"Les poissons autistes" (i.e. autists fishes) is a swiss band that have a nice way of tinkering artifacts to produce music It's only at the end of 2001 that Simon and Babey began again to create their own "music" (...). Struck by a sudden inspiration during a drunken night, they plugged jacks...
A living structure
The blog of the EPFL/ECAL joint project nicely summarizes the results of a workshop they recently set. A project developed in this context is about "How nature can be resumed to a simple mathematical formula" by Florian Pittet & Margaux Renaudin:The idea is to create a whole living structure: Using...
Rules of engagement
For potential readers of Pasta and Vinegar, short hints about how things work here: I started this blog 4 years ago as a repository for stuff I find interesting, pertinent, relevant and weird with regards to: my research, my interest and my projects. It started from a daily muse about issues I wan...
Nanoloop
Nanoloop (by Oliver Wittchow) is a real-time sound editor for the Game Boy Advance: Nanoloop is a synthesizer / sequencer for the Nintendo Game Boy systems. Stored on a normal game cartridge, it allows to produce nice electronic music without further hardware, using either headphones or an external...
"We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening"
Barry Blesser recently sent me sample chapters of his book called "Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?" (written with Linda-Ruth Salter, at MIT Press). The main thesis propelled by this book is that social relationships are strongly influenced by the way that space changes sound ("aural architecture")...
Citizen game
People who reads french and who are interested by the video game industry should have a glance at Citizen Game by Nicolas Gaume. It is basically the story of Kalisto, a french video game company based in Bordeaux as told by its founder/CEO. It goes through the whole success story till the bankrup...
Track Santa
For geowanking kids: NORANDSANTA is a website that broadcast information about "santa tracking": Detecting Santa all starts with the NORAD radar system called the North Warning System. This powerful radar system has 47 installations strung across the northern border of North America. NORAD makes a ...
xmas2006
My current state (xmas + PhD dissertation completion): ...
Sonotree
Sonotree is a curious project by Mathias Forbach (previously at ecal now at bread and butter) that the defines as "a cubic wood box where you can insert branches to do music for dead trees" Sonotree is a music box automaton where input switches are branches. The interface between branches and sound...
"Bruno Latour forecasts the future"
A quite compelling title for a blogpost right?(Via Daniel Kaplan), last month I haven't parsed the whole New Scientist's special issue about 50 years foresight. There is this intriguing short one by Bruno Latour that makes sense: In 50 years, social scientists will be able to visualise the connecti...