Come out to Brooklyn next Tuesday night for the ITP NIME Show! I will be performing my Mumbo Jumbo Maracas piece with Arturo Vidich and Eric Mika. NIME: New Interfaces for Musical Expression Creating new performance tools for digital music. In the eighth annual NIME concert, performers will play a series of newly designed electronic [...]

On Twitter this weekend: cshirky: The New Yorker still runs cartoons of crazy people carrying placards. What do 25 y.o’s make of that? In their world, crazy people have blogs 8:07 AM Nov 15th leesean: @cshirky 25ish y.o.’s like me make mashup/remixes of crazy people with placards and put them on YouTube http://bit.ly/x0BQV 10:28 AM [...]

This week I got my Wiimote to act as a MIDI controller using OSCulator, which uses Bluetooth to sync the Wiimote to my Mac, and then maps the Wiimote accelerometer and button press values to MIDI, which is then used to control a custom patch in Logic Pro.

I got together with some fellow ITP’ers today for a musical jam session.  The crew included our gracious host, Andrew Jordan (thanks again for the space), as well as Anthony Ptak, Diego Rioja, Minette Mangahas.  I got to rock out with my SidStation and try my new keytar for the first time.  Here are some [...]

Assignment for Week 3 of NIME: “Inspirational Actions”: Think about a performance you have witnessed that made a indelible mark in your life, a performance you would aspire to give, a tool/system you would aspire to perform – and bring a short audio and/or video clip of it to share with the class. This can [...]

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