electronics, complete with dual cassette playback boxes. The cassettes feature pitch control (fine and coarse), pitch bands, a motor off switch, and more, and he’s custom-built mixers, cross-faders, and EQ.
One of the most impressive instruments at NAMM this year wasn’t new: it was the Zendrum, a spectacular handmade MIDI drum controller. The Zendrum has been evolving gradually since the 1980s, but it’s brought to life by the latest drum samples in FXpansion’s BFD drum sample library. That’s the fascinating thing that’s happening: as sample libraries get better, they become more demanding of controllers, and visa versa. Careful velocity sensitivity in the BFD samples (FXpansion were showing a new expansion pack) made the slightest tap on the Zendrum incredibly sensitive and realistic.
Oddmusic.com is for anyone interested in unique, odd, unusual, ethnic, or experimental musical instruments and music. Do you play stalagmites in a cave, play the kaval, bow telegraph wires, twist electrons by circuit bending, call whales on a Waterphone, or bang on a Hang drum? This is the site to see, listen, and learn about music and musical instruments that aren't part of the mainstream. Get ready for a wake-up call and spend a some time on Oddmusic.
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