After 24 days of running to the front door whenever I thought I heard the sound of the postman, my Arduino micro controller finally arrived. Actually, to be more precise I had to go fetch it because the parcel was too big to fit through the mail slot. Apparently, the postman came one week earlier [...]

No sound design blog can be taken seriously without raising a few eyebrows!
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/2945459[/vimeo]

I know what I’ll use next time… André Chocron made this really cool video using only Final Cut Pro. The music is from The Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/2537115[/vimeo]

Photo by Flickr user: Saw You On The Flipside
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This ballroom dancing robot was featured at WIRED Nextfest. She looks and moves so realistically. Her plasticity, colour and joints combine for an interesting piece of art/techno-geekiness (or maybe just creepiness). This robot nudged me towards a sound with a musical [...]

Lately, my posts have been a tad Max/MSP-centric. Mainly because I love learning it! It’s like the Meccano set I never had. It’s an endless mind puzzle. And when it works, I get such a rush!
However, this does come with a few quirks. For example:

My friends see this…

…I see patch cords

‘Trigger Bang Bang’ used [...]

I built a telephone keypad sound generator using Max/MSP. The goal of this tutorial is to accurately produce the sound of a telephone keypad by pressing on its corresponding number.
I hit many hurdles on the way and I am pretty certain that this is not the best way, but it does the job.
This [...]

Photo by me
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For the image, I used a still from a movie I shot and ran it through a Jitter object from Max/MSP/Jitter called [jit.ameba] which gives it the effect you see above.
The sound was recorded using a telephone pickup coil that I just bought from Maplin. What [...]

Before going back to France for the holidays, I hadn’t been in a car for a while. So, when I got behind the wheel again, I wondered how the the sound of the indicator is produced. It really bothered me and I found any excuse to turn a corner in hope of figuring it out, [...]

Sorry for the long absence. Right after completing my deadlines in December, I left Edinburgh to visit my hometown in France where I had the best coffee and food, but the worst internet access. But, enough excuses, I got back to Edinburgh yesterday and will be back on track.
First, I wish you all the best [...]