As I’ve remarked before, it’s not often that this blog does exactly what it says on the tin (music, dance and IT), however today was one of those days when it all came together beautifully, and here’s the picture to prove it. In a lecture on possibilities for music technology and dance, I decided to rig up the Disklavier in the Ashton studio to play the piano bits of dance music created in Logic on my Macbook. So here it is: Macbook connected to Disklavier, with an Apogee duet sending the remaining audio out to a Peavey amp and speakers. If I’d remembered to bring a different midi interface, I could have sent some of the midi out to an external tone generator, and played along on another midi keyboard, but that’s for next time. Coming to a dance school near you in the future, I’d like to think.
