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Monthly Archives: May 2011

in_flux in Limerick City 2011

I went to see the last day of the exhibition in_flux hosted by Occupy Space in Limerick City. It has been really amazing to see how Ireland in recession suddenly starts to show more creativity than ever before.
Other countries have re-appropriated industrial spaces into social and artistic places for many years.
As far as I have seen, this rarely happened in Ireland. But now, we have newly built, sometimes not even finished buildings and structures that are unlikely to ever become what they were supposed to be, or finished, becoming great low-cost places for artistic exploration and social interaction.

The Ghost of Catherine Street?



A taxonomy of crispy things

				

			


			
			

				

					
Charlie

					
				

				

					
December 1997 - 16th of May 2011


He ran like a greyhound

He swam like a dolphin

He fulfilled our dreams,

walking across green hills

and Atlantic beaches

He had a heart of gold

We miss him.

R.I.P.

				

			


			
			

				

					
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Charlie


December 1997 – 16th of May 2011




He ran like a greyhound


He swam like a dolphin


He fulfilled our dreams,


walking across green hills


and Atlantic beaches


He had a heart of gold


We miss him.


R.I.P.

				

			


			
			

				

					
Launch of DMARC@UL

					
				

				

					
I really enjoyed Trevor Wishart‘s Encounters in the Republic of Heaven at the launch of our new “label” the Digital Media Arts research Centre (DMARC) at the University of Limerick today. The 8-channel work sent my mind wandering, at times in synesthesia, and in general it was a very positive audio experience.

				

			


			
			

				

					
building a new set of audio primitives in PD

					
				

				

					
This summer I’m planning to develop a number of new sound object primitives that I can use both in Softday performances and in sonic interaction design. The basic idea is there are three fundamental classes:


    

  • Impact
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  • Deformation
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  • Friction
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I’m sure that there will be many exceptions to these classes, but when I look at many of the pd-patches I’ve created over the past eight years, I think it may be possible to use this approach, where parameters define things like the material being deformed, the flow of the action (gesture), etc.