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The MAKE/CDM/Etsy sonic fun-derland event returns - this time @ our new location, Third Ward in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY! Kicking off the new
monthly schedule, the first meet-up will be Thursday, Dec. 11th. Peter of CDM gives details
-Bonus – Make Your Own Beep-It Optical Theremin. For the cost
of parts (about $10), Mike Una is giving a workshop – no experience required,
and you’ll leave with your own Beep-It. (Space is limited!)
Double Bonus – You! We’re looking for hardware and
software projects to share.
Not in New York? Stay tuned – we’ll have some ways to
join up live online with both the CDM community and the Etsy community.
Party: 7-10p, 12/11 (snacks/drinks + lots of sounds for everyone, from
non-musicians to hardcore musical hackers!)
Make Your Own Beep-It Workshop: 7:30-8:30p (arrive promptly!)
Here’s what the event is about, as described by, well, me:
Part party, part mixer, part Science Fair, and part performance, this is an informal chance for
geeksters and the geek-curious to come together, relax, and discover new sounds. The evening is a
gathering of inventors of circuit-bent toys, custom software and patches, interactive digital
& visual instruments, custom electronics, electricity-powered noisemakers, DIY robots and new
acoustic instruments. And it’s open to everyone from hard-core hackers & newcomers to
music lovers who want to learn about the DIY music scene.
And here’s a big bonus: if you liked Michael Una’s Beep-It DIY optical Theremin, as
debuted here, you can make your own for the low, low price of parts: about ten bucks.
Michael Una will demonstrate his optical theremin synthesizer Beep-it and conduct a workshop
wherein attendees will build their own optical theremin. The basics of analog synthesis will be
discussed. No skill level is required- all tools and parts will be provided by the participation
fee.
Pay for your parts by Wednesday 12/10, and reserve your spot at the workshop, at
EventBrite: http://beepit.eventbrite.com/
Logo design by the amazing creator of the CDM logos and endless musical posters, Nat aka onetonnemusic.
See you next week, in New York or online!
We welcome people showing up with gear and creations at the last minute –
bring cables, an extension cord, and (if you’ve got it) small speakers / headphones / PA
(though we’ll do our best to provide some sound). But it does help to know who’s
coming if you want to give us some advance warning, and we can help publicize your work in
advance. Head over to Create Digital Music to fill out the
project submission form. I'm quite psyched for this - it's been a while since the last event
and this one looks to be fully awesome!
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modeling to create a stunning acoustic grand piano sound. Starting with 250 MB of high quality
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Category: Music
Released: Nov 23, 2008
Price: Free
Description:
synthPond is a relaxing spatial sequencer and generative audio toy inspired by the work of Toshio
Iwai. Unlike a normal sequencer where you place notes on a grid and a moving playhead plays them,
in synthPond you place nodes in a field (pond). Because the system is spatial, it's easily
graspable and very intuitive, but also very deep. While it's easy for someone with no music
knowledge to create a complex melody, synthpond is also suited for advanced musicians who are
interested in generative musical composition. Additionally, the audio generated can be placed in a
3D space, occurring around the listener coming from the relative positions of each node. This also
allows for spatial features like orbiting to create a more generative composition. More information
(and a video tutorial) is available at: http://apps.stfj.net/synthPond synthPond requires headphones, without them you
may hear distorted or limited audio. synthPond was built with mobileFrameworks, an iPhone related
c++ library for artists synthPond Lite includes most of the features from synthPond 1.0, but lacks
many of the more complex features of synthPond 2.0, which is available for $1.99 USD
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Category: Games
Released: Nov 17, 2008
Price: $3.99
Description:
PUZZLE PRISM, a new star of the block-based puzzle games, is now available on iPhone! Experience
great exhilaration! The rule is simple! Rotate and drop blocks to fill in space in underlying
layers of blocks. Once a layer is completely filled in with dropped blocks, it will be cleared.
Score high with a chain reaction! The operation is simple! Flick left or right to rotate blocks and
down to drop. In Keypad Mode, you may play the game with the buttons on the screen just like a
traditional controller of game devices. Two different types of game modes are provided. In
"Standard Mode", keep on clearing layers of blocks thoroughly so that stacked blocks do not reach
the End Line. In "Extra Mode", which is a hard mode for advanced players, rotate and drop each
block leaving no space between the block and underlying blocks to form a large mass called
"Material".
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I know there's a big difference in speed and cache sizes and I'm going to notice a huge jump in
storage space either way since my BlackBook only has an 80GB drive right now. I assume it's a
5400rpm with 8MB cache and that's been working for me for the last two years so I'm leaning on
getting the bigger drive.
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One of our readers from Mashable
France, Steve Hemmerstoffer, tipped us a few minutes ago on the
availability of embeddable YouTube videos in the widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio) format.
As you can see in the screenshot, the same rules seem to apply that we
mentioned when YouTube made the new aspect ratio available on the main site: “For all
videos uploaded in the standard 4:3 aspect ratio, they’ll appear inset, but the
increasingly more common 16:9 videos will fill all available space.”
In addition to the bottom chrome on the player window, there also appears to be a fairly large
search bar across the top of the embed, firmly implanting into anyone within a five mile radius
that this is, indeed, a YouTube embedded video.
We had about two gazillion responses when YouTube announced the change to 16:9, most of them were
negative. Those that weren’t negative seemed to be ridiculing the folks who didn’t
like the change:
“Finally! It’s about time.”
“People complaining about this should get their head out of 1984 and buy a real tv/monitor
(16:9).”
“aaaaagggghhhhhhh!!!! Change!! I hate Change!!!! How _dare_ YouTube?!?!? This RUINS
EVERYTHING!!!! I’m so confused. First Daddy takes away my Porsche, Now THIS!!! I’m
calling my Senator! This is so unfair. Like, I want things the way I know them already!!”
Now that you’ve had a little over a week to get used to the new look, are you folks more ok
with the change, or is it just as annoying as ever?
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The world will see the second Android phone in late January 2009 and Australians will enjoy its use
on their carriers as Kogan today started
pre-orders for the Kogan Agora Pro. For $399 Australian Bucks (US$256) you’ll get the
unlocked phone for use on any Australian Carrier and a toned down (not even a camera) Kogan Agora
is going for $299 Australian dollars (US$192).
That’s a heck of a price for an unlocked piece of Android, but considering the Kogan brand is
relatively unknown it’s a price point that will better lure in more curious mobilists. Those
that make the leap of faith can expect some of the following specs:
3G Network
2.5-inch LCD Touch Screen
2MP Camera
QWERTY Keypad with back lighting
WiFi, Bluetooth and GPS
624MHz processor
256MB memory, 128MB Flash, MicroSD expansion
For $100 cheaper you give up the camera, WiFI and GPS. If you’re going to be an Android
early adopter, chances are these are things you’ll want these things so dump out your piggy
bank and ante up the extra hundy.
The company promised a $199 Android Phone by the end of 2008 - the phone is technically for
sale in this calendar year but the price bump was needed due to the “the impact of the global
financial crisis on currencies”. We forgive them… and we thank them for coming as close
to making good on their promise as possible. The question is… will the phone deliver? I’m sure half the people reading this are
thinking, “Who the heck is Kogan?” Good question… I was thinking the same thing.
The company is of an interesting breed - listen to how they define themselves:Kogan is a new business
philosophy that places customers at the top of the food chain. We eliminate all the “middle
men” and pass the savings directly to you. We are a manufacturer, importer, wholesaler, and
retailer all in one. By cutting out all the “middle men”, we provide the best possible
products at the best possible price.
This is the kind of ingenuity that Android can encourage and to be honest, I’m wondering why
companies all over the globe aren’t flocking to follow suit. Android is the ultimate
equalizer. So how come Kogan was able to put out this Android Handset while companies like Motorola have 500 people working on it and will be empty handed until late next
year?
It could be a number of reason starting with the possibility that the phone absolutely sucks.
We’ll know the scoop on that in a couple months time, but seriously… it makes you
wonder why there aren’t a flurry of Android handsets out by now, doesn’t it?
Kogan could use Android to capitalize in a big, big way and the door is wide open for other
(relatively) small companies to do the same and compete with the “big dogs” on a global
scale. Android is knocking down the barriers of entry for manufacturers which encourages a market
where good ideas can out above the battle of the big budgets.
It should be pointed out that this will be the first mobile phone Kogan has ever released with the
manufacturing being outsourced to China. For whatever that’s worth.
A few questions worthy of discussion:
Hey Australians, what is your experience with Kogan and what do you expect from the Kogan
Agora Pro?
Hey Australians, will you pre-order the Agora, wait for reviews and then decide or simply not
consider it?
Hey Ruslan Kogan, founder of Kogan, hook us up with a review copy that we can either rock on
WiFi in the states or give a trusted Australian phandroid an early peek, will ya?
Hey everyone else, I didn’t want to leave you out so I made a 4th bullet, feel better?
INTERESTING FACT: We dug this up and didn’t find it elsewhere but the
name Agora not only sounds cool but was chose for an obvious reason - it is defined as,
“The public open space that formed the heart of ancient Greek cities and it’s the
origin of most western conceptions of public, or civic, space as center of for social interaction
for ceremony and democratic life on a pedestrian scale.”
Discuss
[Via Kogan, ITWire, Engadget]
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