Since I am working up Max patches to control MIDI gear right now. I figured it was time to get a sideline in simple standalone devices working. Based upon http://ruinwesen.com/mididuino, a Hong Kong assembled duemilanove & LCD/encoders from eBay - plus the hard work of many other people...

The point being - last gig I reduced my need to look at the computer screen & I worked on the rotary controller & kaosspad. The next gig will cut back on this even more. Heading towards a box that translates input data from one thing to another and/or outputs data I've stored in there beforehand.

hmm, I may have gone a bit overboard with the MIDI controllers. Some of these are up on ebay right now!!

SoundLAB 6

a work from 2006-7 mfv appears in the soundpool http://soundlab.newmediafest.org/blog/

RPM again

Nearly time for RPM again. The album title for this year is: sketchrock. I even found a couple of (somewhat dated) terms for what I want to do: microhouse & clickhop. But really - the kinds of techniques I remember using in the mid-80's (tape loops & mixing). I don't even want to really use a computer much for this one.

annoyed

* a stand-alone version of my video 'wait' just got rejected from http://www.guarnerius.co.yu/eng/programi/pojedinacno.php?ID=422. Fair enough - their call.

* I can overhear co-workers talking golf clubs (Chinese counterfeits), dining room furniture &, of course, property (that's what everyone talks about in Sydney).

Every feel like you're inhabiting a couple of incompatible worlds?

an early draft

as the lecture unfolded, the speaker's slides became less and less relevant to his argument - even so, he continued to refer to obscure details in the images. While the audience was frustrated & confused by the presentation, they could not precisely describe what had happened.