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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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.
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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”…
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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…
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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…
Totally going to steal this “swivel reverse instrument swap” for next time I’m playing out. I think Ada’s picking up her new drums I brought back from New Orleans quicker than I’m getting the hang of the pocket trumpet 😅
#swivelreverse #spin #longwayround #drumsolo #drums #glockenspiel #somewhereroundthere
AMBIENT CAFE
Saturday 3pm-6pm (tomorrow!)
@friendlyrecords on North St
Join us for an afternoon of eclectic ambient from Muzak Concrète DJs (@noodsradio) interwoven with tabletop experiments from guest local ambient artists including @looseforms and Nick Janaway. A tapestry of cascading synths, bleeps & celestial vibrations, field recordings, intricate wallpaper muzak, earthy drones, textural trips, ambient & ambience. We make a space for indirect listening and background enjoyment. Bring your knitting, a book or chess set, pull up a chair and immerse yourself in the music.
#ambientcafe #muzakconcrete #tabletopgig #bristollivemusic #friendlyrecords #animation
#madeinlooom #popbyforacoffee #gentlejetlaggedvibes
Had the afternoon free after the CHI’22 conference wrapped up so did the obvious thing and shlepped across town to New Orlean’s brass specialist @neworleanstrumpets to buy a pocket trumpet. Turns out New Orlean’s oldest tree was round the corner so ended up having a first play sat on it’s trunk (with new mute firmly in place) hoping to invoke some kind of jazz skills transfer magic but instead mildly disturbing a dog walker who strayed too close. Did get an album promo shot though 😅
#neworleans #oldesttree #newinstrument #seriousjazzface #trumpet #pockettrumpet
Happy Birthday Ada – one today!
Bonus fist bump superhero pose photo from when she was a few days old this time last year and looked more like a potato. The efforts to recreate the pose more accurately this year were futile 😅
💛 🌸 ✊ 🥳
#happybirthday #cherryblossom
AMBIENT CAFE
@friendlyrecords
Saturday 7th May
3pm-6pm
Come and join us for an afternoon of eclectic ambient from Muzak Concrète DJs (Noods Radio), interwoven with tabletop sets from guest local ambient artists. Undulating synths, cosmic vibrations, field recordings, intricate wallpaper muzak, deep drones, astral jazz, ambient and ambience. We make a space for indirect listening and background enjoyment… Bring your knitting, a book or chess set, pull up a chair and immerse yourself in the music.
@friendlyrecords @noodsradio #ambientcafe #bristolmusic #livemusicbristol #ambientmusic #ambient #muzakconcrete
Triple bill Easter Sunday art crawl. Audio-visual installations and sculpture at the @h.eadless group show in @theislandbristol … a working trebuchet art-flinger at @spikeisland … and piles of salt (sand?) and fresh oil painting at @arnolfiniarts … rounded off with an ice cream in the park while Ada critiques the shows via the medium of stick twirling.
#art #artsunday #audiovisual #sculpture #galleryshow #artcrawl #bristol #sticktwirling
Day trip to Cwmdu to hike in the Black Mountains for @carrie_brassley_yoga’s birthday. Decided to go off piste and take a shortcut up what felt close to a 45° burnt bracken slope. Ada didn’t seem too phased by this 😅
#cwmdu #blackmountains #hiking
Freshwater West 1986 & 2022
Rather satisfying hunting down the same rocks I had a sandwich on 36 years prior age 4. Props to my dad for digging out the old photo and sparking off the rock hunt!
#freshwaterwest #rocks #beach #erosion #oldphoto #thenandnow
Made the most of being on strike last week by heading to Pembrokeshire for a few days. Got lucky with some great sunset surf on Tuesday too!