[LAU] Laptop Battle Registration and Promotion

[david]

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 19:39 -1000, david wrote:
>> Robin Gareus wrote:
>>> Robin Gareus wrote:
>>>> PPS. no battle but art: a while back I stumbled over a text-adventure
>>>> written in postscript. playable entirely with the Formfeed and Rewind
>>>> button. (though ghostview  was more handy) - are there similar
>>>> linux-audio pieces?  - any `while (true); do ls -l /dev > /dev/dsp &
>>>> sleep 1 ;done;` remixes out there?  techno-bash(7)
>>> I do know about livecoding, fluxus, etc. - but am still missing *the*
>>> "crazy-unix-audio" piece/installation to remember.  - reactable is
>>> close, but actually neither crazy nor a commandline
>> I like Reactable. It even includes a built-in light show.
>>
>> Also, the potential demonstrated in a YouTube video of a guy using a 
>> Wiimote to control his Linux PC's synthesizer software.
>>
>> It would be fun to have a controller that could work like a Theremin.
> 
> It _is_ fun:
>   http://ccrma.stanford.edu/radiobaton/index.html
> (broken links in there, sorry - the current model sends raw antenna
> information through midi to the control computer)

Thank you, that does sound like fun!

> You can derive 3d info for each baton plus detect "hits" on the surface
> with hit coordinates and hit velocity, I used to play/improvise with it
> with a program I wrote:
>   http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/padmaster/
> 
> After a long pause I'm starting to rewrite it in SuperCollider...

Please do, please do! That would be fascinating to play with.

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