Wrangling MIDI: Owen Biddle & Zach Danziger of Mister Barrington at TEDxUmassAmherst
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- Опубліковано 2 тра 2013
- By pre-recording their speech, Owen Biddle and Zach Danziger set out to challenge assumptions about live electronic music. Far from being canned, they improvise a series of pieces enabled by elaborate MIDI architecture which allows for free-form melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic composition. No click or backing tracks were utilized in this performance. The presentation culminates with the duo triggering rapid-fire video clips in real time using note data generated by the bass and drums to create a living multimedia experience.
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This is amazing. The musicianship is great, the learning curve to get to their level of understanding of midi, video,programming and triggering is insane, let alone figuring out how to integrate everything seamlessly. Wow
I've been a fan of Zach Danziger's playing for years but this is really cool and inspiring. I love that he keeps pushing the envelope. The video clips with vocal snippets in the last half of the video are pretty amazing. Keep it up Mister Barrington!
This people is writing history right here. Changing the complete game.
No hay competencia!
Nicely done. Max for Live should be a natural for you two!
Unreal, the future of music!
Man such a MONSTER DRUMMER. :-)
This is one of the cooler things I've seen in awhile!
This is awesome! Great work guys!
absolutely ... unreal, the future of music - agree (although i'm jazz listener)
It's a bit like Pat Metheny's 'Orchestrion' concept, but what they play will trigger synth/computer sounds. Unlike intellect-first, brainy 'Math-Rock' whatever of nowadays, this sounds more spontaneous and 'organic'.Plus they have great sense of humor too, so it makes for a loose, fun thing. Zach had already been experimenting w/ electronics stuff since at least 1998, even before him and Tim Lefebvre and Uri Caine got together in Bedrock.
Very inspiring! That's cutting edge stuff!
Pure soundtrip period!!!!!
love it!!
Wow what a great innovative music!!
incredible!
super cool! I am sure it will find its feet in pop music very soon
Very interesting, there's no predicting where the music is going to go so it really forces you to listen and process each individual sound. I really liked the second song.
i love zach
Como se logra llegar a este nivel??
@Scych Geek Rock
Thats Zach Danziger, he started Mr.Barington who used these exact same thing as far back as the 80's. Get your hashtag fanboy shit outta here.
still love it!!
Not a big fan of electric music, but it is really f*cking awesome
Anyone has any idea what hardware Owen uses to convert his bass audio to midi? or software maybe?
Pacman
okay so I understand that the drummer has each drum triggering a different soft synth with midi, but can someone explain to me what the bassist is doing besides playing bass?
cool!
How can I make turn the seconds sounds ticking on my iPhone clock into cool sounds in real time so my clock sounds Awesome???
Anyone know the DJ track he played?
Pretty sure it was their own stuff from Mister Barrington
really? how do you buy the ability to drum like Zach??
you say that if it's only a matter of buying the technology. probably you don't realize the effort that it needs to program the toys noise like that
why these guys aren't producing major acts-especially the rhythmically bleak field of hip-hop- is a serious question.
Love how it says "DUMass" behind them...
wacky
Terraria?
I hear what you're saying, and as cool as this is, that "pedantic" IDM stuff is still way more musical than this from a compositional aspect. I'd be interested to hear an act do something like this but with a little less "look what we can do wankery". It's still pretty ground breaking nonetheless.
To all the people saying this is the future of music...your wrong!
This merely sounds futuristic.
Technological glitches and oscillating tones may represent the future, but that is simply from watching too many movies.
There is no 'future of music'.
This is a synonym. :)
Audibly, it is futuristic in the symbolic sense. Technologically, it is a wonderful vision of an avenue that the music of the future could go down
Dude, it has nothing to do with "look what we can do wankery" as you said, it's simply another type of music in another person's mind. If you don't understand time signatures other than 4/4, then you're assed out and not comprehending the artist(s)
is this clowncore
Thats louis cole
Why keep listening to those numb squared live acts with their endless 4/4 loops?
Hi-Tech, Techno, House and all it's variations, Drum & Bass, Psytrance, and specially that pedantic IDM style seems from 200 years ago next to this type of sequencing.
Good drummer but that was noise to my ears.
Taylor Swift brought me here ………… NOT!