Sync are playing Liquid Architecture 7 Sydney on July 7. An interesting line up including a rare chance to see Ros Bandt perform live in Sydney - check it out. Hope to see you there.

An interesting approach to synchronising Max/MSP with an acoustic instrument or ensemble. NAPro - Max Interface Tutorial

I saw this being demonstrated at NIME in Paris in June, and was very impressed with the way in which this allowed an intuative approach to composition with parameter manipulation in realtime tightly synchronised to the score. The print output from Note Ability Pro was also on par with Finale etc - highy reccomended for a look.

Garth

club nime 06 » ars longa

SynC perform in Paris for the NIME 06 conference club events - see the program here

club nime 06 - Ars Longa

SmartNAV3 is a vision tracking system for computer control - it replaces the mouse, and tracks either small reflective dots or a small ring, and when used with a foot switch or similar, allows for hands free computer control. SmartNAV3

This is an interesting page of info on sensors and Max/MSP BlueSense MaxMSP

Some useful patch repositories and some examples of how to wire things up and get data out of them

The Gainer module is a basic 4 channel i/o for sensor data that talks via USB direct to a Max object. GAINER v1.0.0
GAINER v1.0.0 is a reconfigurable I/O module for education. GAINER environment consists of a hardware I/O module, a firmware for the module, software libraries for Max/MSP and Processing and optional hardware modules (called "bridge"). For details, refer to the following URL: http://gainer.cc/

A very cool video camera with motion tracking of up to 26 heads built inOptiTrack

This camera can do up to 120 frames/sec and has inbuilt DSP to track up to 26 markers, delivering data over USB to a host computer - and they are relatively cheap at about US$200

Cheers

Garth

The IRCAM, free software site is also full of interesting things. Here is the WIKI - check it out freesoftware@ircam wiki - Home Page

a great set of realtime frequency manipulation and gesture recognition objects from IRCAM ATR - FTM & Co FTM real-time object system for Max/MSP

garth

A fabulous set of objects for Max/MSP by Emmanuel Jourda at IRCAM - check them out.

Garth