The public beta of the v2 firmware update will launched by Jazzmutant at AES (October 3rd to 5th) with the full version released Q4 2008. The full update will be free.

Brand new features:

Breakpoint object: multi-segment envelope editor
Gesture object: trackpad emulation with advanced gesture recognition
Alias: memory and time saver
Tabbed Container
Mouse and keyboard control (!)
Improved and new-look Jazzeditor
New multi-line script pane

[Sonic State]
[Harmony Central]
[Mac Music]
[Gearjunkies]

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Originally from Jazzmutant Lemur V2 on the blogosphere

What is slotMusic [slotmusic.org]

Official Press Release [sandisk.com]

What’s in the Cards for SanDisk? Music [bits.blogs.nytimes.com]

SanDisk SlotMusic Cards Are Destined to Fail [gigaom.com]

Music On microSD: I Can’t Believe The Labels Fell For This [techcrunch.com]

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Originally from Music On microSD: pros and cons

In 1955, the Radio Italiana (Rai) established the Studio di Fonologia Musicale at RAI Center in Corso Sempione 27, Milan (Italy). Physicist Dr. Alfredo Lietti builded the famous “nine oscillators”, the white noise generator, the amplitude selector, the dynamic modulator, the ring modulators, the frequency shifter, the pulse modulator, the electronic fader, the “toc” generator, the cathodic comparer, the octave filters and the third octave filters.
Almost half a century later, the museum of Musical Instruments in the Castello Sforzesco now houses the equipment on which Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna conducted the first experiments in electronic music.
An innovative digital library service allows the public to obtain informations and to listen to short excerpts from the rich archive of compositions carried out in such machines.

Maddalena Novati found about 400 tapes for 200 hours of listening, which she has been cataloguing, restoring and converting with the help of Laboratorio MIRAGE (Università di Udine) and Laboratorio Audio Rai (Milan).

Here’s a sneak preview via Flickr, which I took at the press conference:

I suggest you the following reading: “Technology and Technics: Alfredo Lietti and Marino Zuccheri”, written by Giovanni Belletti [pdf].

Some excerpts from original footage:

[RAI Studio of Musical Phonology: historical footage #1]
[RAI Studio of Musical Phonology: historical footage #2]
[2007/04/rai-electronic-music-studio]
[2007/05/rai-studio-of-musical-phonology-pt-2]
[2007/05/rai-studio-of-musical-phonology-pt-3]

MM

more soon!

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Originally from Sneak Preview: RAI Phonology Studio

Saturday, October 4, 8:15 am — 11:15 am TT10, TT11, TT13, TT15 - Industrial Light & Magic/Letterman Media Complex, SF.

Don’t miss the opportunity to tour George Lucas’s storied Industrial Light & Magic complex at its new home on the Letterman Digital Arts campus on the Presidio.

Technical Tours are made available on a first come, first served basis. Tickets can be purchased during normal registration hours at the convention center (maximum of 20 participants per tour).

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Originally from AES San Francisco 2008: ILM Technical Tour

I’ve always loved finding new ways to visually explain information, whether through maps, diagrams, charts or other graphical models. Edward Tufte is an old favorite on this very rich field of study — if you haven’t already, be sure to check out his latest book, Beautiful Evidence.

In similar fashion, Sha Wang’s nifty spiral generator creates a visual portrait of your musical tastes. By using your scrobbled Last.fm music tracks, Wang’s simple script whips up a sweet spiral graph of your listening patterns over the past year (see my spiral below). Want to try it out? Make your own at www.diametunim.com/muse, or view other spirals at http://datamine.tumblr.com.

Another colorful graphing tool for Last.fm users is LastGraph, which renders your listening history in the form of a wave graph. It’s just as pretty and clearly marks artists using varying color fields:

• My LastGraph (PDF download)
• Make your own LastGraph

Originally from Last.fm Graphs

On Thursday, Sept. 11th I will be giving a presentation at the Bay Area Music Technology Group MeetUp on the KBow, a new sensor bow for string instruments from us at the BEAM Foundation.

Combined with a standard violin, bass, cello, or viola the K-Bow allows traditional instrumentalists to seamlessly access the unlimited sound world that a computer provides, while utilizing the virtuosity built from years of practice.

The K-Bow is completely wireless over bluetooth, and gathers information about a performance through several sensors including an X Y and Z axis accelerometer, grip sensor, tilt sensor, playing pressure, distance from the instrument and gesture recognition. Connected to a computer this allows the meta-information from a performance to control DSP parameters, progress through a composition, or control recording software, all seamlessly from the instrument.

We are working on a suite of software that lets a musician control the sound of the instrument, record with herself, or send the information to other standard music software. The information could also be used to control video, or literally anything else you can think of.

The really exciting part though, is when you get several performers with the KBow together. Then you can really enable rich interactive music performance in an ensemble setting. With a little software work you can let instrumentalists control each OTHERS musical parameters, and then you really have another layer of musical language above a traditional ensemble.

The presentation is going to be at The Bubble, a brand new R&D media facility located in in the Soma district. The main feature is a 32 speaker 3D sound array built specifically to create new and affordable audio software and hardware applications for Ambisonics and related technologies. They also have a wide range of music production gear. Anyone that knows my work with Recombinant Media Labs knows I have a soft spot for surround and spatialization, so I am really excited about presenting in this space. Perhaps I can get some bow controlled surround processing running by next Thursday.

Come out and join us.

Originally from Introducing the KBow

Via PixelSumo we see a couple examples of artists reworking their pieces for distribution on the iPhone. The iPhone is an amazing opportunity to distribute interactive art, and I’m glad it is being explored for these purposes. I’ve been wanting to get more into the iPhone myself, but haven’t gone through the steps of getting a developers license.

A great next step in this would be a way to publish finished compositions with this kind of system to the web, so there can be kind of a gallery of user generated content.

If only Apple would remove the restrictions on source distribution, we could build on this kind of work…

Yellowtail on iPhone from Lee Byron on Vimeo.
Golan Levin created Yellowtail in 1998-2000. “an interactive software system for the gestural creation and performance of real-time abstract animation”. A former student of Golans, Lee Byron (in the photos above), is working on converting this artwork for the iPhone, this time with multi-touch input. Golan will be released via the app store soon for a small fee. Here is a work in progress video.

For the programming readers, Lee has put up a bit of interesting info about the development on his blog. Hopefully this will lead to a Processing or openFrameworks style coding environment for creating iPhone applications, thus easier entry points for developers.

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Andreas Muller is also working on a port of his popular For All Seasons application.

Technorati Tags: interactive art, iPhone, Golan Levin, YellowTail

Originally from Interactive iPhone Art