From douglas at music.columbia.edu Wed Apr 2 14:48:06 2008 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Wed Apr 2 14:48:11 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] E.A.T. events this weekend! Message-ID: <47F3D4E6.8020004@music.columbia.edu> An amazing series of events celebrating the seminal E.A.T. collaborations, this weekend: http://www.harvestworks.org/cms/index.php/Newsflash/E.A.T.html -- ............................................... http://artbots.org .....douglas.....irving........................ http://dorkbot.org .......................... http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp .......... repetto............. http://music.columbia.edu/organism ............................... http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas From list at ericsinger.com Thu Apr 10 09:52:05 2008 From: list at ericsinger.com (Eric Singer) Date: Thu Apr 10 09:52:28 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] Reminder: LEMUR shows tonight and tomorrow Message-ID: LEMUR storms Issue Project Room tonight, Thursday, April 10th, with a night of special collaborations. Best of ReSiDeNt: The First Two Months showcases performances by January/February LEMUR ReSiDeNtS Taylor Kuffner (Zemi17) debuting the GamelaTron robotic gamelan and Holland Hopson playing his customized MIDI banjo in an Appalachia-meets-robots performance. Then, Ben Neill presents the NYC premiere of new works for Mutantrumpet and LEMUR robots. (http://benneill.com) Issue Project Room @ The Old American Can Factory 232 3rd Street @ 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn Thursday, April 10th, 8 pm $10 http://issueprojectroom.org The next day, we drag the bots across town to Monkeytown to present "LEMUR performs Man with a Movie Camera", a visionary silent documentary by Russian director Dziga Vertov. The film presents a gestalt portrait of life in Odessa in 1929: day breaks, the citizens file into factories, machines machinate, and the wheel of life spins, with all stops detailed and deconstructed by the omnipresent cameraman. Six composers - Zemi17, Leif Krinkle, Luke DuBois, Zach Layton, DJ Olive and Jim Coleman - have created original scores for LEMUR robots to accompany the film. Monkeytown 58 N. 3rd St. between Kent and Wythe, Brooklyn Friday, April 11th, 7:30 and 10:00 $10 http://www.monkeytownhq.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotnyc-blabber/attachments/20080410/9374e5bb/attachment.html From spluta at gmail.com Thu Apr 10 12:09:17 2008 From: spluta at gmail.com (Sam Pluta) Date: Thu Apr 10 12:09:42 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] upcoming show at Monkeytown (live sound and video plus a robot drummer) Message-ID: <5FD426B7-CD78-451A-9FCA-A44AB5F22376@gmail.com> Hi friends, I was lucky enough to be asked to curate a show for the Hi-Fi New Music Festival (www.hifimusicfestival.org) that is going on right now in NYC. This show will be April 16 at Monkeytown (www.monkeytownhq.com) and will feature works by a number of awesome dork artist and a drumming robot. Please come check it out: live sound and images by: Seth Cluett and Jack Turner - audio and visual performance Daniel Iglesia - live improvisations in 3D Sam Pluta - live movie editing exclusiveOr (Jeff Snyder and Sam Pluta) - live improvisation on invented instruments and Serge; with video experimental films: "Means and Meditations" - Scott Nyerges and Mike Vernusky "22" Episode: (mis_ing) - Daniel Maldonado and Mike Vernusky 8pm, Wednesday, April 16 Monkeytown 58 North 3rd St Brooklyn, NY Sam -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotnyc-blabber/attachments/20080410/8d22405e/attachment.html From douglas at music.columbia.edu Mon Apr 14 17:46:00 2008 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Mon Apr 14 17:46:02 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] ArtBots seeks web intern Message-ID: <4803D098.9090502@music.columbia.edu> (Please forward!) +++++++ ArtBots (http://artbots.org) is looking for a web intern to help with internal database/website maintenance and design. Could it be you? The main project right now is the design and implementation of a system that will let the curators view, discuss and vote on the entries for the 2008 show. In the future we're hoping to implement an online submission system. We like to keep things simple, fast, non-fancy. This is an unpaid position, but fringe benefits include cool t-shirts, probably some pizza, and lots of robotic art! If you'd like to get involved, please contact: douglas@artbots.org -- ............................................... http://artbots.org .....douglas.....irving........................ http://dorkbot.org .......................... http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp .......... repetto............. http://music.columbia.edu/organism ............................... http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas From eriksanner at gmail.com Tue Apr 15 09:49:14 2008 From: eriksanner at gmail.com (Erik Sanner) Date: Tue Apr 15 09:50:03 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] theme song remixes Message-ID: <49f6867b0804150649kc4d103ey629850673d2e0dea@mail.gmail.com> was thinking, remember seeing something encouraging people to submit new dorkbot themes. i really like the dorkbot theme just the way it is. but wouldn't it be fun to hear some remixes? for example, i'd like to combine the dorkbot theme with strawberry fields. sometimes i have seen people share interfaces at dorkbot which allow people to manipulate sounds using fairly intuitive-seeming processes, such as moving balls or sliders around. what if somebody puts one of these interfaces on the web and figures out a way for it to let you save remixes of the dorkbot theme? with ways to add other mp3s if you want to do that? not me, but somebody who enjoys programming a bit more and maybe understands what i'm talking about better than i do? maybe somebody already has something like this which could work? i was thinking it would be really neat to start off each dorkbot with a different remix randomly selected from the library of dorkbot theme remixes we can create when we feel like messing around on that web-based interface, if anybody feels like making that happen, more people might get a kick out of it. - erik ______________________ erik sanner http://www.eriksanner.com/ From drjuanarroyo at yahoo.com Tue Apr 15 20:08:00 2008 From: drjuanarroyo at yahoo.com (john arroyo) Date: Tue Apr 15 20:08:14 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] theme song remixes Message-ID: <569692.92770.qm@web50807.mail.re2.yahoo.com> I really like the idea of remixing the theme. I have a little different take on the idea though. I'm currently working on this idea of evolving remixes. The general premise is to iteratively remix...a remix of a remix if you will. I'm starting round 4 of my current evolution project next week. It's really cool listening to how people are building upon the ideas of the previous remix. www.remixin.org In term of the dorkbot theme, what if we did a remix evolution on it? In terms of the dorkbot site, when someone clicked on "hear the the theme" they would hear a randomly selected remix from the previous period's submissions. If someone wants to view past versions of the dorbot theme they could always go to the remixin site and hear any of them archived. However for the general listener they'll get served a new random track every time they click on the theme song link. The coolest thing is every period (lets say a month for arguments sake) the visitors to the dorkbot page will hear from a new set of random tracks. Then the next month they come back and they hear a random remix from the newly submitted remixes. * Does this seem like a good idea? * If so, what is the remix period? I would suggest no less than 4 weeks and no longer than 12. Personally I think 6-8 weeks is a nice period. * What would people want to use as a remix source? options would be: the mixed down audio, the individual parts broken out, or a remix kit (loops and short clips primarily) If people are into the idea I can set it up. -John John Arroyo | www.johnarroyo.com | www.remixin.org ----- Original Message ---- From: Erik Sanner To: dorkbotnyc-blabber@dorkbot.org Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:49:14 AM Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] theme song remixes was thinking, remember seeing something encouraging people to submit new dorkbot themes. i really like the dorkbot theme just the way it is. but wouldn't it be fun to hear some remixes? for example, i'd like to combine the dorkbot theme with strawberry fields. sometimes i have seen people share interfaces at dorkbot which allow people to manipulate sounds using fairly intuitive-seeming processes, such as moving balls or sliders around. what if somebody puts one of these interfaces on the web and figures out a way for it to let you save remixes of the dorkbot theme? with ways to add other mp3s if you want to do that? not me, but somebody who enjoys programming a bit more and maybe understands what i'm talking about better than i do? maybe somebody already has something like this which could work? i was thinking it would be really neat to start off each dorkbot with a different remix randomly selected from the library of dorkbot theme remixes we can create when we feel like messing around on that web-based interface, if anybody feels like making that happen, more people might get a kick out of it. - erik ______________________ erik sanner http://www.eriksanner.com/ ........................................................................ .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ ........................................................................ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ From daravinne at gmail.com Tue Apr 22 16:49:26 2008 From: daravinne at gmail.com (Christina Olson) Date: Tue Apr 22 16:49:41 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] Tech Artists wanted for local event In-Reply-To: <86ec85970804221347v1a307db4xc26fcf00caaf2faa@mail.gmail.com> References: <86ec85970804221347v1a307db4xc26fcf00caaf2faa@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <86ec85970804221349j2679bb80q3c11c1df1635e471@mail.gmail.com> HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) is held July 18-20 in midtown manhattan at the Hotel Pennsylvania. Held every two years, this three day event that has been covered by CNN and other news agencies for its unique gathering of hackers and tech people from around the country and sometimes the world. And HOPE needs your art! If you have an art project that has to do with electricity (of course, we are on dorkbot after all :), computers, data and information processing, electronic music, and can be displayed in a public setting where people may or may not touch it (we do have security detail), send an email to daravinne@gmail.com with your project idea, and links to your site or your project. I will get back to you asap. Also, we are looking for programmers who are can construct visualizations based off information stored in a database. if you can do or have done this and have the time to undertake this project (starting now) please get in touch. Thanks! Christina From mjrose at gmail.com Tue Apr 22 17:04:46 2008 From: mjrose at gmail.com (mjrose@gmail.com) Date: Tue Apr 22 17:04:58 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] Any designers want to enter my logo contest In-Reply-To: <86ec85970804221349j2679bb80q3c11c1df1635e471@mail.gmail.com> References: <86ec85970804221347v1a307db4xc26fcf00caaf2faa@mail.gmail.com><86ec85970804221349j2679bb80q3c11c1df1635e471@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <1952091099-1208898280-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1623801899-@bxe162.bisx.prod.on.blackberry> I posted a logo contest on 99designs. you can see the results to date at the link at the end of this post. Curious as to what others think of work done to date. I'm not the best manager of designers, its sort of like I cant describe it but I know it when I see it. if you have a great design please submit it. http://99designs.com/contests/6699 M Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "Christina Olson" Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:49:26 To:dorkbotnyc-blabber@dorkbot.org Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] Tech Artists wanted for local event HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) is held July 18-20 in midtown manhattan at the Hotel Pennsylvania. Held every two years, this three day event that has been covered by CNN and other news agencies for its unique gathering of hackers and tech people from around the country and sometimes the world. And HOPE needs your art! If you have an art project that has to do with electricity (of course, we are on dorkbot after all :), computers, data and information processing, electronic music, and can be displayed in a public setting where people may or may not touch it (we do have security detail), send an email to daravinne@gmail.com with your project idea, and links to your site or your project. I will get back to you asap. Also, we are looking for programmers who are can construct visualizations based off information stored in a database. if you can do or have done this and have the time to undertake this project (starting now) please get in touch. Thanks! Christina ........................................................................ .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ ........................................................................ From douglas at music.columbia.edu Tue Apr 22 22:33:23 2008 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Tue Apr 22 22:33:28 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] [Fwd: digital relay / timer needed for apple tv remote control] Message-ID: <480E9FF3.7050203@music.columbia.edu> Can someone help Bettina? This is a pretty simple task for a microcontroller/Arduino type setup, she just needs a circuit that will close a button connection every five seconds... Please contact her directly if you can help. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: digital relay / timer needed for apple tv remote control Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:28:24 -0700 (PDT) From: bettina johae To: douglas Repetto hi douglas, thanks for your offer to post this request.... to describe the problem: i have an exhibition opening at the NYPL next week and have a problem with my five channel slide show, which i can't get synced properly. the slide shows are running off 5 apple tvs, which i can all control via one remote control. therefore I can get them all started at the same time, but even though all of them are set to 5 seconds, they start running out of sync after a couple of minutes. Looks like either 5 sec setting is are not exactly 5 sec on each apple tv.... therefore what i need is: something like a "digital relay" for the apple tv remote control, something that digitally triggers the forward button every 5 seconds. and i need to get this done before the end of the week if somehow possible...otherwise for monday....and it would be great to get an estimate of the costs... best, bettina _______________________________________________ bettina johae -- ............................................... http://artbots.org .....douglas.....irving........................ http://dorkbot.org .......................... http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp .......... repetto............. http://music.columbia.edu/organism ............................... http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas From eriksanner at gmail.com Wed Apr 23 07:53:57 2008 From: eriksanner at gmail.com (Erik Sanner) Date: Wed Apr 23 07:54:34 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] theme song remixes In-Reply-To: <569692.92770.qm@web50807.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <569692.92770.qm@web50807.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <49f6867b0804230453o31c8802bi671a602e98ea5e03@mail.gmail.com> really like your iterative remix idea. think every month would be a good duration during the "school year" and a few months over the summer, my two cents. - erik On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:08 PM, john arroyo wrote: > I really like the idea of remixing the theme. > > I have a little different take on the idea though. I'm currently working on this idea of evolving remixes. The general premise is to iteratively remix...a remix of a remix if you will. I'm starting round 4 of my current evolution project next week. It's really cool listening to how people are building upon the ideas of the previous remix. www.remixin.org > > In term of the dorkbot theme, what if we did a remix evolution on it? > > In terms of the dorkbot site, when someone clicked on "hear the the theme" they would hear a randomly selected remix from the previous period's submissions. If someone wants to view past versions of the dorbot theme they could always go to the remixin site and hear any of them archived. However for the general listener they'll get served a new random track every time they click on the theme song link. The coolest thing is every period (lets say a month for arguments sake) the visitors to the dorkbot page will hear from a new set of random tracks. Then the next month they come back and they hear a random remix from the newly submitted remixes. > > * Does this seem like a good idea? > * If so, what is the remix period? I would suggest no less than 4 weeks and no longer than 12. Personally I think 6-8 weeks is a nice period. > * What would people want to use as a remix source? options would be: the mixed down audio, the individual parts broken out, or a remix kit (loops and short clips primarily) > > If people are into the idea I can set it up. > > -John > > > John Arroyo | www.johnarroyo.com | www.remixin.org > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Erik Sanner > To: dorkbotnyc-blabber@dorkbot.org > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:49:14 AM > Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] theme song remixes > > was thinking, remember seeing something encouraging people to submit > new dorkbot themes. i really like the dorkbot theme just the way it > is. but wouldn't it be fun to hear some remixes? for example, i'd > like to combine the dorkbot theme with strawberry fields. > > sometimes i have seen people share interfaces at dorkbot which allow > people to manipulate sounds using fairly intuitive-seeming processes, > such as moving balls or sliders around. what if somebody puts one of > these interfaces on the web and figures out a way for it to let you > save remixes of the dorkbot theme? with ways to add other mp3s if you > want to do that? not me, but somebody who enjoys programming a bit > more and maybe understands what i'm talking about better than i do? > maybe somebody already has something like this which could work? > > i was thinking it would be really neat to start off each dorkbot with > a different remix randomly selected from the library of dorkbot theme > remixes we can create when we feel like messing around on that > web-based interface, > > if anybody feels like making that happen, more people might get a kick > out of it. > > - erik > ______________________ > erik sanner > http://www.eriksanner.com/ > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ > -- ______________________ erik sanner 407 w 50th st #15 ny, ny 10019 cell 917-442-9055 http://www.eriksanner.com/ eriksanner@gmail.com From drjuanarroyo at yahoo.com Thu Apr 24 23:34:26 2008 From: drjuanarroyo at yahoo.com (john arroyo) Date: Thu Apr 24 23:35:40 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] theme song remixes Message-ID: <329708.17068.qm@web50810.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Is anyone else interested in the idea? I'm still willing to set it up! I think it'd be a lot of fun and dorkbotters would get into it. BTW this is the site that would host the dorkbot remix evolution, www.remixin.org I just did some big updates to it this week. thanks, -John John Arroyo | www.johnarroyo.com | www.remixin.org ----- Original Message ---- From: Erik Sanner To: A discussion list for dorkbot-nyc Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:53:57 AM Subject: Re: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] theme song remixes really like your iterative remix idea. think every month would be a good duration during the "school year" and a few months over the summer, my two cents. - erik On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:08 PM, john arroyo wrote: > I really like the idea of remixing the theme. > > I have a little different take on the idea though. I'm currently working on this idea of evolving remixes. The general premise is to iteratively remix...a remix of a remix if you will. I'm starting round 4 of my current evolution project next week. It's really cool listening to how people are building upon the ideas of the previous remix. www.remixin.org > > In term of the dorkbot theme, what if we did a remix evolution on it? > > In terms of the dorkbot site, when someone clicked on "hear the the theme" they would hear a randomly selected remix from the previous period's submissions. If someone wants to view past versions of the dorbot theme they could always go to the remixin site and hear any of them archived. However for the general listener they'll get served a new random track every time they click on the theme song link. The coolest thing is every period (lets say a month for arguments sake) the visitors to the dorkbot page will hear from a new set of random tracks. Then the next month they come back and they hear a random remix from the newly submitted remixes. > > * Does this seem like a good idea? > * If so, what is the remix period? I would suggest no less than 4 weeks and no longer than 12. Personally I think 6-8 weeks is a nice period. > * What would people want to use as a remix source? options would be: the mixed down audio, the individual parts broken out, or a remix kit (loops and short clips primarily) > > If people are into the idea I can set it up. > > -John > > > John Arroyo | www.johnarroyo.com | www.remixin.org > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Erik Sanner > To: dorkbotnyc-blabber@dorkbot.org > Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:49:14 AM > Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] theme song remixes > > was thinking, remember seeing something encouraging people to submit > new dorkbot themes. i really like the dorkbot theme just the way it > is. but wouldn't it be fun to hear some remixes? for example, i'd > like to combine the dorkbot theme with strawberry fields. > > sometimes i have seen people share interfaces at dorkbot which allow > people to manipulate sounds using fairly intuitive-seeming processes, > such as moving balls or sliders around. what if somebody puts one of > these interfaces on the web and figures out a way for it to let you > save remixes of the dorkbot theme? with ways to add other mp3s if you > want to do that? not me, but somebody who enjoys programming a bit > more and maybe understands what i'm talking about better than i do? > maybe somebody already has something like this which could work? > > i was thinking it would be really neat to start off each dorkbot with > a different remix randomly selected from the library of dorkbot theme > remixes we can create when we feel like messing around on that > web-based interface, > > if anybody feels like making that happen, more people might get a kick > out of it. > > - erik > ______________________ > erik sanner > http://www.eriksanner.com/ > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ > -- ______________________ erik sanner 407 w 50th st #15 ny, ny 10019 cell 917-442-9055 http://www.eriksanner.com/ eriksanner@gmail.com ........................................................................ .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ ........................................................................ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ From list1 at ericsinger.com Wed Apr 30 12:39:32 2008 From: list1 at ericsinger.com (Eric Singer) Date: Wed Apr 30 12:39:53 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] Friday: Skateboarding with Robots and more Message-ID: April ReSiDeNt Show This Friday, May 2nd Featuring new works by Dafna Naphtali, Andrew Schneider and Simon Morris This month's show features Simon Morris on his newly constructed SensorSkate, a skateboard custom-wired with sensors and programmed to control the LEMUR robots. Dafna Naphtali has been brewing up a soundstorm of dynamically controlled algorithmic improvisation and live audio processing, using Wiimotes and vocal cues to trigger and manipulate the bots. Andrew Schneider will be doing musical theater, presenting a dance number and interfacing his movements with the robots via custom-built wearable controllers. This promises to be an exotic, entertaining evening. ReSiDeNt @ LEMUR: New Works, New Instruments, New Artists Friday, May 2nd 8 pm - 11 pm $5 at the door Dafna Naphtali is a sound-artist and improviser-composer from an eclectic musical background. As singer/guitarist/electronic-musician she performs and composes using custom sound processing of voice and other instruments. Besides her composing and improvised projects, she co-leads the digital chamber punk ensemble What is it Like to be a Bat? with Kitty Brazelton (http://www.whatbat.org) and has collaborated/performed with Lukas Ligeti, David First, Joshua Fried, Ras Moshe, Alexander Waterman, Kathleen Supov? and Hans Tammen, among others and done sound design and programming for Jin Hi Kim, Shelley Hirsch, Pamela Z, Phoebe Legere, Fred Frith, Jim Staley, Henry Threadgill, Steve Coleman, Chico Freeman and others. Dafna can be heard with Mechanique(s) on a forthcoming release on In-situ, and was featured vocalist on Jos? Halac's CD "Dance of 1000 Heads" (Tellus), as well as on her acclaimed release with What is it Like to be a Bat? on Tzadik/Oracles. is a multimedia designer and performer whose work investigates human/technological interdependence. He is the co-founder and Associate Artistic Director of the Chicago-based theatre company, BigPictureGroup. His solo performance work has been seen at P.S.122, Monkeytown, The Prelude Festival, and The Tank. His multimedia devices have been featured in Art Review, Wired, TimeOut NY, Maker Faire, SIGGRAPH, Dorkbot, the Telfair Art Museum, and at the Center Pompidou in Paris. His Solar Bikini has been featured internationally and is slated to be featured in the next Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition. His latest projects include Experimental Devices for Performance (.com) and Acting Stranger (.com). Andrew Holds a Masters Degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU. He is currently working with The Wooster Group. (http://andrewjs.com) Born in New York City, Simon Morris (US/France) is a new media artist exploring urban landscapes, new musical interfaces and skateboarding. Investigating new forms of musical expression, his work examines technology and its role as a socially engaged art practice. He has conducted live performances at Eyebeam, NYC, the Article Biennale 2006 in Stavanger, Norway, the KiasmaMuseum in Helsinki, Finland and the Barker Theatre in Turku, Finland. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotnyc-blabber/attachments/20080430/7e5b627e/attachment-0001.html From lewischicken at gmail.com Wed Apr 30 22:32:22 2008 From: lewischicken at gmail.com (Alison Lewis) Date: Wed Apr 30 22:32:39 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] IR and MIDI Message-ID: <8374e69e0804301932k3d1b7f23j1b6245c0ad6b75cd@mail.gmail.com> Hi all: I have a good background in micro-controllers and sensors, but I am very new to electronic music. I am wanting to build an IR sensing musical instrument with my friend and wondered what the best way to do this is or if there are some resources you could point me too? I've used IR sensors before to interface with a PIC, but what about a MIDI device? Where should I start? Thanks so much! Alison -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotnyc-blabber/attachments/20080430/72cf0845/attachment.html From list1 at ericsinger.com Wed Apr 30 22:37:02 2008 From: list1 at ericsinger.com (Eric Singer) Date: Wed Apr 30 22:37:20 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] IR and MIDI In-Reply-To: <8374e69e0804301932k3d1b7f23j1b6245c0ad6b75cd@mail.gmail.com> References: <8374e69e0804301932k3d1b7f23j1b6245c0ad6b75cd@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Easy to do with the MidiTron (http://miditron.com) At 7:32 PM -0700 4/30/08, Alison Lewis wrote: >Hi all: > >I have a good background in micro-controllers and sensors, but I am >very new to electronic music. > >I am wanting to build an IR sensing musical instrument with my >friend and wondered what the best way to do this is or if there are >some resources you could point me too? I've used IR sensors before >to interface with a PIC, but what about a MIDI device? Where should >I start? > >Thanks so much! > >Alison > >........................................................................ >.........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... >..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ >........................................................................ From douglas at music.columbia.edu Wed Apr 30 22:49:09 2008 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Wed Apr 30 22:49:20 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] IR and MIDI In-Reply-To: <8374e69e0804301932k3d1b7f23j1b6245c0ad6b75cd@mail.gmail.com> References: <8374e69e0804301932k3d1b7f23j1b6245c0ad6b75cd@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <48192FA5.6040507@music.columbia.edu> Hi Alison, It's pretty easy to send MIDI from a microcontroller. It's just serial data. Sending is easier than receiving (since you don't have to write a parser). If you can get your instrument sending serial data then you're 90% of the way home. Do a little web searching and you'll find lots of info about sending MIDI data from microcontrollers. douglas Alison Lewis wrote: > Hi all: > > I have a good background in micro-controllers and sensors, but I am very > new to electronic music. > > I am wanting to build an IR sensing musical instrument with my friend > and wondered what the best way to do this is or if there are some > resources you could point me too? I've used IR sensors before to > interface with a PIC, but what about a MIDI device? Where should I start? > > Thanks so much! > > Alison > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ -- ............................................... http://artbots.org .....douglas.....irving........................ http://dorkbot.org .......................... http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp .......... repetto............. http://music.columbia.edu/organism ............................... http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas From lewischicken at gmail.com Wed Apr 30 23:21:23 2008 From: lewischicken at gmail.com (Alison Lewis) Date: Wed Apr 30 23:21:41 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] IR and MIDI In-Reply-To: References: <8374e69e0804301932k3d1b7f23j1b6245c0ad6b75cd@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <8374e69e0804302021x6baf8f9em68e36390aaee005d@mail.gmail.com> Wow! I do have a good budget and this would save lots of time. I have some questions though. Your documentation says: Sensor inputs are converted to MIDI output messages, and MIDI input messages are converted to terminal output voltages. It looks like there is MIDI connection that I can use to interface directly a computer. Is this correct or do I need something between the MidiTron and the computer? - ALISON On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Eric Singer wrote: > Easy to do with the MidiTron (http://miditron.com) > > > At 7:32 PM -0700 4/30/08, Alison Lewis wrote: > > > Hi all: > > > > I have a good background in micro-controllers and sensors, but I am very > > new to electronic music. > > > > I am wanting to build an IR sensing musical instrument with my friend > > and wondered what the best way to do this is or if there are some resources > > you could point me too? I've used IR sensors before to interface with a PIC, > > but what about a MIDI device? Where should I start? > > > > Thanks so much! > > > > Alison > > > > ........................................................................ > > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > > ........................................................................ > > > > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ > -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: www.alisonlewis.com www.iheartswitch.com :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotnyc-blabber/attachments/20080430/b0d07c74/attachment.html From lewischicken at gmail.com Wed Apr 30 23:22:58 2008 From: lewischicken at gmail.com (Alison Lewis) Date: Wed Apr 30 23:23:15 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] IR and MIDI In-Reply-To: <48192FA5.6040507@music.columbia.edu> References: <8374e69e0804301932k3d1b7f23j1b6245c0ad6b75cd@mail.gmail.com> <48192FA5.6040507@music.columbia.edu> Message-ID: <8374e69e0804302022l1c2a1acakd0e7d3404473d3a6@mail.gmail.com> Thanks Doug - I did do some searching and I am most excited about the Erotronix just for time's sake. I'll have to send the picts of the space with the digital instrument once we get it all hooked up. :) - Alison On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:49 PM, douglas repetto wrote: > > Hi Alison, > > It's pretty easy to send MIDI from a microcontroller. It's just serial > data. Sending is easier than receiving (since you don't have to write a > parser). If you can get your instrument sending serial data then you're 90% > of the way home. Do a little web searching and you'll find lots of info > about sending MIDI data from microcontrollers. > > > douglas > > Alison Lewis wrote: > > > Hi all: > > > > I have a good background in micro-controllers and sensors, but I am very > > new to electronic music. > > > > I am wanting to build an IR sensing musical instrument with my friend > > and wondered what the best way to do this is or if there are some resources > > you could point me too? I've used IR sensors before to interface with a PIC, > > but what about a MIDI device? Where should I start? > > > > Thanks so much! > > > > Alison > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ........................................................................ > > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > > ........................................................................ > > > > -- > ............................................... http://artbots.org > .....douglas.....irving........................ http://dorkbot.org > .......................... http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp > .......... repetto............. http://music.columbia.edu/organism > ............................... http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas > > > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ > -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: www.alisonlewis.com www.iheartswitch.com :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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