June 24th, 2010 – 12:00 pm
FlipMu Live @ the Watusi from FlipMu on Vimeo. As part of our live show, Owen and I have been working on creating a tightly synchronized audio/visual experience. While we are still experimenting with the best implementation of balancing audio/visual expressivity & composition with live-interaction, we have developed an approach using Quartz Composer, VDMX, and [...]
June 18th, 2010 – 7:14 am
Yes its true, we really, really, really, love Arduino. It powers the Arduinome. It’s the brains behind a number of upcoming projects we will soon be releasing into the wild…So when I was recently asked to sketch up a sensor system for a saxophone player, I turned to the same trusty ol’ friend we’ve been [...]
June 2nd, 2010 – 11:13 am
Thanks to everyone who came out to see us play at the Watusi in Wellington, New Zealand on May 15th. The show was a lot of fun, and Owen and I got to unveil some exciting new projects we’ve been working on. For those of you who weren’t able to make it to the show, [...]
January 12th, 2010 – 10:36 pm
Join FlipMu and friends for the annual “Wham Bam Thank you NAMM” after party, this Friday, January 15th from 8pm – 4am at the Downtown Independent, Los Angeles. The lineup of performers includes John Tejada, Richard Devine, Flashbulb, Deru, Laura Escude, Scott Pagano, CPU, DJ Kero, Acid Circus, Derek Michael, Baseck, Eezir, Trifonic, DJ G [...]
October 29th, 2009 – 5:43 am
If you’ve had a quick peek at the FlipMu calendar, you may have noticed that we have been in Japan for the few days, where we are presenting our paper titled, “21st Century Electronica: MIR Techniques for Classification and Performance” at the 10th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR). ISMIR has been an [...]
October 21st, 2009 – 4:16 am
Over the weekend I finally finished the enclosure for my recently built Arduinome. This one uses the 8×8 PCB designed by Bibo on the Monome Forums and shines ultrabright blue LEDS. I was lucky enough to get a top & bottom faceplate kit made by XNDR from Machine Collective (before an apparent hiatus, xndr come [...]
October 20th, 2009 – 3:32 pm
FlipMusic Ladies and gentleman… its happened! We spent 3 weeks in the studio between the hours of 12am – 5am, making a new live set to make you sweat. The goal was the “Experiential Differential” show at Watusi Bar in Wellington, which we promised would bring you the best is bass. The show went off [...]
October 19th, 2009 – 2:24 pm
AhText Multi- Touch Installation from FlipMu on Vimeo. As mentioned in our previous post about AhText, we recently collaborated with Jim Murphy, Dimitri Diakopoulos, and Ajay Kapur on an installation for David Rosenboom and Martine Bellens, calledAh! Opera-No-Opera (Hyperlinks baby!). Ah! premiered at RedCat Theatre in Los Angeles, September 16th – 18th, 2009, and our [...]
October 19th, 2009 – 6:39 am
multi-touch the storm – interactive sound visuals – subcycle labs from christian bannister on Vimeo. Sometimes you come across something that really blows you away… today was one of those days! We are super excited about the work being done by Christian Bannister , a.k.a
September 28th, 2009 – 12:40 am
This past June, Owen and I prepared our bodies for our upcoming travel to New Zealand by first flying to Europe. There were three destinations, Berlin, Paris and the Netherlands. While the latter two were more in the vain of seeing old friends and catching up over a couple beers, Berlin (though there was time [...]
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