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Hey all. The Parsons MFADT Symposium 2009 is almost upon us. This Saturday and Sunday, May 2nd and 3rd, there will be presentations from a host of up and coming game designers, musicians, artists, web entrepreneurs, and more.
I will be presenting my thesis, the Gesture-Control Exploration in a panel discussion titled “Emotive Narrative: Internal Representations” on Saturday May 2, from 2 to 3:30 in the Theresa Lang Auditorium at 55 W. 13th Street (2nd Floor) along with Hsiang Ju Huang, Jason Tseng, Carrie Mae Kreyche, Pasquale Chieffalo and special guest moderator: Yury Gitman.
I will also have a demonstration booth set up on Sunday, May 3, from 2 till 5 (also in the Theresa Lang auditorium) where you can come by an play with the controllers. Hope to see some of y’all there.
Visit mfadt.parsons.edu for more information.
It’s been doing that a lot lately.
Just when I’m in the throws of banging my head against the wall developing (and re-developing, and developing again, and holding my head in my hands, and throwing wads of paper in the waste-basket like a man-at-the-drawing-board from days of yore) the GCe3 is precisely not when I want to see this amazing little pocket synth / controller from Teenage Engineering.
It is elegant, gorgeous, white, simple, complex, and sexy-as-all-git-out. It’s both a controller and a stand-alone synthesizer. Oh, and it’s got a motion sensor. (Cries a bit) I’m in awe. Good job guys, can’t wait to actually see one in action.
By the way, these screens they’ve developed are ridiculous.
Still struggling with visual feedback issues with the GCe3. Teenage Industries solution here might solve a lot of my problems. Interesting to think on for the future.
ps In other news, Teenage Industries is a pretty sweet name.
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Popular Science Magazine was in attendance at the Handmade Music Night last Thursday, and they were kind enough to interview us and feature the GCe2 on their blog.
Thanks!
Yo dudes. Guess what? I’m going to be at the 3rd Ward in Brooklyn this Thursday for Handmade Music Night. I will be giving a demonstration of the newest iteration of my Gesture Controller Exploration, the GCe2.
There’s going to be all sorts of great handmade music projects there. So please come on by and support your city’s musicians and makers. (We need all the support we can get)
Here’s the deets:
Free (+ free beer while it lasts)
Thursday, January 15
7:30-10:30pm (drop by for as long as you’d lie)
3rd Ward, Brooklyn NY
RSVP to handmade (at) 3rdward (dot) com — walk-ups welcome, but it helps us to know how many folks are coming!
See you there!
ps The GCe2 was also featured on Create Digital Music which has my heart all in a patter.
GCe2 // GestureSynth from Mouse & the Billionaire on Vimeo.
Hi everyone. I just thought I’d finally let you all see what I’ve been doing for the last few months. This is the GCe2 (Gestural Controller – Exploration 2). It makes music. It could do other things as well, but we’ll have to wait and see about that.
There’s a bunch more information here if you’re interested.
Happy New Year, y’all.
Walter Kitundu, one of the recipients of this year’s MacArthur Grants makes some truly spectacular instruments.
This photo is of him playing his 1200 phonoharp, a mix of live and pre-recorded analogue signals. He describes it on his website as, ” incredibly versatile and can sound like bass guitar, a lap steel guitar, a hammered dulcimer, a drumset, chimes… many sounds are unique to this instrument. There are many ways to play it. The built in mixer and cross-fader allows cutting and scratching with the turntable and there is even a headphone jack for cueing records.”
There’s many more where that came from. Tons and tons of beautifully crafted pieces. Truly stunning.
Is it just me, or are there actually a lot of new musical interfaces coming out recently? Maybe it’s one of those perception things. Like when you worry about losing your hair and suddenly everyone you see is bald. Or, rather, like when you met your first co-worker in a wheelchair, and then there’s people in wheelchairs all over the place. So innovation is like bald people in wheelchairs. Or bald wheelchairs.
Anyways, today’s new interface: Stanton’s Da Scratch, which Stanton claims will “change the DJ world forever.” I’m not exactly sure how a virtual turntable will turn the world upside down, but we’ll have to wait until tomorrow for the official unveiling to find out for sure. Maybe it will just mean less DJs with back aches. Either way, it’s still pretty neat looking, and I’m so easily taken by touch sensors. And blue.
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