EQ Magazine - January 2009 - (Page 9) Daedelus showing off his Monome MIDI controllers. latter of which was used to record the entirety of N’fa’s cameo on “Twist the Kids.” “The reality is that take was the best take,” he says matter-of-factly. “And, anyway, crystal clear vocal production doesn’t necessarily fit with my concept of using vocals as more textural elements of the songs. Re-recording N’fa with a better signal chain wouldn’t have been the right thing for the song.” For Love To Make Music To, Weisberg-Roberts integrated a Monome MIDI controller (www.monome.org)— one of the staples of his gigging gear—into the production process, using it in conjunction with Cycling ’74s Max/MSP. “I’m able to sample bits and pie1ces of a song I’ve created—or even live material—as I sample directly into the machine, and it rips ’em apart on the fly,” he says. “Basically, this allows for a lot of improvisational-type controls in an immediate fashion. The results can be unpredictable, because samples have a bit of their own personality—especially when you’re dealing with complicated drums. You can find places that are unexpected, and use the controller to repeat those moments. For example, I’ll haphazardly play across the machine with some basic expectations. You’ve got to hit a point in a typical drum loop that’s usually kind of a null point—where there’s usually nothing going on—but the way that affects the beat is sometimes really interesting. You can drop in on the second beat in a three-bar loop, and, suddenly, the beat turns around in a funny way. It’s the wrong beat in the wrong place, but you can take a break beat, and make it something that sounds 4/4. I love that about this machine—you can really get outside of your expectations. In fact, it can foil your expectations.” LAURA DARLING www.eqmag.com JANUARY 2009 EQ 9 http://www.monome.org http://www.eqmag.com
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