Archive for June, 2007

MuseNet - music meets technology

Friday, June 29th, 2007

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Musenet music un-convention, put together by the initiatives of Itay Talgam, and Ayelet Yagil. Uri Levanon, Illit Gilad, Michal Rinot, On Paradise, Eyal Person and Michal Levy all invested a lot of effort in putting it together.

We did the first demonstration of the TangibLaptop project.
TangibLaptop is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface inspired by the reacTable.
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Zvika and Tal built a Wheelchair Sequencer using distance sensors.
Placing strips on the wheels which are detected by the distance sensors,
Information is sent through a fidget to the laptop, mapping them to midi notes and playing music.

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Reflections

http://muse.wiki.zoho.com/Pictures-and-Videos—MuseNet-2007.html

Flickr images:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/musenet

http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/007166.html

http://cafe.themarker.com/view.php?t=67782

Gadgets Art and Rock’nRoll

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

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YNet Digital Time jurnalist, Niv Lilian, visited us at the Garage, here are his notes:

wired inventions, crazy and unnecessary, are created in a messed up garage at Holon. Together, with them are born few of the coolest games you may find.
Responsible for that are the GarageGeeks, technology and computer games freaks who wish to combine science and art, and while doing so, serve tons of fun, apart of that, they also contribute to the community …

here is the full story

Plastic creation mania

Monday, June 4th, 2007

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The special effects master, Yuval Kedem from “Galileo” studio is hosting a plastic workshop. 

Yuval Kedem works at “Galileo” Studio and one of his latest’s work crafts can be found at the amazing show Aluminum
http://www.aluminum-show.com