Something evil.

[tdo23487]

Yeah I enjoyed. People probably just jelly.

[SuperWestSider]

What the fuck is wrong with the hate?

Is a nice piece of work

[7452iceman]

Reminds of the song of unhealing

[rosss888]

I actually liked this. Just because it's not your usual monome music doesn't mean it's bad.

[samedelsten1]

Cat's expression fits too well.

[boyboy53]

poor kitty.

[RYNO2511]

wtf is this? lol

[spermwhalesoncrack]

lol did anyone notivce the sleeping cat that occasionally opened its eyes because the man was poking it with apencil?

[MovieTristan]

from where do you have this, that you started at 0:58

[KawiRider20]

your cats like, -_- wow this sucks

[ferdianeary92]

I thought this was going to be dubstep or something :/

[Pl4Y3R0Wn3R]

thumbs up if the cat was more important

[Chadzxx1]

Should be..."By the pricking of my thumb...something wicked this way comes"...Macbeth

[azuritereaction]

lol @ all the people on here who can only enjoy basic rock beats, this sounds good, not trolling. definitely fits the "something evil" theme

[ianpelzer1]

kitteh :)

[mcrkid22]

Cat's just chilling like, "The fuck is going?"

[Bennie050799]

poor cat

:-(

[BARBARICDRAGON]

this isnt great at all.. it truly is something evil

[101avaya]

lol bad

[Mrdeadmau5owns]

dude no offense but you suck you should donate it to someone or smth so they can make music or put it on the wall so it can light up your room

[Weareinsane2]

You need help dude, that was twistedd

[DjLoko190988]

i bet the cat can play it better ..lol;d qioot lil guy :X:X:

[AgustinNoesEverythin]

Even your cat needs it more than you :C

[sonofdasea]

THAT CAT MAKES THIS VIDEO AMAZING

[mw2girlvivoz310]

haha i like ur cat!:D nd this was soo effing ad dude...

[StewartHaasNewman]

too much going on

[tuFFz123]

sry but this sound horrible!! your cat may do it better...

[retrovertigoes]

Cat torture is NOT OK. We must rise up against these evil musicians!

[Nekoshit]

Lol at cat <3 cute and probably a bit annoyed :P

[kittenlover1234678]

whuts up wit dat "Something Evil!" thing?? is that already on that music pad thing?? or can u make the buttons say stuff like that? (like recording something and putting the sound on the button and it makes that sound)

[RaneXone]

I didnt even notice there was a cat there until like 2 mins in, Is it like.... dead?

[Bugeyemafia]

Don't do that anymore.

[zemfour]

that kitty was like "dude, shut up... me tryin to sleep"...

in other news.. i want one of those monome's

[MrAbadabas]

CAT...IM A KITTY CAT>>>AND I DANCE DANCE DANCE AND I DANCE DANCE DANCE!!!!!!!

[bradleythebear17]

great instrument, but you my friend are abusing it

[YepItsParkerMurphy]

so basically each button has its own loop on it and you just press it to toggle it on and off? is this how it works?

[jjmanman77]

you deserve to have your monome revoked, fag.

At first i thought you were going to drop some epic glitchy shit, then it completely went to hell.

give me your monome plox.

[saxfloete]

The cat is very cute... and very well-behaved.  My cats sleep always ON my launchpad.;-)

[Voitzify]

lol kitteh is tired

[TheZachStoner]

That was fucking lame.

[Just2Comment789]

KITTY KAT

[djnosleeves85]

holy shit the cat was real LOL

[MrAbadabas]

@djnosleeves85 haha i thought the same thing until about half way through. i thought it was stuffed

[renold02]

this shit would be pretty dope if you just took the wind chimes out dude you should try again with out the chimes man oh and fuck the haters

[NakedCreep]

How does the cat sleep like that?

[isilops]

apparently the cat enjoys Something Evil?

O.o

[HoeBlogggs]

FUCK. Took me till a good 1 minute 30 to realise there was cat there! Talk about being captivated by lights/music!

[Zkrudriverz]

buying a 128 soon, then ima buy a cat to feel even more indie

[SourProductions0]

baww kitty

[thirdtimeyo]

Nice!

Nice cat too

[moosenamedmorton]

There's something enchanting about this. Don't listen to the people who don't get it. I like how your cat is just chillin' too.

[clintcastle]

This reminds me of Duey Cox's masterpeice while he was on acid. I NEED MORE FUCKIN DIDGERIDOOS NOW!!!

[starshipvelcrp]

I don't understand what everyone is complaining about...he's allowed to do what he wants with his money and time. I actually like this though

[tenelm]

thank you. this song travels w/ me everywhere.

[RK3NR]

LMFAO that was bad

[mw2girlvivoz310]

@RK3NR wasnt it gay?! he shud noe how to freaking get it right......

[TheBerzerker1]

Are you even trying? :|

[Steaksngainers]

your hands look like my hands.

those are my hands, in a different place.

[NerdMann123]

you my friend are a fail for spending over a thousand dollars on something you can't even play well.

[eiffeduden]

ur kitty is cool!

[thrcman]

man that is a sleepy cat and a fine ass monome

[dentcenter]

give me your monome. I need it for stuff.

[Akaysha36]

Sure is a Catastrophe!

[eb0nics]

you just got told.

[Akaysha36]

The kitty isn't even relaxed!!! Poor Kitty!! This is an elaborated animal abuse!

How could you put the poor kitty through the most annoying noise it would ever hear in its entire life span!?!

[messyjvd]

dude, i dont want to be a mean guy, but if I had a 256 and sucked half as bad as you do at samples and making actual music (not noise) id quit doing what i was doing and give the monome to a person who is less of a nerd and more of a musician. THIS IS NOISE

[Nick5379]

To me everything is music. Even if it doesn't fit to other peoples ideas of music.

[Cfrogboy91]

lucky the world doesn't hafto conform to your standards.

OP I DONT LIKE UR ANNOYING NOISE SRRY!

[Nick5379]

I don't have standards! And if I did, YES THEY DO DAMMIT!

[xBONESstyle]

Music for cats.

[hartattack72]

i want 1!!

[Blastaar7]

at around 1:12 you started to have something nice, you should've kept with it.

[Pompolius]

love ur cat! reminds me a bit of stairway to heaven backwards?

[Kenjilulz]

I came when i saw your shirt.

[clfl02]

thats shit man...seriously

[minichuaman]

are you poking his paws with a pen? X)

i cant tell at least it looks that way . . .

[mercuryisnowahoax]

I don't really like the vocal sample.. But the rest sounded great ;-)

[fluxsta]

monome is an awesome project and each to there own, whilst i appreciate that it is bout experimentation, it seems that all sounds blended in are a real cacophony and do not mix.....tune is far from evil! maybe Reason is more down peoples street.....i do respect the experimentation though

[zoso880]

dont mean to be a dick because i love monomes and their whole community but that sounds pretty weak... keep a beat?

[theterrible1]

Great job. I'm waiting for the next batches of 256's to come out. Chesterfield is a star. :D

[fourbid1]

great mix man, reminds me of post LSD Beatles on the white tape. genius to say the least. nice lolcat btw.

[shaner81l4m3rz]

most chill cat ever!

thanks for tunes :)

[pabros]

keep working on it...

[thekidviciouz]

Well it sounds atonal to me..cant say it´s crap..rather and experiment on sounds.

After u do that seasion...can u do it again??the same?

[Behrang23]

would that be positive? could be mechancal, too

[MachineGunBallad]

there a lot of negative comments here, and on other revbean monome videos, and i can understand why. here's an amazing tool that costs thousands of dollars, of which there is a limited number in the world and a limited number being made. revbean has two, and his music doesn't sound good. for those who feel they could be producing music more aesthetically pleasing with such a powerful device, it just makes you shake your head to watch it be used for something less than mediocre.

[monosynthluv]

this is prety cool, nice TMG sample.

[superearthbender]

Would someone not mind telling me what the true difference is between this and the Tenori-On? (not accounting for any other variations)

[revbean]

Both devices share superficial conceptual similarity in that they are made up of an 8x8 grid of light-up buttons. But that's about it.

The Monome is an (open-source) interface; it sends button press messages and receives LED on/off messages. The real magic happens in the software that it interfaces with, a growing pool of mostly free and open-source software written by a very active and helpful community. Its capabilities are by and large only limited by the imigination of its users.

[superearthbender]

To both comments.

I figured that the Monome, as you say it, was open source as one video included something about patches, or whatever (ignorant in this topic), for the sounds.

Because the Tenori-On is only different in that it's not open-source and has a feed for information in itself, I would believe that one would just make the Monome with an internal power source and an sd card slot for new sounds (not quite sure what they are called).

Thanks for the info, I was hungry.

[revbean]

The Tenori-on on the other hand is an instrument. It has a built-in bank of sounds (or can send MIDI notes to an external synth) and a pre-programmed set of modes. This means that it can be played on its own, untethered to a computer (and is quite intuitive and user-friendly), but also that you are limited to the the modes that have been included by its creators.

[beuler080]

Are you kidding me? Of course this is music! this is a live recording of revbean and his magically monome, the instrument of the future, with special guest Lax the Cat (drummer for the brides of funkenstein)[citation needed]. Didn't you see the use of mutiple interfaces running through the grid patterns. Plus the monome is so advanced that the main stream music audience has not adapted a taste for it. With experimental research like this by revbean the monome could turn out useful musically!!!!

[superearthbender]

Of course I just love destroying things for my own benefit, but the fact is you completely ignored the interest of others in this item as a musical instrument while simultaneously doing the opposite. Your great contradiction rendered your comment completely useless for your audience, aside from it's many other flaws.

[tazwinsulose7]

really is this music or crap?

[superearthbender]

Understand and describe the word and information system "music" before you post such a degenerative comment.

[PindooooOo]

this is music??? :/

[Teleelfe]

nice :)

an so sweet ^^

[nakedsoul72]

and i love this cat!!! :D

[arozdeleche]

i love it bro great work!!!

[nathanfain]

i rather liked the music. question, what was SKR, have a link to that app?

[revbean]

Thanks!

I went digging through the old monome forums to find skr and have added it to the current monome wiki.

[ninellius]

something good (:

[jayZ006]

1:50 to 1:53

xD cat goes "is it alive? o_O"

[AmigaHeretic]

Your cat seems to like the music, so good enough for me. Actually, I thought maybe your cat was stuffed at first as it didn't move until about half way through.

[libtechdreams]

ur cat is pretty chill ....he loves it...that's so awesome

[japkid33]

you're a disgrace to the monome. that was just random noise on a loop. if you're gonna spend all the money to buy the damn thing at least learn how to use it.

burn.

[revbean]

Uh huh. Where to begin? Well, first off, the primary purpose of this video was as a proof of concept demo for splitting the 256 into quadrants and running multiple apps, at which it succeeds, regardless of it's musicality. Secondly, white there are a number of loops in this piece, and some of them may be a tad arbitrary, none of them are in any way "random noise". (And even if they were, that wouldn't be an inherently bad thing.)

[revbean]

Third, and most importantly, the monome is an incredibly open-ended device. This is one of its greatest strengths. There is no "correct" means of using it. If you don't like the things that I've done with it, fine. There's lots of other people doing lots of other things, some of which will most likely be more palatable to you.

And um, "burn"? You're quite a friendly little bugger, aren't you?

[clanqueen]

Damn dude, most cats would be chasing the lights. Did you get it stoned or what?

[hannyselbak]

how many buttons are on that machine? and why does it look so fucking appealing!?!?

[einfang]

that cat is tripping balls!

[akuma27199]

Omg u have a cute cat

[TOAFN]

It's a ZEN cat. Must be!!!

[georgedelarge]

cool shirt

[theINFAMOUStreeFROG]

that was dope!. but what exactly is a monome???. what category dose it fall on. exmpl: an MPC is a sequencer/drummachine/sampler.­.. but whats a monome???

[theINFAMOUStreeFROG]

that was dope!. but what exactly is a monome???. what category dose it fall on. exmpl: an MPC is a sequencer/drummachine/sampler.­.. but whats a monome???

[revbean]

Thanks!

A monome is basically just an interface. It's a grid of buttons and a grid of lights; the grids overlap, but can work independently of one another.

It's the software that it interfaces with, a growing pool of mostly open-source, community developed software, that allows it to act as a sequencer/drum machine/sample cutter/MIDI keyboard/1-bit display/&c/&c.

[swarm69]

wow it sounded like the books - minus the clicky electro beats - very nice i want a monome soo fucking bad :/

[alfons00p]

she's relaxing, kool..

[MKjester]

the cats moving his ears and the hole body, its alive

[koolaiddew]

Is the cat alive?

[error204]

ahahaah i didn't noticed it, but i guess that is dry. xD

Cheers

[eohig]

it isn't, at 1:40 it opens its eyes

[error204]

must be a robot then. animatronics xD

Saludos