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breathing sound

Together with Richard we worked on the real-time sound synthesis using Csounds. Richard is an experienced musician and also a programmer. He’s creating an interface in Python for working with Csounds....

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hardware progress

I’ve been working with plastic and paper to create different device prototypes. I was very happy with look of the plastic prototype. I want the design to be light: The part I like most is where I...

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hardware finished

The hardware finished just in time for the catalogue picture. Thanks again to Hans, my lovely model. So this is one of the five breathCatchers to be used in the performance.  

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test session

I’ve been working like mad for last couple of weeks to get the ‘drawingBreath’ software going. Main issues: working with the sense-os API, more specificly formatting the string to be send to and...

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performance 11-5

Last Friday was the première of the breathing_time performance. I was very, very nervous. So nervous that I forgot to start the sound software… But the animation was beautiful and the data came through...

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performance 12-5

The second performance at the TIK festival was very different from the first. The sound was on and everybody was present, according to the logs. But the animation wasn’t as nice. I realised later that...

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about breathing_time

For the TIK festival documentation I wrote an article about breathing_time: Background and concept Breathing_time was conceived as part of the Time Inventors Kabinet[1] project for which I was an...

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non-woven wearable

Because I’m extending the breathing_time project into a workshop I’m doing some research on non-woven materials to make the cones from. The first version was made of paper and felt. It looked very nice...

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xbee hello world!

Today I’ve had my first success with communicating between two Xbees. Mostly thanks to this simple but clear tutorial. After installing the XCTU software with Thijs a few months back I had forgotten...

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breathing_time at the Quantified Self conference

On May 12th I lead a breakout session at the second European quantified self conference in Amsterdam. The goal was to exchange experiences in breath and group tracking and to demo the new, wireless...

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