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SPIN at FACT

April 6, 2006
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    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

    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 / 06/04/2006

    very cool, brendan. i’m also quite keen to know how it works.

    mxxx / 07/04/2006

    It works with mspinky, according to the flickr report of the Diffraction event.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/bjdawes/sets/72057594099446021/

    bertranol / 07/04/2006

    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

    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.

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