Reconstructing Thom Yorke's The Eraser with the monome

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- CommentAuthormakingthenoise
- CommentTimeOct 1st 2008
Every time I've listened to Thom Yorke's The Eraser (the album) I've thought about how well a lot of those tracks could work with a monome. Here's what I've accomplished so far with the title track: http://www.vimeo.com/1854975

All the samples were created in Reason/Ableton and I've posted all the files necessary to reproduce it here: http://www.makingthenoise.com/software.html

I challenge anyone with a vocal range like Thom Yorke's to perform this with the vocals :)
- CommentAuthorjohnni
- CommentTimeOct 1st 2008
thats some great job!
And you made me get my eyes on another great app for the monome. i dont have ableton live7 yet tho so i guess that ill have to wait trying it out. or is there any older versions that runs on ableton live 6?

speaking of reconstructing radiohead songs... they released a pack of samples, and asks for their fans help to remix reckoner from the 'new' album in rainbows. http://www.radioheadremix.com/
this cud be something for yer monomers out there!
- CommentAuthordanstork
- CommentTimeOct 1st 2008
wow gotta hand it to you, amazing work!
- CommentAuthorgoldfish_memory
- CommentTimeOct 1st 2008
awesome work mtn, i've had exactly the same thoughts about the eraser and it is a stunning album

i've got the reckoner samples to start playing with too, but a flat move has put the brakes on playing with that for a while.
- CommentAuthorphsr
- CommentTimeOct 1st 2008
thats pretty sick
- CommentAuthorhypno|sapien
- CommentTimeOct 1st 2008 edited
Seems like this would be a great monomic exercise. And it would thrill my soon-to-be-four-year-old. He runs around singing Atoms for Peace all the time...the boy makes me proud!

And great work!
- CommentAuthorhypno|sapien
- CommentTimeOct 1st 2008
Congrats on your CDM plug!
- CommentAuthormakingthenoise
- CommentTimeOct 1st 2008 edited
cdm plug?

Edit: oh duh, http://createdigitalmusic.com/
- CommentAuthorstretta
- CommentTimeOct 1st 2008
For the record, I did not alert CDM or contact them in any way. They must monitor my blog.
- CommentAuthormakingthenoise
- CommentTimeOct 1st 2008
doesn't everybody?
- CommentAuthor____
- CommentTimeOct 1st 2008
this is like a lesson in monoming. i love it.
- CommentAuthorrawray7
- CommentTimeOct 1st 2008
so all i have to do to get on the cdm blog (and by extension take over the world) is to impress stretta? hmm...
- CommentAuthorpeterkirn
- CommentTimeOct 2nd 2008
Actually, I can't remember how I stumbled on this, but yes, I do indeed read your blog!

[[ cdm, monitoring your digital music movement... ]]

;)

Oh, and just for the record, you know that "us" is generally just "me," particularly on the music site? Although I do like the idea of a giant newsroom of people, watching music tech forums and shouting.

Peter
- CommentAuthorstephen
- CommentTimeOct 2nd 2008
i love the idea that peter kirn is like the newspaper boss guy in spiderman, with an army of interns clamouring for his attention:
intern - "sir, itouch midi is in the iphone appstore! there's been an update to glitch ds! check out this project to remix the eraser on the monome!"
pk - "crap, crap, crap, i'll give 200 bucks for the lot. now get out of sight before i slip into a diabetic coma."
- CommentAuthorstretta
- CommentTimeOct 2nd 2008
Peter - sorry, I was just afraid people might get the idea I was spoon-feeding CDM 'monome virtuoso' blog copy. I don't want to sound ungrateful, but a large number of people here do great things and it felt kinda weird being singled out, especially in the context of an app I had nothing to do with other than post on my site.

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Reconstructing Thom Yorke's The Eraser with the monome