Comments on: Strange, New Musical Interfaces, Built in Processing

By: Jug Hero « Scary Reasoner

Jug Hero « Scary Reasoner — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:32:51 +0000

[...] Here’s the link: Jug Hero [...]

By: Shawna

Shawna — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:37:37 +0000

thanks for the write-up! my partner’s Kevin Lim though, not Kevin Linn :)
-Shawna, from Jug Hero.

By: unkown

unkown — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:00:13 +0000

Trop bon !

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:33:06 +0000

Hello. BOX2D is a physics engine that has been ported to several programming languages including Actionscript 3 and Java. I built a music sequencer using this physics engine which can been seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=T1Av7p08fcc. The Flash interface communicates to Ableton Live through the following chain: Flash -> OSC -> Quartz Composer (relays OSC to Midi) -> Ableton Live.

By: Create Digital Music » Indie Developers Show Fanciful Music Games, Interfaces at GDC

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:37:41 +0000

[...] by drawing physics-driven illustrations, as the name suggests — if you enjoyed our look at new music interfaces built in Processing, you’ll draw (ahem, sorry) plenty of inspiration from this. And, of course, it’s very [...]

By: emmett

emmett — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:49:09 +0000

“Later this month, too, I hope to give some background on how to really get audio and MIDI working right now on different platforms.”

…and osc?

By: Myles de Bastion

Myles de Bastion — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:53:31 +0000

Love this stuff

By: Christer Carlsson

Christer Carlsson — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:21:25 +0000

Hi Peter, thanks for the plug!

Runagate: I’m sorry to say my skeletons don’t make any sound, but that’s a good idea… For anyone interested, there’s a short text and video from the project on my website.

Regarding Processing and sound, my class did an interactive installation project last year. We built a harp from steel bars and wire and hooked each string up to contact microphones that sent MIDI-signals to Processing. Processing then generated kaleidoscopic visuals and triggered samples in Kontakt (using ProMIDI) for a nice soundscape. We tried generating sounds in Processing too, but in the end it was too difficult to get the right results with it.

By: Gavin@FAW

Gavin@FAW — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:04:11 +0000

Have experimented with processing in the past and its very interesting and great fun.
What could be an idea is for a synthesizer to transmit say lfo or other modulation data to processing over OSC and have it use the information to transform visuals during a performance.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:12:23 +0000

Well, flocking implementations — and Java flocking implementation — are certainly nothing new. One easy way to go would be to transmit OSC (or inter-app MIDI, even) to a music app, and have the flocking doing the panning. That also gives you a nice visual. Definitely worth trying, and of course, the results are effectively unlimited — because your musical content could sound different from someone else’s music.

Inter-app MIDI works using Java’s MIDI output classes or the ProMIDI library. There are some tricks to it on the Mac, which I should post soon; PC works just fine.