Visualising data mainly stunning

Some really nice data representation presented in a visually beautiful way to help us decode the crazy world around us and see bigger patterns in the picture

http://datalooksdope.com/motion/

Learning piano with projection!

Ever wanted to super speed up your piano learning. Ever wanted to just see what you need to play in real time. You are in luck if you check out this amazing new thing. It looks pretty darn sweet.

Music Tech Fest Hackathon

I attended the brilliant music tech fest hackathon! As well as getting to hang around for over 24 hours with an amazing group of talented techies, I got to see some of the awe inspiring creations and developments in the music tech world. I had a blast and even won a spot prize for my creation in the hack, the bendigorn. This can be seen in this vid!

 I made the flex sensors following this tutorial but added my own touches to make them work for me such as anti-static foam in between the copper tape pieces, and reducing the size and length.

They worked well and I ran them into Max/MSP to trigger some MIDI notes and then to modulate the pitch of those MIDI notes with the pitch bend.

Each of the 10 (only 9 actually worked :S) sensors gave of reading from 200 up to 500 in integers values.

I want to expand this in the future to create a digital grass!

Jitter Critter

I attended a jitter critter workshop at Make Bournemouth and made this awesome jitter snail, he was very very slow, some might say so slow it was unobservable to the human eye. He was cute though and we had a blast with the kids (and adults) making these critters! He even has a light to guide his way.

Hexshifter- Colour Picker

This pretty little tool utilises minimalistic interaction to create hex based colours. Its pretty neat.

http://prescottfoland.co/hexshifter/

SlideRule- Online learning hub

Here we have a great website for learning! Pick a subject and join an online course, then come out with a certificate. Offering courses from some of the largest universities and littler ones too.

http://www.mysliderule.com/

Make Bournemouth

For a while I have been part of local group Make Bournemouth which is a great forum for exploring cool stuff such as 3D printing, hacking toys, making new instruments, and making little electronics gadgets. The next session is something I am really into at the mo, making an instrument with Arduino using the excellent Arduino library from Mozzi. Turning the Arduino into a stand alone instrument for cheaps and easily!

Hackathon @ NIME 2014!

Recently I spent the day at the hackathon at Goldsmiths University in London as part of the New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME) conference. The hackathon had the theme of accesibility and breaking down barriers to participation for musicians with disabilities. It was great to have some good feedbackon my SenseEgg project as well as to see the fantastic blend of skills that were on show throughout the day. Some great collaborating going on which was really inspiring.

Gus Dudgeon Foundation and James summer school

I just spent the week in Cardiff as part of the Gus Dudgeon Foundation and James summer school! What a fantastic week in the studio with Romesh Dodangoda and the band Caesars Rome. Learning recording and production tips and techniques from the master of rock Romesh!

Imogen Heap magic gloves

Take a look at this video with Imogen Heap and her gloves, very reminiscent of

Michael Waisvisz - the Hands

Here’s how two Icelandic sound designers could change sound effects – forever | A Sound Effect

Here’s how two Icelandic sound designers could change sound effects – forever | A Sound Effect

Bitwig is out!

Try this new audio editing digital audio workstation. Had a quick play and seems very intuitive and has a nice look and feel to it. You can download and use it for free without exporting and saving features.

Nice!

http://www.bitwig.com/en/home/recent-news.htmlhttp://www.bitwig.com/en/home/recent-news.html

Interesting tech blog

Very cool and interesting tech blog for y'all to vibe with. Peep this.

http://txchnologist.com/

Samplify!

A nice free app that listens to songs and tells you what samples are in them with youtube links to those vids. Its pretty neato.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mhacks.samplify&referrer=utm_source%3Dappbrain%26utm_medium%3Dappbrain_web%26utm_campaign%3Dappbrain_web

Glove-Talk 2!

Green eggs and ham produced with gloves that have sensors and are mapped to a speech synthesizer. Wowzer Sageev Oore.

                                     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb7K2IpZn6E

Daft Punk recreated by not daft punk in an interesting way

This is some freaky deaky stuff, we know Daft Punk love a good sample but down with the nitty gritty of their technique in an almost behind the scenes video, except its not them, and they claim they didn't use this sample. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sdtOpE_3aQ

Floating objects with sound!

Using ultrasonic standing waves from arrays of tiny speakers to levitate and manipulate objects in a 3d space! Amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odJxJRAxdFU&feature=share