Just wanted to say a quick “hei” to everyone from Oslo! I am here with our good friend Dimitri Diakopoulos to attend and present some work at this years NIME conference. This afternoon we presented the SmartFiducial (more info / source / instructions will be up here very soon) and the NotomotoN, our beloved 12-armed [...]
January 19th, 2011 – 12:31 pm
If you’re in Wellington March 3rd, you won’t want to miss out as we play alongside the likes of Lorn, Alphabethead, Mr. Mime, D:unk, and Excelle. Where: San Fran Bath House When: 9pm – 5am More information can be found on the facebook page here
November 28th, 2010 – 8:27 pm
For the last year or so I’ve been developing the Chronome, an RGB/Pressure sensitive version of the Monome/Arduinome. The Chronome uses the same TLC5940 chip as previous RGB grid controller efforts such as the Octinct, but with new firmware designed around Matthew T. Pandina‘s excellent TLC5940 C Library. I was also able to provide pressure [...]
August 8th, 2010 – 4:50 am
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 [...]
August 2nd, 2010 – 12:24 am
+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 [...]
July 28th, 2010 – 4:08 am
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 [...]
June 24th, 2010 – 12:00 pm
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 [...]
June 20th, 2010 – 9:05 pm
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 [...]
June 18th, 2010 – 7:14 am
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 [...]
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