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“You never change something by fighting the existing reality.
  To change something, build a new model that makes
  the existing model obsolete.”
  ― R. Buckminster Fuller

I am Muirén, and my specific focus with Spelkast Theater, is leveraging the potential of MIDI 2.0, to enable a flexible, highly adaptive cyber-physical framework for cooperative creation, community relationship management, and seamlessly immersive participatory performance.

Foundational specifications for MIDI 2.0 were released in February 2020, which allowed MIDI Association members, including Operating System companies, to start practical implementation of the MIDI 2.0 specification.

This is an extension of 🧙🏾‍♀️TınyMaker.Space™ Project, the organizing, evangelizing force, and funding source for my goal of establishing a permanent home and makerspace that is self-supporting through its own efforts, primarily through sales of my uniquely crafted, tangible fusions of art and tech, as well as performing arts.

Machine Learning Basics on Raspberry Pi with MediaPipe

  • Understand the fundamentals of gesture recognition: Discover how computer vision is used to identify and categorize hand gestures.
  • Explore MediaPipe’s capabilities: Learn how this powerful library simplifies the process of building gesture recognition applications.
  • Create your own Raspberry Pi app: Follow a step-by-step guide to build a Python app that can recognize static hand gestures.

John Carpenter • Alan Howarth • Darkness Begins

It’s that time of year when darkness takes on a special meaning, and for those of a certain age and temperament, there are some fond but chilling memories of John Carpenter’s apocalyptic trilogy of films.

This is my cover of the “Darkness Begins” theme by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth. And I’ve made use of a MuseScore Studio to craft the arrangement, and employed a blend of modern sampled acoustic wavetable and classic analog synthesizers by Arturia, in this homage to the 1987 film “Prince of Darkness”, and the “Darkness Begins” theme

7 Things I couldn’t do before MIDI Guitar 3 • Did anything really change with MPE?

With our host, Thorleif “LoFiLeiF” Markula
There is going to be no question about the importance of the move from legacy MIDI 1.0 to whatever will be said to follow. MPE or MIDI 2.0, or maybe something else? But the move to per-note mappings, assignments, and modulation is a paradigm shift. Not just because we get to control a filter here and there with pinpoint precision, but perhaps because it lets us set up in new ways, and makes us work and think in new ways.
In this video, I showcase a couple of ways of using it that wasn’t possible before with the JamOrigin MIDI Guitar software.
Some of you guys have explicitly expressed a wish for “no talking” so here you are.

Update: Yusuf Islam aka Cat Stevens • Sad Lisa 2024-10-22

Recreated rhythm, percussion, then remixed.

A work in progress; adapting a keyboard-centric piece of music to guitar. The instrument is a partscaster with a custom hybrid MIDI Controller, Graphtech hexaphonic bridge saddles replacing the stock hex pickup of a Fishman TriplePlay.

Arturia MiniFUSE 2 interface, and using MuseScore Studio as a DAW, with natural electric guitar, acoustic guitar, using Arturia Pigments to create a pseudo-Acoustic Guitar synth and using Arturia Augmented STRINGS to create a finger plucked acoustic Bass sound.

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