Smomid educational talk: compositional and performance techniques

Published on Jun 29, 2015 nicnut210

"The footage in this video is from January of 2015. It is an excerpt from a talk Nick Demopoulos gave at UCLA in the Music Department. Most of the talk was dedicated to ways to exploit the unique nature of his instrument to create interesting compositional to performance techniques in real time. For more information visit www.smomid.com"

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Smomid demonstration: microtonal tuning and algorithmic processes

Published on Jun 30, 2015

"This is video is was recorded at Santa Monica College in May 2015. In this clip Nick Demopoulos is demonstrating how he uses several different tunings, including a microtonal 36 notes to the octave one, in a musical context. He also creates backing voices using an algorithmic process. Smomid is an acronym for string modeling midi device and is the instrument employed in this video."

Smomid talk: explanation of various tunings

Published on Jun 30, 2015