Summer Studios Labs
Here at Summer Studios, we’re a creative company - always working on our passion projects. One of our biggest passions in life is music. Weather it be producing music for artists and ourselves, making music videos, or diving into the ever evolving world of music tech. This page shows off our special music tech projects. Our moonshots. Our research department. Our experimental design. This is where we imagine our future, and do our best to make it real! Enjoy, and imagine with us! Xx Josh Graham - Director, Summer.
Music Tech
The Midicaster
BIGTECH 2019 SELECTED PROJECT (BIGSOUND FESTIVAL)
Introducing the Midicaster. A brand new electronic instrument from Summer Studios Labs, built to set the electronic musician free on stage. No more hiding behind laptops. The Midicaster gives you full control of your digital audio workstation from wherever you are on stage. With 12 responsive drum triggers, 24 midi notes, modulation and pitch bend wheels, a tap tempo button, two effects sends, nine midi mappable pots, plus an LCD screen. You can change patches, soft synths and songs on the fly, allowing one person to play unprecedented musical combinations completely live whilst being mobile on stage.
Check our Midicaster showcase at Bigsound this September!
The Interactive Visual Album
BIGTECH 2018 SELECTED PROJECT (BIGSOUND FESTIVAL)
It’s really quite rare that you get to make a world first. But with the interactive visual album we made for Australian band Enerate, it was just that. For their new album, Summer Studios Labs produced an interactive music video for each of the 8 songs, the Interactive Visual Album came as a mobile app. This is the future of music videos. It contains music videos with multi-tangent narratives, video games, and viewpoint controls. The first of it’s kind, the Interactive Visual Album was selected to be a part of Bigsound Tech in 2018, for entrepreneurial excellence in new music technologies, and also showcased at VIVID Sydney’s Clipped Music Video Festival.
Download the app here.