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Sunday, January 31, 2010

Cymatics = Visual Sound

 

Cymatics Scientist Says Sound is a Bubble, Not a Wave by Jodina Meehan
Check out the cool article linked above...

I've always thought of sound waves this way, but had never seem them represented like this. This is a great way to think about sound when mic'ing instruments or creating sound art.




Saturday, January 23, 2010

monomnichord by Calum Scott

monomnichord from Calum Scott on Vimeo.

"A max/msp patch that uses a monome 40h and a stribe to emulate a Suzuki Omnichord."

It's wonderful to see music being made with a stribe1 alongside a monome.



Saturday, January 2, 2010



wearethecircuitman.phineus.ep



Friday, November 20, 2009

stretta's procedures

maxforlive: stepfilter from stretta on Vimeo.



stretta continues to blow my mind - this time with his monome app 'step filter' running inside Ableton Live



Thursday, November 19, 2009

KORG MicroSampler



A nice run-thru of features on the new bang-for-buck sampler from KORG



Sunday, November 8, 2009



via Anarchy Rice

Novation’s new monome controller in action. 3-color buttons, seamless integration with Ableton Live. Only apparent drawback is it only does MIDI via Automap mode. But at only $200! street it's definitely worth exploring.

I wonder when they're gonna make a Stribe?



Friday, October 23, 2009

Chladni form as output?

Weird thought of the day:

Thinking about capturing 2D blobs and turning them into sound. What about 2D blobs made by sound?

What if you videotaped the changing design on a chladni plate and then used software to turn that video into sound?



I posted earlier about a Chladni plate powered by a speaker.



Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Touching the Sound

Touch Loop Navigator from christian bannister on Vimeo.


Check out this great project at subcycle.org.

subcycle labs is the creative work of christian bannister a musician, designer and developer located in portland, oregon




Foxy's 16-stribe monster





16-Stribe Monster from Stribe Forum member Foxy

16 Stribes will be mated to a variety of button pads. See the build log and current status here

Foxy's next challenge is getting the Max patches sorted. I'm still a bit all-thumbs with Max myself. I can probably cobble something together, but if someone has or can make an elegant solution to run 2 8-stribe Stribes (2 Arduinos) and 2+ monomes (not sure if he's going Arduinome or using monome boards), please give a shout-out on the Stribe Forum!



Saturday, October 10, 2009

Monome Meet 2009



video still of MakingTheNoise

I would have loved to be at this event in Princeton Oct 3 but just couldn't work it out. Hopefully there will be a next time... Some consolation is this great Vimeo page with tons of great footage: http://vimeo.com/groups/monomeetfall2009 as well as some awesome live sets!

I hear there were also some great live performances in the evenings so when I find some video or audio of those I'll post them here...

Listen: Monome-Made Music, from tehn to Daedelus
By Peter Kirn

or

Latest tracks by monomeet



Friday, October 9, 2009

phineus: Not On

phineus: Not On  by  phineus

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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Stribe / Livid Concept Sketch






Stribe/Livid Hybrid Concept
Borrowed the case shape from the Livid "Tactic" http://www.lividinstruments.com/hardware_other.php for these concept sketches

See: http://www.soundwidgets.com/2009/01/monome-40h-3-stribe1-modules-granular.html



Thursday, September 17, 2009



Moldover's new CD not only delivers music, it completely redefines what it means to "play an album"... Moldover's CD packaging itself IS a new musical instrument! The CD is mounted on a custom designed circuit board, intricately patterned and powering a "light-Theremin". Yes! You play the artwork and it makes sound!

Pretty dang clever!



Tuesday, September 15, 2009

First Industrial Stribe application







from CuriousInventor.com:

TracyEvansProductions, a company that specializes in interactive tradeshow exhibits and other multimedia, has integrated Stribes into a kiosk that interactively explains the interaction of water and oil in wells for Schlumberger.

Kudos to Scott Driscoll @ Curious Inventor for making this all happen Stribe-wise!



Wednesday, September 9, 2009

The Drum Buddy



Super-limited-edition drum gizmo - I love this thing - and the demo is too cool. I guess Laurie Anderson has one. I've thought of a similar concept but on a much larger scale, using different length rods rotating around a pole and IR triggers... anyways, check out the vids and an in-depth article at: matrixsynth. Be sure to stick out the video to the part where he brings in the scratchy record. Awesome.

Visit quintronandmisspussycat.com and freshkillsflagship.com for more info, images, & music.



Friday, September 4, 2009

Monome on Letterman



At the end he asks her what it is and and pokes at the buttons and she says it's her Twitter thing. Too bad she didn't give monome.org a plug, but hey it's totally featured so...



Friday, August 7, 2009

New v of Tony B Machine



It will make them boogie! Instadance-hall smackdown fun.

http://www.tony-b.org/



Monday, July 13, 2009

Stribe Duo with potentiometers, joystick



Curious Inventor made a cool custom Stribe1 "Duo" with some pots and a joystick.

More here: http://soundwidgets.com/smf/index.php?topic=266.msg1030#msg1030



Saturday, July 11, 2009

Chladni Plate


Chladni Song by Meara O'Reilly, film by Lisa Foti-Straus

This phenomenon was known at least as far back as 1680. Ernst Chladni published his technique to demonstrate the phenomenon in 1787 (wikipedia: Ernst Chladni), using a bow against a piece of metal sprinkled with flour. Nowadays a speaker is placed under the plate to more accurately control the amplitude and pitch of the signal to be displayed. Which actual patterns appear are affected not only by the pitches and resonance, but also by how the plate is physically attached and (presumably) the location of the speaker.

Here's a good explanation: Chladni Plates

And here's how to build yer own, via Make magazine: http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol16/?pg=128



Wednesday, June 10, 2009

New Stribe Goodies from Curious Inventor



Double: http://curiousinventor.com/store/product/292

Quad: http://curiousinventor.com/store/product/293

Shield: http://curiousinventor.com/store/product/290



Scott has been hard at work designing and making a simple system to connect multiple stribe kits together. The system includes a purpose-built shield that integrates a multiplexing circuit to use 12 sensors with the Arduino's 6 ADCs.



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