Comments on: Remixing Karate Kid Live: The Real Power of 3-Way MIDI Sync

By: ian

ian — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 22:56:44 +0000

i’m gonna have to say that MIDI sync (or OSC, whatever) between audio and video is probably the coolest shit ever. audio controlling video, video controlling audio, throw some piezos in there, some sort of sensor, mix it all together… this stuff fascinates me and is my prime motivator in using Pd/linux

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:31:22 +0000

No, I still say it’s always a good thing to harness the power of lots of gear (whatever, three dozen pieces of hardware here, 3-way MIDI sync, Monomes and Handsonics) to do something silly (mess around with Karate Kid).

And this is their second rehearsal — Momo posted the video partly for feedback, so feel free to let them know what you think.

By: teej

teej — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:45:56 +0000

@LZA: agreed, i don’t get it. i mean i guess it’s kind of cool? maybe just don’t understand the intense shit that’s happening to make this happen? i dunno.

By: LZA

LZA — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:30:18 +0000

to be fair, that music was something in the vincinity of “breakcore” (they were/are on Jason Forrests label) and thus mainly distorted noise. But still amazing.

By: Myles de Bastion

Myles de Bastion — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:57:27 +0000

Interesting comments about the live bands sampling themselves and then running to laptops and other gear to mangle the samples.

This is EXACTLY what I have in mind for my pwn projects but I’m having a hard-time getting together a software/hardware rig that works like I want it to. I can’t really afford Live/Reaktor/Max which a lot of people seem to use for this and so I’m feeling a little left behind. :(

By: sam

sam — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:15:39 +0000

Cool, but not nearly as cool as orchard lounge and clay dempsey.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=y8Ha7gYRlgI&feature=related

My introduction to visualism at Camp Bisco festival last summer. The clips are split, but in its entirety this was a 40 minute performance, live visuals and music. Orchard Lounge plays live while Dempsey does the vidz.

The new OL site is supposed to be up sometime today, DEF check them out.
http://www.orchardlounge.com

By: LZA

LZA — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:59:14 +0000

@Peter : Okay, I see what you mean.
@emmet : “assdroids” are amazing too, I have seen them one time live and didn’t really understand what was happening (although I was about 10 feet away from them), but they started every song on drums&guitar and after a minute or so they jumped to their laptops and started mangling what they had played and recorded so far, but without an audible gap or something, really blew me away. (and keep in mind, they did this for _every_ song.)

http://www.myspace.com/theassdroids

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» Karate Kid Live-AV-Mashing! — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:13:07 +0000

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By: emmett

emmett — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:41:49 +0000

for a band that makes some damn good use of midi time code in their performances, check out d numbers. it’s a three member group with one guy playing drums and two guys playing an assortment of guitars, bass, and keyboards, looping and sequencing everything live with the help of a computer spitting out MTC to all the necessary devices (the majority being loopers). they run their own sound from the stage and just give the house a stereo line out.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=55176042

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:07:29 +0000

@LZA — sorry, wasn’t meaning to imply that MIDI sync was somehow novel. Mostly what was fun about this was seeing these three guys put this thing together. And actually syncing up some things so that other stuff could be live made a big difference in doing that.

Actually, if we WERE to strip MIDI functionality off of EVERYTHING (a la the Moog Old School), we could then add it back in, and it would be new. ;)