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November 26, 2006
Visit the onetonne store!
This is really only an experiment, but I thought I'd give it a crack. I have setup an amazon store which contains a bunch of stuff for you, dear reader.
It's full of handpicked musical stuff. If you find something you like you can buy it from there and it will help support onetonnemusic, which in turn will support my indy posters, and also onetonnemusic's charitable adventures!
Gear that's in there at the moment is a selection of absolutely essential albums, DVD's and the powerful and clever Nintendo DS lite (plus electroplankton & elite beat agents for your musical delectation). Is there something missing from the store? Let me know. No reason why this cannot be a community project! info at ausmusician dot com with any store related thoughts and feedback (or post your thoughts on the forums)
Check it out after the jump! More fine tuning to come!
Posted by funnelbc at 03:37 PM | Comments (0)
November 22, 2006
It Hugs Back @ Tunbridge Wells Forum UK
Anotherformofrelief.com is a putting on a show at the Tunbridge Wells Forum in the UK, on December the 6th. Eddie asked me to help out with the poster which you can see above. He also very kindly made a donation using the paypal donate button. Thanks!
That money will go partly towards running of my site, and more importantly the to the Future Cambodia Fund (www.futurecambodiafund.org) as onetonnemusic's charity of choice. ($2.50 Australian gets a week's worth of vitamins for a malnourished child in Cambodia, 70 cents Australian buys a meal for a child). This genuinely makes a massive difference to a needy child's life.
Visit anotherformofrelief.com
Poster-rama here!
Posted by funnelbc at 09:25 AM | Comments (0)
November 13, 2006
No really, the forums work now.
Sorry about the intermittent and dodgy goings on with the forums. We had to get rid of the old ones because of the amount of time I was investing in maintaining them was getting out of control for what I always envisaged as a more informal chat system. I've been a bizzy beaver and I've fixed up the worst of the gremlins for the new forums. Expect some more assorted malarky as I work out stuff.
Visit the new forums; it's exclusive and secret squirrels, so you have to register and then get your application approved. Why is this? So we don't end up with spam again. Hopefully.
Posted by funnelbc at 10:37 PM | Comments (0)
November 10, 2006
Tangible sequencer blocks from youtube -Update!
A big hello to any boing boing readers! Right. On with the show!
Here's something tasty and fun. It's an interactive step sequencer. That allows you to pick up and manipulate and re-order the steps as you go. Each "pad" has a trigger like normal, but it allows you to do all sorts of fun stuff with them.
Update: With the help of Peter from CDM we've been able to track down who is responsible for these. It's Jeffrey Bernstein of Princeton. They were his masters project in grad school. And excitingly, he's working on building a mass production version! There will be an article in the excellent Make in the February issue.
Jeffrey has the following to say about how they work: They each have an 8-bit microcontroller, a 2.4 GHz zigbee radio and an IR transmitter and receiver. There's also a GUI on the computer that lets you drag and drop sounds to the boxes.
Sounding very exciting, and when there's more information on these, you can be sure I'll be covering it!
The samples play in the order that the arrows point, and when a block receives the trigger from the previous block it plays the sound. And it's all wireless. It would be great to know more about this project and how it works. I'm assuming that it's some sort of simple trigger transmitted via bluetooth. Maybe the max/msp posse will be able to shed some light on this, as it looks right up their alley.
Beat Juggling - this is just fantastic. I would spend all day just doing this, possibly driving my better half nuts. In fact, given a table full of these, I would go absolutely nuts.
More (slightly less exciting) videos after the jump.
Posted by funnelbc at 02:54 PM | Comments (0)
November 09, 2006
Forums are currently up!
UPDATE: Please visit the new forums to have a chat and shoot the musical breeze. I will be adding features and styling to it to make it more 'onetonnemusic', but in the mean time, you can check it out!
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Hi Guys if you visit the forums today you'll get the following message
Sorry, but this board is currently unavailable. Please try again later.
That's because I've temporarily taken them offline. We're getting a lot of spam posts to the forums and it's got to stop. I am currently investigating setting up some alternative forum software and I just need some technical assistance from my host before they're working properly.
I will post back with more news as I sort it out. Shouldn't be much later than 10PM tonight (GMT+11)
Posted by funnelbc at 08:02 AM | Comments (0)
November 05, 2006
Say hello to onetonnegraphic!
A bit of gratuitous cross promotion here folks, but I have just popped up my online graphic design portfolio. Why is this of interest to you? Well, because you may well have exciting graphic design stuff that you need a hand with that's why! Call me baby!
Also I'm just happy to have it online and not percolating silently on my computer. And you also get to see what I do when I'm not writing stuff for onetonnemusic.
Posted by funnelbc at 11:01 PM | Comments (0)
November 01, 2006
Reactable = more interactive interface goodness
Interactive surfaces/tabletops are just fascinating. Who wouldn't want to able to compose music, alter filters and just PLAY with this stuff? It's a really exciting face of the future of music and it reeks cool. I wonder how long it will take for something like this to actually make it as a affordable & relatively easy home solution? Whether as a diy kitform or as a retail product. To the matter at hand. It's more designed open source framework for the development of more tangible user interfaces, here's what the reactable team have to say:
reacTIVision is an open source, cross-platform computer vision framework for the fast and robust tracking of fiducial markers in a real-time video stream. It was mainly designed as a toolkit for the rapid development of table-based tangible user interfaces
This video covers the basics of how Reactable works. The way the actual interaction works is really appealing too. Simple iconic items, with really well thought out & simple interface for each object. Changing samples is as simple as rotating the real world item with the sounds attached.
Via the handsome and dapper Music Thing
Webzen: Audiopad & Multi-Touch
Previously: Phillips Entertaible & Interfacin' like it's 2005
There is more video to be had after the jump.
This video goes into more depth....
And this just plain old fashioned, kicks ass. It quite possibly takes names too.
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