monome as turntable

The glitch musician Bit Basic, who made the excellent Grating Rainbows netalbum on Monotonik, has created a...

Max/MSP patch for the 'monome' interface called 'dj64'. It allows the user to model the actions of conventional turntables

dj64 for Monome - by Bitbasic from simon on Vimeo.

Thinking about the monome in terms of the convergence of music making and gaming, this casts the turntable as a primitive ancestor of the handheld game console.

P.S.: I turned that audio page on Internet Archive into a playlist by incorporating Goose/Yahoo Media Player/FoxyPlayer and linking with this syntax:

<a 
href="http://www.archive.org/details/mtk186" 
class="playthispage">
  Grating Rainbows
</a>

Category: gamestrument 2 comments »

2 Responses to “monome as turntable”

  1. teru
    December 8th, 2008 at 11:54 am

    Thanks Lucas. I didn’t know about the playthispage option. How wonderfully simple and effective. :)
  2. Daniel O'Connor
    December 8th, 2008 at 2:41 pm

    Oh, I need one

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