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 [...]

Here is the score for my new musical composition, Mumbo Jumbo Maracas, a trio for Wiimote MIDI controller playing a custom MainStage patch, keytar, and maracas.  I will be playing the Wiimote, with Arturo Vidich on keytar and Eric Mika on maracas.  We will be playing the world premiere of the piece as part of [...]

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 really good feedback about my NIME project in class tonight that will help me develop my Mumbo Jumbo Maracas piece.  In thinking about how I want everything to fit together, I am strongly leaning towards making my performance an ensemble piece.  I definitely want to keep both the maracas and the gibberish speech [...]

This week for NIME, I worked on getting a Wiimote to talk to my Mac using Darwiin Remote. The Bluetooth pairing process is a little tricky, but after multiple attempts it worked. Next steps: figure out the software side of things. I need to map the values the Wiimote is sending to my computer to [...]