This is pretty sweet technology. However, I don't really see it in it's current iteration as being good for anything other than an "experimental show." If you took the same concept, but added some beat mixing software, the ability to move from one track to another off of synthesized beat, and then forced the program to use video clips from future songs on the playlist for those filler beats, then I think it would be awesome in a club setting. You would get sort of a prediction as to the future tracks, as well as some coherent eye candy, and not just flashes of light to jarring noise samples.

This reminds me a LOT of the electro-acoustic band I was in back in high school. Sure it was fun, but it got really frustrating after a few years. We had all this kick ass synth gear, with SO much potential- Korg MS20, Vocoder and Sequencer, Moog MG-1, a half dozen drum machines, guitars, clarinet, two dozen effects pedals, microphones, probably close to a hundred different found sound percussion instruments (aka junk, except junk that happened to sound cool when you hit it- for example an old HD that was probably about 15 inches in diameter), cords everywhere, a couple of PCs, an Atari ST... it was such an AMAZING studio, and we just went every week and played with it. I have probably close to 100 hours of recordings of us screwing around with that gear.

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And for all of that potential- nobody seemed to be interested in actually making "real" music. It was "experimental" which seemed to be mostly formless noodling.

Anyway, the technology in this video really should be in the hands of mashup artists. Hell, any proper DJ, really. I think it would be good to have kind of as a plug-in to your mixer. Ready, set, mix- "ok, the new track is in and three, two, one- FREAK IT UP!" flip the switch and unleash this madness for a few bars.

Actually!! Take Track A that is playing, and use the freakulator to mimic it with sounds from Track B- slowly mix that in, then increase the grain size until it just sounds like a weird chop of the track you're about to play, then BOOM- let them have it with Track B.

This would totally be awesome to play with.

*livemusic *wtf *geek *engineering

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