Re:24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012)
by derefr on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @01:52AM
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I think one thing that made this happen is that this is a presentation made to exercise an interactive software tool that—although it can also be used for one's own experimentation—was mainly written to be used in the presentation. It's a case of making a custom "musical instrument" crafted to play exactly the song you're about to play on it. A lot like Bret Victor's "puppet controller" app in his presentation Stop Drawing Dead Fish (https://vimeo.com/64895205); or the actually-an-instrument "MIDI fighter" created by Shawn Wasabi for his music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAeybdD5UoQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj2eUpt3MVE).
The camerawork was excellent and the demonstration integration/trinket-wielding was seamlessly done. I get the impression the people who made this had a case of "let's use the ThinkPad for this, and let's do it this and that way," and they pulled it off so perfectly, exactly how engineers wish would happen.
If you ever need a reference demo for "open-source software can make good looking presentations," this would be on the shortlist, I think. (The credits say it was made using Cinerella, for reference.)