puntKom #2 – SoundCoding – Why Mr Blob needs to be happy
Since January 2010 the educational program Communication & MultiMediadesign (with the support of the Social Spaces group) is organising the so-called puntKom-sessions.
puntKom is a series of informal meetings (each second Thursday of the month). It is a mix of crispy lectures, tasty workshops, bite-sized performances and yummy demos. In short, a meeting place for those passionate about media, culture, design and technology!
The first puntKom dealt with Serious Gaming & Digital Bastard Culture and there were lectures by Roman Kirschner & Mirko Tobias Schäfer.
puntKom #2 was all about SoundCoding, how code can create sound. Each participant had a small talk (of some ten minutes) and afterwards people could have a better look at the different projects (and drink a free beer of course). We saw Mr Blob, a project by C-md-students Danny Leen & Thomas Lammers. They created a “cuddly” interface which should help to settle disputes on difference in musical taste when you’re having a party or when you’re sitting in a bar: by “stroking” Mr Blob, you will draw his attention. If you are gentle enough, Mr Blob will be happy and the music in the bar will change to the music you like (using your Last.fm-profile). Well, for more info, just check the movie below…
making of the BLOB – interactive social music creature from Thomas Lammers on Vimeo.
After that Pietr from HackerSpace Brussels, “ a gathering, dedicated to various aspects of constructive & creative hacking at the void*pointer, located in Scha{a,e}rbeek. ” Check out their site for more info.
Dr Evil Mere Enchants, an anonymous code professor, tried to explain us how we can make code magic happen in just 20 lines of code. He created, using Nodebox, photos of former US-president Georges W Bush, Muqtada al-Sadr, an Iraqi theologian and political leader and Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense under Bush, by making use of data from http://www.iraqbodycount.org/.
Finally, we had DS-10 Dominator, using a Nintendo DS to make music. The audience asked him to make a song on the spot using a drum&bass-rythm.
There are more pictures of puntKom #2 created by Bert Heymans (thanks Bert).
And, there is a movie-report created by Paul Schepers!
Tags: C-md, communication & multimediadesign, masterclass, MDA, media & design academy, puntkom
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