Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Spent this week largely in the shop, trying to get a prototype for the physical side of my NIME project up and running. After spending half of a day in Home Depot buying all sorts of parts, I think I’ve worked out some sort of shape that’ll work.
This was the initial idea — brass [...]
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Having a truly evil time trying to find 100mm sliders, let alone their motorized counterparts. I just keep finding the small ones.
See here:
Got leads? Lemme know!
So the NIME project moves on, but a bit slower than I’d hoped. The good news is that the Max side of things has taken leaps and bounds forward. I’ve altered the effects a lot, tried to keep it truer to architectural-minded sounds, and generally cleaned up the patch. It now sounds much more like [...]
The software side of my NIME project is coming along really well — actually much better than I would have hoped by this point. So far, I have a patch that mangles audio all over the place, and thanks to an extremely helpful meeting with Jamie, I now have a pile of ideas to work [...]
So good news on the NIME front — SMS is still working very well, and I’ve gotten it to read six (and eventually ideally eight) simultaneous ins on the Arduino and map those to adjustable attributes. Here I’ve got those very simply mapped to a few parts of a sine wave:
Thursday, October 11, 2007
I’ve been tinkering with ways to address my physical movements as Max controls, and while I started with MIDI, I think I’ll be using SimpleMessageSystem (SMS) in Max/MSP to view and control the Arduino instead.
In this shot, I’m just turning an LED on and off by clicking a button in a Max patch, but lord, [...]
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
We’ve been asked to post videos about our musical aspirations — what we’d like embody or emulate when perform. In my case, I’ve been thinking about what happens when you combine the innovation of modern electronic artists like Golan Levin, the energy of rock acts and the grace of more symphonic groups like A [...]
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
We’re to bring in a short audio clip of music we want to make, which can be something we’ve made, but should look to outside influences. I found this to be kinda impossible, as I’m one of those folks whose influences run all over the place, but I’ve tried to keep this short.
I’m interested, [...]
Monday, September 10, 2007
We’ve been tasked to keep our ears open for a week, and think about how we or people we observe “use” music. This fits in quite nicely with both a personal project of mine and with my work with Tom Jenkins for Computers for the Rest of You, so here’s a big jumbled reply.
I’m [...]