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SOS: Media – Week 8 Update

By jedypod | May 27th, 2007
This last week I focused nearly exclusively on working on my Hybrid Music performance. I had been making it a second priority previously, and so had a lot of work to do to catch up. Fortunately, the visual component of my Hybrid project intersected significantly with my AI project’s abstract visualizations.Accordingly, I thought it might [...]
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Maywa Denki

By jedypod | April 4th, 2007
Maywa Denki are a group of artists and engineers in Tokyo, Japan. They are known for their creation of absurdly creative “nonsense machines“, and other works of electromechanical devices which are gloriously surreal in their purpose and functioning. Here are some blog posts for further reading. The Nonsense Machines of Maywa Denki PopGadget – Maywa [...]
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Wii Loop Machine

By jedypod | March 25th, 2007
With the best of intentions, I would enjoy bringing to your intention the Wii Loop Machine. It is a program sketched in Max/MSP that uses bluetooth and a wireless Wii controller to sync, control, and manipulate loops in realtime. Check out the video on that page for a demonstration of its capabilities, and cogitate upon [...]
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Chiptunes

By jedypod | March 30th, 2006
If you have have watched the Bleary Polka, then know, you have heard a chiptune. Following is a smattering of textual quotes from the Wikipedia article on Chiptunes: Chiptune, or chip music is music written in sound formats where all the sounds are synthesized in realtime by a computer or video game console sound chip, [...]
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