In another great piece from our friends at Create Digital Music, there is a new piece featuring the wonderful Daedelus waxing lyrical about Barack Obama and the very cool Monome Device.
XLR8R TV Episode 71: Daedelus from XLR8RTV on Vimeo. While Daedelus may not be everyone's cup of tea, I think he's brilliant, and a truly unique voice. His use of the Monome is pretty awesome as well, although I don't think that I would ever configure it with my setup. It would probably require use of a computer built in this century.
I'm sure many of you have been floored by the newest incarnation of the Omega Synth from Studio Electronics. It's a beautiful synth, and there aren't even any closeups or audio demos of it. It's just fascinating, really fascinating, and at $4500US it costs about as much as a car my wife and I were looking at. It's just so cool, and bubbly looking, and I have no idea where I would put it. It doesn't look like it belongs on a rack, keyboard stand, or anywhere in my music system...it belongs in my living room, or on the spaceship from Silent Running or Wall-E. Just to put its whole 60s vibe in there, it was slavishly designed to imitate the look of the ship interiors from 2001. A Space Oddity indeed, but if I was in a different tax bracket, a no-brain purchase. Just click here to see what I'm going on about.
