Rich and I went to see Kraftwerk at I ♥ Techno this weekend. It was awesome. They had the robots, the glowing grid suits, the german accents, everything. The most impressive thing about their show¹ I think is the quality of the visuals. They have such a clear brand it’s not even true. Each song has a visual theme, often using lyrics displayed in huge pixelated text (by huge I mean like six inches a pixel). I thought it was cool. If you know it and like it too I recommend buying the Minimum Maximum box set for some lovely 12" photographs of their shows.

Tonight I was inspired by their set, I created a minimal track in Live. Nothing great, but I just bashed it out, which was fun. Then I wrote a sketch in Processing which draws and animates regular polygons. This was also a lot of fun. I was moderately successful with both projects in a short space of time because I’ve invested quite a bit of time thinking about basic music and computer graphics in the past. I have never reached great heights in either field, but I can knock out something basic quite easily now.

The music will need more forming (intro, bridge, etc) before it’s suitable to upload, but the sketch is pretty much done. I’ll try to put it up sometime tomorrow.

1. As opposed to the music, which is obviously awesome, greatest band ever and I don’t say that lightly.