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Awesome
July 2, 2008 – 11:42 pm
Check it out at engadget - a modular prototyping platform. Looks very exciting. I guess we’ll wait and see, but it’s an open system….
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/02/machine-collective-reveals-modular-prototyping-platform/
360 degree glass speakers
May 31, 2008 – 4:52 pm
This just gave me the horn when it turned up in my inbox. A 360 degree glass speaker from Sony priced at around $10,000. Dunno if that’s each or not.
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-16094-A+Concept+Will+Soon+Become+a+Reality%21%21%21.html
mobile drum machine
May 28, 2008 – 3:21 pm
This is a neat little project. A mobile drum machine using the MSound library and Mobile Processing.
http://itp.nyu.edu/~ts1200/blog/?p=206
Midiator
May 21, 2008 – 8:21 am
Midiator seems to be an interesting and worthwhile hack for connecting ps2 controllers to MIDI devices without the grief. You can by the units ready made for $79.
http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/midiator-lets-you-use-a-ps2-controller-as-a-midi-controller/
Cheap micro PC for guitar pedal ++
April 23, 2008 – 10:58 am
Carrying on from the idea of the re-programmable guitar pedal, here is a company doing tiny, low power 500 mhz and 1.2ghz machines for 200 and 400 dollars:
http://www.norhtec.com/products/index.html
Stick Linux/ supercollider or Linux/ PD etc on there, set it up to auto boot an effect or somesuch, maybe with some sort of simple usb gamepad controller [...]
Exercise bpm controller
April 2, 2008 – 3:53 pm
If you’re interested in getting sweaty and controlling music, Yamaha (Senshi Fukashiro, University of Tokyo) has developed this little device, which syncs the bpm of the music to match your exercise pace, and selects appropriate music depending on your speed. http://www.yamaha.com/bodibeat/
Programmable guitar pedal
March 24, 2008 – 10:37 pm
Matt and I were discussing the Freeplay Symphony a while back, wondering whether it could form the basis for a programmable guitar pedal, and what ho, here they come: http://www.line6.com/news/pressReleases/644. I still haven’t worked out whether you give these things lots of RAM though. For my interests it would be great to make sample-based systems.
(Matt)I [...]
Thoughts about OSC server for Shunt installation
March 24, 2008 – 11:49 am
My first post…
Good to see everyone on Thursday. at the meat bar. I have been thinking about the central sever program (MCP) for the Shunt installation.Here are my disorganised thoughts, in part including discussion from thurs:
MCP_OSC_S - an OSC server which receives OSC messages from Agents. Possible OSC message:
x, y position
I am percussive, I am [...]
melodyne
March 21, 2008 – 12:14 pm
well, my guess is overtone tracking and component analysis. awesome though.
http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna&L=0