MIDI

We are fortunate to have received funding from UiO’s infrastructure board to purchase a new Yamaha Disklavier grand piano for the Department of Musicology. We have applied for this several times and are grateful to the university for making such an investment. To celebrate the new instrument, we organized the seminar New Horizons in Piano Performance Research during which I did a “lecture-recital” talking a little about the history of piano research in the department and stress-testing the new instrument....

[caption id=“attachment_2358” align=“alignright” width=“262”] Screenshot of MultiControl v0.6.2[/caption] Today I have added MultiControl to my GitHub account. Inititally, I did not intend to release the source code for MultiControl, because it is so old and dirty. The whole patch is based on bpatchers and trying to hide things away in the pre-Max5-days, when presentation view did not exist. I originally developed the Max patch back in 2004, mainly so that I could distribute a standalone application for my students to use....

I am using the Phidgets eletronics kits when teaching sound programming, and have now made two small videos demonstrating some basic principles. First, there is a getting started with Phidgets in Max video in Norwegian: And I have also made a video demonstrating the Phidgets2MIDI application that I developed earlier this year: I am planning to make some videos showing some more musically interesting use of the electronics and software.