/ Instruments, Technology (Posted in Danish, 2011 December 12th)
In 2004 JazzMutant (a company) presented a brilliant multi-touch musical instrument for electronica and DJ'ing. They were pioneers and had to invent the first screen ever that was able to track "an unlimited number of fingers" touching the surface. The device has been a great success, due to both the very high flexibility and the robust hardware.
Below is a taste of one interface and its options
Jazz Mutant, the French company that manufacture Lemurs, has been using good hardware parts, their own graphics processor and with wired interface with the connected machines, so you unlike an iPad won't risk a WiFi-stop, in the middle of a concert. It was the first multi-touch machine for creative use.
Here is Kanye West performing Stronger at the Grammy Award Show 2008, along with Daft Punk, who were sampled into the original number with their Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger - here they play on Lemurs, as seen at 2:59 and onwards.
JazzMutant brilliantly made the user interface flexible and programmable, so you are able to shape and define your buttons and switches, displays and menus - it also features friction in faders and so on. And you can install interfaces uploaded by other users, and work on them. The Lemur also controls synthesizers, mixers, light and video installations.
Here is another interface, where you see how Lemurs can be used as a sequencer ...
Some renowned electronica artists (and DJs and video artists) have used JazzMutant Lemur's for making music, including:
Björk
Daft Punk
Linkin Park
Deadmau5
Mode Selector
Nine Inch Nails.
Below is Björk's Declare Independance (live from Paris)... the Reactable was filmed a lot
(article on the Reactable: link in MUSICClick) and the Lemur was hardly filmed, it is seen briefly
0:44.
EDIT:
The Lemur was relesed in a version 2 (see more in links) and as an app for the iPad and other tablets. There is now good videos showing how to use it, see the links below. Many shows how it interacts with the popular application for music and DJ'ing: Ableton Live. Here is one of the videos showing how to use it and program your own interface. There are more videos in the series, just do a search on youtube on "Lemur tutorial series" ... below the first video in a series about DJ'ing.
Lemur V2 can be purchased for $ 1999, -
M U S I C Click:
JazzMutant's homepage:
Tutorials:
Lemur and iPad:
Lemur V2:
A DJ setup based on the Lemur:
Article on the Reactable:
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