Close to finish my postdoctoral fellowship at the Human Media Lab, two of our papers were accepted at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST 2016) in Japan. One of them is a demo called WhammyPhone, a prototype illustrating the possible applications of flexible smartphone technology for software synthesizer control.
BlueMO allows you to receive data from Adafruit’s Bluefruit boards or RFDuino and translate it into MIDI or OSC. The code is avaliable at GitHub here. (If you are interested in a compiled version, please email me.)
(This post is based on an answer I wrote to a question in Quora)
MixPerceptions is an art installation where users interact with artworks using their smartphone or tablets and headphones. The interaction is achieved by means of an augmented reality app that reveals rich and dynamic visual and auditory elements that create an engaging multi-sensorial experience. MixPerceptions brings paintings to life, offering a unique and personal experience to […]
“TuneMap: an interactive geolocated music information browser“, a paper written by me and based on the TuneMap project, was accepted for publication on the proceedings of the Re-New Digital Arts Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013. The proceedings can be read from here.
El nuevo look, más limpio y fácil de navegar de la nueva página de Spacebarman permite un acceso eficiente a nuestro contenido audivisual y a las actualizaciones de nuestro Twitter, Facebook y blog. Te va a gustar, lo sabemos 😉 Visítala y suscríbete a nuestra lista de correos, mostraremos nuesto agradecimiento enviándote música nueva! // […]
Finalmente, nuestro primer videoclip! Julián Manrique, gran amigo y colega, dirigió este estupendo video. Fue grabado en el Parc del Laberint d’Horta y en diversas calles de la Ciutat Vella, en Barcelona. Recomendamos verlo en pantalla completa! (No olvides que puedes descargar el EP completo de “A veces me pierdo” de nuestro Bandcamp.) Por último (pero no menos […]
I recently read this very interesting article from Nature magazine. It analyzes the evolution certain aspects of western popular music during the last 50 years or so. Its conclusions: The melodic and harmonic variety of popular music has decreased. It means, music now has simpler melodies and harmonies. Timbre has become more homogeneous. In other […]
The music for this Spacebarman‘s song -called “Uno más (Metro version)”- was arranged and recorded entirely during daily Barcelona’s Metro trips and lunch breaks. The voice was recorded in the Parc del Guinardó, also in Barcelona. The video documents the voice recording session. We wanted to create a song on the go, in public places, […]
TuneMap is a tool for music browsing based on geolocation. It was developed by Guillermo Malón, Alberto González and me during the 2012 Barcelona Music Hack Day. It uses The Echo Nest’s and Deezer’s APIs for obtaining artists’ information and music previews. Maps were taken from Open Street Maps, styled by Stamen and and information […]