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FingerPlay MIDI controlled robot

flat20 — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:06:12 +0000

Arduino + Fingerplay MIDI from Guus Baggermans on Vimeo.

Did some googling and came across this video by Guus Baggermans. He is using FingerPlay as input for a robot on his desktop. I’m not exactly sure of the details but I think the robot is Arduino based and he must have modified the FingerPlay source code because he’s using the gyroscope for input.

If you’ve made anything cool with FingerPlay MIDI then please let me know – I love hearing about people using it.

Android scratching video

flat20 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:24:34 +0000

I spent last night playing around with audio programming for Android and I now have the basics of a FingerPlay scratch app. There’s no interface yet and it’s not “real” scratching, but I’ll see what I can do about that when I’m back from my holiday. And I need a better loop to play with as well..

Can’t get embed video to work right now.. I’ll update later.

FingerPlay Youtube Demonstration

flat20 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:55:59 +0000

I should have done a video showing off my Android application FingerPlay MIDI myself, but I simply haven’t had the time for it yet. Luckily Mooreshire did it instead, which leaves me with more time to fix bugs. So a big thanks to him for posting this quick demo!

1-bit flash code for LEDs

flat20 — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:45:52 +0000

I’m waiting for my girlfriend’s brother’s wonderful LED device to arrive but in the meantime I’ve prepared myself for it by creating some tiny 16×24 Flash effects which I hope can be reproduced with LEDs. I coded the classic demo rotozoom and fire effects with 2 colours and some cheap dithering added on top.

Added a new fire with proper Floyd-Steinberg dithering. Now I just need to fix the OpenGL code for FingerPlay.

Oh, and I need to update the blog with Mandy’s new design. Too much to do but not enough minerals..

Beardyman Mini mix @ Annie Mac

flat20 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:22:05 +0000

I’m seeing Beardyman at Cargo on Friday and to warm up for it I ripped this amazing mini mix he did for Annie Mac’s Mash Up on Radio 1.

Beardyman Mini Mix @ Anni Mac’s Mash Up – Live on Radio 1 04-03-2009

Tracklist

Scatman John- ‘Scatman’
Run DMC vs Jason Nevins- ‘It’s like that’
Deadmau5- ‘The reward is cheese’
Aphex Twin- ‘Windowlicker’
Leftfield- ‘Phat Planet’
Unknown- ‘50,000 watts’
David Bowie- ‘Let’s Dance’
Chase & Status- ‘Eastern Jam’
Radiohead- ‘The National Anthem’
Pharcyde- ‘Passing Me Bye’
Jay-Z-’99 Problems’
Dizzee Rascal- ‘Fix up Look Sharp’
Chase & status vs. capleton- ‘Duppy Man’

Here he is live at Cargo last year:

A 45 minute mix

flat20 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:45:43 +0000

When the cat’s away the mice run all over the decks and record a mix. My housemate was gone for a few days so I used his computer to record a mix in the front room. Please excuse the static noise in the beginning of it, but running a long cable from a rubbish mixer all the way through the house up to my friend’s computer has its downsides. Two actually, one being the static noise and the other being trying to rush to the toilet in the middle of the night without tripping on the cable and pissing yourself.

18-03-2009 mix by flat20

Tracks include:

Thomas Schumacher – Picanha

Nari & Milano feat Max C – Disco Nuff (Flow Mix)

Mowgli – Pa Pon Pon (Chris Keaser Mix)

Alucard – About Monster

Anamanaguchi – Dawn Metropolis

flat20 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:50:26 +0000

I seem to fall in love with anything 8-bit retro these days which probably stems from growing up in that era, but I guess one more post about it can’t hurt. Two kids from New York made an album using guitars, drums and a NES. The music isn’t bad in itself but I really like the 8-bit styled videos for each track.

http://www.dawnmetropolis.com/

The end of all youtube mashups?

flat20 — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:30:40 +0000

This surely must be the best and the end of all youtube mashups.

http://thru-you.com/

Sushi restaurant conveyor belt video

flat20 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:03:06 +0000

Someone should add a song to this and turn it into a music video.

For The Floorz

flat20 — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:33:55 +0000

Yesterday I sat down and started with something I should have done a long time ago, I copied some old tracks from CD to mp3. The plan is to post the better ones on here and I’ll kick things of with these two tracks which were released in 2002 on the now defunct, or at least in indefinite hiatus, french record label called We Rock Music. Romain Séo’s (aka Raw Man from The Buffalo Bunch) ran the label and is also the man behind these two brilliant filtered house tracks.

Of the two I prefer the slower Time Limited, but the tempo makes it a bit difficult to drop in a house set. Not impossible of course so you’ll just have to try harder! Body Angel is the type of track I’d love to play an edit of. It’s a great little number but it gets its point across in the first four minutes and could do with a quick mix out or a shorter version.

for the floorz – time limited

for the floorz – body angel

For The Floorz on Discogs and more tunes from We Rock Music.