New advancements on the the bike opera project with Kaffe Matthews include a brand new mapping tool based on, yes you guessed it – Ushahidi which I’ve been using for a lot of wildly different projects recently. This time the work has been mainly focused in improving the area mapping – adding features for editing polygons so Kaffe can layer her sounds in space:
This work is fairly reusable, as it only concerns changes to the submit_edit_js.php file in the standard Ushahidi install. In the meantime, Kaffe has been collecting sounds from musicians in Porto and building up a work of truly operatic proportions. We keep our fingers crossed that the bike mounted BeagleBoards can cope with all this material!
some of the chaps from dorkbot bristol as was did “pisano wheels” – ardunino based bike synths that played a generative sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=RY-u_YkMcLc
That’s a great link thanks! We want to go in that direction very much, the focus is on collaborating with local people – musician, stories and jokes linked with the streets and places, so samples have been the priority so far. Incorporating synthesis with that in mind remains an open (and v interesting) problem.