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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 the day alongside other work from the New Zealand School of Music. Come by Te Papa and check our Bricktable and other interface work by some of our students!

For those interested in live electronics, world music and/or musical robotics, come see the Machine Orchestra. Of course, the robots won’t just be playing pre-defined sequences, we will be interacting and controlling them live, through a myriad of custom controllers and interfaces (various interactions with Arduinomes, Hyperinstruments such as the ESitar and EDilruba), as well as other gestural controllers such as the Helio.
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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 such as the Arduinome section, as well as other Look And Feel issues. If you want to browse the Arduinome sections, please go here for now…

2) The sidebar is appearing on the left side of the screen, instead of the right. This is causing all sorts of things to look weird, especially blog posts!

Oh! Our poor minimal design!

Please bear with us in the next few days while we work out all of the kinks. Thanks!

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 integrating it all with our Ableton live set. Of course, we couldn’t just project onto any old flat surface, so we’ve built a 3D cube to float between our heads and map the projection onto 3 of its faces. While there is lots of work going on in the FlipMu studio/lab right now creating exciting new interactive visual content, as well as more enticing 3D displays beyond a single cube-shaped object, this post will delve into the why and how of our current gig-ready set up. Also, as an added bonus, we’ve put up a custom Quartz Composer plugin we created and use extensively in our live show for download for those who want to attempt a similar approach! Now on to the gory details…
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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 turning to over and over again.

3 Force Sensing Resistors, 1 Triple axis accelerometer, 2 Push buttons, 1 Arduino Duemilanove and an afternoon later, we ended up with the following sensor system for Saxophone.

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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 Ov, Moldover, Henry Strange, Peter Kirn and others!

In addition to getting your dance on, join US, Peter Kirn (of Create Digital Music), Richard Devine, Justin Boreta and edIT (Glitch Mob), Laura Escude, Moldover, Deru, and Trifonic as we discuss the future of music technology, various approaches to live electronic performance, and bring out a few toys for some AWESOME show n’ tell (custom live-rig’s, controllers…etc).

For more information see this post here CreateDigitalMusic

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