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Updated Wiki: Home

RobJellinghaus — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:58:37 GMT

A sound playground of your very own.

Holofunk is an improvisational way to make music with your voice and your body, almost like a symphony that you both create and conduct.

Holofunk integrates Kinect body tracking for gesturing, a Wiimote for clicking and picking, the BASS audio library for audio processing, an ASIO sound driver for low-latency recording, and XNA for a fast and attractive interface.

Go here to see it in action.

Current Features

Low-latency pass-through of microphone audio.
Squeeze Wiimote trigger to start a loop; release it to let the loop start running.
Loops appear as colored circles, that throb according to the loop's volume.
Loops are stretched (or slightly scrunched) to fit the current tempo, so everything syncs up.
Press the Wiimote minus button and wave over sounds to mute them and turn them grey.
Press the plus button and wave over sounds to unmute and re-colorize them.
Press minus over a muted loop to delete it altogether.
Press Home to wipe the slate clean and start again.
Everything is recorded in real time to a .WAV file.

That's all it does now, but it's a decent start, and it's already fun to play with :-)

Background and Contact Info

For more background on Holofunk's inspirations and ambitions, see this blog post: http://robjsoftware.org/2011/07/12/first-steps-on-the-road-to-holofunkiness/.

If you are interested in future developments, please consider joining the Holofunk facebook group.

Click here to browse the latest source.

This project is licensed under the quite permissive Microsoft Public License, and I am very much seeking collaborators! The potential of this project is pretty near limitless, and it is just getting started.

In fact, it is so much just getting started that it currently uses various non-commercial components that I am not able to redistribute! So this is not yet a trivial project to get running. Not only that, but since multiple components in this project are non-commercial, you (and I) are forbidden from selling or profiting from this project in its current form. You are hereby warned!

If you still want to try it, check out the Setup and Playing instructions.

For a meta perspective, consider that Holofunk is a synesthizer.

What's Next

Oh, basically an infinite number of things. Some obvious features that should be added:

Ditching the microphone and Wiimote, and using Kinect gestures and the Kinect microphone array, for pure hands-free looping. (The latency issues here are serious, but it could be a fun mode for fooling around, even if it can't get as tight as the additional hardware permits.)
Selecting multiple loops with the A button.
Multiple skins because not everyone likes hippy dippy rainbows :-D
Pushing on the cross-pad to pick various effects (you name it -- volume, pitch shift, filters, compression, reverb, scratching...).
Converting the loops to use an FFT-driven frequency display.
Integrating the Kinect video stream so you see yourself, not just your shadow.
Two-player support! (would be pretty straightforward, the Kinect Window SDK already supports it.)
Gesture support -- warp your sounds with your body.
Muting or otherwise effecting whole groups of sounds.
Collapsing sounds together, or splitting them apart.
Rendering multiple video outputs, one for the performer, one for the audience.
Rewrite the sound callbacks in unmanaged code, to eliminate the occasional sound glitch caused by .NET garbage collection.
Implement reusable sound buffers -- at this point, the amount of sound you could get into a single performance would be nigh limitless.
Importing multiple sound sources, integrating other instruments, integrating MIDI, bringing in multiple visualizers.
AND THEN SOME.

Also, Windows 8 will not support XNA for Metro style applications, and this would be a great Metro app, so that's another reason to move towards C++ (in addition to avoiding garbage-collection glitches, which was plenty enough reason already).

Now you can see why I'd love your help!

Updated Wiki: Setup and Playing

RobJellinghaus — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:57:33 GMT

To run Holofunk, you need this hardware:

A fairly beefy Windows PC, with at least a dual core processor, 2GB of RAM, and two USB hubs (e.g. USB ports in both front and back, say).
A Kinect.
A Wiimote (the remote only, not the "nunchuk" add-on).
A Bluetooth USB receiver, such as this one (the one I'm using).
A fast audio adapter, such as this one (the one I'm using).
A microphone, which can go into your audio adapter.
Headphones or speakers or something, which can come out of your audio adapter.

You also need this software (go right ahead and install it):

Windows 7. I have no intention of trying or supporting Holofunk on any other version. (Until Windows 8, that is ;-)
The XNA 4.0 SDK for Windows/Xbox game development.
Visual Studio 2010, and not the Express version, either. The Express version evidently won't open XNA projects. If this is blocking you from working on Holofunk, please let me know.
The non-commercial beta Kinect Windows SDK.
The ASIO4ALL sound driver.

The other libraries you will need are redistributed as part of the source archive.

Setting up ASIO4ALL, configuring your audio interface so it's picking up the microphone at a reasonable level, making sure the Kinect SDK is working, and configuring your Bluetooth adapter are all topics unto themselves, but the web is very helpful.

Once you have all that set up, you can try downloading the project. It should compile more or less out of the box once the above is all installed; let me know if not.

Actually running Holofunk

First you must copy (by hand, sorry!) the libraries from Holofunky/Lib to your Holofunky/Holofunky/Holofunky/bin/x86/{Debug,Release} directories, or you'll get complaints about "bass.dll not found" or "WiimoteLib.dll not found".

There is some rigmarole involved with getting the Wiimote to connect reliably. I have found that I have to do the following:

Open "Devices and Printers" from start menu.
If you installed the Wiimote before (it shows up as "Nintendo RVL-CNT-01"), first Remove it.
Click "Add a Device".
Hold down the 1 and 2 buttons on the Wiimote. It should start flashing. DO NOT release these buttons. (Hold it in your non-mouse hand ;-)
You should see the Wiimote appear (as "RVL-CNT-01"). Click it and choose Next.
Choose "Pair without a code" (the bottom-most option).
Choose Done as soon as possible.
See the "Installing driver" popup in the lower-right of the screen. Wait for it to say "Driver installation complete". Sometime in here, the Wiimote probably stopped blinking.
Hold down the 1 and 2 buttons on the Wiimote (yes, again).
Run Holofunk (debug build!).
If you get an assertion failure or null pointer exception in Wiimote setup code, quit, release the 1 and 2 buttons, press them again, and repeat step 11.
If Holofunk comes up with a lovely rainbow-y window, the Wiimote should have stopped blinking and be showing a steady single LED. You are now good to go.

At least this only has to be done once per boot -- once the Wiimote is showing a single steady LED, you can quit and restart Holofunk to your heart's content and it will pick up the Wiimote right away each time.

Now, Freak Out!!!

Stand in front of your Kinect, with mike in one hand and Wiimote in the other. (The default is right-handed, mike in left Wiimote in right, but this can be changed in Holofunk.cs.) You should see a ghostly outline of yourself, with a microphone icon in one hand and a circle in the other.
Sing or say something into the mike. You should see a red circle throbbing behind the mike, in time with the volume of your voice.
Sing or say something while squeezing the Wiimote trigger. Note the red circle throbbing inside the circle over your Wii hand.
Let go of the trigger. Whoa! Your sound now has a life of its own and will keep looping.
Do it all again. Make a whole bunch of sounds. They will all line up to the tempo of the rainbow background's pulsing.
Hold the "-" (minus) button on the Wiimote. Your circle goes grey. Wave it over the sounds and see them all turn grey -- and silent. Hold the "+" (plus) button -- your circle goes blue and revives all the sounds.
Pushing the minus button over an already-muted sound deletes that one sound altogether.
When you've created some insane chaos that you can't stand, pressing down on the Home button will wipe the slate clean.
The more you record, the more space is taken up. But space is only taken up when actually recording (when the trigger is depressed), and you can do a lot of damage with the amount of space available.

Aaaaand... that's basically it! Holofunk as it stands in late 2011.

Updated Wiki: Home

RobJellinghaus — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:02:10 GMT

A sound playground of your very own.

Holofunk is an improvisational way to make music with your voice and your body, almost like a symphony that you both create and conduct.

Go here to see it in action.

Current Features

Low-latency pass-through of microphone audio.
Squeeze Wiimote trigger to start a loop; release it to let the loop start running.
Loops appear as colored circles, that throb according to the loop's volume.
Loops are stretched (or slightly scrunched) to fit the current tempo, so everything syncs up.
Press the Wiimote minus button and wave over sounds to mute them and turn them grey.
Press the plus button and wave over sounds to unmute and re-colorize them.
Press minus over a muted loop to delete it altogether.
Press Home to wipe the slate clean and start again.
Everything is recorded in real time to a .WAV file.

That's all it does now, but it's a decent start, and it's already fun to play with :-)

Background and Contact Info

For more background on Holofunk's inspirations and ambitions, see this blog post: http://robjsoftware.org/2011/07/12/first-steps-on-the-road-to-holofunkiness/.

If you are interested in future developments, please consider joining the Holofunk facebook group.

Click here to browse the latest source.

If you still want to try it, check out the Setup and Playing instructions.

For a meta perspective, consider that Holofunk is a synesthizer.

What's Next

Oh, basically an infinite number of things. Some obvious features that should be added:

Ditching the microphone and Wiimote, and using Kinect gestures and the Kinect microphone array, for pure hands-free looping. (The latency issues here are serious, but it could be a fun mode for fooling around, even if it can't get as tight as the additional hardware permits.)
Selecting multiple loops with the A button.
Multiple skins because not everyone likes hippy dippy rainbows :-D
Pushing on the cross-pad to pick various effects (you name it -- volume, pitch shift, filters, compression, reverb, scratching...).
Converting the loops to use an FFT-driven frequency display.
Integrating the Kinect video stream so you see yourself, not just your shadow.
Two-player support! (would be pretty straightforward, the Kinect Window SDK already supports it.)
Gesture support -- warp your sounds with your body.
Muting or otherwise effecting whole groups of sounds.
Collapsing sounds together, or splitting them apart.
Rendering multiple video outputs, one for the performer, one for the audience.
Rewrite the sound callbacks in unmanaged code, to eliminate the occasional sound glitch caused by .NET garbage collection.
Implement reusable sound buffers -- at this point, the amount of sound you could get into a single performance would be nigh limitless.
Importing multiple sound sources, integrating other instruments, integrating MIDI, bringing in multiple visualizers.
AND THEN SOME.

Now you can see why I'd love your help!

Updated Wiki: Home

RobJellinghaus — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:33:16 GMT

A sound playground of your very own.

Holofunk is an improvisational way to make music with your voice and your body, almost like a symphony that you both create and conduct.

Go here to see it in action.

Current Features

Low-latency pass-through of microphone audio.
Squeeze Wiimote trigger to start a loop; release it to let the loop start running.
Loops appear as colored circles, that throb according to the loop's volume.
Loops are stretched (or slightly scrunched) to fit the current tempo, so everything syncs up.
Press the Wiimote minus button and wave over sounds to mute them and turn them grey.
Press the plus button and wave over sounds to unmute and re-colorize them.
Press minus over a muted loop to delete it altogether.
Press Home to wipe the slate clean and start again.
Everything is recorded in real time to a .WAV file.

That's all it does now, but it's a decent start, and it's already fun to play with :-)

Background and Contact Info

For more background on Holofunk's inspirations and ambitions, see this blog post: http://robjsoftware.org/2011/07/12/first-steps-on-the-road-to-holofunkiness/.

If you are interested in future developments, please consider joining the Holofunk facebook group.

Click here to browse the latest source.

If you still want to try it, check out the Setup and Playing instructions.

For a meta perspective, consider that Holofunk is a synesthizer.

What's Next

Oh, basically an infinite number of things. Some obvious features that should be added:

Selecting multiple loops with the A button.
Multiple skins because not everyone likes hippy dippy rainbows :-D
Pushing on the cross-pad to pick various effects (you name it -- volume, pitch shift, filters, compression, reverb, scratching...).
Converting the loops to use an FFT-driven frequency display.
Integrating the Kinect video stream so you see yourself, not just your shadow.
Recording your music.
Two-player support! (would be pretty straightforward, the Kinect Window SDK already supports it.)
Gesture support -- warp your sounds with your body.
Muting or otherwise effecting whole groups of sounds.
Collapsing sounds together, or splitting them apart.
Rendering multiple video outputs, one for the performer, one for the audience.
Rewrite the sound callbacks in unmanaged code, to eliminate the occasional sound glitch caused by .NET garbage collection.
Implement reusable sound buffers -- at this point, the amount of sound you could get into a single performance would be nigh limitless.
Importing multiple sound sources, integrating other instruments, integrating MIDI, bringing in multiple visualizers.
AND THEN SOME.

Now you can see why I'd love your help!

Updated Wiki: Synesthizer

RobJellinghaus — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:31:54 GMT

Technically, Holofunk is a synesthizer.

Synesthesia is the cross-stimulation of sensory pathways. Holofunk takes your every sound and puts it in front of you, letting you see it, reach out, and touch it. Sight, touch, and sound become a unified experience when Holofunking.

Holofunk creates synthetic synesthesia, and I like switching the "th" and the "es" to turn synthesizer into synesthizer.

The only problem is that "synesthizer" is a tongue-twister, so Holofunk is its name :-) And there are who knows how many possible synesthizers -- Holofunk is just a first attempt!

Updated Wiki: Home

RobJellinghaus — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:30:02 GMT

A sound playground of your very own.

Holofunk is an improvisational way to make music with your voice and your body, almost like a symphony that you both create and conduct.

Current Features

Low-latency pass-through of microphone audio.
Squeeze Wiimote trigger to start a loop; release it to let the loop start running.
Loops appear as colored circles, that throb according to the loop's volume.
Loops are stretched (or slightly scrunched) to fit the current tempo, so everything syncs up.
Press the Wiimote minus button and wave over sounds to mute them and turn them grey.
Press the plus button and wave over sounds to unmute and re-colorize them.
Press minus over a muted loop to delete it altogether.
Press Home to wipe the slate clean and start again.
Everything is recorded in real time to a .WAV file.

That's all it does now, but it's a decent start, and it's already fun to play with :-)

Background and Contact Info

For more background on Holofunk's inspirations and ambitions, see this blog post: http://robjsoftware.org/2011/07/12/first-steps-on-the-road-to-holofunkiness/.

If you are interested in future developments, please consider joining the Holofunk facebook group.

Click here to browse the latest source.

If you still want to try it, check out the Setup and Playing instructions.

For a meta perspective, consider that Holofunk is a synesthizer.

What's Next

Oh, basically an infinite number of things. Some obvious features that should be added:

Selecting multiple loops with the A button.
Multiple skins because not everyone likes hippy dippy rainbows :-D
Pushing on the cross-pad to pick various effects (you name it -- volume, pitch shift, filters, compression, reverb, scratching...).
Converting the loops to use an FFT-driven frequency display.
Integrating the Kinect video stream so you see yourself, not just your shadow.
Recording your music.
Two-player support! (would be pretty straightforward, the Kinect Window SDK already supports it.)
Gesture support -- warp your sounds with your body.
Muting or otherwise effecting whole groups of sounds.
Collapsing sounds together, or splitting them apart.
Rendering multiple video outputs, one for the performer, one for the audience.
Rewrite the sound callbacks in unmanaged code, to eliminate the occasional sound glitch caused by .NET garbage collection.
Implement reusable sound buffers -- at this point, the amount of sound you could get into a single performance would be nigh limitless.
Importing multiple sound sources, integrating other instruments, integrating MIDI, bringing in multiple visualizers.
AND THEN SOME.

Now you can see why I'd love your help!

Updated Wiki: Synesthizer

RobJellinghaus — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:20:12 GMT

Technically, Holofunk is a synesthizer.

The only problem is that "synesthizer" is a tongue-twister, so Holofunk is its name :-) And there are who knows how many possible synesthizers out there -- Holofunk is just a first attempt.

Updated Wiki: Home

RobJellinghaus — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:18:19 GMT

A sound playground of your very own.

Holofunk is an improvisational way to make music with your voice and your body, almost like a symphony that you both create and conduct.

Current Features

Low-latency pass-through of microphone audio.
Squeeze Wiimote trigger to start a loop; release it to let the loop start running.
Loops appear as colored circles, that throb according to the loop's volume.
Loops are stretched (or slightly scrunched) to fit the current tempo, so everything syncs up.
Press the Wiimote minus button and wave over sounds to mute them and turn them grey.
Press the plus button and wave over sounds to unmute and re-colorize them.
Press minus over a muted loop to delete it altogether.
Press Home to wipe the slate clean and start again.
Everything is recorded in real time to a .WAV file.

That's all it does now, but it's a decent start, and it's already fun to play with :-)

Background and Contact Info

For more background on Holofunk's inspirations and ambitions, see this blog post: http://robjsoftware.org/2011/07/12/first-steps-on-the-road-to-holofunkiness/.

If you are interested in future developments, please consider joining the Holofunk facebook group.

Technically, Holofunk is a synesthizer. Synesthesia is the cross-stimulation of sensory pathways. Holofunk takes your every sound and puts it in front of you, letting you see it, reach out, and touch it. Sight, touch, and sound become a unified experience when Holofunking. (The only problem is that "synesthizer" is a tongue-twister, so Holofunk is the easy name :-)

Click here to browse the latest source.

If you still want to try it, check out the Setup and Playing instructions.

What's Next

Oh, basically an infinite number of things. Some obvious features that should be added:

Selecting multiple loops with the A button.
Multiple skins because not everyone likes hippy dippy rainbows :-D
Pushing on the cross-pad to pick various effects (you name it -- volume, pitch shift, filters, compression, reverb, scratching...).
Converting the loops to use an FFT-driven frequency display.
Integrating the Kinect video stream so you see yourself, not just your shadow.
Recording your music.
Two-player support! (would be pretty straightforward, the Kinect Window SDK already supports it.)
Gesture support -- warp your sounds with your body.
Muting or otherwise effecting whole groups of sounds.
Collapsing sounds together, or splitting them apart.
Rendering multiple video outputs, one for the performer, one for the audience.
Rewrite the sound callbacks in unmanaged code, to eliminate the occasional sound glitch caused by .NET garbage collection.
Implement reusable sound buffers -- at this point, the amount of sound you could get into a single performance would be nigh limitless.
Importing multiple sound sources, integrating other instruments, integrating MIDI, bringing in multiple visualizers.
AND THEN SOME.

Now you can see why I'd love your help!

Updated Wiki: Setup and Playing

RobJellinghaus — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:57:58 GMT

To run Holofunk, you need this hardware:

A fairly beefy Windows PC, with at least a dual core processor, 2GB of RAM, and two USB hubs (e.g. USB ports in both front and back, say).
A Kinect.
A Wiimote (the remote only, not the "nunchuk" add-on).
A Bluetooth USB receiver, such as this one (the one I'm using).
A fast audio adapter, such as this one (the one I'm using).
A microphone, which can go into your audio adapter.
Headphones or speakers or something, which can come out of your audio adapter.

You also need this software (go right ahead and install it):

Windows 7. I have no intention of trying or supporting Holofunk on any other version.
The XNA 4.0 SDK for Windows/Xbox game development.
Visual Studio 2010, and not the Express version, either. The Express version evidently won't open XNA projects. If this is blocking you from working on Holofunk, please let me know.
The non-commercial beta Kinect Windows SDK.
The ASIO4ALL sound driver.

The other libraries you will need are redistributed as part of the source archive.

There is some rigmarole involved with getting the Wiimote to connect reliably. I have found that I have to do the following:

Open "Devices and Printers" from start menu.
If you installed the Wiimote before (it shows up as "Nintendo RVL-CNT-01"), first Remove it.
Click "Add a Device".
Hold down the 1 and 2 buttons on the Wiimote. It should start flashing. DO NOT release these buttons. (Hold it in your non-mouse hand ;-)
You should see the Wiimote appear (as "RVL-CNT-01"). Click it and choose Next.
Choose "Pair without a code" (the bottom-most option).
Choose Done as soon as possible.
See the "Installing driver" popup in the lower-right of the screen. Wait for it to say "Driver installation complete". Sometime in here, the Wiimote probably stopped blinking.
Hold down the 1 and 2 buttons on the Wiimote (yes, again).
Run Holofunk (debug build!).
If you get an assertion failure or null pointer exception in Wiimote setup code, quit, release the 1 and 2 buttons, press them again, and repeat step 11.
If Holofunk comes up with a lovely rainbow-y window, the Wiimote should have stopped blinking and be showing a steady single LED. You are now good to go.

Now, Freak Out!!!

Stand in front of your Kinect, with mike in one hand and Wiimote in the other. (The default is right-handed, mike in left Wiimote in right, but this can be changed in Holofunk.cs.) You should see a ghostly outline of yourself, with a microphone icon in one hand and a circle in the other.
Sing or say something into the mike. You should see a red circle throbbing behind the mike, in time with the volume of your voice.
Sing or say something while squeezing the Wiimote trigger. Note the red circle throbbing inside the circle over your Wii hand.
Let go of the trigger. Whoa! Your sound now has a life of its own and will keep looping.
Do it all again. Make a whole bunch of sounds. They will all line up to the tempo of the rainbow background's pulsing.
Hold the "-" (minus) button on the Wiimote. Your circle goes grey. Wave it over the sounds and see them all turn grey -- and silent. Hold the "+" (plus) button -- your circle goes blue and revives all the sounds.
Pushing the minus button over an already-muted sound deletes that one sound altogether.
When you've created some insane chaos that you can't stand, pressing down on the Home button will wipe the slate clean.
The more you record, the more space is taken up. But space is only taken up when actually recording (when the trigger is depressed), and you can do a lot of damage with the amount of space available.

Aaaaand... that's basically it! Holofunk as it stands in late 2011.

Updated Wiki: Home

RobJellinghaus — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:56:51 GMT

A sound playground of your very own.

Holofunk is an improvisational way to make music with your voice and your body, almost like a symphony that you both create and conduct.

Current Features

Low-latency pass-through of microphone audio.
Squeeze Wiimote trigger to start a loop; release it to let the loop start running.
Loops appear as colored circles, that throb according to the loop's volume.
Loops are stretched (or slightly scrunched) to fit the current tempo, so everything syncs up.
Press the Wiimote minus button and wave over sounds to mute them and turn them grey.
Press the plus button and wave over sounds to unmute and re-colorize them.
Press minus over a muted loop to delete it altogether.
Press Home to wipe the slate clean and start again.
Everything is recorded in real time to a .WAV file.

That's all it does now, but it's a decent start, and it's already fun to play with :-)

Background and Contact Info

For more background on Holofunk's inspirations and ambitions, see this blog post: http://robjsoftware.org/2011/07/12/first-steps-on-the-road-to-holofunkiness/.

If you are interested in future developments, please consider joining the Holofunk facebook group.

Click here to browse the latest source.

If you still want to try it, check out the Setup and Playing instructions.

What's Next

Oh, basically an infinite number of things. Some obvious features that should be added:

Selecting multiple loops with the A button.
Multiple skins because not everyone likes hippy dippy rainbows :-D
Pushing on the cross-pad to pick various effects (you name it -- volume, pitch shift, filters, compression, reverb, scratching...).
Converting the loops to use an FFT-driven frequency display.
Integrating the Kinect video stream so you see yourself, not just your shadow.
Recording your music.
Two-player support! (would be pretty straightforward, the Kinect Window SDK already supports it.)
Gesture support -- warp your sounds with your body.
Muting or otherwise effecting whole groups of sounds.
Collapsing sounds together, or splitting them apart.
Rendering multiple video outputs, one for the performer, one for the audience.
Rewrite the sound callbacks in unmanaged code, to eliminate the occasional sound glitch caused by .NET garbage collection.
Implement reusable sound buffers -- at this point, the amount of sound you could get into a single performance would be nigh limitless.
Importing multiple sound sources, integrating other instruments, integrating MIDI, bringing in multiple visualizers.
AND THEN SOME.

Now you can see why I'd love your help!

Updated Wiki: Attention: Beardyman!

RobJellinghaus — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:29:11 GMT

Your Attention Please, Mr. Beardyman, Sir!

My name is Rob Jellinghaus. I'm a Microsoft programmer, living in Seattle, who's been epically inspired by your work over the last few years.

I've put together a... thing. You know how it is trying to explain this kind of business, so first, please watch this video. (If you haven't already.) And please look past my crap beatboxing to the underlying concept here, if you can. The idea is to make a live looper that lets you see and touch the loops as you make them.

Now: I am indeed coming to your Vancouver show next Tuesday, and I do indeed have a room three blocks from the Future Sound club. I'll be arriving 9/13, the day of the show, around noon, and I'm staying the night.

If there's any chance you have even fifteen minutes or so, on Tuesday or early Wednesday (I have to head back before noon on Wednesday), I would love to demo Holofunk for you; it's a PC app and I'll be bringing everything needed and setting it up in my hotel room.

This is an open source project (check the Home link above), so I'm hoping to collaborate with anyone and everyone, but especially you. And Reggie Watts, I want to hit him up too, but you are the King of Sound and Ruler of Beats, and I genuinely want to make this as interesting as possible for you to play with. There is lots, lots, LOTS more that can be done with this thing, and your personal thoughts and priorities are extremely important to me.

You've said often that technology is fundamental to what you do. I'm hoping that this is a whole new technological direction for this kind of music, and that we can make some truly brain-meltingly awesome shit happen up in this.

Please send word by emailing me -- click here. And if you want more background on what the hell I'm up to with this, please read this.

Cheers!

Rob Jellinghaus

Updated Wiki: Attention: Beardyman!

RobJellinghaus — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:28:09 GMT

Your Attention Please, Mr. Beardyman, Sir!

My name is Rob Jellinghaus. I'm a Microsoft programmer, living in Seattle, who's been epically inspired by your work over the last few years.

Please send word by emailing me -- click here. And if you want more background on what the hell I'm up to with this, please read this.

Cheers!

Rob Jellinghaus

Updated Wiki: Attention: Beardyman!

RobJellinghaus — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:49:43 GMT

Your Attention Please, Mr. Beardyman, Sir!

My name is Rob Jellinghaus. I'm a Microsoft programmer, living in Seattle, who's been epically inspired by your work over the last few years.

I've put together a... thing. You know how it is trying to explain this kind of business, so first, please watch this video. (If you haven't already.)

Thanks! I'm calling it Holofunk.

Please send word by emailing me -- click here. And if you want more background on what the hell I'm up to with this, please read this.

Cheers!

Rob Jellinghaus

Updated Wiki: Attention: Beardyman!

RobJellinghaus — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:46:31 GMT

Your Attention Please, Mr. Beardyman, Sir!

My name is Rob Jellinghaus. I'm a Microsoft programmer, living in Seattle, who's been epically inspired by your work over the last few years.

I've put together a... thing. You know how it is trying to explain this kind of business, so first, please watch this video. (If you haven't already.)

Thanks! I'm calling it Holofunk.

Please send word by emailing me -- click here. And if you want more background on what the hell I'm up to with this, please read this.

Cheers!

Rob Jellinghaus

Updated Wiki: Attention: Beardyman!

RobJellinghaus — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:46:09 GMT

Your Attention Please, Mr. Beardyman, Sir!

My name is Rob Jellinghaus. I'm a Microsoft programmer, living in Seattle, who's been epically inspired by your work over the last few years.

I've put together a... thing. You know how it is trying to explain this kind of business, so first, please watch this video. (If you haven't already. Sorry about the volume -- I will fix that and re-upload.)

Thanks! I'm calling it Holofunk.

Please send word by emailing me -- click here. And if you want more background on what the hell I'm up to with this, please read this.

Cheers!

Rob Jellinghaus

Updated Wiki: Attention: Beardyman!

RobJellinghaus — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:52:11 GMT

Your Attention Please, Mr. Beardyman, Sir!

My name is Rob Jellinghaus. I'm a Microsoft programmer, living in Seattle, who's been epically inspired by your work over the last few years.

Thanks! I'm calling it Holofunk.

Please send word by emailing me -- click here. And if you want more background on what the hell I'm up to with this, please read this.

Cheers!

Rob Jellinghaus

Updated Wiki: Attention: Beardyman!

RobJellinghaus — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:58:48 GMT

Your Attention Please, Mr. Beardyman, Sir!

My name is Rob Jellinghaus. I'm a Microsoft programmer, living in Seattle, who's been epically inspired by your work over the last few years.

I've put together a... thing. You know how it is trying to explain this kind of business, so first, please watch this video. (If you haven't already.)

Thanks! I'm calling it Holofunk.

Please send word by emailing me -- click here. And if you want more background on what the hell I'm up to with this, please read this.

Cheers!

Rob Jellinghaus

Updated Wiki: Attention: Beardyman!

RobJellinghaus — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:57:02 GMT

Your Attention Please, Mr. Beardyman, Sir!

My name is Rob Jellinghaus. I'm a Microsoft programmer, living in Seattle, who's been epically inspired by your work over the last few years.

I've put together a... thing. You know how it is trying to explain this kind of business, so first, please watch this video. (If you haven't already.)

Thanks! Now: I am indeed coming to your Vancouver show next Tuesday, and I do indeed have a room three blocks from the Future Sound club. I'll be arriving 9/13, the day of the show, around noon, and I'm staying the night.

If there's any chance you have even fifteen minutes or so, on Tuesday or early Wednesday (I have to head back before noon on Wednesday), I would love to demo this thing for you; it's a PC app and I'll be bringing everything needed and setting it up in my hotel room.

Please send word by emailing me -- click here. And if you want more background on what the hell I'm up to with this, please read this.

Cheers!

Rob Jellinghaus

Updated Wiki: Attention: Beardyman!

RobJellinghaus — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:29:40 GMT

Your Attention Please, Mr. Beardyman, Sir!

My name is Rob Jellinghaus. I'm a Microsoft programmer, living in Seattle, who's been epically inspired by your work over the last few years.

I've put together a... thing. You know how it is trying to explain this kind of business, so first, please watch this video.

Please send word by emailing me -- click here. And if you want more background on what the hell I'm up to with this, please read this.

Cheers!

Rob Jellinghaus

Updated Wiki: Attention: Beardyman!

RobJellinghaus — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:25:51 GMT

My name is Rob Jellinghaus. I'm a Microsoft programmer, living in Seattle, who's been epically inspired by your work over the last few years.

I've put together a... thing. You know how it is trying to explain this kind of business, so first, please watch this video.

Please send word by emailing me -- click here. And if you want more background on what the hell I'm up to with this, please read this.

Cheers!

Rob Jellinghaus