I’d been milling the idea around in my head for a few months before I started, the iPonce is a great little tool but as a musical instrument it’s pretty shitty for a number of reasons – (tiny screen, clumsy latency in a lot of apps) So I shot about an hour of footage of twelve music apps, one note/hit at a time, all in B minor, set the tempo of the matrix thing at the start to run at roughly 160fps (it was actually 161 but I got away with it) meaning every five frames would be a lovely division of a musical semi-quaver, every ten would be a quaver and so on.

Then I just played around with groups of instruments for a couple of days until a couple of themes started to reveal themselves. Once I had a couple of themes I built an arrangement and fleshed it out, you know how it goes from there.

I wish I’d been a bit more theatrical with some of the hand movements looking at it now, the fast jungle type drums towards the end don’t really offer much visually and some of the other stuff appears a little out of sync due to the latency of the iPhone apps.

Also the Twitter stuff at the start is a bit gratuitous but that’s kinda half the reason why I started it, I was always gonna pimp it on twitter, just to see how much work it would take to get a thousand hits, which I managed in about ten days.

I’m working on a new vid where my kids are all playing the instruments, again, one note or hit at a time, it’s slow going as I’ve got a lot of real-life work on but come July I’m hoping to have some footage to start playing around with.

Maybe if enough of us start writing music this way we can get some snapping and timing features implemented into some of the better video editing packages? It’s probably about time some of the DAW packages offered a video sampling type feature too. I love tightly synced musical videos, I reckon it’s the freshest artform out there at the moment, there’s only a handful of true pioneers – Lasse Gjertsen and Kutiman are really the only worthy contenders, the latter utterly destroying the apparent former inventor by the way.

I’m also bang into the idea of musical projects that ignore time and space like the utterly stunning Playing For Change project, words can’t describe how awesome, and more importantly, simple and achievable that idea was. Be sure to check out every episode.

Sometimes there’s too much new music for me to comprehend, other times I’m ready for it and I gorge myself blind on whatever I can get my ears on, I’m not listening to much new stuff at the moment but I expect a good mental kicking down the bunker with the Foilface miscreants will fix that. Let’s get bizzay!