Here's a video showing some of the projects and feedback generated by the SenseStage Workshop held May 16-23, 2009. SenseStage is a collaborative project between the IDMIL and labXmodal at Concordia Unversity; the workshop was held to begin exploration of new hardware and software tools developed for using low-cost, distributed sensing in the media arts.
This is D. Andrew Stewart playing his composition “Everybody to the power of one” for soprano T-Stick digital musical instrument, Monday August 17th in Pollack Hall, McGill University.
Everybody to the Power of One (ICMC Performance) from Joseph Malloch on Vimeo.
The MiniBee is a small, arduino-like circuit board designed for the SenseStage project, a collaboration between the IDMIL and Chris Salter's lab at Concordia University. The boards include the footprint for a XBee mesh-networking wireless transceiver, creating compact, low-cost sensing nodes which we are now using for investigating ubiquitous computing in the media arts.
The first batch of 100 MiniBee Rev.A boards have been manufactured, assembled and successfully tested 
“The SenseStage workshop is meant to bring together people from different disciplines (dance, theatre, sound, video, light) and cooperate in a collaborative environment with interactive technologies. The workshop will take place in the Hexagram BlackBox, a special, configurable room equipped with a full set of theatre lights. Furthermore a multichannel sound setup and video equipment will be available. Last but not least, a set of sensor devices with sensors will be available for use during this workshop.”
Prof. Wanderley will be one of the teachers in the Sound and Music Computing (SCM) Summer School on Interactions with Environmental Sounds. It will take place at the Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal, from July 18 to 21, 2009.
The other teachers will be Joel Chadabe (Electronic Music Foundation) and Xavier Serra (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain). Tutors include Jean-Julien Acouturier, Stephan Baumann, Eoin Brazil, Federico Fontana, Bram de Jong, Luis Gustavo Martins, Rui Penha and Stefania Serafin.
Students can register to participate to the upcoming SMC Summer School by making an application. Summer school student grants will be provided by the COST Action IC0601 on Sonic Interaction Design.
Application deadline: 24th April.
More info: http://smcnetwork.org/summerschool/porto2009
