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Equipment: Mac PPC, Director, SoundEdit 16, Bryce
Needs: 8MB RAM, Mac 33/040 or PPC, Sys. 7.1 to 7.5.3, Sound
THE YOUNG GODS - Real Interactive Music
Music by The Young Gods
Concept, Artwork, Audio and Interactivity by Frank Coleman
An impressionistic homage to the great Swiss rock band, The Young Gods. This demo lets you invoke chance elements and the processing power of the computer to experience, explore and recombine the music of The Gods into something new, yet still recognizable, just as their music is itself recombinant.
The first time I heard them, I thought they had ten guitars and three bass players. Wrong! --> Vocals, sampler and drums! They map entire guitar riffs to individual keys via the magic of MIDI. When Alain plays with all ten fingers -- voila, ten guitars!
INGREDIENTS:
- One 3-D landscape
- Three pyramids (the "hot spots")
- About a dozen TYG music samples
- Two layers of music, controlled by you
- One "lead" layer (triggered by rolling over any pyramids)
- One "rhythm" layer (triggered by clicking on any pyramid)
- One 3-D "fly" cursor (controls the "lead" layer volume)
- One "destination" (your mind)
- Extended rant included as an optional side path.
Turn off: RAM Doubler; file sharing
Self-extracting archive, scanned with Disinfectant 3.5
Uploaded with permission of The Young Gods and Interscope Records.
Visit The Young Gods home page at www.mcnet.ch/gods
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After you're done with this demo, run out and buy all their records.
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Write to me at fbc@xensei.com or FrankC21CA on AOL, and tell me what you think.