“There is a fundamental continuity between how people experience the world during the day and at night,” says researcher David Watson, a professor of psychology at the University of Iowa, in a news release. “People who are prone to daydreaming and fantasy have less of a barrier between states of sleep and wakefulness and seem to more easily pass between them.”

Here is the original post and great thanks to Agata for sending me the article.

I’ve posted the latest version of the audio visualizer, with the latest tunes from an album my father and I are working on.

Built in processing with the minim library.

A designed object is an object of interest. If the object is interesting, why not make it part of the narrative? A playstation/ Xbox controller can trace its roots in handicrafts or pottery, where the interaction is closed around the body and the actions all take place around a small area of a semi-circle. A wiimote is a shortened stick very similar to the style of stick our ancestors used to chip away at nuts and presumably write messages on the ground for one another. What makes the wiimote different is the ability of the person using it to transform it into a metaphorical object capable of becoming anything.

What would a narrative controller look like in the dream world? It couldn’t be something stationary. It couldn’t be something you hold on to.

A controller in the narrative world would have to have to be an embedded symbol or a type of motion that would work well in the dream landscape. An entirely gestural interface–One without a hand-held object would be the best.

But I see this technology as much more significant than a suggested attempt to put composers on the dole.

Mark Altekruse at Abaltat suggested that as a composer, I could use this to sketch out ideas. He was right: Inside of an hour I was inserting cue points into the timeline and adjusting instrumentation according to color information.

It was a much different composing experience. Instead of writing a piece of music and then plopping it down onto the scene, I could essentially work backwards. By laying down a sketch, I could think about what mood or depth of instrumentation I could use and work out the timing, instead of worrying about the details of the music too early on.

Muse's Color Timeline

The wonderful part is that Muse allows one to export sound files and midi files for placement (exporting cues to AAF files doesn’t seem to be an option yet) and for perfectly reasonable use.Changing the scale of the current composition is quite easy. I could see using Muse on a tight deadline.

What’s most exciting is that Muse is a truly synaesthetic tool for creating dynamic sound from image.

A delightful short film that glosses over the fine details of photographic history–And gives us what we’ve all been waiting for in early 1970s–A leather bound instant camera. I wonder what would have happened if Polaroid paid as much attention to their digital cameras?