Mark just pointed me to the web page of Spectra Symbol, a company making membrane switches and linear position sensors. I particularly like the circular position sensor!
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I have joined in as a developer of Jamoma, and am currently porting parts of the Musical Gestures Toolbox using this framework. One of the most exciting new things is that Trond Lossius has now rewritten/patched everything so that the whole framework is using Open Sound Control messages for all communication. This helps organizing the [...]
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Just came across the UBC Max/MSP/Jitter Toolbox which seems to be quite similar to Jamoma. The UBC Max/MSP/Jitter Toolbox is a collection of modules for creating and processing audio in Max/MSP and manipulating video and 3D graphics using Jitter. I have just briefly tested it, and here are some screenshots from one of the example [...]
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Some facts about the underground city of Montreal, which I pass through every day: Montreal (Underground city or la Ville souterraine in French) whose 32 kilometres of tunnels connect seven downtown metro stations, seven large hotels and many important office towers and malls on 41 city blocks (12 square kilometres). It is the largest underground [...]
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Watching the ladies’ figure skating competition from the olympics, I am amazed by the total lack of connection between gestures and music. To start off with, I am not very impressed by the music accompanying the programmes, most being massively layered, romantic orchestral music, but the fact that it is also recorded by a microphone [...]
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