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12.24.2009 – A PureData Christmas

Thursday, December 24, 2009

So, this is what I was working on last night as I drifted off to sleep. Some will dream of gumdrops and candycanes. I dream of object boxes and midi connections. I wanted to apply myself to a gift I knew teh internets would appreciate. What better way to say Happy Holidays than with a [...]

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06.13.2009 – Motion Tracking

Saturday, June 13, 2009

It has been so cool working on motion tracking, but it has not been without its problems. The code has actually been fairly easy and straightforward, but I’ve hit the ceiling of what my RAM can handle. And I’m on a 2GHz MacBook. By the time I’ve captured the video and processed it to recognize [...]

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06.01.2009 – Incandescence: New Minimalist Piece

Monday, June 1, 2009

Incandescence [mp3 - 11.9 Mb] I just created a piece using my new motion-tracker prototype. The interesting part, though, is that I didn’t use my tracking gloves, but rather an incandescent lamp. In order to facilitate the tracking, I have to limit the color range of the input. While it does work to highlight the [...]

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05.25.2009 – Hot Off the Soldering Iron!

Sunday, May 24, 2009

You know, years ago when my Dad taught me how to solder some wires together to give my pinewood derby car LED headlights, I never thought that it would be a skill I would use again. Or that if I did that I would actually remember how to do it. Yet here I am; I’ve [...]

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04.18.2009 – Trouble in Electroacoustic Paradise

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Frustrations have abounded lately for certain threads of my electroacoustic endeavors. The good news is that anytime I return to Pd, I feel right at home and my frustrations are put to rest. But I have for some time now sought methods by which I might explore creating electroacoustic music through environments that are not [...]

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04.07.2009 – Two New Prototype MP3s

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Pseudo Prototype 01 [mp3 - 896 KB] Paroles Prototype 01 [mp3 - 2.2 Mb] My generative project that up to this point had no name now has a name! I’ve decided to call it the “pseudo” engine, partially inspired by a fascinating article I read about computer science pioneer Alan Turing. The article focused on [...]

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03.20.2009 – Integrating Python

Friday, March 20, 2009

I’ve been dabbling in the Python programming language for the last several days. I’ve been aware of it in a peripheral sort of way for some time, but somehow never felt inclined to explore its possibilities. I think as I first started programming I developed the notion that the only languages worth anything are those [...]

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Tutorial – OpenSoundControl in PureData

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

I don’t know if it’s because I’m just too thick-headed, but I had some trouble getting OpenSoundControl set up in PureData. Typically in such a situation I rely on online documentation and tutorials to help me figure it out, but in this case I couldn’t find anything straight-forward enough to get me going. So here’s [...]

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