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Category archives: Reference

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    Three-Dimensional Mid-Air Acoustic Manipulation

    Three-Dimensional Mid-Air Acoustic Manipulation (2013-) Yoichi Ochiai (The University of Tokyo) Takayuki Hoshi (Nagoya Institute of Technology) Jun Rekimoto (The University of Tokyo / Sony CSL) http://96ochiai.ws/3DOFacou... contact: yoichi.ochiai@me.com The essence of levitation tec[...]
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    inFORM from Tangible Media

    Those crazy cats at Tangible Media in MIT's Media Lab under the tuition of Hiroshi Iishi have just released their vision of a 3D interface under the the moniker inFORM.   Using linear actuators that are linked via cables to the interface 'pins', the interface is linked to a Kinect. As in my own e[...]
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    Shapeways & SoundCloud make unique cases!

    The 3D Printing company Shapeways, and the music hosting service SoundCloud have joined forces in a great and very modern way called The Vibe: making personalised phone cases that are made by combining your favorite music track and the casing of your music device!  Cool!  The interesting part is[...]
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    Steven Strogatz - SYNC

    Strogatz, S. (2003) SYNC: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order New York, USA: Hyperion ISBN 0-7868-6844-9
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    David Peak & Michael Frame - Chaos Under Control

    Peak, D. & Frame, M. (1994) Chaos Under Control: The Art and Science of Complexity New York, USA: W. H. Freeman and Company ISBN 0-7167-2429-4
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    Per Bak - How Nature Works

    Bak, P. (1997) How Nature Works: The Science of Self-Organized Criticality Oxford, UK: Oxford Press ISBN 0-19-850164-1
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    Dan Saffer - Designing for Interaction

    Saffer, D. (2007) Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices. Berkeley CA, USA: Free Riders ISBN 0-312-43206-1  
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    The Sound of Cancer

    Gil Alterovitz, a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, translated populations of genes into musical notes. Each constellation (green) represents a key network of interrelated genes (blue). Each network is represented by a musical note. In healthy cells, the notes form music in harmony, indicat[...]
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    Nacenta, M., Kamber, Y., Qiang, Y., & Kristensson, P. O. - Memorability of Pre-designed & User-defined Gesture Sets

     Nacenta, M., Kamber, Y., Qiang, Y., & Kristensson, P. O. (2013) Memorability of Pre-designed & User-defined Gesture Sets.      Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013).      Retrieved from http://miguel.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Downloads/Gest[...]
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    Malcom McCullough - Digital Ground

    McCullough, M. (2004) Digital Ground – Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowledge. Massachuesetts, USA: The MIT Press ISBN 0-262-13435-7
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    Self-Producing Systems - John Mingers

    Mingers, J. (1995) Self Producing Systems - Implications and Applications of Autopoeisis New York, USA: Plenum Press ISBN 0-306-44797-5  
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    Leisure Studies – Prospects for the Twenty-First Century

    Various (1999) Leisure Studies – Prospects for the Twenty-First Century Pennsylvania, USA: Venture Publishing ISBN:  1-892132-03-6
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    Design & Emotion Moves

    Various (2008) Design & Emotion Moves Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars publishing ISBN: 1-4438-0016-3
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    Maeda and Media

    Maeda, J. (2000) Maeda and Media London, UK: Thames & Hudson ISBN: 0-500-28235-8
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    Trespassers

    van Hinte, E & Bakker, C. (1999) Trespassers Rotterdam, Netherlands:  010 publishers ISBN90-6450-375-3
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    Design Disasters

    Heller, S. Edit (2008) Design Disasters New York, USA:  Allworth Press ISBN:  978-1-58115-508-2
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    Design Research – Methods and Perspectives

    Various (2003) Design Research – Methods and Perspectives Massachusetts, USA:  MIT Press ISBN:  0-262-12263-4
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    Vespa

    Boni, V. (2006) Vespa New York, USA:  Rizzoli International Publications ISBN:  0-8478-2936-7
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    Design for Life

    Yelavich, S. (1997) Design for Life New York, USA:  Cooper Hewitt ISBN:  0-8478-202-30-0
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    Design Elements – A Graphic Style Manual

    Samara, T. (2007) Design Elements – A Graphic Style Manual Massachusetts, USA:  Rockport Publishers ISBN 1-59253-261-6
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    To Have and to Hold

    Blom, P (2002) To Have and to Hold New York, USA: The Overlook Press ISBN1-58567-377-3
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    Ceramics

    Sottsass, E. (1995) Ceramics London ,England: Thames & Hudson ISBN 0-500-23715-8
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    Japanese Painted Porcelain – Modern Masterpieces in Overglaze Enamel

    Various (1980) Japanese Painted Porcelain – Modern Masterpieces in Overglaze Enamel Tokyo, Japan: John Weatherhill, Inc. ISBN 0-8348-1520-6
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    High Performance Loudspeakers

    Colloms, M. (1997) High Performance Loudspeakers West Sussex, UK:  John Wiley ISBN 0417-97089
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    Noise

    Kosko, B. (2006) Noise London, UK: Penguin Books Ltd. ISBN 0-670-03495-9
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    Emotional Design – Why we love (or hate) everyday things

    Norman, D. A. (2004) Emotional Design – Why we love (or hate) everyday things New York, USA: Basic Books ISBN 0-465-05135-9
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    The Visual Display of Quantitative Data

    Tufte, E. R. (1983) The Visual Display of Quantitative Data Connecticut, USA: Graphics Press ISBN 978-0961392147
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    Understanding Your Users – A practical guide to user requirements

    Baxter, K. & Courage, C. (2005) Understanding Your Users – A practical guide to user requirements San Francisco, USA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers ISBN 1-55860-935-0
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    Questionnaire Design

    Brace, I. (2004) Questionnaire Design London, UK: Kogan Page Ltd. ISBN 0-7494-4181
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    Sound: Space

    Lietner, B. (1998) Sound: Space Ostfildern, Germany: Cantz Verlag ISBN 3-89322-444-0
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    Designing for the Digital Age

    Goodwin, K. (2009) Designing for the Digital Age Indianapolis, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc ISBN 978-0-470-22910-1
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    Thinking: Objects – Contemporary approaches to product design

    Parsons, T (2009) Thinking: Objects – Contemporary approaches to product design Lausanne Switzerland: AVA Publishing SA ISBN 978-2-940373-74-1
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    Introduction to Ergonomics - 2nd Edition

    Bridger, R. S. (1995) Introduction to Ergonomics - 2nd Edition New York, USA: McGraw-Hill, Inc ISBN 0-415-27377-3
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    In the Bubble: designing in a complex world

    Thackara, J. (2006) In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press ISBN 0-262-20157-7
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    Japanese Design

    Sparke, P. (2009) Japanese Design New York, USA: Museum of Modern Art ISBN 978-88-7439-492-0
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    Digital Dreams: the work of the Sony Design Center

    Kunkel, P. (1999) Digital Dreams: the work of the Sony Design Center New York, USA: Universe Publishing ISBN 0-7893-0262-4
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    Synedoche

    This is short video made with Nick Gill as part of a first year's Creativity class. It splices elements of Vincent Ward's The Navigator, Idaho Transfer by Peter Fonda and a BBC nature documentary - Planet Earth if I remember correctly....     Synedoche from Ben Jarrett on Vimeo.

INTERACTION & AUDIO DESIGN

 

This website is a repository of work primarily involved with acoustic engineering, audio electronics, industrial design, UX and interaction design.

Much of the of work constitutes my Masters of Design, and my final undergraduate project.

My Masters work was focused on creating a new kind of media player interface that is based on subconscious, abstracted forms associated with music that are universal to everyone. The actual output of the interface is electromagnetically controlled ferrous powder, controlled by a grid of digitally controlled electromagnets.

I also record my audio-based experiments here. I have designed, built and tested many pieces of audio hardware over the 25 years that I have been engaged within this field. I have experience with both vacuum tube and transistor based electronics (phonostages, DACs, I/V conversion, pre & power amplification), as well as loudspeakers.

Minor projects and concepts are also published as thought exercises.

I hesitate to upload work that I consider proprietary, personally valuable in my future, or a protected under NDA, so many of delicate parts are intentionally absented.

Please contact me if you would like more information or would like to present an interesting proposal.

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