Sputnik update 2 - User Study Teaser

 
 

It's about time for another update on sputnik. I have been working hard since the last update on the code as well as on the paper, which isn't as easy as I hoped it was.

As part of my paper I have to do a small user study to evaluate the project. Soooo,.. if you are a musician, or have a general interest in music or funky images with sound, and happen to be near Copenhagen in mid december, just drop me a line. The study will take place at KUA on monday the 12th of december. Time slots will be available from about 10am till sometime in the evening.

Sputnik update 1*

 
 

It's time for a first project update on sputnik. I am now about 160+ net hours into the project and things are starting to take shape. During the last days I finished all the graphical stuff, and will now focus on making some music with it.

You can navigate through the scene with the wiimote and nunchuck and control the arc of light. You can also select objects. More use-/meaningful interaction will follow in the next weeks.

Announcing Sputnik

 
 

Some time ago, I promised more details on my next project. Well, here it is!

Following my current fondness for the mid-last-century space race it is called Sputnik. It is/should be a New Interface for Musical Expression, or NIME for short. But what is all that mumbo jumbo, you ask?

Preparing for FROG11

 
 

The 5th Vienna Games Conference dubbed Future and Reality of Gaming, or FROG for short will he held at Vienna's town hall this weekend. As a sidekick to the conference we, the friendly folks who occasionally organise game jams, will hold a "game jam showcase". But we are not just developing a prototype, we are trying to involve the conference attendees in to the process. At some points we will ask a "where to.." kind of question and let the audience decide what turns the prototype should take.

Stay hungry, stay foolish...

 
 

I never thought that I would write this blog post. At least, I could not have seen me writing this blog post yesterday. But today, after the news of Steve Job's death spread around the world, I feel a strange urge to share a few personal thoughts.

More Photos, yeay!

 
 

Yet again, a few more photos from in and around København. This time with black and white imagery form the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek with its marvelous architecture and beautifully lit exhibition rooms (the greek temple pictured in the teaser image can be also found there), the Copenhagen Opera House, gifted to the city in 2000 by some big-ass foundation, and then a few shots from the contemporary art museum Louisiana.

The color photos additionally feature the offshore wind park at the Amager-shore. 

The missing roll

 
 

Finally the lab decided that it was best for both of us if they finished their job and scan my negatives. This roll features a few shots from the magnificent Moby concert in Østre Anlæg I wrote about earlier last month, and it also features the beatifull architecture of the Black Diamond.

More Photos

 
 

Here comes the first half of the second batch of photos. The second half will be coming someday next week, somehow the lab decided not to scan it and just send back the negatives.

Anyway, this roll features images from Amager strand, a few overview shots of København as well as a few pictures from Christianshavn and the new opera house (i.e. the big ass building with the top hat).

First Batch of Photos arrived!

 
 

It took some time to have the negatives developed and scanned, but here they are: The first pictures from Copenhagen. I could rant about poorly done contrast and image enhancement for hours, but I guess I better don't.

The images show a good part of the city, plus the little mermaid, and also its slightly mutated twin sister.

All images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike 3.0 license.

The Weather in Copenhagen

 
 

Im here for about ten days now, and I have seen quite a lot of the different local weather conditions. It all started with bright sunshine, the occasional cloud and +20 degrees celsius. Everything as you would expect it from a normal summer. Then, the weather found its british inner self and sun and rain began to take their turns every five minutes.

This must have been to much for ol' summer and it seemed to have decided to hand over affairs to its friend autumn. And this is how it is now. Grey sky and a rain shower here and there.

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