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Amon Tobin: ISAM Live in Graz 

30 minutes of the live show which is an audio-visual treat.

Via Your Digital Daily

Live Vocaloid Performances Now Possible With The Yamaha Vocaloid Keyboard 

Genius / crazy invention for performing live synthetic singing, using Vocaloid technology (which is used for virtual J-Pop star Hatsune Miku) and a keyboard with piano keys and a keypad for consonants / vowels. From DigInfo News:

Yamaha has developed the Vocaloid Keyboard, which enables real-time performances of synthesized Vocaloid singing, by entering Japanese lyrics and pitch simultaneously.

This keyboard is optimized for entering Japanese characters with one hand. It has 16 buttons, for consonants, vowels, and the two types of voicing marks. The user enters those with the left hard, while playing the keys with the right. This makes it possible to synthesize singing using the hardware alone.

The entered text and the pronounced text are shown in katakana on the LED display, so you can check that the content played is correct. There are also three parameter knobs, which you can use to adjust the vocal sound.

More Info Here

DJ Soul - Live On The Frozen Files (February 1st 2012) 

This mix is actually a radio show, and is an hour of ‘breaks’ - parts of original songs that were sampled for Hip-Hop records. While that in itself is nothing new, the whole performance used original records and was live. There isn’t a tracklist (there are about 70 tracks featured, too long to include them all) but the music should be recognizable.

Essential Mix - Beardyman (via A North Country Bhoy)

UPDATE: This is a Reblog - had to take the original down due to bandwidth issues, but found the same mix (slightly edited from the radio transmission - the first track in the list doesn’t appear) on Soundcloud.

An hours worth of music which is one part continuous mix, one part performance:

I done this mix with my kaoss pads and and my mouth and a keyboard and logic and my fingers and my brain.

This is something special - should put anyone in a good Friday mood

“…This Essential Mix is like no other that you’ve heard before.  Beardyman, a world renowned beat-boxer based in London played this mix live, the catch, he uses nothing but a keyboard, effects pads, and his own voice.  No decks, no vinyl, no CD’s and certainly no mp3′s.  First broadcast on the 22nd Jan. 2011..”

Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band — Express Yourself
Hall & Oates — I Can’t Go For That
Beardyman — You’re Not Part Of Me
A Tribe Called Quest — Can I Kick It
Saint Etienne — Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Beardyman — All The Girls Be Touching My Ooh
Cee Lo Green — Forget You
Kings of Tomorrow — Finally
Beardyman — Cheese And Crackers
Tomcraft — Happiness
Beardyman — Unzip My Armpits
Daft Punk — Da Funk
Underworld — King Of Snake
Beardyman — Going Deep
Shakedown — At Night
Beardyman — I Don’t Know
Beardyman — Get Dutty
Leftfield — Phat Planet
Beardyman — I Don’t Want To Be Your Friend
Beardyman — Pyramid, Square, Rectangle, Yeah!
Beardyman — Glonk
Frankie Goes to Hollywood — Power Of Love
Beardyman — We Don’t Know Where We’re Going
The All Seeing I — The Beat Goes On
Beardyman — Back It Up
Beardyman — ‘Av It
Beardyman — Not What You Planned For
Beardyman — Aahh
The Devlins — Crossing The River
Beardyman — Ready For The Burn
Leftfield — Release The Pressure

If you want to download the mix, there is a link via A North Country Bhoy’s blog

(via prostheticknowledge)

QUEEN - Live Aid 1985 (HD)

As it’s the 20th anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s passing, a welcome (and HD) look at his band’s famous set (which some consider the best rock performance ever). Uploaded by heenez:

This video of the legendary gig Queen did at live aid 1985 has been uploaded many times, but the quality was poor most of the times I’ve seen it, and often split into 3 videos. So here is the dvd source, 1 single 21 minute video, upscaled to 720p, and slightly cropped and stretched to fit the 16:9 standard, adding some sharpness and noise reduction. It’s not bluray quality at all, but I believe it’s the best available from this historic event. Tho I am more jazz-funk orientated, I do agree this is the best live gig in rock history, ever. Enjoy :)

Holofunk - A Kinect + WiiMote Controlled Live Sound Looping Application

Beatboxing within a Kinect controlled interface.

Create music using your voice and loop the samples, similar to what Reggie Watts, Jamie Lidell do - even Beardyman has played around with it.

The Kinect is used as following the body, noting where the hands are to move all the samples on the display. The WiiMote is used to give additional controls to how the samples are played.

A short demo of a Kinect-and-Wiimote live looping application, open sourced at http://holofunk.codeplex.com — for more, see http://robjsoftware.org and get in touch on Facebook!

Radiohead for Haiti - Live PA, The Music Box, The Fonda, Los Angeles, CA, US 2010-01-24 via +dB

Two hour set recorded at Los Angeles, a gig set up to raise money for Haiti

Please Make A Donation To The Ongoing ‘Haiti Earthquake and Recovery Fund’ Especially If You Download. Failing This, Whilst Enjoying, Get With The Spirit Of The Night And Spare A Thought For The People Affected

Tracklist:

From: OK Computer (1997), Kid A (2000), In Rainbows (2008)

01 [0:00:45] “Faust Arp” (3:06)
02 [0:03:51] “Fake Plastic Trees” (5:06)
03 [0:08:57] “Arpeggi/Weird Fishes” (5:28)
04 [0:14:25] “National Anthem” (4:53)
05 [0:19:18] “Nude” (4:24)
06 [0:23:42] “Karma Police” (5:04)
07 [0:28:46] “Kid A” (4:58)
08 [0:33:44] “Morning Bell” (4:05)
09 [0:37:49] “How To Disappear Completely” (6:43)
10 [0:44:32] “A Wolf At The Door” (3:33)
11 [0:48:05] “The Bends” (5:12)
12 [0:53:17] “Reckoner” (5:38)
13 [0:58:55] “Lucky” (4:37)
14 [1:03:32] “Bodysnatchers” (4:30)
15 [1:08:02] “Dollars and Cents” (6:18)
16 [1:14:20] “Airbag” (5:13)
17 [1:20:38] “Exit Music” (4:29)
18 [1:25:49] “Everything In Its Right Place” (3:44)
19 [1:29:33] “You And Whose Army?”(3:43)
20 [1:33:16] “Pyramid Song” (4:59)
21 [1:38:15] “All I Need” (4:06)
22 [1:45:20] “Lotus Flower” (4:59)
23 [1:51:41] “Paranoid Android” (6:41)
24 [1:58:22] “Street Spirit (Fade Out)” (5:08)

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Director’s Cut: Jamie Lidell performing with iMaschine (via Create Digital Music)

Jamie Lidell performs an iMaschine exclusive version of “A Little Bit More” from the album Multiply (2005, Warp) while relaxing in bed. The entire performance was done live in one take, with nothing pre-recorded, and no post-production edits made to the song.

It doesn’t come anywhere near the improvised live stuff he has done before, but done well nevertheless.

Playing dubstep on real instruments via Hack A Day

The inevitable merging of two popular musical genres …

This will not be for everyone’s musical tastes, but certainly interesting - using traditional electronic rock instruments to create music that is normally sequenced on a computer (with a little help from some technology). The lead guitarist has mounted a bluetooth keyboard at the base of the strings, but more interesting, the bassist uses an accelerometer device on his thumb which creates that characteristic dubstep ‘wobble’ (see the video above at the 56 second mark):

First up is the bassist, [Nathan Navarro]. He wears a Source Audio Hot Hand on his right thumb. This little box is a two-axis accelerometer that communicates with his pedal board using RF frequencies. With the Hot Hand, he has control over two parameters on Hot Hand Pedals. The envelope effect is awesome, but it’s worth noting that [Nathan] is sponsored by Source Audio. We’re thinking it would be relatively easy to cram a Wii MotionPlus and microcontroller into a wristband. Tied to a computer and MIDI interface, the homebrew solution would do the same thing.

[Derek Song] is the guitarist and he’s used multieffects for most of his musical life He has a small Bluetooth keyboard and touchpad mounted to the front of his guitar that controls just about everything on his pedal board. The Bluetooth controller sends commands to [Derek]‘s computer that outputs MIDI CC messages to his pedal board.

More info and videos can be found here

Skrillex @ Petco Park

Video captured by a fan recording a performance by Skrillex. What is impressive here is not the projection mapping (which is great, and more to see here), but the robot figure in the background that looks like it is DJing in the enormous booth.

It is actually mimicking the performer’s moves through infra-red real-time motion tracking.