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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:

Just about to start our first Co-Design workshop for the MusicHackDay at Pompeu Fabra!

RAPID-MIX will be participating in the Music Hack Day, Barcelona from June 17th to the 19th. We will be conducting a workshop for participatory design and showcasing some of the technologies that we are developing in talks and performances. Come and join us and have a hands on approach with the new cutting edge technologies for music!

The next RAPID MIX meeting will be at IRCAM in Paris from the 20th – 22nd May.

This meeting is to plan and prepare for the workshops and user centred design sessions we will be doing before and during the Barcelona Hackday. We will be reviewing the different technologies that the partners can bring for people to work with, think about some early prototpyes and prepare strategies and challenges for the hackers. We’re excited about bringing these different technologies together and start putting them in the hands of artists, musicians, programmers and who are going to be using them.

We are in Barcelona at the Music Technology group, UPF for our long awaited kick off meeting for our new EC Horizon2020 funded ICT project, RAPID MIX. This is an initial meeting for all the partners to meet each other, discuss the different work packages that constitute the project, and start to get inspired by sharing research, products and technologies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nice to feel welcome with wayfinding!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sergi Jorda (Music Technology Group) reminds us of project objectives

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ReacTable Systems: Gunter Geiger

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alba Rosado from MTG on Workpackage 1