Past Deja Vu FM guest Onyx Ashanti has been working hard creating a revolutionary new performance system called The Beatjazz Controller. It allows him to create and perform electronic music without anything you would recognise as a musical instrument using gestures and motion in a way never seen before. Onyx describes the feeling …”it stops feeling like an instrument. I mean, the controllers are strapped to my hands…I don’t “hold” them. They are just there and my fingers just move. And when I breathe, sounds come out. That’s the feeling. There is no feeling of playing…only breathing.”
The music you see and hear is all completely improvised making each performance a unique experience.
To learn about Onyx and his creative journey visit http://beatjazz.blogspot.com/.
Listen back to the interview with MikeyFuturistic
http://vulive.co.uk/2010/06/06/futuristic-sounds-enhanced-podcast-6-june-2010
