1.
Programmers are way cooler
than musicians
Geert Bevin

2.
Musicians narrate with sound

3.
Programmers create new realities

4.
Second Life

5.
Burning Man Festival

6.
Burning Man Festival

7.
Burning Man Festival

8.
Burning Man Festival

9.
blink(1)

10.
Open-source programmable USB Light

11.
IFTTT + blink(1) = net bliss

12.
Where’s Daddy?

13.
Eigenharp

14.
The most expressive electronic
instrument ever made

15.
Expressiveness vs.Technology

16.
The EigenKey

17.
• 11 bits resolution over 0.9 mm of travel
• 400 nm of real resolution, which is the width of a bacteria
• Read at 500 μS, a 2 kHz rate per axis, a 6kHz rate per key
• Data rate is preserved from end to end

18.
Data rate it preserved from end to end

19.
That’s like a retina screen
for 3D touch sensors

20.
The blank canvas

21.
Create possibilities
Provide new rules
Don’t restrict

22.
Multi-touch instruments
(or how different rules challenge protocols)

23.
Per-note synthesis

24.
Traditional MIDI designed for
31.25 kBaud ~ 1kHz of messages

25.
High-speed MIDI ~ 400x faster

26.
Eigenharp
iConnectMIDI
EigenD with
audio plugins
Firewire Audio Interface
USB Hub
Camera Connection Kit
USB Optical Audio
audio digital/analog
iPad
WaveGenerator, Animoog
expression data or MIDI

27.
Total kludge to set up,
but opens an entirely new world

28.
Time for protocols to change

29.
Human body interaction

30.
Human body interface

31.
Leap Motion Controller

32.
• 10µm of real resolution
• 5x less accurate than Eigenharp, 200x more than Kinect
• Adaptive sample rates: 60-300 hz, defaults to 120 hz
• Data rate is preserved from end to end

33.
Latency just below gesture threshold,
barely noticeable

34.
New interaction rules
New user interface
New protocols

35.
10 thousand free developer units

36.
Figure out the possibilities together

37.
Geco
Multi-dimensional MIDI expression through hand gestures

38.
Think of medical applications

39.
So much is going on!

40.
Don’t be afraid
Experiment
Collaborate

41.
Put the soul in a machine

42.
Change the world