Scarborough Session – Final Presentations
It was the final session in Scarborough today, where the students had to present their finished installations. The four interactives have been combined into a single, touchscreen podium, installed on …
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Theme – Fireworks and Bonfire Night
Now that Halloween has officially passed perhaps it is time to make a few slight adjustments to your theme and quickly create something for Bonfire Night. Using one of the …
Scarborough Session – Prototypes Presented
The students at Scarborough today presented their prototype installations to Jan and Ian from the Scarborough Museums Trust, Rob McKay and I. This was the first opportunity for us to …
Theme – Halloween: Papier mache sculptures
Although perhaps a little late for Halloween, last year I found a website that specialises in making papier mache sculptures. Some look quite complex, but they give detailled instructions on …
Halloween – the transatlantic divide
There is a good article on the BBC website highlighting the difference between Halloween celebrations in the UK and the USA. Whereas Halloween on our side of the Atlantic is …
Theme – Halloween: Decorations
We’ve already looked at where you can find Halloween sounds and images in previous posts, and now it’s time to have a look at how you can theme your Halloween …
Hardware – Adding an extra video display
You can use the Image & Video Block to trigger and control images on your PC monitor. The block also allows you to send the same images to a second …
Theme – Halloween: Adding images
Let’s get back to Halloween shall we? Following on from the Halloween sounds that we wrote about in a previous post, now we will be looking for spooky and ghoulish …
Using any audio file with Ensemble
All of the audio files that come in our large media library are ready to use straight away with Ensemble. However, some of the files that you download from the …
Scarborough Lecture – Pitching and Blogging
Today was the first lecture for the Creative Music Technology Course (Scarborough Campus, University of Hull). Following on from last years successful project, I am acting as the client/consultant for …