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  • David Merrill’s Siftables

    Spotted David Merrill’s Siftables project in the New Scientist yesterday, then came across this talk he gave at TED. I like the idea of using the Siftables as a music controller/instrument, but…

  • Arduino controlled DAC (& 303)

    Robin Price, a colleague in the SARC PhD lab (and co-conspirator in making acid-house & improv) has started a new blog documenting his work. Currently the blog shows his work on making…

  • new C3Loops website

    Rikard Lindell, creator of C3Loops has put up a new website with details of his C3Loops system here:http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/projects/c3/ A video of C3Loops in action is shown above, and here’s some blurb on…

  • C3 Loops demo

    One of the demos that stood out at the NordiCHI’08 conference was ‘C3 Loops’ by Rikard Lindell. I took some video of it in action and have just got round to editing…

  • Puppet Whispers – Live score improv

    I performed yesterday in Chris Chong’s final MA piece “Puppet Whispers”. The performance involved 4 improvisers playing in a physically separated space, with only their shadows and a networked computer as communication.…

  • Sketching physical motions

    Just happened across Ben Hopson’s site “Designing movement: An Aesthetic Investigation of Motion in Product Design”. There are some really good movies of his explorations of movement using just a deck of…

  • ICMC’08 movie excerpts

    Two video’s of performances at ICMC’08 last week:Florian Hollerweger – Live Coding at ICMC’08 from Peter Bennett on Vimeo.Kingsley Ash – GoLimp III at ICMC’08 from Peter Bennett on Vimeo.

  • Three links to doctoral theses that are relevant to my research: “Mechanical Constraints as Common Ground between People and Computers” James McMichael Patten (1999) “Tangible Interfaces for Manipulating Aggregates of Digital Information”…

  • Rhythm Ring

    The Rhythm Ring is an interesting project by Brian Yung & Hanson Jiang (of Cornell University) that was partly inspired by my BeatBearing project. In their own words: “The Rhythm Ring interactive…

  • Emotoscope

    This is the Emotoscope, made by Kenichi Okada. In his own words: Emotoscope is a device that gives you an experience of missing time. Recent digital recording devices such as digital cameras…