This is my dog Max. My favorite computer program is also called “Max". Actually, it's called Max/MSP. It's a graphical programming environment that gives you unlimited flexibility to assemble your own software synths, audio effects processors, etc. much as you would patch together components of an old-school modular synthesizer. And as part of my Interdimensional Wrecked System (IWS), I'm offering the world my “Maxi-Patch” technology for turntablists. OK, so what is the IWS? Rather than have me try to explain it to you, here are some examples of what members of my fan club from all over the world are doing using the IWS...
Daito Manabe is from Tokyo, Japan. Born in 1976, he received the Bachelor of Mathematics from Tokyo University of Science. After working as a systems engineer and programmer, he graduated from the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in 2004, and is now a part-time instructor in the Department of Inter-Media Art at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. Daito is an internationally performing Turntablist and Sound Artist whose work focuses on surround/oscillation/super-low-frequency technology and explores sensual peculiarity, commonality, and interaction. Daito recently gave a comprehensive hands-on workshop about the use of Max/MSP/Jitter and MsPinky. Click here to see a short video from this historic event. Click here to see Daito jamming on a custom system he created for audio/visual turntable performance using MsPinky + Max/MSP/Jitter.
Click here to take a tour through the system Daito has created using MsPinky's vinyl interface. Please also visit his website to see the numerous other projects in which he's involved!
Maxime Denuc and Raphaël Henard are two electronic music producers living in Toulouse, France. Both were born in 1983. Using Ms Pinky's vinyl control interface and Max/MSP, Raphaël plays with time, beats, and harmony. He orchestrates a ballet of numeric data sent by Maxime's laptop, creating a confrontation between hip-hop turnablism and numeric art. Their recent project entitled "Plapla and Miss Pinky" is an exhibition/performance art piece created for presentation in several very different places.
Click here to see a short video selection from this piece as presented in a beautiful pastoral setting in the French countryside. Contact Maxime.
Jesse Kriss is a designer, programmer, and musician living in Cambridge, MA. He works on projects at the intersection of art and technology, including a visualization of the history of sampling, and MaxLink, a free software package for connecting Max/MSP and Processing. His latest project, "Visual Scratch", uses Ms. Pinky along with Processing, Max/MSP, and MaxLink to create a realtime visualization of scratch DJ performance.
Click here to see a movie about the original incarnation of the "Visual Scratch" project, then click here to see the exciting new form it's taking. And be sure to check out Jesse's website.
Gabriel Norland is a DJ and sonic collagist whose music comes from the perspectives of hip-wiggling rhythm and nonsensical deconstruction.
Gabriel has fully integrated Ms. Pinky’s Interdimensional Wrecked System into his live turntable sets and is developing the awesome 'Scratch Monkey’ patch in partnership with Max McRackery (collaborator, co-founder of the avantrural movement - www.avantrural.com - and Max/MSP experimenter). Scratch Monkey allows the user to modulate a live audio input via the manipulation of the Ms. Pinky control vinyl. When Gabriel uses the patch he becomes ‘The Scratch Monkey DJMC’ and is able to scratch words and beatbox in real-time. Please feel free to come and see The Scratch Monkey DJMC at his transitory cyber-abode - www.myspace.com/djsfromouterspace.
Click here for a tasty morsel of what the ‘The Scratch Monkey DJMC’ is all about...
Tommy Bowers is a digital artist living in Plymouth UK. He has just completed the Bachelor of Science degree in Digital Arts and Technology at the University of Plymouth. Tommy is interested in applying the gestures of turntable scratching in the digital realm. Using Ms. Pinky’s Interdimensional Wrecked System and MAX/MSP he's developed a program called the "Scratch Patch" that uses digitized scratch gestures to apply effects to a mix. Click here to watch a movie showing the "Scratch Patch" in action. Visit Tommy's website for more information, and click here to download the "Scratch Patch".
And be sure to check out Tommy's internet radio station at www.swillfm.com, where he regularly uses Ms Pinky to spin.
Tiago Pereira is a video director and documentarist living in Lisbon, Portugal. His work is based on popular and ancestral cultures, the relationship between people and land. In his own words.. "a kind of ethnographyc destruction/new constrution, a popular surrealism, the way people look to themselves and think. What i do with ms pinky is video music, a media live act in real time, a meta documentary about how people live in the north of portugal, their relationship with donkeys and the way they live with that. They are so musical that is perfect to scratch, extend, and manipulate never loosing its primary essence....." In partnership with Bazar do Video in Lisbon, Tiago is presenting a show entitled "11 Donkeys Fall in a Empty Stomach":
Onze burros caem no estomago vazio
ms pinky live media act
com o sistema software hardware ms pinky se constroiem mundos
populares surrealistas
tudo com dois gira discos
a partir de recolhas populares sobre burros
e como se encontra uma agulha num palheiro?
....este mundo e como a palha quem come mais e quem menos trabalha
e um porco morre
aí cigano pah
arre burro anda cá
e o canário fazia assim ion ion ion
e o cão... auhhh auhhh
e o burro queria cobrir a mulher... a burra!
já posso cantar?
Click here to watch a movie of Tiago rocking a video mix with Ms Pinky.... WARNING: this video clip contains images which Pig Lovers may find upsetting. Tiago's film has recently won the Prize Tóbis for best short Portuguese documentary film at DocLisboa 2006. Contact Tiago.
Bradley Zimring is a student at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) in Palo Alto, CA, USA. He's created a looping composition/performance system which incorporates MsPinky and Max/MSP. Click here to see a short video segment showing how he uses it...For more a more detailed description of his project, and a full-length version of the video, please visit his website..Contact Bradley.
Tyler Hanslin, aka the "Dither King", is a multi-faceted artist and student at SMFA in Boston, cross-registered at MIT studying holography, and at Berklee College of Music studying music synthesis. Click here to see a short video clip of the Dither King mixing it up using MsPinky's BinkyToy.For more information about the Dither King, please visit his website.
TAG is a graduate student at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. Here's a brief presentation showing some of the work he does using MsPinky's Maxi-Patch technology...
Contact TAG: PimpTag@aol.com
DJ P-Nice of Boston needs no introduction. A recipient of a coveted invitation to the Red Bull Music Academy, held last November in Cape Town, South Africa. Check out his website, and check him out here scratching it up on the notorious P.I.N.K. 'Nuf said. Peeples, can you say "Owwwwwww!!!"