programmers are way cooler than musicians, by geert bevin

Programmers are way coolerthan musicians

Geert Bevin

Musicians narrate with sound

Programmers create new realities

Second Life

Burning Man Festival

Burning Man Festival

Burning Man Festival

Burning Man Festival

blink(1)

Open-source programmable USB Light

IFTTT + blink(1) = net bliss

Where’s Daddy?

Eigenharp

The most expressive electronic instrument ever made

Expressiveness vs. Technology

The EigenKey

• 11 bits resolution over 0.9 mm of travel

• 400 nm of real resolution, which is the width of a bacteria

• Read at 500 μS, a 2 kHz rate per axis, a 6kHz rate per key

• Data rate is preserved from end to end

Data rate it preserved from end to end

That’s like a retina screenfor 3D touch sensors

The blank canvas

Create possibilitiesProvide new rules

Don’t restrict

Multi-touch instruments(or how different rules challenge protocols)

Per-note synthesis

Traditional MIDI designed for31.25 kBaud ~ 1kHz of messages

High-speed MIDI ~ 400x faster

Eigenharp

iConnectMIDI

EigenD with audio plugins

Firewire Audio Interface

USB Hub

Camera Connection Kit

USB Optical Audio

audio digital/analogiPad

WaveGenerator, Animoogexpression data or MIDI

Total kludge to set up,but opens an entirely new world

Time for protocols to change

Human body interaction

Human body interface

Leap Motion Controller

• 10µm of real resolution

• 5x less accurate than Eigenharp, 200x more than Kinect

• Adaptive sample rates: 60-300 hz, defaults to 120 hz

• Data rate is preserved from end to end

Latency just below gesture threshold, barely noticeable

New interaction rulesNew user interface

New protocols

10 thousand free developer units

Figure out the possibilities together

Geco

Multi-dimensional MIDI expression through hand gestures

Think of medical applications

So much is going on!

Don’t be afraidExperimentCollaborate

Put the soul in a machine

Change the world