Category
controllers
-
01.25.10Jamming Gear by So KannoA playful an physical way of composing and modifying music patterns was shown by So Kanno from IAMAS Ubiquitous Interaction Research Group. Its main components are gear-wheels that can be stuck on a soundmaking playback device. Driven by a central motor and control device several of these gear-wheel items can be combined. Very simply one turn of the wheel represents one loop of its sound. Absorbing is the idea of modifying the looptime by the number of cogs and with it the posibility of free exploring feasible combination of sounds and melodies. What was interesting is that changing sounds and regulating ...
-
05.28.09controller insight insideAfter I thought that the controller topic is nearly finished here, these x-ray shots of game controllers came my way. This leads to literally deeper insight in the controller research, because you can see how the inside, the background of the interaction looks like and is made of. In opposite to the postings before the controllers haven´t been put up in a very new visual manner but these x ray photographies give it an overall new aesthetic value. The visual perception of x ray pictures are cultural linked to guts and bowels of either humans or animals. Now the controllers ...
-
05.08.09periodic systems revisitedIt seems to be an obvious inner wish of people to get things straight in order, making systems and defining relations. As it happens here a certain Mike from Port Jervis is trying to map the evolution of game controllers. I think he did a good job on this, even i do not really see the system of family ties behind. What is amazing, the names of the developers next to the first date of market appearance. Here you have Mike´s first version and the second reworked one version one version two.five I read these approaches of a system in a manner of ...
