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 [...]
FlipMusic Ladies and gentleman… its happened! We spent 3 weeks in the studio between the hours of 12am – 5am, making a new live set to make you sweat. The goal was the “Experiential Differential” show at Watusi Bar in Wellington, which we promised would bring you the best is bass. The show went off [...]
AhText Multi- Touch Installation from FlipMu on Vimeo. As mentioned in our previous post about AhText, we recently collaborated with Jim Murphy, Dimitri Diakopoulos, and Ajay Kapur on an installation for David Rosenboom and Martine Bellens, calledAh! Opera-No-Opera (Hyperlinks baby!). Ah! premiered at RedCat Theatre in Los Angeles, September 16th – 18th, 2009, and our [...]
multi-touch the storm – interactive sound visuals – subcycle labs from christian bannister on Vimeo. Sometimes you come across something that really blows you away… today was one of those days! We are super excited about the work being done by Christian Bannister , a.k.a
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This past June, Owen and I prepared our bodies for our upcoming travel to New Zealand by first flying to Europe. There were three destinations, Berlin, Paris and the Netherlands. While the latter two were more in the vain of seeing old friends and catching up over a couple beers, Berlin (though there was time [...]
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Google I/O 2009 After Hours party! We had a wonderful time meeting and talking to you, and hope you enjoyed interacting with Bricktable. Big thanks to Google for putting so many great people and exciting projects in one room. Also, the food was great If you have [...]
