Tuesday saw the first public preview of magneticNorth’s SPIN project - vinyl being used as a control device for digital media. As part of the Diffraction event at FACT, Manchester’s GKUT performed a 15 minute set using the tools we’ve been creating together as part of the FACT funded project. Wanna see? Check out the video of the first 5 minute set.
But this is only the beginning. While video looks cool, at the end of the day you could control anything - its all just data - so watch this space.
bertranol, i don’t think brendan claimed his tool was innovative (as in “never done before”)…but i gather that they’ve built it from scratch themselves, rather than using mspinky?
incidentally bren, was this achieved with a sensor on the turntable itself or with frequency analysis and a prepared disc?
(p.s. the tab order on your contact form is a tad illogical and makes keyboard-only access a bit of a pain)
patrick h. lauke / 06/04/2006It works with mspinky, according to the flickr report of the Diffraction event.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/b.....099446021/
OK, first things first. The quote on Coudal.com about “years of invention etc” is just a quote from the footage we used - nothing more.
Yes we’re using mspinky but we’ve built stuff from scratch in MAX/MSP as part of the FACT funded project. There’s lot more that we’ve done and are doing with the technology that isn’t shown on the video. Like I said this is just the beginning. Mspinky provides a way of getting data from vinyl into the computer. It’s what you then do with it is when it becomes more interesting.
Hope that clears things up.
Bren / 07/04/2006
How can you say that you have created a tool that has been available for purchase for many years ?
http://www.cycling74.com/products/mspinky
bertranol / 06/04/2006