Electronic-Music
New Life, New Blog
Hi there,
for the rare readers that are following this blog, I would like to say that I will not continue posting here anymore. Indeed I am about finish my Ph.D. and enter a new life. New life means new occupations and new trends, which means new blog. For those who are interested to follow my [...]
SenseSurface: Knobs on the Screen?
I was pointed out to this funny concept called SenseSurface by Fred Beecher.
The main idea is to attach physical controls such as knobs magnetically to an LCD screen, Thanks to a magnetic overlay attached behind the screen. The system is able to senses the knobs position and send the information to a particular [...]
Watchmen: the movie
On of my all time favorite picture novel adapted by the director of “300″. Hopefully they did not screw the spirit of the comic.
Save or Publish?
Probably the small amount of my blogger-readers will say “huuuuu what a Noob, he’s not using blogging clients LoL§§”, but there is something I found quite annoying about the wordpress posting interface on the 2.2.2 version (what is funny is that it is was actually not the case in the 1.5 version I’m using now [...]
Techno Strip
Earth Scale Water and Air
I really like this picture. It represents on the left all the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) and on the right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a sphere at sea-level density and shown on the same scale as the Earth. I don’t [...]
Worst Spam Ever
Spotted on boingboing, here is a spam received by Bruce Sterling. It’s worth the look.
Good time of day. You are disturbed by the charitable company Redd Cross of Slovenia. We have the business offer for you. We can offer to you of earnings, thus your salary will make from 1000$ to 2000$ per one month, [...]
F**K Pineapple
Why do I blog this? This graph is awesome !!
Manual Input Sessions.
I descovered recently this interesting concept by Golan Levin and Zachary Lieberman about a musical concept using hand gestures and figers movements in a audiovisual.
Our concert is performed on a combination of custom interactive software, analog overhead projectors and digital computer video projectors. The analog and digital projectors are aligned such that their projections overlap, [...]
Reactable
That is the kind of research I always wanted to do, the intersection of all my principal interests (i.e. human computer interaction, innovative tangible interfaces, electronic music).
The The reacTable is an electro-acoustic music instrument with a tabletop Tangible User Interface that has been developed within the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in [...]
