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Deadmau5's mansion and its tech setup [video]
- pier25 9y agoThe studio is awesome, but that mac mansion though...
- ethbro 9y agoIt's McMansion... it's faux British, not faux Scottish. (Yeesh!)
- pier25 9y agoI've always seen it written "Mac" and not "Mc" You are right though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMansion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMansion
- howard941 9y agoIt may be an allusion to McDonald's...
- darkstar999 9y agoObviously.
- raverbashing 9y ago"and its tech setup" is the correct form
- kleer001 9y agoI'm pretty underwhelmed. It's a lot of fun toys, but IMHO that's borderline adolescent/masturbatory. Not even sour grapes, I swear, but I bet that massive modular analog synthesizer setup gets zero use. Conspicuous consumption plain and simple. Yuck. But that's me. I'm more impressed by some poor schlub in Echo Park with an old Roland sampler and a dozen crates of vinyl. There must be a pithy term in German for what I'm trying to point at.
- noonespecial 9y agoIt's almost as if the first creative acts that get artists like this their fame are acts of desperation, undertaken against impossible odds. Later when fame and money comes, the artist buys more and more tools in a fruitless chase to recapture the previous glory but he can't because the fame and money prevent him from ever again having the one thing that made his first works awesome... desperation.
- handedness 9y agoThe best art is often produced under great constraints, something that usually disappears after commercial success.
- dajohnson89 9y agoNecessity is the mother of invention?
- kleer001 9y agoExactly. Stay hungry. Hunt outside your comfort zone. Break through your fears. Abandon that which does not serve you. Give it your all. Don't save any energy for the return trip. No bold knights can flourish in a peaceful country. You know the song.
- kleer001 9y agoIf only there was a morality play somewhere we could have learned this lesson /s
- twiceaday 9y agoOr is it simply that public focus is limited and ever shifting. Artists cannot recapture the previous glory because it is fickle.
- handedness 9y agoNot German, but nouveau riche pretty well covers it.
- kristofferR 9y agoI'll be honest - he seems to be a prime example of someone focusing too much on the tools rather than the creative process. All his best, legendary, stuff came way before he got this awesome setup, his recent stuff hasn't been very well received. You don't need a ton of expensive equipment to create excellent electronic music.
- JohnJamesRambo 9y agoGeorge Lucased.
- AndrewKemendo 9y agoAs a former amateur audio engineer I really liked seeing all the analog modulators, and putting them all in one area is crazy. I see it as the equivalent of a shoe closet for sneakerheads. He can finally afford all the cool super tech audio engineering stuff he's always wanted but makes little impact on the output and popular success.
- kristofferR 9y agoMy point was actually that it seems to have a negative impact on his output.
- philipov 9y agoCorrelation is not causation. Maybe he's just not interested in what other people think anymore and wants to play with cool toys rather than express some artistic vision. That actually is somewhat explicitly his style. He disdains criticism and doesn't have to prove himself to anyone. He's a gamer and personality more than an artist.
- swiley 9y agoThe modern musical instrument is a diaphragm controlled by a stream of real valued position samples. There's absolutely no need for anything complex to play it, you can write simple C programs to generate all kinds of bizarre and beautiful effects.
- bcheung 9y agoI'm surprised he doesn't have bigger / more monitors in his studio. Working on a laptop screen as your main display seems lacking—especially compared to everything else.
- grabcocque 9y agoMy McMansion detector just went wild.
- endorphone 9y agoMost elements have a practical purpose, and the overall design serves the interior space needs. I know it's fun to call every modern big house a McMansion, but sometimes it's just a big house, and you have to pick some style for it. DeadMau5 lives close to me, and I hope it doesn't broach any sort of rules but you can find the sales details by searching up twiss road campbellville invidiata Normally it would be uncool to provide an address like this, but Deadmau5 is very, very open about where he lives.
- SyneRyder 9y agoIn support of your comment, here's a tweet where he posted a satellite view of his house. He also mentioned that it's a "studio complex for actual musicians", which explains why the studio might be filled with more equipment than he actually needs for himself: https://twitter.com/deadmau5/status/536218804221927424 https://twitter.com/deadmau5/status/536218804221927424
- edraferi 9y agoCool to see that most of the toys are actually geared to supporting the visual element of his live show. The Lan party / render farm in particular.
- iblaine 9y agoInteresting to see a Microsoft Pixel screen in the wild. Those are pretty rare and expensive.
- jumpkickhit 9y agoCool setup. I'd really wonder what Aphex Twin would do with an analog wall like that. Would be awesome if they ever worked together on something.
- wbl 9y agoWe know what ELP could do with that.
- housemusic42 9y agowho is ELP? only decent analog stuff i know is from junkie xl and baseck
- wbl 9y agoEmerson, Lake and Palmer. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKNOlDtZluU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKNOlDtZluU for some of their bigger works, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL7p86-2mPo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iL7p86-2mPo for something more classical sounding (ok, Xenakis), and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7NAGTq_IJQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7NAGTq_IJQ for an entire orchestra being replaced by three guys and a Moog.
- johnklos 9y ago* its
- wf 9y agoCan someone explain the analog to digital thing he's talking about? Can digital software not reproduce any sounds his boards can make? If not doesn't he just lose all those sounds when he converts the sounds to a digital format, making it a mostly pointless exercise?
- i_call_solo 9y agoDigital software is able to reproduce the sounds, the challenge is in the synthesis of it.
- wf 9y agoWhat does "the challenge is in the synthesis of it" mean?
- petercooper 9y agoThis is a weak metaphor, but a digital monitor can reproduce a fine work of art, but synthesizing (or modelling) the look and behavior of real oil paints digitally is a challenge. Likewise, getting the algorithms just right and in the right orders and quantities to replicate everything analog modular synthesizers can do is very tricky, though theoretically possible.