Hiromi Uehara - Modern Jazz Piano & Keyboard Superstar

I recently had the pleasure of seeing the incredible Hiromi live at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, CA (a fantastic community non-profit jazz club even by worldwide big-city standards) where I am a member and have sponsored several fantastic shows over recent years including Pat Metheny with Keyfax New Media. Bobbi Todaro does an awesome job gathering the very best talent to add Kuumbwa to their west coast US tour schedules.

She really is one of the new great modern keyboard talents equally artistically comfortable and fluid on piano or synthesizer. Check out her new album "Beyond Standard" or the "Spiral" CD with Bonus DVD from 2007.



Hiromi Discography

From The Basement-Nigel Godrich

Nigel Godrich's live music TV show.

Taking thebest elements of what was the UK's "Old Grey Whistle Test" and bringing it up to date with modern visual production aesthetics and Nigels audio production genius.

http://www.fromthebasement.tv/show.php?number=01&page=welcome

David Fishof, Founder Rock N Roll Fantasy Camp

Brainstorm - Be a Rock N Roll hero for a day! Selling the experience of the "other" real-life guitar hero!

If you want the real alternative to Guitar Hero gaming and you actually want to play an instrument with other musicians, then this is it!

http://money.cnn.com/video/ft/#/video/fortune/2008/07/24/fortune.brainstorm.guitar.hero.2.fortune

Guitar Hero Metrics - Robert Kotick, CEO Activision

Fortune "Brainstorm" Conference Interviews.

6.5 Billion Hours of Guitar Hero playing this year!!

Note-tracking proposal to embed GH meta-data in all standard songs. Currently $6 for 3 songs.

Universal Music is now a partner for GH. GH is a platform that can also offer regular songs, downloadable performances and music creation.

See the interview

2008 Fall DEMO Gods (Recognizing the 6 minute heroes!)

Fora.tv, Guy Kawasaki @ The Commonwealth Club

The Power of "No Bull Shitake" lecture featured on www. Fora.tv which aggregates the best in todays thought leadership!



http://fora.tv/2008/11/17/Guy_Kawasaki_The_Power_of_No_Bull_Shiitake

Commonwealth Club, Silicon Valley

iPhone Music Applications - Best Sellers in UK & US

iPhone Music Apps are best sellers in UK & US

http://thumblounge.com/topapps/top-iphone-apps/

http://www.appcraver.com/category/music/

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2008/07/top_5_iphone_music_application_1.html

iPhone Best Selling US Phone Q3 08

Brian Eno - Bloom for iPhone, Ambient Music Generator

Brian Eno - ambient thought leader, progressive technologist has created the hypnotic "Bloom" for iPhone visual composition of ambient music. What would Erik Satie - the original piano minimalist and "phonometrician" think after 120 years of technological advancement? Eno calls it "a music box for the 21st century"

Bloom supports single and multi-touch for melodic or harmonic composition and has its own song representation format.

http://generativemusic.com/



Press Coverage:

Intomobile

iPhoneBus

Amy Seefeldt- Contemporary Art Portfolio 08, Developed By MB

This is a beta version/partial compilation of Amy Seefeldt's (San Francisco artist) Contemporary art portfolio project I concepted and designed using Keynote/Quicktime and staged for the web on Vimeo (so here the encode quality/frame-rate is 2 stages degraded from the ultra crisp HD original).

The concept/brief was to deliver:

• A branded portfolio - immersive, kinetic but with a contemporary gallery/postcard feel rather than MTV fast-cut aesthetic

• Progressive visual assembly, paced to elegantly reveal the key information in series for optimum absorption

• Positioning thought-provoking verbal fragments about each work with a consistent design theme for the series

The earlier working versions stubbed Chicane's/Saltwater as a more ethereal soundtrack as opposed to Goldfrapp/Deerstop, both groups being amongst the best in UK progressive electronica. The Goldfrapp song has a timeless ambience with a piano motif similar to french romantic minimalist Erik Satie's "furniture music".


Amy Seefeldt -Modern Art Portfolio 2008 Beta from Mike Barnes on Vimeo.

LAVA (Live Audio Visual Animation) Madonna 3D Demo, 2000

This real-time rendered demo of LAVA (Live Audio Visual Animation) was made back in 2000 by Alan Seefeldt/Mark Buchanan/Mike Barnes/Alan Peevers.

All the movement is triggered by audio analysis linked to kinetically animated meshes and the camera and scene cuts are controlled by a custom real-time automation/scripting language.

www.LAVA.com was founded in 1999 by Alan Seefeldt/Mike Barnes (me) & Alan Peevers and incubated by Creative Labs Inc.

LAVA pioneered MV3 (Music-Video-3D), POD's (embedded webpages & 3Dobject hyperlinks) & a push ad engine ORBS (Objects with replaceable banners), Graffitti ( Text FX) and a multitude of realtime generated texture and scene visual FX implemented first in OpenGL and later in Direct3D.



Interview: 3D Sound Surge: Mike Barnes & Alan Seefeldt

PC World Story

CNN Coverage

ZD Net Asia Story

ALIVE Story