This has been a pretty rough semester (involving major life changes & a consulting job that took longer than expected to complete), and there was a LOT of construction involved with my NIME project, so I’m a bit behind in blogging about it all. My project involved two major parts; a rhythm section made from [...]

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I’ve had a chance to test the examples (and split into seperate send/receive, plus included code I used for a recent NIME performance involving MIDI-controlled pneumatics), fill in some comments, and generally make it a bit nicer. Please go here to download. I’d love feedback if you try it!

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Working on my NIME project, I needed some good MIDIness for controlling pneumatics, so I re-worked some old MIDI code to work on Arduino. Look here for the library and a bit of information. Note that most people will just want to send MIDI messages from the Arduino TO a PC or a MIDI device; [...]

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Quick NIME proposal

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Extra Action Marching Band I first came across EAMB at a party in Oakland in 2001. A marching band with full flag corps, and completely FKO. The use of the megaphone essentially as another instrument was one of the bits that really caught my attention, and something I’m considering integrating (though not in a quite [...]

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