When I got my Asus eee a few months ago I tested the built-in OS for about an hour and then decided to install Ubuntu eee (later renamed to Easypeasy) instead. I felt the Xandros OS was too limiting and wanted to test out something more powerful. One of the reasons for buying the eee [...]
Read more →A couple of weeks ago I came across the English word confluence. The Oxford dictionary informs me that this means “the junction of two rivers, esp. rivers of approximately equal width”. That sounds very poetic, and it gets even better when you combine it with humans and computers, as they have done in the call [...]
Read more →Synchronisation is a core issue when carrying out research on multimodal sensing/acting and multimedia. My take on this has been through the work on GDIF, and we are currently implementing a GDIF/SDIF recorder/player using FTM for Max/MSP (see our ICMC2008 paper for more on this). I just came across a software called Thought Conduit which [...]
Read more →Jamie Bullock has written an interesting blog post called Does live electronic music make good business sense?. While I follow his argument, and understand where it comes from, I think the topic could also be discussed from a different perspective. His main point is that the benefit-cost ratio of working with live electronics is low. [...]
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