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Documenting project development from Creative Pact #creativepact

#CreativePact16 :: Serial Communication pt.ii [Arduino; Max]

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Oliver

Revisited yesterday’s code after some help from @Big_Pause and fixed up the problems I was having. Turns out the issue with delimiting values in Max was a confusion with the [select] and ASCII commands.  All sorted now, allowing me some nice simple control. … Continue reading →

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Coma Architects :: Quiet, Please [COMA-02 - Assembly]

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Oliver

Today, I strayed from the ‘coding’ element of my #CreativePact and began to put together the packaging for COMA-02: ‘Quiet, Please’. I’ll write about the release itself at some point this week, but for now here are a few photos … Continue reading →

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#CreativePact Day 5 :: oF Y U NO COMPILE???!!

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Oliver

GAH! Still can’t get these tutorials from ‘Programming Interactivity’ to compile properly from openFrameworks, so this whole thing of learning about using Sound in oF still isn’t happening for me. I can’t determine if its a user input error, or … Continue reading →

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#CreativePact _3 :: Swag

Posted on September 3, 2011 by Oliver

Today’s pact looks at using Processing and the Twitter API (via Twitter4J) to search a term and return the values. It’s a straight forward process, but hopefully it will lead to something a little more advanced by the end of … Continue reading →

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#CreativePact _2 Fish & Chips

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Oliver

Only one day in and today’s pact nearly didn’t happen. Instead I spent the time getting overly excited about making fish & chips: It was lovely. However too much time spent preparing, then consuming, then stretching and yawning “cwoar, that … Continue reading →

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#CreativePact_1 :: Beating-sines [Processing, minim]

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Oliver

First up, a little introductory play around with Processing’s Minim audio library. Throughout the masters, I looked a lot at the psychoacoustic phenomena of beat-tones – the perceived pulse created by two tones slightly out-of-tune with each other. This is … Continue reading →

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SEPTEMBER I AM ALIVE: Howl, we are free.

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Oliver

Rebirth It’s September, 2011. My name is still Oliver Thurley. I am still twenty-two. I still live in Leeds. I still drink coffee. I still aggravate people via Twitter, and when I’m not alienating my listeners, I still make music as Ithaca … Continue reading →

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