Yeah - I don’t buy hip-hop much anymore. I have a bunch of old 90s LPs, but that’s it. I do love making Primo-style beats, though :slight_smile:

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first live with Grainfields @Le Concept an art school in Calais (north of France)
thanks to @kasperskov and @Nordseele

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Love that old-school black walnut

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Great / super :slight_smile: 20 characters

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Volca army Hell Yeah ! I’m currently staying at a house friend with loads of stuff, will post pictures soon

I know it’s nothing y’all haven’t seen before, but…gah…it has arrived!

This is just ridiculous: Arc, Walk, Teleplexer, Pressure Points, Rene, Wogglebug, all controlling a grip of Mannequins and an Erbe Verb.

Ridiculous.

Hats off ladies and gents: you’re brilliant.

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more of a fireteam really : ) mixer in the dark there placing severe limits on sprawling. (thank *)

From a jam/video the other day: (I wonder how many photos like this I’ve accumulated over the years…)

And a couple progress shots of DIY USB-MIDI crossfader:

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Gaspacho Elizondo Herbert Camacho in the mix!

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clouds of midi-notes hanging above a wild sea of velocity changes

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@instantjuggler: okay, pardon me if this is a dumb question, and it’s already what you’re doing, and most people here know this, but are your juggling props by any chance somehow enabled to act as controllers? I.e., sort of like–imagine–a theramin?

I imagine those balls functioning as real time controllers or modulators; an LFO as it were, with obviously variable degrees of randomness given that every single movement in a cycle will never be precisely like the one before or after.

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sounds like this:
https://soundcloud.com/nuunnuun/29-nov

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Got any more pictures of the PCB of that MIDI crossfader? What kind of chip are you using? It looks super compact!

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It’s actually just an opened up one of these:

http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/tt-electronics-bi/PS45G-C1LBR10KN/987-1402-ND/2620671

As part of the DJ-ifying of it, I had to open it up, clean the regular grease/lube off it and apply fader lube.

(there’s also an Arduino Teensy LC and a separate Adafruit 16bit ADC in the mix too, for the ADC/USB stuff)

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Oh okay, cool. Didn’t expect to see a regular Teensy in such a compact case but it does make sense.

the balls at the start of the concert are sending note triggers via bluetooth to an iOS app which has terrible terrible built in sounds. but then brian and rodrigo are processing those sounds in various ways. there’s been a ton of research into the area you are talking about, though not a lot of worthy results. for sure more needs to be done with this!

and to appease the picture thread gods, i should contribute this:

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night time jitter patching. grid is providing candlelight atmosphere :blush:

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Sweet. It would be damn cool to refine the system.

I suppose the big technical challenge is deciding how and where to establish a reference point relative to the movement of the pieces.

This is very nice. What are you using to generate the MIDI notes?

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A piano with a velocity pedal :slight_smile:
(copied the track for a phase shifting like effect)
+my hands of course :wink: