• Archive for February, 2006

    Preview of Jamoma 0.3

    by  • Thursday 23 February 2006 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    Jamoma

    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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    UBC Max/MSP/Jitter Toolbox

    by  • Wednesday 22 February 2006 • Music

    UBC1

    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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    Underground city, Montreal

    by  • Wednesday 22 February 2006 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    Underground city, Montreal

    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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    Olympic Figure Skating

    by  • Tuesday 21 February 2006 • Music, Research • 1 Comment

    Kwan skating

    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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