Archive for April, 2007

An Interview with Bert Schiettecatte about AudioCubes

Bert Schiettecatte is the founder of Percussa, a music hardware and software company located near Leuven, Belguim. The company’s first product is Audio Cubes, a beautiful and unusual controller system that can be used in powerful ways in conjunction with Max/MSP and other software.

If someone asks you to explain what the AudioCubes are, what’s the first thing you say?

A tool for creating and performing electronic music and sound, which aims to stimulate creativity and lower user interface barriers.

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A Video and Text Interview with Luke DuBois, Educator and Musician

Education and Performance

New Ways of Transcoding Media Watch Luke DuBois’s video

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Cycling ’74′s Office Relocation, Part 1

Growing out of and growing tired of our 379A Clementina Street location, Cycling ’74 is moving its headquarters into a great new space a few blocks away at 730 Clementina Street. Apparently, we have an affinity for aromatic alleys south of Market.

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Getting Around in Radial, Part Three

Creating Your Own Interface

In the previous installments, I’ve tried to give you a quick hands-on feel for how radiaL operates, paying particular attention to how you can develop a feel for radiaL’s nonlinear playback modes by listening. But I think that the place where radiaL really shines as an instrument rather than enjoyable way to do multi-channel loop manipulation involves the addition of an interface — connecting radiaL to an external controller in a way that turns your favorite parameter changes into physical/gestural activities. In radiaL, the files that describe the relationship between parameters and an external controller is called a control template.

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Workshop in Delft

We held another Max/MSP/Jitter workshop from the 27th to the 30th of March in the Dutch city of Delft (yes, as in “that color blue associated with porcelain”). Our hosts were in the Industrial Design faculty at the Technical University. In fact you could take a nice “back way” walk back to the center of town and pass by the porcelain factory at the end of the day. It was a week of largely good Dutch weather, too, meaning that the sun was out pretty much all week. Since we went on Daylight Savings Time while I was there, our dinners were in sunlight.

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Jamoma Workshop

Last week I arrived home from a ‘vacation’ in France. In my case though, the term ‘vacation’ means that I was programming and debugging objects for Max/MSP/Jitter. The occasion for this trip to France were two workshops focusing on Jamoma that were organized by Pascal Baltazar, GMEA, and Incidents Mémorables. The workshops were held in Albi and Paris, respectively.

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