September 2008
12 posts
Monome - Keys and Lights →
Momome produces “adaptable, minimalist interfaces”, consisting of a grid of backlit keys which can be programmed to do whatever the user likes. They are mostly used as music instruments, available (often open source) programs for the devices include trackers, drum computers, samplers, sequencers and others.
"What Should a Movie Camera Look Like?" →
prolost sums up recent news about the exciting new intersection between DSLR and digital film cameras.
Tyre music →
Another “crazy instrument” example - this time a passage from the William Tell Overture for a Honda interactive commercial in the boonies near Lancaster, CA. The melody comes from the tyres going over grooves positioned on the street. [via monoscope.com].
Immersive Wii commercial on youtube.com →
“If you’re not against me, don’t cross this line.”
– Steve Zissou on the mutiny on the Belafonte
"Heavy Heavy Afrobeat" →
Funky beats of a ten-piece band from San Francisco. They also played at Burning Man 2008 as a counterweight to all the electronic music there. [iTunes]
When your Visual Studio 2008 linked .exe just...
… on machines without Visual Studio installed: You forgot to ship the runtime DLLs including the manifest file. And don’t forget: you can’t link libs with your exe, that have been built against different runtime DLLs (otherwise you will get linker errors for duplicate symbols).
Daily conductor aphorisms →
pleasedress.me/ →
More T-Shirts
Genius playlists →
The new automatic playlists work pretty well on my list. iTunes creates playlist starting with one song from your library based on server side music knowledge. Not to forget: Magnetosphere, the great 3rd party iTunes visualizer, that found it’s way into iTunes, just got better.