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Monthly Archives: March 2007

The End is Nigh

29-Mar-07

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It feels to me as if something is coming close to an end. I can’t quite figure out what it is, is it the impending hand-in date for this journal? Or is it the now ever-constant coverage of global warming [...]

Fourtet Contest

29-Mar-07

Well my entry didn’t win the Fourtet video contest on Italian media website, qoob. In fact it received quite critical comments! However, I am still pleased with the result and it seemed to go down okay in my half year review.
The standard was very high, and the winning entry - although not my favourite - [...]

Adele Prince & Mars Bars

20-Mar-07

Adele Prince (an Interactive Arts graduate) came to talk to my group this week. She has been very successful with exhibitions, commissions and winning an innovation prize from the Yahoo! website. Through her various projects she has also attracted a lot of media coverage. Her success alone was enough to keep me attentive, but as [...]

Autotalk

18-Mar-07

Trying to think of a name for my Max/MSP based voice recording/playback invention. Autotalk is my favourite so far, I think it kind of gives a feeling its been dreamt up by some zany Germans. Der Autotalk.
I really liked the Singing Ringing Tree near Burnley and part of that comes from to fact it is [...]

Max/MSP Project (continued)

06-Mar-07

This project was inspired by watching a programme on BBC2 - “The Grumpy Guide to Art”. I found it pretty amusing, but if I can imagine in some frames of mind I would have thought it rather depressing - even though I know that isn’t the point.
My inspiration came from Sir Gerry Robinson’s comments about [...]

Max/MSP Project

05-Mar-07

I mentioned in a previous post a thing called the Lemur, that can be used with Cycling 74’s Max/MSP. To explain a little, the Lemur is a kind of “control surface” that can be utilised in many different bits of software on PCs and Macs. Control surfaces roots are in computer-music, they were developed in [...]