An interesting application developed by Pierre Couprie using Max/Jitter - easy to use and fast for testing midiWebcam

Worth a look - cheers, Garth

Feel free to add other tracking systems here

This little app is an excellent way to export sound files in a range of formats - MP3 encoding is accomplished with LAME, Ogg Vorbis encoding with libVorbis, FLAC encoding with libFLAC, and AAC and Apple Lossless encoding with Core Audio Max from sbooth.org

I find this a useful page for information like this - how to prep a sensor tutorial MIDIsense Sensors

Please add more here if you know some other good sites

Cheers, Garth

It is often difficult to find sources for sensors for perfoprmance interfaces etc

Here is a good collection of sensors Imagesco Sensors

Acroname Sensors

Accelerometeres

Angelo Fraietta's Smart Controller and wireless Micro Controllers

Electrotap also do sensors and interfaces
Sensors Here

For my new composition Bowl Chant (to be performed at IRCAM in June), I am using sensors to allow the performers to dictate when new bell strikes are entered into the Capybara buffer for realtime processing. I have used floor pad (security door mats) in the past, but with concerts coming up, I needed a wireless solution. So I am using Angelo Fraietta's Bluetooth sensor input device, the Micro CV Controller. We will use two of them - one per performer, and then place PSR (Pressure Sensative Resistors) on our legs so that we can trigger buffer recording when ever we want to rather than simply on the basis of amplitude of the bell strike.

Cheers, Garth

I am a big fan of the Capybara/Kyma system from Symbolic Sound . I use it for all my synthesis and performance work, so all the pieces you can hear on my web site and on
SyncSonics are all performed using this system.

I also used the system for my Gestation interactive video tracked installation - The system is so reliable that when I exhibited the piece in Florida, USA, I went over, set the installation up and left the Capybara running for 6 weeks without any nervousness that it would hang - now you wouldn't do that with Max/MSP/Jitter.

The other thing about the Capy is that when I bought it I sold most of my studio - I just didn't need all that stuff any more as I can program the Capy to do most tasks. I kept Logic Pro (Capy talks to it using Core Audio plugin - like having high quality DAC/ADC and a massive plugin) and I still use Max/Jitter for video tracking and sensor data gathering and there is a Max object to talk directly to the Capy. I also like the fact that Capy is expandable to 28 processors - I have 12 which is awsome. So instead of being in the "got to get the new box" syndrome that the big companies want us to be in, I just add a few extra processors to my Capy setup when I have the cash, but actually 12 is really fine;-)

OK - my Capy/Kyma rave is over for now.

The innovative experimental music ensemble SynC, Michael Atherton and Garth Paine have launched a new website to promote their forthcoming ablum, Parallel Lines , due for release on Celestial Harmonies in June 2006.

Check it out at at SyncSonics

SynC have a second album well on the way, and expect to release the new material through the Electronic Music Foundation in new York towards the end of this year, 2006. One of the tracks from the second album, BowlChant is to be performed at the Pompidou Centre, paris in June this year as part of the NIME06 conference for New Interfaces for Musical Expression.

I am very excited to let you know that SynC, the new ensemble of Michael Atherton and Garth Paine has been selected as one of 20 acts to perform at the Pompedou Centre, Paris for NIME06. The NIME06 concert comittee had an incredible 200 submissions, from which only the most innovative performances were chosen.

SynC will perform a new work for Tibetan Singing Bowls, small bells and ancient gongs.

Have a listen here

So looks like we are off to Paris in June