Two projects that caught my eye online are:
“The CD Sequencer is an innovative new concept for interactive CD packaging. You can use printed postcards to remix music and store your mixes or share them with friends.”
and Andy Huntington’s BeatBox project.
“It is a physical programmable drum machine.”
The first annual Art of Science competition has an online gallery of images submitted:
“This spring we asked the Princeton University community to submit imagery produced in the course of research or incorporating tools and concepts from science. The response was overwhelming: more than 200 entries from nearly 100 individuals in 15 departments. We selected 55 of these works to appear in the 2005 Art of Science Exhibition.” - Art of Science about page
A new category & page for all super cool projects / ideas / and inspirations of whatever sort. Please send suggestions / links to resources att atjoburg dott net .
More software synthesis madness:
Pure Data [PD] is the open source version of MAX/MSP/JITTER. It was created by Miller Pucket - AFTER he created MAX/MSP. Anyway, its open source - read: FREE, and cross platform. Some useful resources pointing to information:
Pure Data website
O’Reilly Article about the real time synthesis loving you get with PD
Hans Steiner’s website: Hans is a developer and friend who’s been instrumental in spreading the PD word.
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For those of you Jitter / Video synthesis enthusiasts out there: Check out Quartz Composer. Its a free jitter-esque application that comes with the developer tools in Apple’s new OS: Tiger. Read more about it at apple’s online programming guide. There is not much documentation out there, but its definitely growing as the community expands. Some examples of QC work found here. I think Quicktime 7 is required…