on Friday, 13th February I attended the Owl Project m-Log workshop at FACT in Liverpool and spent a thoroughly enjoyable (though quite intense and tiring day) building my own m-Log from the supplied kit.
the m-Log kit
With my monome 64 due to arrive imminently I’ve been browsing the monome website for sparkly things I particularly like the look of…
Starting with Ableton Live…
1. drumwreck by anton hornquist – website & youtube demo
monome step sequencer in maxmsp/live
Early days for this app… which seems both intuitive and ergonomic… and even works using the ‘monome40_fake’ patch. Latest developments on its monome discussion thread.
Here’s a first draft outline as PDF - though it’s still waiting for feedback and contributions from Anthony Rowe.
There’s always more to find out there… Deep Vacuuming the Source Files and then looking fairly systematically through BIT-101 Lab has turned up several interesting Flash demos:
a sweet little non-interactive 3d particle system waveform – 041101_lewis.fla
Click on the image to load Flash in a pop up.
and a simple sound activated wave pattern – 050819_lewis.fla
Click on the image to load Flash in a pop up.
It also suggested some new and useful practitioner and reference links – though these have quickly branched out further still…
I’ve recently proposed this idea to Gini Simpson, Head of Media Arts at SPACE Studios, Hackney, London, E8 3RH. The outline is included in full here but you can also download it as a PDF.
Introduction
Through recent online research for my own creative practice I came across a fascinating, but hitherto unknown to me, USA based project – momone.
There are videos of the monome 40h in action HERE
Essentially the momome is a beautifully designed, hand-crafted, minimalist interactive interface for controlling and monitoring pretty much anything audio, visual and beyond…
Interesting things I’ve found…
I want one… I really, really want one…
monome 40h – ~$500 second hand
monome.org
Several video’s HERE
the monome 40h is a reconfigurable grid of sixty-four backlit buttons.
buttons can be configured as toggles, radio groupings, sliders, or organized into more sophisticated systems to monitor and trigger sample playback positions, stream 1-bit video, interact with dynamic physical models, and play games. button press and visual indication are decoupled by design: the correlation is established by each application.
Scanning Turnkey’s official magazine I noticed a few interesting things…
Most of all I really liked…
Novation ReMOTE 25SL
www.novationmusic.com
I’d always thought that my KORG microKONTROL MIDI controller was the best implemented compact unit on the market… and at current price of £155 new from Turnkey I still think nothing comes close for the money… but the Novation ReMOTE SL series look great… and with their Automap Universal standard feature – instant communication with most sequencers… and now with VST plug-ins too… I think this is a must. I can envisage it having a big impact on productivity working with Nuendo and that’s got to be a good thing… the ReMOTE 25 SL is £289 new from Turnkey… looking on ebay now… new US $299.99 + $80 shipping… drool…
