I have just released a new full-length album called What Comes Around. It exists only as an app for iPhone and Android, and it remixes itself on every listen. Listeners also have the option of  turning on the microphone and letting the app mix in environmental sounds. Have a listen to the free version doing its thing below.

What Comes Around [Free] – First Iteration by MoShang

For iPhone and other iOS devices, first download the free RjDj host app. Both the free and full versions are available as additional download from within RjDj. Alternatively, get the free version or the full version from the RjDj website.

For Android, get the 5-song free version from the Market here, and the 14-song full version here.

Your thoughts and suggestions are most welcome!

Here’s a video of What Comes Around doing its thing on a walk in the park.

I’ve managed to thank two of them in person on this forum, but again a huge thanks to the creators of the free software that makes this album possible, Miller Puckette (Pure Data), Peter Brinkmann (libpd), and Chris McCormick (PdDroidParty). I’ve left details of my process on this forum (towards the bottom of the page). Big thanks also to Robert Thomas who helped me make the album available on the RjDj Network.

I thought I’d do a a quick video experiment with Sony’s NEX-5n. Shot handheld on a cloudy day in Intelligent Auto mode with the toy camera filter selected. Shot in 1080p at 60 frames a second – edited an slowed down by half in Windows Live Movie Maker and exported as .wmv. I’m looking forward to getting a Hague mini motion-cam to use with this camera – should make for much smoother video. The soundtrack is A Farewell In The Evening Rain off my Further East album.

I got a new toy today in the form of a Doepfer Dark Energy – cute as a button! I made this demo for it to see if I can get my head around it. Hey, I think I can!

 Dark Star – Doepfer Dark Energy Demo  is made available under the following Creative Commons license: Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Taiwan (more details)

A big thanks to David Carboni for tipping me off to the cool synergy between my tunes and the hypnotic visuals from the Electric Sheep screensaver – or rather, “collaborative abstract artwork” as its creator Scott Draves describes it. In short, rather than just displaying the visuals each computer running the screensaver forms part of supercomputer and renders individual frames for these spectacular animations. Even better, the resulting visuals are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 (USA) license, meaning I am free to make this mashup with my music.

For this video, I grabbed some rendered animations from Sheep Packs 3 & 7 and dumped them into animoto.com, along with an extract from Live Online #24 – cool timing, since animoto.com has just added the video uploading feature in the last couple of weeks.

This mashup is similarly licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 (Taiwan) license and you can download the original animoto renders here:

MLO24-ELECTRICSHEEP.mp4 [high resolution – 139MB]

MLO24-ELECTRICSHEEP_DVD.iso [image for burning a DVD – 322MB]

MLO24_ELECTRICSHEEP.3g2 [320*240 cellphone version – 17MB]

Emma & Yi are from Australia and are taking part in the Taiwan Best Trip contest organized by the Taiwan Tourism Bureau. They wanted to focus their trip on music and dance around the island and I met them at a tea house in Taichung last Friday for a short interview. Unfortunately, they had some technical issues, so we re-did the interview via Skype. Want to help Em&Yi out? Vote for their Sounds of Taiwan trip at the website above.