CNET: Hands on with Tenori-On

.:CNET: Hands on with Tenori-On:.

While we have seen plenty of news and review about the Tenori-On coming from Europe, the news on the device from the US media and artists has been rather mum. Perhaps we might be seeing a little bit of a change in that CNET.com has gotten their hands on the Tenori-On and offers up some preview insight. While the article does not go into much detail about the device that we do not know already, there is a rather tasty interview with the Tenori-On creator which outlines some of the design concepts behind the device along with the hinting of it officially coming to the US in 2008.

Be sure check out the link along with the accompanying CNET video on their site.

Alert-Live at Parallel 17

.:Alert-Live at Parallel 17:.

This week's liveset is another linked over from Denvertronic.com (Is Denver that big of a LivePA hotspot?) and it is a very nice change up from some of the past music we have seen on the site. This week's set is a nice down tempo breaks set from Alert. Alert is also the owner of Dope Recordings.

Be sure to check it out if you are looking for more music in this vein. Also, a big ups to Denvertronic.com for dishing up yet another great liveset.

Vangelis and his CS80

Being that the 25th Anniversary of Blade Runner is coming out now, I thought it might be appropriate to dig up a great video of the film's main composer and one of music's great virtuoso's messing around with his Yamaha CS80.

Pleatheristic Live: Someone in the World

A great video of a live duo performing. Even better is that it has a live drummer, which is something I would love to see more of from LivePA artists. Electronic sets are getting cheaper and cheaper these days.

Ableton 7 Released!!!!

.:Ableton Live 7 Released:.

Looks like Ableton after a very short BETA run of the new Ableton Live software has released version 7.0 to the masses. As part of this new 7.0 release Ableton has gone the route of so many other DAW manufacturers these days and has "created" a suite with the release of its software.

As part of this suite comes six new instruments including an electric piano, a VA synth, a string modeling synthesizer, and a couple of drum synths.

The price for Ableton 7 is still at $499 US and the suite package comes in at $799. For those people who have purchased version 6 since October of this year, you are eligible for a free upgrade. There are also several upgrade paths available for all of the Ableton Live users regardless of your version with prices starting at $119. For more information head on over to the Ableton website.

Jean Michael Jarre Interviewed About Oxygene Live Tour

The above video is an interview tour with the famous Jean Michael Jarre regarding his latest Oxygene Live Tour and the recording of that tour for DVD. A moderately interesting video that gives you some great gear porn shots of Jarre's setup.

via Musicthing

Bit Shifter Live at Openair 2003

.:Bit Shifter Live at Openair 2003:.

Since it seems that the fantastically planned Blip Festival is just wrapping up, I think it might be appropriate that we feature as many of the Blip Festival artists on the next few LivePA Podcasts as possible.

So with that, lets go ahead and get this week's liveset started by featuring a liveset from one of the more well known 8bit artists out on the net, Bit Shifter.

Quote:

Bit Shifter explores high-energy, low-bit music composed and performed on a Nintendo Game Boy. The result is an unapologetically fun foray into an evocative and distinctive soundset traditionally reserved for video game sound effects and background music, all done on a console generally misperceived as being technically limited. Made possible by Oliver Wittchow and Johan Kotlinski's respective home-brew Game Boy musicmaking programs Nanoloop and Little Sound DJ, Bit Shifter's music adopts and subverts the playfulness inherent in the familiar Game Boy soundset, repurposing it into the service of novel idioms. Based in New York City, Bit Shifter has performed over one hundred shows worldwide, having recently circumnavigated the planet in a 20-date world tour with fellow chiptune compatriot Nullsleep

For more information about Bitshifter heand on over to his website bit.shifter.net

2008 Blip Festival

.:BlipFestival.org:.

All I have to say about this piece of hardware is, "Damn that is hot!!"

via Makezine.com

Korg Zero 8 Demonstration

Back at this past 2007 Winter NAMM a lot of people were raving about the newly announced Korg Zero 8. Although it is amazingly priced at around $1,800 it certainly has its share of bells and whistles with eleven different EQ models, built in effects, firewire and more.

Holotropik in the above video has a nice little display of the model in action. Too bad you can't tell how good it sounds from these videos, but if they do show anything it surely demonstrates that Korg knows how to make something that is glittery and shiny.

Devo Electribe Remix

An imaginative remix if I do say so myself, courtesy of Japanese techno soldier Denkitribe. Features an Electribe MX and a Mini KP. Unfortunately, I was unable to dig up much information on this artist.