midi

The squarewave ring in my ears finally attenuated here´s a round up of the coverage from the Blip Festival 2006 in NYC - MAKE was a patronise and had a table there with our kits and zines. The fest consisted of a small but thriving community from around the global - there´s something delicious astir artists, composers and makers creating music from tossed gaming machines that are almost as old as the performers.

• GSW Report: Blip Festival 2006, Part 1 - Link.
• GSW Report: Blip Festival 2006, Part 2 - Link.
• Blip Festival: 8-Bit is Enough - Link.
• Blip festival - Link.
• Music @ MySpace - Link.
• Videos @ Youtube - Link.
• Quick vid from MAKE - one & two.
• Photos @ Flickr - Link.

The folks there liked the year one MAKE (soldering primer) the MIDI & circuit bending issues and the Mintyboost for charging Gameboys and music players - thanks to all the folks who stopped by to say hi, chat and pick up MAKE stuff.

You might intend the Nintendo DS is a kiddy console, but that notion is thrown and twisted out of the window with the introduction of the DSMIDIWiFi, turning your fun loving DS´ touch screen into a commandler that sends wireless signals to a host program on your computer, making the melody in your head a reality. The DS MIDI Keyboard program turns your DS into a practical MIDI keyboard along with pitch wheel/MIDI command adjustment while the Kaos DS is an XY commandler that works just like a Kaoss pad. Last but not least, the Pulse DS will utilize the hand-held console´s Programmable Sound Generator to produce synthesized MIDI tunes. You could say the DSMIDIWiFi is one of the best homebrew applications to come out in a long time.