• Archive for September, 2010

    Headset for Mac

    by  • Tuesday 21 September 2010 • Hardware • 0 Comments

    I have seen/heard several questions about what type of headset to use for skyping on MacBooks over the last few days. Here are my suggestions: USB headset: Since MacBooks do not come with a separate microphone input (only line level input), regular PC headsets with two mini-jack cables won’t work. I have good experience using [...]

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    Call for participation: NIME 2011

    by  • Thursday 9 September 2010 • Conferences • 0 Comments

    I am chair for the 11th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2011)
, which will be organized 30 May – 1 June 2011 here in Oslo, Norway. The official “call for participation” has just been posted here, and sent to various mailing lists. Please forward this to anyone that you think may be [...]

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    Double blind peer review

    by  • Saturday 4 September 2010 • Research • 0 Comments

    Many journals, and a few conferences, operate with a so called “double blind” peer review policy. This means that the reviewers of the paper won’t get to know the identity of the author(s), and the author(s) won’t get to know the identity of the reviewer. The idea is that everyone should get a similar and [...]

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    PD introductions in Norwegian on YouTube

    by  • Friday 3 September 2010 • Music • 2 Comments

    I am teaching two courses this semester: Sound theory 1 (in English) Sound analysis (in Norwegian, together with Rolf Inge Godøy) In both courses I use Pure Data (PD) for demonstrating various interesting phenomena (additive synthesis, beating, critical bands, etc.), and the students also get various assignments to explore such things themselves. There are several PD [...]

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