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December 20, 2019 05:35 pm

Richie Hawtins new app lets you deconstruct his DJ shows




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Techno titan Richie Hawtin has always been able to tweak existing ideas in a way that completely upends them. This time, it’s concert video. CLOSER is Hawtin’s app 10 years in the making. It’s an interactive audiovisual “experiment” that lets users deconstruct Hawtin’s creative process while performing. “Concert videos have been done,” Hawtin tells The Verge. “So part of my challenge is to have some transparency and give people a little bit of a connection or an idea of what I’m doing up there, and to understand that there’s a lot of things going on.”


Hawtin is right — concert videos have been done for ages — and companies keep trying to figure out how to make them more interactive. Rhapsody, Wave, Oculus VR, and a multitude of other...



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/20/21029821/richie-hawtin-closer-app-dj-concert-techno-audio-visual

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