Author Archives: Owen Vallis

Upcoming Show at Watusi Saturday June 26, 2010

Jordan and I have been working hard this year on our doctorates: Building new interfaces, exploring projection mapping, and working on extending the possibilities of live electronic music performance. Lately we’ve been developing a live, interactive audio/visual show (detailed post will go live in the coming days!) in Wellington, NZ, and have had the opportunity [...]

FlipMu and Ajay Kapur on Radio New Zealand

Radio New Zealand recently did a broadcast focusing on the robotics work of our adviser, and good friend, Dr. Ajay Kapur. We were lucky enough to have them ask us a few questions about our work with the multi-touch table, and what we are up to here in New Zealand. You can find the whole [...]

Processing, Eclipse, Java 1.5, Generics, and Fullscreen

As we started the AhText Project, we began to run into our first difficulties with processing. It turns out that although Processing 0136+ supports Java 1.5, it does not support any of the new Java syntax. Things like generics, and enhanced “for” loops are not understood by the preprocessor and compiler used in Processing. See [...]

Ah-text for Ah Opera-No Opera

We have been asked to create a new multi-touch application for the Opera Ah!, created by composer-performer David Rosenboom and poet-writer Martine Bellen, and which will be performed at RedCat September 15-17th. The Opera will also be featuring the work of our friends Meason Wiley, Jim Murphy, Dimitri Diakopoulos, and Dr. Ajay Kapur from CalArt’s [...]

FlipMu now in Wellington, New Zealand

Recently, Jordan and I both had the unique opportunity presented to us to pursue our PhD’s at the New Zealand School of Music Victoria University in Wellington. The program not only allows us to continue with our current work, but also continue working with Ajay Kapur, as well as Michael Norris and Dugal McKinnon. We [...]

Making Counters in Reaktor core

Click to download Counter.ens So I hope to start a series of posts about using Reaktor core. Reaktor core is very powerful, but can be a little daunting at first. I was lucky enough to learn from Martijn Zwartjes while at CalArts, and I’m going to try my best to show some of the things [...]