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Programmers are way coolerthan musicians
Geert Bevin
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Musicians narrate with sound
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Programmers create new realities
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Second Life
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Burning Man Festival
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Burning Man Festival
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Burning Man Festival
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Burning Man Festival
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blink(1)
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Open-source programmable USB Light
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IFTTT + blink(1) = net bliss
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Where’s Daddy?
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Eigenharp
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The most expressive electronic instrument ever made
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Expressiveness vs. Technology
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The EigenKey
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• 11 bits resolution over 0.9 mm of travel
• 400 nm of real resolution, which is the width of a bacteria
• Read at 500 μS, a 2 kHz rate per axis, a 6kHz rate per key
• Data rate is preserved from end to end
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Data rate it preserved from end to end
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That’s like a retina screenfor 3D touch sensors
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The blank canvas
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Create possibilitiesProvide new rules
Don’t restrict
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Multi-touch instruments(or how different rules challenge protocols)
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Per-note synthesis
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Traditional MIDI designed for31.25 kBaud ~ 1kHz of messages
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High-speed MIDI ~ 400x faster
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Eigenharp
iConnectMIDI
EigenD with audio plugins
Firewire Audio Interface
USB Hub
Camera Connection Kit
USB Optical Audio
audio digital/analogiPad
WaveGenerator, Animoogexpression data or MIDI
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Total kludge to set up,but opens an entirely new world
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Time for protocols to change
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Human body interaction
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Human body interface
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Leap Motion Controller
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• 10µm of real resolution
• 5x less accurate than Eigenharp, 200x more than Kinect
• Adaptive sample rates: 60-300 hz, defaults to 120 hz
• Data rate is preserved from end to end
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Latency just below gesture threshold, barely noticeable
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New interaction rulesNew user interface
New protocols
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10 thousand free developer units
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Figure out the possibilities together
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Geco
Multi-dimensional MIDI expression through hand gestures
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Think of medical applications
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So much is going on!
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Don’t be afraidExperimentCollaborate
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Put the soul in a machine
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Change the world