With the exception of Roger Linn, who actually has a device that might actually make it as a musical instrument, I'm sort of left speechless when I watch this. Roger is inventor of the first drum machine and a hit songwriter. Max Mathews, the older gentleman in this video, is one of the legends of computer music. To me, I've heard it all before a long, long time ago and the song is still the same.
See what you think, then watch Roger's own demo video below.
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2 comments:
Max Mathews visited a electronic music composition class I was taking at Indiana University about 12 years ago. He was demonstrating the same radio baton controllers that are in this video. If I remember correctly, one baton controlled volume, one controlled tempo. It was sad to see this great innovator pushing something so lame.
Have we really exhausted the possibilities of the old instruments?
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