New performances on a jammer

Two new high-quality performances with the jammer have come out, both by John Moriarty,
The latest, Fur Elise, demonstrates that a jammer can play classical music readily. John did this after about a month of practicing.

The second, Penta, is John's own composition, based on the pentatonic scale. Among other things, it shows that a jammist can play things, combinations of notes, that just cannot be played on a regular keyboard.
Second, close your eyes and listen. Note the speed and fluidity with which crazy note intervals are played - comparable with a good jazz pianist.
Bravo.
I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do with a sustain, bend and accent pedal - the last two being alternate-keyboard innovations.
Ken.

Comments

[MusicScienceGuy]

Thanks for the feedback, I'm thinking of writing a better, simpler patch for the axis. Let me know what you'd like improved.

Ken

[simon]

and...sorry for the buzz. i downloaded your application and found the max patch :-) cool!!! i'll post a picture here when i have done the "bassaxis"

[simon]

sorry just realized your probably not ken...

[simon]

hello ken,

i am a bassplayer/synthplayer from switzerland...up until now i used to play bass and had a usb midi keyboard attached to the bass body. that way i could play the bass and some synths at the same time. however today i got myself a axis 49 since it has more notes in a smaller "case". i plan to attach the axis to my bass instead of the midi keyboard. i found your blog via youtube links of someone playing the axis 49. i would really like to use the w/h layout and wanted to ask you if you could send me the actual max/msp patch. first of all because i am on a mac system and you seem to work with windows and second because i like to integrate it with my current max/msp patch which also incorporates a modified behringer fcb1010 for "foot" bass... i would be very grateful! thanks for doing this blog by the way!!

best, simon

simoniten at swissonline dot ch