On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 08:17, Nick Collins wrote:
> At one point all four stages had laptops running ableton
> > live!
>
> grrr
>
> well, not entirely serious. But I finally got to see a copy of Delaney's
> new book on laptop music (PC publishing)- talk about Ableton Live centric!
well, it probably does cover 90% of live laptoppery these days - and you
can't fault them on design principles, throwing away features until
everything fits on the screen :)
> Not even Max/MSP gets a proper mention, and as for PD, SC, custom software,
> live coding, alternative controllers beyond the obvious MIDI slider stuff...
>
> Dave, lego blocks sound fine for computing, tangible interfaces are a very
> current research topic. See also Ge's NIME04 ref to the Barcelona group's
> reacTable project.
I love stuff like this - I wonder if they have connections with the guys
at MIT:
http://web.media.mit.edu/~jpatten/audiopad/
dave
Received on Thu Jul 22 2004 - 00:08:49 BST