Tuesday, 29 April 2008

Reactable

This is the instrument of the future, no more syntheses, no more midi keyboards. This is the reactable, a sound modulator which is controlled on a table using blocks, sounds stupid right, its until you see the bad boy in action you think "thats Cool".
As i'm a instrumentalist myself for a band i see this piece of equipment going far and they are said to out at the end of this year, which i cant wait and i'm willing to spend as much money as possible because they are worth every penny.
Heres some youtube links:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vm_FzLya8y4

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zodf6_YGujo&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=s7QE5tHFwTg

Wednesday, 9 April 2008

Renoise

During my brief time back ive been playing on a software called "Renoise".
This is a new way of making music, instead of using specialist hardware, you use your actual keyboard as a keyboard.
You also can change the samples, effects to how you want and also you can put samples in, with a mixer so you can get speaker panning.
I have written a few tracks (using the demo which is free), but tried to buy the actual version but couldn't sort it out, soon as i do, ill let you know my myspace.

www.renoise.com

Cheers

Film Ideas

Through the holidays, i've been coming up with ideas.
I've came up with four ideas:
The Wild East- Revenge/Post modern western, male character helping a female character (friend) from peers who take advantage.
Dead Man Shoes meets Straw Dogs meets True Romance.
Zombies Up- Horror/ Comedy, basic zombie film how people are trying to survive holding in a building but with british ways of things. Using references from old zombie movies and games.
Shaun of the dead meets Evil Dead.
Mandy's Mate's- Social Realism, A look at todays society through the eyes of an alienated drug user, the idea of being young and getting old, friendship, loss of culture, ignorance, etc. (my personal Faviourite idea) Uses quoets/refferences to Hunter S Thompson and Bill Hicks.
Human Traffic meets Fear and Loathing meets Bill Hicks.
(No Working Title)- A female who wakes up doesnt know where she is or who she is?
Then she finds theres monsters, everything will have a part in the twist.
Silent Hill meets Mulholland Drive meets Momento.

Tell me what you think to these ideas?