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One man band

Rochus Keller
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1 HN user recommended this demo1 month2022–2025 score 1
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026

Shown by its creator on HN as a demonstration of his live multi-instrument setup built from stacked keyboards.

A one-minute clip of Rochus Keller performing as a one-man band: slap bass with the left hand, Rhodes and lead guitar with the right, and drums with the feet.

“This video of your live performance setup as a one-man band. Amazing.” (HN, 2024)

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@lioeters Dec 2024 Recommends
on HN thread Music and Geometry: Intervals and Scales
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Great list of books on music and mathematics. It's an endlessly fascinating subject that appeals to the intellect and the heart. I remember years ago, reading Godfried Toussaint's paper, "The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms". [link] (PDF) Following the trail, I was glad to find he wrote a whole book, The Geometry of Musical Rhythm, where the article forms the basis of a chapter. It's one of my favorite books I keep returning to re-read different parts. I hadn't seen "Exploring Musical Spaces", looking forward to reading it. Dmitri Tymoczko's book is wonderful too, A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice. Rich with ideas and insights, I like how he tells the history and development of Western music theory. Oh I just learned from the author's website that he has a new book released. > I have just finished a second book, Tonality: An Owner's Manual, that proposes a new, hierarchical, and geometrical model of musical stucture. > One interesting outgrowth is the musical programming language arca. This line of thinking has also led me to contemplate a third book about category theory and music. [link] --- This video of your live performance setup as a one-man band. Amazing. [this video]
One-man band live performance setup.

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@apt-apt-apt-apt May 2025 Cites it
on HN thread When Suno covers my song (very useful) – a study with variations
The generated [Latin Jazz with small band with acc. guitar]( [link] ) sounds awesome, like an upscaled version of the original. [Now I see what you mean by playing them all live at once.]( [this video] ) Being able to scrub to the middle of songs would be nice, it's too much effort for 99% of visitors to figure out that we need to open links in a new tab to get to the raw, scrubbable mp3.
Shows playing multiple instruments live at once.

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