VIDEO: Guitar + 2 iTouch Units + Ableton
Brian Green crossbred his guitar with a pair of iPod Touches to add a new dimension to his performance. When I first saw this, I couldn’t help but think back to the WiiMote guitar or Matt Bellamy’s boutique Manson guitar with a Kaoss Pad built in. Brian’s playing is much more ambient, which I actually prefer to the myriad of prog-rock shredmasters showing off their toys on YouTube these days.
Here’s a few words from Brian’s site, seeyouinsleep:
I wanted to take the time to clear some things up about this video:
Its something i basically did for fun its not something i would use live and i done use the guitar in a normal sense for my music so it really would serve me no purpose.
Ok the main the i would like to clear up is NO NO NO i did not glue the itouch(s) to my guitar, there were several blogs that did a post about this and it seemed like one of the first ones that did said that i glued them to my guitar, this is false.
I seemed to get a lot of hate for the fact that i “glued ipods” to my guitar and that it was a dumb idea and so on bla bla bla, well i mean the whole idea of it was kinda a joke to begin with but my point of doing it was to do something inovative, i got the idea to try it after i seen a guy who added a guitar hero neck to a real guitar and then i made this.
hope that clears everything up
Don’t apologize, Brian, own your art! This interface seems much more usable in a solo performance environment than the Kaoss Pad guitars, or WiiMote guitar, at least in the ways they’ve been used thus far.
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