It has been fairly quiet on this blog as of recently. This is not because I haven’t been doing anything, rather the opposite. We are now at the end of day 2 of the NIME conference, and there is one more day to go. Lots of great presentations, concerts and hundreds of cool NIME people [...]
Read more →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 [...]
Read more →micro-OSC (uOSC) was made public yesterday at NIME: micro-OSC (uOSC) is a firmware runtime system for embedded platforms designed to remain as small as possible while also supporting evolving trends in sensor interfaces such as regulated 3.3 Volt high-resolution sensors, mixed analog and digital multi-rate sensor interfacing, n > 8-bit data formats. uOSC supports the [...]
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Jyri Pakarinen just presented a paper on the Virtual Slide Guitar (VSG) here at NIME in Genova. They used a commercial 6DOF head tracking solution from Naturalpoint called TrackIR 4 Pro. The manufacturer promises: Experience real time 3D view control in video games and simulations just by moving your head! The only true 6DOF head [...]
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New publication on our Cheapstick music controller: Reference: A. R. Jensenius, R. Koehly, and M. M. Wanderley. Building low-cost music controllers. In R. Kronland-Martinet, T. Voinier, and S. Ystad, editors, CMMR 2005, LNCS 3902, pages 123–129. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2006. (PDF from Springer) Abstract: This paper presents our work on building low-cost music controllers intended for educational and creative [...]
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