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Dan Deacon Makes Phones Into Instruments and a Live Light Show [iOS, Android, Dev Interview]
Cigarette lighters in the air may have given way to smartphones – but it’s hardly fitting at a concert to watch everyone checking their SMS inbox. In a new twist, Dan Deacon concerts use all that computational power in people’s pockets to make these devices part of the show, refocusing fans on the music. The […]
Read moreDan Deacon in the Studio, Player Piano, MIDI, and Playing the Impossible
The player piano has come, oddly, full circle. Peer into the editing pane of a music sequencer, and what you see is an abstracted virtual player piano. The editing views are even dubbed “Piano Roll” views (sometimes officially so). The MIDI protocol by which most music devices and apps communicate is itself a kind of […]
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