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The ECLORE PLAYER is a multipurpose 4 stereo tracks audio player with embed effects (x3), with the addition of similar features as a DJ software. You can scratch, navigate, reloop, equalize, stretch, reverse, repitch and remix all the soundtrack loaded in this audio engine.
This player aims to offer a remixing experience giving free rein to the interpretation of the multichannel songs it contains. With all the effects featured, it is also possible to use it as a generative sound source.
Kind of futuristic DJ concept and interactive album, this player comes with a pre-configured visualizer that responds to virtually any sound event that occurs inside the audio engine. Press play, and listen/view the result, and/or take control of this audio object immediately to play what is happening in real time.
Distributed within the "eclo.re player series vol.1" collection, the player exists in 5 different versions, sharing the same audio engine, but with different graphic interface, visualizer and combo of 3 effects , for each album/ep:
This is a side project by BLINKSONIC°. Visit www.blinksonic.com if you are interested in similar sound and music generator based on REAKTOR software.
I would add that this project was greatly motivated by a certain form of enthusiasm around the different existing interactive album concepts I could previously discover and enjoy. I am fascinated by the various artistic ideas suggested by the "Demoscene", but to cite my closest references, it is impossible for me not to mention the approach of Lazyfish with MEWARK STODERAFT, released in 2001 by NI, on the same technological basis as REAKTOR. At that time, for me it was the future of music broadcasting and media. (here is a link to the unique mark I could find on the web)
Another major influence, FLOWs by Tim Exile, designed with Reaktor and which collected 5 years of loops and sound ambience which could be remixed at will within an effects device, through an interface which had as much to see with an animated record cover than an audio plugin.
Other major influences, the free application accompanying COSMOGRAMMA by Flying Lotus, "Cosmogramma Fieldlines" which was an augmented reality app, or even less visible and renowned but just as cutting-edge, "EGRÉGORE" by CHDH which is the broadcast software archive of an AV/show performance.
I still talk about all of this with great passion, because I ardently dream that this kind of artistic initiative towards the publication of a music recording in conjunction with interactive design works will be borrowed in a more global way.