Mash This At Home - an audiovisual mashup

"Mash This At Home" is an audiovisual mashup of Matt Dickey's forthcoming album, "Try This At Home".

The album has been a long time coming, the production of which has spanned roughly three years. It features a collection of original jazz/funk compositions and improvisations with latin, african, hip-hop and electronic flavors. About 99% of it was recorded, mixed and mastered on a laptop in Matt's home studio (hence the name). Along with Matt playing guitar, it features some of NYC's finest musicians: Adam Deitch (drums), Gregg Jarvis (drums), Panagiotis Andreou (bass), Matt Williams (bass), Geoff Vidal (saxes), Marshall Gilkes (trombone), Tatum Greenblatt (trumpet), Manu Koch (keys), Jorge Continentino (bari sax), Jonah Parzen-Johnson (bari sax), Brad Gunson (trombone), Bryan Ladd (bass), Gary Pickard (saxes), Marc Balling (drums), Borahm Lee (keys), Joe Beaty (trombone).

"Mash This At Home" was sequenced using Ableton LIVE, and the visual element of it was programmed and processed with Max For Live, Max/MSP's new Ableton component. Each song on the album is represented in some way by the mashup. In other words, at any given moment in the mashup, you may hear a drum part from one song with a bass-line from another, horn riffs from one or more songs, and harmonic material from yet another. All of these audio clips are further manipulated, using filtering, time stretching/compressing, reverse playback, and long swells of reverberation (among other techniques). The visual element utilizes photographs of the album cover and some of the musicians involved. Similar to the audio, these photos are manipulated and distorted -- often beyond recognition -- in an attempt to support visually what is happening sonically.

"Try This At Home" will be available in a myriad of ways shortly. There will most certainly be more mashups to come. Thanks for checking it out!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Mashup
• Multimedia
• Max/MSP
• Ableton Live
• Ableton
• Live
• Max
• MSP
• Jitter
• Max for Live
• M4L
• Computer Art
• Jazz
• Funk
• Try This At Home
• Mash This At Home
• Matt Dickey
• Adam Deitch
• Gregg Jarvis
• Panagiotis Andreou
• Matt Williams
• Geoff Vidal
• Marshall Gilkes
• Tatum Greenblatt
• Manu Koch
• Jorge Continentino
• Jonah Parzen-Johnson
• Brad Gunson
• Bryan Ladd
• Gary Pickard
• Marc Balling
• Borahm Lee
• Joe Beaty