{"id":5167,"date":"2013-12-07T14:16:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T21:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5167"},"modified":"2013-12-15T14:20:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T21:20:04","slug":"five-futuristic-controllers-reconnecting-musicians-with-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/12\/07\/five-futuristic-controllers-reconnecting-musicians-with-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"FIVE FUTURISTIC CONTROLLERS RECONNECTING MUSICIANS WITH MACHINES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factmag.com\/2013\/12\/01\/the-human-touch-five-futuristic-controllers-reconnecting-musicians-with-machines\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from FACT Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>THE HUMAN TOUCH: FIVE FUTURISTIC CONTROLLERS RECONNECTING MUSICIANS WITH MACHINES<\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 0.83em;\">WORDS\u00a0BY\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 0.83em;\">Laurent Fintoni<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Beatsurfing011213.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our recent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.factmag.com\/2013\/10\/31\/the-great-live-music-roundtable-six-producers-debate-the-future-of-live-electronic-music\/\" target=\"_blank\">live music roundtable<\/a>\u00a0underlined the importance of \u2018humanity\u2019 in electronic music performances.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite appearances, it\u2019s not quite \u2018rise of the machines\u2019 out there just yet. While plenty of people are content with live shows that are by-and-large pre-programmed and leave little room for error, thus being more akin to live dubbing or DJ sets than live music per se, our conversation with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.factmag.com\/tag\/scanner\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Scanner<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.factmag.com\/tag\/debruit\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>debruit<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<strong>Comfort Fit<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.factmag.com\/tag\/archie-pelago\/\" target=\"_blank\">Archie Pelago<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0underlined the importance of human error and control in modern music performance. And what better way to bring this to audiences \u2013 both sonically and visually \u2013 than with new types of controllers and instruments?<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of controllers out there that allow musicians to control laptops and hardware in the studio and on stage, though some of the most interesting progress with regards to their evolution is coming from the fringes. A perfect example of this is the monome, a custom-built controller that has grown over the past decade to encompass a worldwide community of users and creators, with perhaps its most famous live exponent being Daedelus, who uses it for his own live shows.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factmag.com\/2013\/12\/01\/the-human-touch-five-futuristic-controllers-reconnecting-musicians-with-machines\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at FACTmag.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from FACT Magazine THE HUMAN TOUCH: FIVE FUTURISTIC CONTROLLERS RECONNECTING MUSICIANS WITH MACHINES WORDS\u00a0BY\u00a0Laurent Fintoni Our recent\u00a0live music roundtable\u00a0underlined the importance of \u2018humanity\u2019 in electronic music performances. Despite appearances, it\u2019s not quite \u2018rise of the machines\u2019 out there just yet. While plenty of people are content with live shows that are by-and-large pre-programmed and leave [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}