Grammy nominated American music producer, composer, audio technician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and Electronica wizard Brian Wayne Transeau, better known by his stage name BT, has always been a visionary when it comes to music production. Always, years ahead of his time, and always, pushing the envelope for technological advancement, leaving behind no room for creative disorder. Starting with the ever popular ‘BT Stutter edit‘, his recently released micro-edit technology ‘Breaktweaker‘ in partnership with Izotope, ensured that Electronic music production continues to be as freeflowing from inception to conception. And now he combines with Dr. Richard Boulanger of the Berklee College of Music, as he creates MUSE – a brand-new app that gives you the power to create and perform your own ambient music in the air with your hands above the Leap Motion Controller.
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In a first, U.S. based computer sensor manufacturer, Leap Motion, has turned its attention to electronic music, as it will allow composers to use the Leap Motion Controller, which costs $79, to make their own ambient music. The technology, which is slightly larger than a cigarette lighter, tracks the points of fingers using three infrared LEDs and two image sensors to follow movement around 200 times with precision, giving able control to the composer to curate tunes as imagined.
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The app will give composers an ‘infinite sound palette’ from which to combine and produce sounds as the hardware works alongside a conventional mouse and keyboard, which allows would-be-musicians to interact more normally with the computer programme. One of the features of the app is that you can create layers of chords, drums and atmospheric sounds using a strange interface of cubes, as hovering a finger over the cubes they are selected and a simple hand gesture of opening the fingers plays them. Swiping side to side accesses extra chord sets and drums, while an ‘AutoMuse’ function means musicians can listen to or play long with music being automatically composed by the software. Echo and reverberation of the sound can be controlled by moving hands in a certain way towards the computer screen, making the virtual instrument much more intuitive to learn than a traditional instrument.
Composing music in a time, where such advancements weren’t possible, BT‘s music still ensured a futuristic-cutting edge production, but now, BT uses all his resources to recreate these powerful applications to ensure that whatever music imagined, can be music created.
Click here to visit the website and know more about the app.
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