Aghillo

Collaboration is a coat of many colours – it exists in many forms and for many ends. It can be fun, it can be exciting, it can be extremely hard work and it can take you outside of your comfort zone. In its very best form it gives everyone involved a chance to learn something, to produce something meaningful and not just merely contribute from their own single perspective. HighWire’s strap line ‘creating innovative people for radical change’ doesn’t quite capture the collaborative nature of much of our work and of our thinking. But it’s there, it’s definitely there. Read the rest of this entry »

There’s some really nice experimental work going at Nihilogic integrating audio, HTML5 <canvas> and <audio> tags along  with a javascript api which drives the graphics in real-time. The really interesting thing here is doing it in real-time, no pre-processing of the sound track is used. This is nice – it gives all sorts of possibilities to drive visualisations using live performance. However, it gets really interesting when we start thinking about using this to drive physical media as well as digital media. Dancing toys? Enhanced theatre performance? Adaptive architecture?