I made a 30 minute mix for Womp! – A night I’m playing on tomorrow night in Eastbourne. Mix is a bit darker than what I’ll probably end up playing but well worth a listen if you like your electronic music with a bit of bass and a bit of fun!
I made a quick DJ mix with my girlfriend in preparation for our little New years eve gig and thought I should share it with the world. If you’re into house music you should have a listen!
Version 0.9 of FingerPlay MIDI adds a few more options for each MIDI controller in the layout XML file. You can now set whether it should send note presses or controller changes and which channel and controller number it sends it on. I’ve added some comments to the default XML file which I hope is enough to get everyone started.
There’s also basic support for the Android hardware sensors courtesy of Matias Wilkman, but because they’re still very much work-in-progress they’re not enabled by default. If you want to try them out just uncomment the last screen in the default XML file.
Please let me know if there are any problems with this new version, I’m flat20 on Twitter.
I spent last night playing around with audio programming for Android and I now have the basics of a FingerPlay scratch app. There’s no interface yet and it’s not “real” scratching, but I’ll see what I can do about that when I’m back from my holiday. And I need a better loop to play with as well..
Can’t get embed video to work right now.. I’ll update later.
Musinaut have developed a device which uses sensors to determine your state of mind and changes the music accordingly. Apparently it uses their own MXP4 format and can only change certain aspects of the specially recorded track you’re currently listening to. Even though it’s certainly an interesting piece of technology, I’d personally prefer having the music changing my mood rather than the opposite.
last.fm keeps me locked in to the genre’s I’m already listening to by suggesting songs and bands similar to the one’s I’ve scrobbled, and now this device would lock me in to the mood I’m in by playing music according to my current state of mind. I’m sure you could override its choices but then you could just get a normal MP3 player instead, couldn’t you?
Regardless of how you feel about it, the headgear alone looks ridiculous and should be enough to make you buy an iPod instead. Still, the technology is pretty cool but I wish it could let me skip tracks using brainwaves instead.
http://gizmodo.com/5057341/musinaut-music-player-djs-music-according-to-your-brainwaves