We’re really excited to announce that Michael Zbyszyński has joined the RAPID-MIX team and relocated to Goldsmiths. He has a background as a musician, maker and coder, working at places inside and outside of academia including Avid, Cycling ’74 and CNMAT.
See his full bio on the Team page.
RAPID-MIX team member and Goldsmiths reader in creative computing Mick Grierson was present at the JUCE summit on 19-20th November, alongside representatives from Google, Native Instruments, Cycling ’74 and other key music industry players. Mick is Innovation Manager for RAPID-MIX, running the whole project as well as being a key developer of MIX technologies.
http://www.juce.com/summit#overview
Even if you haven’t heard of JUCE, chances are you’ve used it without knowing. It is an environment in which you can build plug-ins, music software and more, and is perhaps best known as the environment in which Cycling 74’s Max MSP is built and runs. It’s ever present in the background of a lot of audio software. The summit brought together key technologists in the music industry, and it was a pleasure and an honour to have a RAPID MIX presence amongst them
Mick spoke between David Zicarelli (from Cycling 74) and Andrew Bell (Cinder), presenting his C++ audio DSP engine Maximilian, describing how it integrates with JUCE, Cinder, Open Frameworks and other tools. Maximilian is an incredibly powerful, lightweight audio engine which will form a key part of the RAPID API we will be launching soon. If you want to dig deeper, check out the Maximilian library on Github here:
https://github.com/micknoise/Maximilian
JUCE is now owned by RAPID-MIX partners ROLI, and we’re excited about future developments involving RAPID-MIX, Juce and the creative music industry partners present at the summit. Stay tuned for more news!
We are delighted to announce the launch of the Kickstarter for the Kurv guitar. This is the first of many projects and products that are powered by RAPID MIX technologies.
It’s the RAPID MIX gesture recognition and synthesis technologies, along with our own hardware design and bluetooth firmware, that make projects like the Kurv Guitar possible. We expect this to be the first of many musical interfaces, ranging from games to serious musical instruments, that help turn the human body into an expressive musical tool using RAPID MIX technologies. Check out their Kickstarter below:
Dr. Michael Zbyszyński is a Research Associate in the Department of Computing, Goldsmiths. As a musician, his work spans from brass bands to symphony orchestras, including composition and improvisation with woodwinds and electronics. He has been a software developer at Avid, SoundHound, Cycling ’74, and Keith McMillen Instruments, and was Assistant Director of Pedagogy at UC Berkeley’s Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT). He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and studied at the Academy of Music in Kraków on a Fulbright Grant. His work has been included in Make Magazine, the Rhizome Artbase, and on the ARTSHIP recording label.