Here's a sneak-peak at one of the many monome-centric performance setups I've been experimenting with recently. There's still a lot to learn, but I'm excited about the possibilities of this new toy.
Nonagon - A Collected Man (Monome Improv) from Nonagon on Vimeo.
5 comments:
this contraption blows my mind. still.
How do you remember which bit is where?
I mean I can see how you can memorize that, but it seems like high cognitive load.
Really, really, really impressive.
When you showed me the monome on youtube, I didn't expect you to embrace it so quickly, and so fluently.
In a word...awesome. Can't wait to see nonagon live.
@Sowmya: it is a fairly high cognitive load. To a certain extent it's similar to playing a real instrument, e.g. remembering how fingerings correspond to notes on a saxophone is also a high cognitive load before the player has fully internalized the information. Unfortunately one can only internalize so much with MLR on the monome, as the sounds mapped to each row can (and must) change fairly regularly.
My approach so far has been to try to maintain consistent mappings of sound types to rows: you can see in this video that drums are always mapped to the bottom two rows, bass to the third row, etc. I'm hoping that by being consistent in this way I'll be able to work more naturally with the device over time. My goal is to be able to generate an entirely improvised performance based on elements of individual songs. We'll see how it goes.
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