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Imaginez une nouvelle génération d’instruments de musique numériques. Ils se grefferaient au corps humain pour en devenir des extensions; ils réagiraient aux variations de mouvements et à toutes sortes d’autres paramètres de manipulation. Ils permettraient aux danseurs autant qu’aux musiciens d’agir en direct sur la partition musicale d’une œuvre chorégraphique. Cette vision futuriste se concrétise déjà dans les recherches que mènent la chorégraphe Isabelle Van Grimde et le compositeur Sean Ferguson avec le chercheur Marcelo Wanderley du Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Musique, Médias et Technologie (CIRMMT). S’inscrivant dans la continuité de la pièce Duo pour un violoncelle et un danseur, où la musique live était captée, transformée et spatialisée par les interprètes grâce à un instrument de musique baptisé le T-Stick, cette collaboration aboutira, en 2013, à la création d’une œuvre scénique intituléeLes Gestes. En attendant, l’équipe artistico-scientifique nous ouvre les portes de son laboratoire pour une présentation interactive des instruments en cours de développement; venez tester en personne les incroyables possibilités créatrices qu’offrent ces instruments d’avant-garde.

Présenté à la salle multimédia de l’École de musique Schulich de l’Université McGill
527, rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal

• bugfixes
• API simplification
• Basic support for vector signals
• API for querying the values of device input signals
• Python bindings now include monitor functionality
• Java bindings for devices and signals

 

Music Hack Day comes to Montreal to explore and build the next generation of music applications. It’s a full weekend of hacking in which participants will conceptualize, create and present their projects. Music + software + mobile + hardware + art + the web. Anything goes as long as it’s music related. Music Hack Day is presented by developers for developers.

Music Hack Day arrive à Montréal pour explorer et construire la prochaine génération d’applications musicales. Durant tout un week-end de programmation informatique, les participants vont conceptualiser, réaliser et présenter leur projets. Musique + logiciel + mobilité + hardware + art + le web. Tout y passe du moment qu’on y parle de musique. Music Hack Day est conçu par les programmeurs pour les programmeurs.

Register to attend

Attendance is free but you must register to guarantee a spot. We provide workspaces and snacks throughout the day, but need confirmed numbers to make the event great for everyone attending. Visit the Registration Page to register as a hacker or if you want to attend the demo session at the end of the weekend.

Where?

Music Hack Day Montreal will be held at Eastern Bloc in Montreal, on the 24th and 25th of September.

What happens at a Music Hack Day?

Lots of hacking, lots of pizza, very little sleep. For details read this post: What happens at a Music Hack Day. Read about some of the winning hacks at the recent Music Hack Day in New York City.

Chapter 5: Input Devices and Music Interaction

Joseph Malloch, Stephen Sinclair, Avrum Hollinger and Marcelo M. Wanderley

This chapter discusses some principles of digital musical instrument design in the context of different goals and constraints.  It shows, through several examples, that a variety of conditions can motivate design choices for sensor interface and mapping, such as robustness and reliability, environmental constraints on sensor technology, or the desire for haptic feedback.  Details of specific hardware and software choices for some DMI designs are discussed in this context.

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This is a belated announcement for libmapper 0.1, the first public release of this C library intended to ease connection and mapping between input devices and synthesizers.

libmapper provides a network-enabled middleware that allows an application to announce input and output signals to a subnet using a shared multicast UDP port, and automatically respond to requests to create dynamic connections.  By using multicast, we avoid dependence on a central hub to manage connections, and use it to arrange signal transmission on a peer-to-peer basis without requiring a rebroadcasting infrastructure for data sharing. Additionally, this decentralized approach allows collaborative manipulation of signal connections on the local subnet, encouraging an experimental approach to mapping design.

Mappings between signals can be constructed dynamically that perform translation of OSC message addresses for the receiver, and additionally can apply arbitrary transformation of signal values based on a given formula.

Documentation, source code, and binaries can be found on the project’s website.

libmapper constitutes a new C version of our protocol that has been previously developed in Max/MSP (download publication), and marks the beginning of an effort to implement support for this protocol in several different languages and audio environments.  Currently we provide bindings for Python (through SWIG) and provide external objects for PureData and Max/MSP.  Managing connections on the network is still accomplished via our Max/MSP GUI, but we are currently working on a cross-platform application to replace it.  Although libmapper 0.1 was actually made public in December, we were originally waiting to finish a first version of this new GUI before announcing libmapper, but have since decided that it would be best to announce libmapper sooner for those who might be interested in using it or contributing to development.

A video of the GUI being used in a previous version of the system can be seen here.  In this video, the GUI is shown interacting with a controller and a synthesizer both in Max/MSP; now with libmapper, the synthesizer and also the program that communicates with the controller could now be written in C, or any language with bindings to the library.

libmapper’s only dependency is liblo, which is used to send and receive OSC messages, which are used for all communications.  It has been developed and tested on Linux and Mac OS X operating systems.

Please see the README and Tutorial on that page for further details on concept and usage.

Thank you for your attention, feedback is welcome on the project mailing list.

Yours,
The libmapper team, Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory,
McGill University.

The 1024 architecture blog describes the new instruments (QC in this context is Apple’s Quartz Composer):

We are developping a light-based musical instrument, the neon-guitar…. The light part is controlled via a QC patch, while the audio is currently driven by AULab.

And some background on the creators:

1024 architecture is a company created by Pierre SCHNEIDER and François WUNSCHEL, both co-founders of the EXYZT collective.
1024 architecture focuses on the interaction between body, space, sound, visual, low-tech and hi-tech, art and architecture…

We make audio-visual installations, micro-architecture, urban intervention, performances, exhibitions and others…

I’ll try to write a short post on each of the other “stick-like” digital musical instruments I have catalogued.