I have been insanely busy the last couple of weeks. I’ve been juggling a headphone-based interactive installation and a project exploring “social sound design” through Twitter, I will share it as soon as it is in a presentable form!

For the installation I needed the sound of someone walking above. So I knocked on the door [...]

On my way home, I decided to record the sound of myself walking from the entrance of the building to the entrance of my flat. I especially like how the reverb deadens as I walk into the flat. I used a pair of OKM binaural in-ear mics to record this very exciting moment. You [...]

Notice instrument number 35? After I posted Washing Machine Shoes, my friend Edu pointed me to this very interesting Spanish band called Cabo San Roque. They build a lot of their own instruments and not only sound good but also look like madness! They use a washing machine to trigger a massive music box, maybe [...]

Living on a park is both a blessing and curse. The view from my flat is incredible and I can get my exercise by just walking out the door, but unfortunately, Edinburgh isn’t usually that sunny, so when I walk through the park my shoes get pretty muddy!
I finally decided to throw my shoes into [...]

I built a fun Max/MSP patch that utilises a webcam to interact with a computer-generated fly. The “fly” is created using optical flow-based tracking, which was produced through Jean-Marc Pelletier’s cv.jit externals. They’re great for doing anything with Computer Vision in Max/MSP/Jitter.
As a sound designer, I am obviously more interested in using Computer Vision to [...]

Since the upgrade of Firmata v2, it has been difficult communicating between Max/MSP and the Arduino board. However, thanks to Christopher Coleman, who updated the Max patch of Marius Schebella, it’s working again. Thank you Chris!
Download the latest Maxuino here.

This is a basic tutorial on how to set up communication between Arduino and Max/MSP
This tutorial [...]