My McMansion detector just went wild.
Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
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Re: Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
#12I'll be honest - he seems to be a prime example of someone focusing too much on the tools rather than the creative process. All his best, legendary, stuff came way before he got this awesome setup, his recent stuff hasn't been very well received. You don't need a ton of expensive equipment to create excellent electronic music.
The modern musical instrument is a diaphragm controlled by a stream of real valued position samples.
There's absolutely no need for anything complex to play it, you can write simple C programs to generate all kinds of bizarre and beautiful effects.
Re: Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
#13Cool to see that most of the toys are actually geared to supporting the visual element of his live show. The Lan party / render farm in particular.
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#14I'm pretty underwhelmed. It's a lot of fun toys, but IMHO that's borderline adolescent/masturbatory. Not even sour grapes, I swear, but I bet that massive modular analog synthesizer setup gets zero use. Conspicuous consumption plain and simple. Yuck. But that's me. I'm more impressed by some poor schlub in Echo Park with an old Roland sampler and a dozen crates of vinyl. There must be a pithy term in German for what…
Not German, but nouveau riche pretty well covers it.
Re: Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
#15I'm pretty underwhelmed. It's a lot of fun toys, but IMHO that's borderline adolescent/masturbatory. Not even sour grapes, I swear, but I bet that massive modular analog synthesizer setup gets zero use. Conspicuous consumption plain and simple. Yuck. But that's me. I'm more impressed by some poor schlub in Echo Park with an old Roland sampler and a dozen crates of vinyl. There must be a pithy term in German for what…
It's almost as if the first creative acts that get artists like this their fame are acts of desperation, undertaken against impossible odds. Later when fame and money comes, the artist buys more and more tools in a fruitless chase to recapture the previous glory but he can't because the fame and money prevent him from ever again having the one thing that made his first works awesome... desperation.
The best art is often produced under great constraints, something that usually disappears after commercial success.
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#17I'll be honest - he seems to be a prime example of someone focusing too much on the tools rather than the creative process. All his best, legendary, stuff came way before he got this awesome setup, his recent stuff hasn't been very well received. You don't need a ton of expensive equipment to create excellent electronic music.
The modern musical instrument is a diaphragm controlled by a stream of real valued position samples. There's absolutely no need for anything complex to play it, you can write simple C programs to generate all kinds of bizarre and beautiful effects.
What is your point? Are you implying that people thought electronic music was otherwise difficult or expensive to produce? Did you think people didn't know you could write code to generate sound?
...Or are you just being reductive and showing off your programming knowledge?
Re: Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
#18I'll be honest - he seems to be a prime example of someone focusing too much on the tools rather than the creative process. All his best, legendary, stuff came way before he got this awesome setup, his recent stuff hasn't been very well received. You don't need a ton of expensive equipment to create excellent electronic music.
The modern musical instrument is a diaphragm controlled by a stream of real valued position samples. There's absolutely no need for anything complex to play it, you can write simple C programs to generate all kinds of bizarre and beautiful effects.
Analog synths are a good way to differentiate though. It would be very difficult to replicate an analog synth patch even if you knew exactly how it was set up.
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#19Interesting to see a Microsoft Pixel screen in the wild. Those are pretty rare and expensive.
Re: Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
#20I'll be honest - he seems to be a prime example of someone focusing too much on the tools rather than the creative process. All his best, legendary, stuff came way before he got this awesome setup, his recent stuff hasn't been very well received. You don't need a ton of expensive equipment to create excellent electronic music.
Looks a bit like one of JunkyXL's setups. Fortunately for mankind there is no way you can make better music with a setup like this compared to a poor man's basic setup. Most 'poor' people are lost when they happen to become 'rich'. It's a (mouse) trap. You'll see this over and over again..