Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-20 Thread Jeremy Yuille
and to add some (more recent) big work in this field, check out The Studio for Electroacoustic Instrumental Music http://steim.org There's a pretty good history here http://www.steim.org/steim/piepen.html . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixd

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-20 Thread Josh Seiden
I know that we're talking about digital products, but I can't resist a shout-out to Harry Partch and the wonderful instruments he invented. Check out these interfaces: http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/features/feature_partch.html# . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-20 Thread Fred Beecher
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:11:11, mosquito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you sure that owning four lemur's borders on "fiscal > irresponsibility?" i'm thinking its more jealousy that someone has > four of them. ;) Guilty. But still. That's over $10k worth of gear in controllers alone! : ) personall

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-20 Thread Fred Beecher
On 2/19/08, Loren Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I find interesting about all of these interfaces is that they aren't > immediately self-explanatory. The user needs to play around with them > before discovering how it can be used. At first, I thought this was I think that's one of t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-20 Thread Maria De Monte
e - Da: Loren Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A: Patrick Grizzard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Inviato: Martedì 19 febbraio 2008, 22:09:21 Oggetto: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces What I find interesting about all of these interfaces is that they ar

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-20 Thread erika dot net
my personal favorite instrument / sequencer of all time: http://www.genoqs.com/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=104&catid=1 this thing has completely changed the way i compose its interface is truly unique, and lends itself to exploring sequences and loops in new and different ways. co

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-19 Thread mosquito
you sure that owning four lemur's borders on "fiscal irresponsibility?" i'm thinking its more jealousy that someone has four of them. ;) personally i don't know if i would have included really any of the items listed as being unique IxD. the novation itself is nothing revolutionary. just a keyboar

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-19 Thread Andrew Milmoe
y 18, 2008 11:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces Did anyone else see Daft Punk rocking out at the Grammys? They played the coolest instruments I've ever seen - four multitouch screens with various graphical elements controlling an array of synth

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-19 Thread Angel Marquez
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Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-19 Thread Matthew Nish-Lapidus
one of the most intriguing interfaces i've ever used for making music is software called PD (pure data)... sort of like Max/MSP, but with less initial structure. it's all about playing, discovering ... there's almost no manual and you start with a blank screen.. you can build your own UI with a mu

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-19 Thread Dave Cronin
on behalf of Loren Baxter Sent: Tue 2/19/2008 2:09 PM To: Patrick Grizzard Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces What I find interesting about all of these interfaces is that they aren't immediately self-explanatory. The user needs to play around wi

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-19 Thread Loren Baxter
What I find interesting about all of these interfaces is that they aren't immediately self-explanatory. The user needs to play around with them before discovering how it can be used. At first, I thought this was categorically a design flaw, but after further thought it seems that avoiding instruc

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-19 Thread James Leslie
Have you seen the Reactable and what Bjork has been doing with it? http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/08/bjork_reacTable http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVVULBXvmxk Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-19 Thread Patrick Grizzard
Also, not sure if the JazzMutant Lemur has any connection to the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR), but another great resource if you are interested in novel musical instruments: http://www.lemurbots.org/videoandaudio.html The artist Bjorn Schulke has also created instruments t

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-19 Thread Patrick Grizzard
Sony BlockJam: http://www.sonycsl.co.jp/IL/projects/blockjam/ contents.html Yamaha Tenori-On: http://www.global.yamaha.com/design/tenori-on/ What I like about each of these interfaces is that I feel like I could figure out pretty quickly how to use them to make some pretty cool sounds, which

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-19 Thread Fred Beecher
One more thing on the topic of this thread... At interaction08, Dave Cronin gave a great talk on this subject, called "Designing for Flow." Here's the video: http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1418571288&channel=1274129191 - F.

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-19 Thread Fred Beecher
On 2/19/08, Loren Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did anyone else see Daft Punk rocking out at the Grammys? They played the > coolest instruments I've ever seen - four multitouch screens with various > graphical elements controlling an array of synth and software backend. ( You've touched

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-19 Thread Jeremy Yuille
(in a previous life) I used to do quite a bit of work in this space, looking at new interfaces for musical performance.. lots of building in environments like max etc. wrt IxD, I see a few really fundamental differences: * many performers will make an environment for each show, or craft their own

[IxDA Discuss] Digital Instrument Interfaces

2008-02-18 Thread Loren Baxter
Did anyone else see Daft Punk rocking out at the Grammys? They played the coolest instruments I've ever seen - four multitouch screens with various graphical elements controlling an array of synth and software backend. ( http://tinyurl.com/2krxy9 - the solo three quarters of the way through the vi