Interview with Phil Durrant on his use of Reaktor and laptops for performance

On the Kore spinoff pages of Create Digital Music there is an interesting interview with one of the most prolific people on the Reaktor user forum - Phil Durrant (aka "sowari"). In the interview he discusses his approaches to building within Reaktor, his use of the laptop in a performance context and some of his influences.
He makes a pretty strong case for trying to get a smuch interactivity out of the standard laptop (QWERTY keys and trackpad) as possible.

Below is a video of Phil's Trio Sowari.

TRIO SOWARI
by Ornitoto

Daedelus interview ---- monome

XLR8R TV has posted a video interview with electronic musician Deadelus.
In the video he talks about his influences and his approach to playing live which includes the use of his monome (check the link for more info and videos of this open-source hardware controller in use).


XLR8R TV Episode 71: Daedelus from XLR8RTV on Vimeo.

Sapling

sapling is

"a freeware standalone sound-mangling application for Mac OS X built with Max/MSP 5. It was designed with both live use and studio work in mind. Simply put, Sapling is a program for remixing up to four audio files, but can offer some very interesting and unexpected results by offering several realtime randomization features."

It looks like it has some nice features. The website has some audio examples of the kinds of things that it can do.
The audio output can be saved to disk for further mangling / experimentation.