Attention all Kiwis, Owen and I will have an installation at Te Papa Museum in Wellington, NZ and will also be performing as part of the Machine Orchestra in two shows this month. We will be doing a Bricktable installation as part of the Our Sounds event Sunday August 15th, 2010 and will run for [...]
+1000 to Jaymis for installing the new CSS plugin @ Noisepages (our lovely host and tech community). As previously mentioned, after upgrading to WordPress 3.0, the plugin we use to define custom CSS (which is how we mold and layout our website) broke. Today Jaymis installed a new (WordPress 3 compatible) CSS plugin and we [...]
Our host has recently updated to WordPress 3.0 and it appears to have broken a few things with the CSS plugin we are using. While the website is completely functional, there are the following issues: 1) The menu system (which is CSS based) is not working properly. This makes it impossibly to access sub-sub menu’s [...]
Nuance Audio & Sensor Recorder Preview from FlipMu on Vimeo. Lately I’ve been focusing much of my time on the development of an application, Nuance (working title–suggestions are encouraged), in order to explore various research goals which are part of my PhD. So what is Nuance? Nuance is a software application for recording synchronous audio [...]
FlipMu Live @ the Watusi from FlipMu on Vimeo. As part of our live show, Owen and I have been working on creating a tightly synchronized audio/visual experience. While we are still experimenting with the best implementation of balancing audio/visual expressivity & composition with live-interaction, we have developed an approach using Quartz Composer, VDMX, and [...]
Yes its true, we really, really, really, love Arduino. It powers the Arduinome. It’s the brains behind a number of upcoming projects we will soon be releasing into the wild…So when I was recently asked to sketch up a sensor system for a saxophone player, I turned to the same trusty ol’ friend we’ve been [...]
Thanks to everyone who came out to see us play at the Watusi in Wellington, New Zealand on May 15th. The show was a lot of fun, and Owen and I got to unveil some exciting new projects we’ve been working on. For those of you who weren’t able to make it to the show, [...]
Join FlipMu and friends for the annual “Wham Bam Thank you NAMM” after party, this Friday, January 15th from 8pm – 4am at the Downtown Independent, Los Angeles. The lineup of performers includes John Tejada, Richard Devine, Flashbulb, Deru, Laura Escude, Scott Pagano, CPU, DJ Kero, Acid Circus, Derek Michael, Baseck, Eezir, Trifonic, DJ G [...]
If you’ve had a quick peek at the FlipMu calendar, you may have noticed that we have been in Japan for the few days, where we are presenting our paper titled, “21st Century Electronica: MIR Techniques for Classification and Performance” at the 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR). ISMIR has been an [...]
Over the weekend I finally finished the enclosure for my recently built Arduinome. This one uses the 8×8 PCB designed by Bibo on the Monome Forums and shines ultrabright blue LEDS. I was lucky enough to get a top & bottom faceplate kit made by XNDR from Machine Collective (before an apparent hiatus, xndr come [...]
