This is a performance for Buchla Lightning and synthesizer from 1998. I am, in 2010, returning to my work with the Lightning, and find that this performance still stands the test of time, despite the fairly low quality of the video. MaxMSP was used to control the Lightning performance. The entire performance is 13 minutes [...]

Alfred Duarte brings us another beautiful “wiimote instrument.” This one is built using Sony’s gesture controller, but the basic gestural control remains the same. In fact, this particular instrument bears a striking resemblance to gestural instruments from the 1980s, in the way that the distance between the two controllers acts as a sound parameter. [...]

From the performer, Richard Lainhart:

…from the time I first touched the Haken Continuum, I’d dreamed of using it to play a composition by Olivier Messiaen called “Oraison”. I first heard “Oraison” years ago as a student of electronic music, and had fallen in love with its simple, beautiful harmonies and profound sense of mystery.

“Oraison” is [...]