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MemberAaliyah was wrong, man – age isn’t just a number. The good news is that it doesn’t really matter in terms of following your dreams.
It depends entirely on how you define success, though. I didn’t start “DJing” until 37. I’m 41 now – and I have a weekly radio show on NSB Radio that roughly 200 people tune in to. I’d like to play out more (and what Phil said, btw: if you care about this stuff, you’ll never lose your nerves. It’s part of actually caring about it), I’d like to one day do a mix that I’m completely happy with from beginning to end – but I’d consider myself successful in terms of the things I aimed to do when I started playing, which was mostly have a creative outlet for the music nerdness.
The world (and the DJing world, in particular) could use more music lovers playing recorded music for people …
MemberNo. There is _no_ music that should never be played.
There’s lots of stuff I don’t like, and am unlikely to play, but I refuse to limit my own creativity with blanket rules. Even for almost humour.
Because it’s _almost_ funny to hate on Bieber, or Avicii.
MemberIf it’s the right track to drop, it’s the right track – irrespective of key.
Harmonic Mixing shouldn’t be a straight jacket. It’s also worth bearing in mind that it’s possible to shift the key of a track in some digital DJing solutions (At least, it can be done in Traktor. I assume you can do it in others) without changing the tempo.
MemberBreaks. Because I cut my teeth (in terms of personal musical preference) on Prince, Talking Heads, Black Flag and Public Enemy.
*edit: typo*
MemberTake the main out of your mixer into the line in on your computer. Then use whatever broadcast program you like to broadcast the line-in.
Works for me, anyway
Memberspektakx, post: 20825, member: 1743 wrote: so if I ask you
“what kind of music do you like?”
how will you answer me?Today? I’d answer that I particularly like music that’s heavily based on rhythm, with overtones that produce a level of discomfort in the listener. I can even explain why – I’m currently a bit upset about some things occurring in my personal life, which tends to lead me towards listening to and playing “difficult” music.
See how this is about a preference, and not constrained by genre?
spektakx, post: 20825, member: 1743 wrote:
“a dj makes choices based on his or her own knowledge”
the computer will have more knowledge of the individual, & the collective, and complex relationships between those
it will have instant access to every music chart, every download stat, every youtube play(and whether the person played the whole song or only part), it will know how many plays were repeats, it will know time of day for plays, it will cross reference DL lists, etc.
all it will really take is a couple of these clubs, and some feedback to the system. connecting the computer to the AC system, and monitoring temp would be a good start. all these things that sound difficult to us, would be very simple for a computer.That stuff is information. Information is not the same thing as knowledge. See also: Godel’s Theory of Undecidability, Turing’s Halting Problem and the Mandelbrot set (seriously, google that stuff. Mathematics doesn’t work the way you think it works)
Once again, you’re suggesting that an automatic Jukebox replaces what I do. It can’t – the most it can do is play the most “required” tune (when considered statistically). Try it this way: the best night out I’ve ever had was listening to Derrick May play at a little (capacity 500) club here in Wellington.
One of the things Derrick did that night was turn the bass off. For roughly 5 minutes – it felt like longer, and may even have been longer, but I didn’t have a stopwatch on it. The crowd were getting increasingly restless, and disturbed. I can guarantee you that not a single person in that crowd was thinking “I like the music, but I wish he’d kill the bass for an extended period of time”.
When he brought it back in, we all went nuts. See how your alogorithm (stop calling it an AI. It doesn’t actually exhibit many of the features required for intelligence – e.g. experimentation) can’t do this?
MemberTaste isn’t the same thing as genre. Like, not even close to the same thing. Taste is about personal preference – and the system you’re talking about has no personal preference.|
You’re also confusing deductive logic with intelligence (which is based, in part, on inductive logic).Seriously, you’re postulating an automatic jukebox. These already exist – and pose no threat to the people I think of as good DJs. The difference between a DJ and a jukebox: the DJ makes choices based on his or her own knowledge, as filtered through his or her own personal taste. A jukebox plays what the punters tell it to.
Whether the punters tell the jukebox by voice, or by their phone jiggling when they’re shagging some girl in the toilets – wait, dancing their behind off on the floor, it still has no relevance to what I do as a DJ.
*shrugs*
MemberThis depends on what you mean by Artificial Intelligence, and what you mean by DJ.
You’re missing the issue of taste, btw. “The customers can choose the TONE” is not the AI replacing a person, it’s the AI replacing a “journalist”. And the thing here is that most “journalists” can’t actually write.
Memberindamix, post: 20616, member: 743 wrote: yeah but for me i’l will be excited if i can use it somhow to make Visuals on gigs , like tracking people who dance and simulate them all in a big screen where they see themselves like cartoons but doing same movments , would be crazy for drunk guys 😀 haha
Dude, it’s been done. I did an outdoor party where we had exactly that. The tracking wasn’t perfect, yet, but it was working towards it.
I’ll hunt up some linkage to the mate who was using the hack (I think he may have written some of it, too). It was, indeed, awesome.
*edit* Oh, and I just bought a 360 & Kinect for exactly this kind of hack …
*edit2* Youtube of the E-flyer, demonstrating … well, you can read the blurb yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgQ0fJnQEHA*edit3* Google “Kinect miku miku dance” – and my mate is Chelfyn
*editTOOMANYEDITS* http://www.kinecthacks.com/kinect-mikumikudance-installation-video/ – Chelfyn doin this “install and try for yourself” thing.
MemberVinnyBlanc, post: 19751, member: 737 wrote: 3 hours should be somewhere arond 100 songs.
Doesn’t that depend on the style of music, and style of mixing?
That being said, it’s good advice. 3 hours should be easily doable on a limited library with planning.
Personally, some of my favourite sets have been 8 hour marathons. Lots of time to move around in genre / tempo / feel …
Memberdjsubculture, post: 19526, member: 156 wrote: My main concern is maintaining my current music folder structure. I don’t want iTunes to change that. I guess I’ll just hook up a firewire drive to my MBP and manually move them over.
OK – I let iTunes manage my folder structure (because I don’t want to spend the time to do it manually), but I’m fairly sure that there’s a setting which controls this. So you could use iTunes and not have it mess up your folder structure.
Whatever works for you, though 🙂Memberdjsubculture, post: 19509, member: 156 wrote: Do I have to use iTunes?
No. I can’t think of a good reason not to, though.
MemberMigration assistant?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2518?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
MemberThe easiest way to get a Chinese flavour is a touch of ginger, and a little bit of Soy Sauce. Garlic can also help.
MemberCongratulations, man. It’s a good feeling, innit.
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