Greg Surges has posted a video of his Octomod USB to Control Voltage Interface: YouTube – USB-Octomod Demonstration Definitely some creative possibilities, and a great way to breath fresh air into your voltage controlled synth. He’s got them available from fully assembled kits to bare PCB boards. Check out his product page for more info.
The folks at NIME have uploaded the full NIME++ 2010 proceedings. Here is the permanent link:http://www.educ.dab.uts.edu.au/nime/PROCEEDINGS/ The direct link to my paper is here: ‘Relationship-Based Instrument Mapping of Multi-Point Data Streams Using a Trackpad Interface.’ I’m always happy to hear comments and feedback. You can see (old) videos of the instruments described in the paper …
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The conference was fantastic – lots of creative energy and some truly inspired projects and research. As for my presentation, it went quite well. I got some very nice feedback from other presenters and conference attendees about the multi-point instruments. Once the paper publication goes online I will link to it from here. There are …
My new paper on multi-point mapping strategies, titled ‘Relationship-Based Instrument Mapping of Multi-Point Data Streams Using a Trackpad Interface,’ has been accepted into the New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME) 2010 conference in Sydney. The paper describes my analysis system for dealing with multi-point interfaces. I will be presenting at the conference, and will post the link …
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The night was great – lots of fantastic art pieces and a fun atmosphere. Part of the fun was watching people figure out the interactive element to the piece (or, in most cases, not figure it out). Here are some pictures I found of our installation. They are from a JS Online blog, the MAM After Dark …
Tomorrow, Friday March 12, the Milwaukee Art Museum is hosting one of its ‘After Dark’ exhibitions. I’ll be there presenting a work with MIAD student Leticia Figueroa as part of MIAD’s ‘Here and Now’ version of ‘Street Seen.’ We put together an altered stop sign – animated, interactive, a bit pushy, but quirky and fun. …
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I’m nearing the release of the multipoint synth I’ve been working on, but in the meantime here is some useful code for GUI controlled arrays in Pd. I call these ‘tap-array’ objects, since they were originally designed for a tap delay system I’ve been developing. There are also table read and write objects to go …
A while ago a piece of mine, Fractal Constructions No. 1, was featured on a compilation CD of new works commemorating the 100th anniversary of Ives’ The Unanswered Question. The CD is called ‘Questions’ and was released a few months ago. There is a ton of great music on this CD – work by Yehuda Yannay, David …
I’ve finished two demos of a multitouch instrument I’ve been programming. You can see the videos on Vimeo: The synth uses the Macbook Pro trackpad, but it can accept any multitouch interface that adheres to the TUIO specification. I programmed the instrument to react to the relationships between the points, instead of simply mapping the multiple …
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