waarschijnlijk ben ik de laatste van heel de wereld die deze site heeft gezien maar persoonlijk vind ik hem geweldig. Flickrvisoin toont elke al de foto's die geupload worden. dit in realtime met locatie, gebruikersnaam en commentaar bij.
http://flickrvision.com/maps/show_3d
nice
Monday, May 21, 2007
Monday, May 7, 2007
update sound graffiti
you might remember the 'sound bombs' i talked about a few post ago. if you don't, take a look.
there a new development in the scene, if you can call it that already. It's called 'audio bombing' basically you take an ordinary tape and record you sound. you disemble the tape and just take the audiostrip and tape in where you want. Thay also made a prototype machine that let's you hear the recorded sound.
this work is related to STEIM. a dutch audio art institution. for my research i will have to take a closer look at this art center.
there a new development in the scene, if you can call it that already. It's called 'audio bombing' basically you take an ordinary tape and record you sound. you disemble the tape and just take the audiostrip and tape in where you want. Thay also made a prototype machine that let's you hear the recorded sound.
this work is related to STEIM. a dutch audio art institution. for my research i will have to take a closer look at this art center.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Art Brussels
bekijk foto's van mijn bezoek aan Art Brussels hier:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/ward.lemmens/ArtBrussels
het was zeer leuk
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/ward.lemmens/ArtBrussels
het was zeer leuk
launch website vooruit
vrijdag heb ik het launch event van de web 2.0 site van de vooruit bijgewoond, een zeer mooi initiatief met naadloze integratie van youtube, last.fm, ... gebruikers kunnen een event in de vooruit extra promoten door extra content te uploaden of gewoon te vinden op andere web 2.0 applicaties.
allemaal zeer mooi (en zeker voor een Belgish initiatief) maar toch zijn er enkele zware beperkingen bij deze website. Zo kan je enkel events bekijken.bewerken van de vooruit zelf, wat vanuit marketing standpunt natuurlijk de beste keuze is maar als je kijkt naar de waarde voor de community die je wil oprichten is dit een storende factor. Ze leggen de nadruk op het feit dat de user geen bezoeker van de vooruit moet zijn, maar als dat het geval is, zullen ze heel de belgische cultuur sector in kaart moeten brengen.
misschien ben ik nu wel wat te hard en moet ik deze kritiek niet op de vooruit geven maar op de sector, want de vooruit is misschien wel de pioniers die de weg gladmaakt voor een overkoepelende organisatie die met een soortgelijk initiatief komt en content kan 'lenen' van sites zoals die van de vooruit. in ieder geval is het tot nu toe uniek in belgië, is het een indrukwekkende website, waar (schijnbaar) aan alle details gedacht werd en waren de hapjes lekker.
http://www.vooruit.be/
allemaal zeer mooi (en zeker voor een Belgish initiatief) maar toch zijn er enkele zware beperkingen bij deze website. Zo kan je enkel events bekijken.bewerken van de vooruit zelf, wat vanuit marketing standpunt natuurlijk de beste keuze is maar als je kijkt naar de waarde voor de community die je wil oprichten is dit een storende factor. Ze leggen de nadruk op het feit dat de user geen bezoeker van de vooruit moet zijn, maar als dat het geval is, zullen ze heel de belgische cultuur sector in kaart moeten brengen.
misschien ben ik nu wel wat te hard en moet ik deze kritiek niet op de vooruit geven maar op de sector, want de vooruit is misschien wel de pioniers die de weg gladmaakt voor een overkoepelende organisatie die met een soortgelijk initiatief komt en content kan 'lenen' van sites zoals die van de vooruit. in ieder geval is het tot nu toe uniek in belgië, is het een indrukwekkende website, waar (schijnbaar) aan alle details gedacht werd en waren de hapjes lekker.
http://www.vooruit.be/
Thursday, April 12, 2007
explenation of the research + brainstorm session in english
Hello again, and welcome to the magical world of instruments.
I will explain what i want to do before posting the brainstorm session.
I'm going to create a digital instrument but not any instrument it will be designed for a particular target group. It will address their needs for an instrument.
this brainstorm session is just on my own to see what can be done in some area's. The final project will be defined after a meeting with a delagation of the desired target group. I will choose this group according to the most interesting idea's i myself can come up with so i can use that as a base for expanding it to their needs.
here are a few groups and possible projects:
Sports(wo)men
Trigger certain sounds when an action is made.
E.g. Squash: the sound it makes will be determined by the location where the ball hits the wall. The sportsmen could also wear a ‘motion capturing suit’ that could detect certain movements and link them to samples or any other sound.
Physically disabled persons
people who a disabled will often train their coordination with a ball, because the shape is easy to grab and manipulate. This makes it easy for the person to train. There are a few different movements that can be done with a ball (roll, squeeze, throw, bounce, spin, ...) it might be interesting to make this exercise into a creative thing. By matching certain movements to a sound or sample the disabled person can make music while exercising.
This would be a solution to a problem defined by BOSK (Dutch organization for disabled persons and their close surroundings.), that all the attention is going to the physical stimulation while people and certainly children need just as much mental stimulation.
Nerds
looking at a target group the has a total lack of musical talent and giving them a way to create music. First look at their core business and start working from there.
With nerds this is programming. So I could design a way for nerd to program their music by taking some tags that return in most languages and make them trigger a certain sound or sample. Their code, probably written for something boring will transform in a creative piece of music. This might actually stimulate the ‘nerd’ to program specifically for this instrument. An interesting thought is that this might become a language of it’s own which borrowed his tags from all the other languages.
visitors of a public building
when you enter a bar, it might be nice that you could have an influence on the music. Every person in a room could then depending on where he is standing trigger a sound or sample.
the customer at a bar
Every beverage could have it’s own label that is attached to a sound or sample. Ever table would then be equipped with a censor that could generate music depending on the different beverages. Here it could be interesting to link certain styles of music to different drinks.
____// Remarks
1) These are complicated propositions but if i do some research and find that it’s impossible, i could always downsize it to a realistic concept.
e.g. in staid of the censors and labels in the bar, it’s possible to just calculate the weight on a table and go from there.
2) with some projects it would be better to ad some visualisation.
e.g. when the weight is calculated on a table it’s possible to determine when the drinks are almost empty. The color of the light at that table could turn into another colour suggesting a bartender should go over there.
I will explain what i want to do before posting the brainstorm session.
I'm going to create a digital instrument but not any instrument it will be designed for a particular target group. It will address their needs for an instrument.
this brainstorm session is just on my own to see what can be done in some area's. The final project will be defined after a meeting with a delagation of the desired target group. I will choose this group according to the most interesting idea's i myself can come up with so i can use that as a base for expanding it to their needs.
here are a few groups and possible projects:
Sports(wo)men
Trigger certain sounds when an action is made.
E.g. Squash: the sound it makes will be determined by the location where the ball hits the wall. The sportsmen could also wear a ‘motion capturing suit’ that could detect certain movements and link them to samples or any other sound.
Physically disabled persons
people who a disabled will often train their coordination with a ball, because the shape is easy to grab and manipulate. This makes it easy for the person to train. There are a few different movements that can be done with a ball (roll, squeeze, throw, bounce, spin, ...) it might be interesting to make this exercise into a creative thing. By matching certain movements to a sound or sample the disabled person can make music while exercising.
This would be a solution to a problem defined by BOSK (Dutch organization for disabled persons and their close surroundings.), that all the attention is going to the physical stimulation while people and certainly children need just as much mental stimulation.
Nerds
looking at a target group the has a total lack of musical talent and giving them a way to create music. First look at their core business and start working from there.
With nerds this is programming. So I could design a way for nerd to program their music by taking some tags that return in most languages and make them trigger a certain sound or sample. Their code, probably written for something boring will transform in a creative piece of music. This might actually stimulate the ‘nerd’ to program specifically for this instrument. An interesting thought is that this might become a language of it’s own which borrowed his tags from all the other languages.
visitors of a public building
when you enter a bar, it might be nice that you could have an influence on the music. Every person in a room could then depending on where he is standing trigger a sound or sample.
the customer at a bar
Every beverage could have it’s own label that is attached to a sound or sample. Ever table would then be equipped with a censor that could generate music depending on the different beverages. Here it could be interesting to link certain styles of music to different drinks.
____// Remarks
1) These are complicated propositions but if i do some research and find that it’s impossible, i could always downsize it to a realistic concept.
e.g. in staid of the censors and labels in the bar, it’s possible to just calculate the weight on a table and go from there.
2) with some projects it would be better to ad some visualisation.
e.g. when the weight is calculated on a table it’s possible to determine when the drinks are almost empty. The color of the light at that table could turn into another colour suggesting a bartender should go over there.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
sound bombs
i like this, altough it's not really an instrument:
An integrated sound module makes it possible to record any given sound, or message. The audio content is then activate whenever the motion sensor detects some movement around. As a Non-Visual Graffiti, with its origin in streetart, Soundbombs give the possibility to tag a place in an accoustic form: a welcoming greeting at the entrance or a warning of a bad restaurant.
An integrated sound module makes it possible to record any given sound, or message. The audio content is then activate whenever the motion sensor detects some movement around. As a Non-Visual Graffiti, with its origin in streetart, Soundbombs give the possibility to tag a place in an accoustic form: a welcoming greeting at the entrance or a warning of a bad restaurant.
music textile
wow this is amazing
source: we make money not art
Developed by Vincent Roudaud and Maurin Donneaud.
Music textile is a large tactile interface for playing electronic music. The performer plays it simply by moving his / her hand onto it. The hand contact XY position is transmited to a computeur via a 12 Bytes resolution Midi card. This allows 4000 by 4000 points resolution. Two conductiv fabrics are fixed on a frame, each one weaved with conductive threads in a different direction. When the performer presses any point of this textile instrument, the two fabrics connect and the current eletrical value is sent to the computer. It's simply based on a voltage divider resistive principle. I developed this project at the National Scool of Industrial Creation (ENSCI) Paris, France, for my diploma in december 2005. Since then I got specialized in the creation of inovating electronic textiles and I continued to develop this music textile.
watch the video's:
http://xyinteraction.free.fr/wikinimst/wakka.php?wiki=XYinteraction_Wiki
source: we make money not art
Developed by Vincent Roudaud and Maurin Donneaud.
Music textile is a large tactile interface for playing electronic music. The performer plays it simply by moving his / her hand onto it. The hand contact XY position is transmited to a computeur via a 12 Bytes resolution Midi card. This allows 4000 by 4000 points resolution. Two conductiv fabrics are fixed on a frame, each one weaved with conductive threads in a different direction. When the performer presses any point of this textile instrument, the two fabrics connect and the current eletrical value is sent to the computer. It's simply based on a voltage divider resistive principle. I developed this project at the National Scool of Industrial Creation (ENSCI) Paris, France, for my diploma in december 2005. Since then I got specialized in the creation of inovating electronic textiles and I continued to develop this music textile.
watch the video's:
http://xyinteraction.free.fr/wikinimst/wakka.php?wiki=XYinteraction_Wiki
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