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For Geeks only:

This new touch screen-based hardware designed for making music with  
computers is called the Lemur, and is a giant leap in the right  
direction for control interfaces:
http://www.cycling74.com/products/lemur

Essentially it allows a user to create and layout their own touch  
screen interface, whether it's made of virtual knobs or sliders or  
bouncing balls, the manipulations of which control variables in the  
music-making software.
It's also one of a new batch of interfaces that uses the ol' Ethernet  
port for communicating with the base computer, instead of slower USB  
or FireWire.

Computer musicians on the list can instantly appreciate this  
development.  Anyone who has used or thought about using alternative  
interfaces for controlling any computer software--music or otherwise-- 
can appreciate where this is headed.

We're hoping the iPhone, with it's complex touch screen, will bring  
down the price of this technology.

Cycling'74 also distributes a make-your-own interface hardware kit.

--J

JasonJayStevens
JasonJayStevensStudios
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On Jan 18, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Eric Siegel wrote:

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> We just commissioned a piece from Jeff.  Here is a video...
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> http://cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/mediamirror/index.html
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> The multi-touch screen is very cool, cool enough for Jobs to demo  
> his own version at the iphone unveiling.  Jeff used to work for  
> Apple, but I have no idea if the iphone licensed his technology.  I  
> suspect not, since his system (based upon a principal called  
> frustrated total internal reflection--or as I call it,  
> "adolescence") works best in the dark.  Jeff is a great guy to work  
> with and his star is rising fast.
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>> There is a new article in Fast Company magazine about Jeff Han  
>> from NYU and his interesting new touch screen technology.
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>> The link includes the full article as well as an amazing video:
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>> canttouchthis.html
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