Mobile Python on S60 to Max/MSP

Richard Widerberg held a workshop today on using mobile python on Nokia phones running Symbian OS S60. He has gathered some links to everything that is needed to get a connection up and running with PD. Now I got a simple script up and running and communicating with Max/MSP through the serial object. It works, [...]

Gumstix and PDa

Another post from the Mobile Music Workshop in Vienna. Yesterday I saw a demo on the Audioscape project by Mike Wozniewski (McGill). He was using the Gumstix, a really small system running a Linux version called OpenEmbedded. He was running PDa (a Pure Data clone) and was able to process sensor data and run audio [...]

Sonification of Traveling Landscapes

I just heard a talk called “Real-Time Synaesthetic Sonification of Traveling Landscapes” (PDF) by Tim Pohle and Peter Knees from the Department of Computational Perception (great name!) in Linz. They have made an application creating music from a moving video camera. The implementation is based on grabbing a one pixel wide column from the video, [...]