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DarwiinRemoteOSC Mountain Lion

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darwiinremote-oscI fixed the program DarwiinRemote for Mac OS 10.8 (Mountain Lion) and added Open Sound Control (OSC) support for the most recent version. Download it here:

DarwiinRemoteOSC-2012-12-24-09-47.dmg

DarwiinRemoteOSC allows to connect via Bluetooth to the WiiRemote controller. It also supports Nunchuk, Classic Controller and Balance Board.
All data from the Wii Controller is forwarded via OSC. IP and Port can be changed by command line argument. OSC can be sent to DarwiinRemoteOSC to turn on Force Feedback, LEDs and retrieve Battery status.

Sourcecode available on Github.

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jconvolver 0.9.2 and zita-rev-0.2.1 for Mac OS X

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As addition to the Ambisonics Decoder, Microphone Processor and LADSPA Plug-Ins I compiled and packed the convolution software jconvolver 0.9.2 as easy-to-use installer for Mac OS X >=10.6.

This Jack client is a very flexible real-time convolution engine, including configurations for applying Multichannel Ambisonics reverb.

jconvolver-0.9.2-installer.pkg

You can find some additional Ambisonic reverb impulse responses here:
http://www.openairlib.net
http://people.bath.ac.uk/masrwd/sspaces/sciencespaces.html
http://space-net.org.uk

(C) Fons AdriaensenThe Jack Reverb Plug-In with Ambisonics mode zita-rev-1-0.2.1 is available here:

zita-rev1-0.2.1-installer.pkg

All developements by Fons Adriaensen:
http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org

Get more information about Ambisonics and Ardour in an article by Jörn Nettingsmeier.
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ambdec-0.5.1, tetraproc-0.8.2, AMB-plugins-0.8.1 for Mac OS X

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(C) Fons AdriaensenI compiled the latest versions of Fons Adriaensens’ Ambisonics Decoder ambdec-0.5.1 (PDF manual) and his Microphone-Processor to convert TetraMic recordings to B-Format tetraproc-0.8.2 (PDF paper) for Mac OS X.

I packed them in easy-to-use installer packages which should run under Mac OS X >=10.6 (Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion):

Note about ambdec: The manual is outdated! The configuration window is gone. Use a Texteditor to edit .ambdec files!

ambdec-0.5.1-installer.pkg(C) Fons Adriaensen
tetraproc-0.8.2-installer.pkg

Make sure you have JackOSX (http://www.jackosx.com) and X11 (http://xquartz.macosforge.org) installed.

Troubleshooting: Sometimes the installer does not set the file permissions for graphic files correct, try to check if the folder /usr/local/share/ambdec is read/writeable for the user. You can start ambdec from Terminal and check for error messages (just type ambdec in Terminal and hit Return).

Additionally I compiled and packed the LADSPA Ambisonics Plug-In Set (AMB-plugins-0.8.1) for 32/64 bit on Mac running in Ardour under Mac OS XOS X >= 10.6 to use within Ardour.

AMB-plugins-0.8.1-LADSPA-osx.zip

Homepage of the Software Author Fons Adriaensen and his (mostly Linux) tools:
http://kokkinizita.linuxaudio.org

Pure Data Workshop – Vilnius, Lithuania

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A Pure Data workshop series will be held on Wednesdays starting from September, 26th 2012 at 18:00-19:30.

Location: Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA), LMTA main building, Gedimino pr. 42, LT-01110 Vilnius, room 306

The course is open for everyone interested and will start from zero. It will cover topics relevant for sound artists, visual artists, composers, engineers, …

Please register per email:  mail (at) matthiaskronlachner.com .

What is Pure Data (Pd)?
Pure Data is a very flexible visual programming environment, developed by Miller Puckette for creating electronic music. It is available for free and many people contribute in extending it’s functionality. Today it is widely used for creating sound, visuals, data, multimedia installations, music composition, signal processing and analysis, … It can be seen as Open-Source alternative to MAX/MSP.
Due to its visual programming nature its usage is very intuitive.
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Live Interfaces

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I’ll be presenting my work for the Kinect sensor and Pure Data/Gem at the LIVE INTERFACES: Performance, Art, Music[1] conference.

Find the material here:
lipam2012-kronlachner-paper.pdf
lipam2012-kronlachner-poster.pdf

A substantial project report about all Kinect plugins and examples will be available soon.

  1. [1]Live Interfaces http://icsrim.org.uk/liveinterfaces/↩

freiräumen – die politik des do-it-yourself

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dokumentarfilm, 16:9 dvcprohd, stereo, 90min

schnitt – mario hengster und andreas kurz
dramaturgische beratung – emily artmann
sounddesign – matthias kronlachner
finishing – robert breber
kamera – mario hengster
regie – andreas kurz

after the premiere of freiräumen on June, 29th the documentary movie can be seen at following locations:

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pd-kinect-examples

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Find some examples about the usage of the externals pix_freenect, pix_openni, pix_threshold_depth, pix_depth2rgba, pix_head_pose_estimation on the Github page http://github.com/kronihias/pd-kinect-examples

In the moment just Mac OSX binaries of the externals are included. Windows binaries coming soon. Linux – please get the source from Github and build them by yourself.
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