Beatbox / Dance / Lightshow MAX/MSP Installation – Jason Levine

This is totally rad; my friend and fellow Effusion Alum Jason Levine just posted this on his wall. In a nutshell: he beatboxs / throatsings while a computer offstage (which I am quite sure he would have programmed using MAX/MSP/JITTER) analyzes his vocalizations and projects lights in corresponding colors and intensities. Meanwhile, the system also [...]

Great Tool for Cross-Browser Friendly Webdesigns: “NetRenderer”

In updating the website for JoJoe, a Montreal-based Reggae Artist, I was having some trouble with the site displaying improperly in Internet Explorer (on Windows which I don’t have access to). It looked fine on my mac, but the band said on their PC it was all messed up after I had experienced and thought [...]

Finally! Add words to your Iphone’s Predictive Dictionary

I am so sick of having the word “Cort” (a fine drummer and steel pannist with whom I play and contact via email and SMS frequently) auto-replaced with “Cory”. That is just the most common of many, many iphone “fixes” that annoy me almost daily. To some extent the Iphone seems to learn new words, [...]