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The Interdimensional Wrecked* System (IWS): What it is? The name may sound strange, but the idea behind it is simple: We want to use our standard DJ turntable as a generalized controller in the digital dimension. This way we maintain the hands-on physical contact and subtle gestural control we're used to having when spinning records, yet we're able to apply those gestures to whatever we want to inside the digital dimension. For example, imagine putting the needle down on a piece of vinyl and what starts to play is both video and audio. Or imagine "scratching" the cutoff frequency and Q of a filter while simultaneously scratching a sound sample played through that same filter. With the Interdimensional Wrecked System(IWS) and Max/MSP/Jitter, the possibility exists to scratch just about anything. |
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How is it possible to translate the physical motion of a needle tracing the groove of a vinyl record into highly accurate measurements inside a computer? This has been Ms Pinky's research focus for the past 4 years. The results have been astounding. But MsPinky doesn't take all the credit for these achievements, though she is very proud of the results. Without the work of our ingenious forebears, none of this would have been possible. First and foremost, we give endless respects to Dr. Gottfried Ungerboeck whose Trellis Coded Modulation creates an optimal way to encode the ones and zeros in analog waveforms to allow the maximum amount of data to be transmitted over an analog telephone line by minimizing small noise induced distortions. Dr. Ungerboeck is currently at IBM's Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland. His coding techniques are at the heart of MsPinky's Interdimensional Wrecked System. Of course, MsPinky has added a little magic of her own... |
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* Note that "Wrecked" is pronounced "Rekkid"... |
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