If you are both Ableton live and MAX/MSP user then you must be very excited that they are now codeveloping new products. But according to the CEO of Cycling, it must not MAX 5, but you can probably experience the potential change of its coming version of MAX 5. It must not only a plug-in, perhaps a brand new item, and perhaps not too much expensive.
News at Ableton: http://www.ableton.com/cycling-partnership?i=hp
News at Cycling: http://www.cycling74.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2007/3/28/171336/062

1st VENICE Cyber Biennale
Introduction of The First VENICE Cyber Biennale
VENICE Cyber Biennale is the first experimental art exhibition which adopts internet and digital space as a platform for bringing together the art works from all over the world.
It is called “VENICE Cyber Biennale” because intentionally we want to compare this new form of art exhibition with the traditional biennale so as to widen new horizons and encourage new art spirits.
Traditional biennale
Traditional biennale has some setbacks in terms of organizational structure and geographical dimension which caused insufficient participation in the …

Super Mario Trombones, perform include different levels: Mario day, Hell, underwater, Boss…..crazy!
http://killpacktravels.blogspot.com/2007/03/super-mario-trombones.html

SonicBirth is an AudioUnit designing application. The first in its category, it allows users to build their own AudioUnit plugins, either by working with existing circuits or by creating circuits completely from scratch. SonicBirth is also a free AudioUnits package, as it comes bundled with a set of plugins designed for standalone use as plugins as well as pre-constructed circuits to modify or build upon for creating new plugins. Whether you’re looking for traditional eqs, compressors, and reverbs, or softsynths, distortion, and filters, etc., SonicBirth allows you unprecedented freedom and …

When action script can deal with bitmap, real time filter is just a fast add-on in the world.
Onyx is a flash-based video mixing application, now has its version 2 available online. Looks nice and fansy. May be can get the code and do more.
Web site: http://www.onyx-vj.com/

DarwiinRemote’s cell break – wiitomidi help you read your wii remote XYZ and convert into MIDI signal.
http://mike.verdone.ca/wiitomidi/

(image from http://www.natrium42.com)
DSerial has its version 2 out now.
“It is a card that provides USB client, serial and GPIO ports as well as a 2D tilt sensor. It enables you to interface NDS to MIDI keyboards, servos, sensors, GPS receivers, computers and more.”
It simply turn NDS into an interface with touching panel.
If you wanna play wifi, DSmidiWifi. Just skip DSerial, controlling via WiFi.
http://dsmidiwifi.tobw.net/
With the oldskool hand made MIDI cable, you can connect DSerial with instrutment like syntherizer, keyboard or midi-in enabled devices. But you need a bit basic …

Multi-touch becomes a very hot topic recently in the area of interaction design and media arts. Because of the search rate increase by the reason of iPhone’s multi-touch? tag “multi-touch”?
Jeff Han finally found Perceptive Pixel, Inc. to provide multi-touch, as business solution? Fever!
http://www.perceptivepixel.com/
Extremly hot topic, links share:
Open source, Projects and papers and researches
NUI group, working a group of “Open source Multi-touch” , wiki and forum, super helpful.
http://nuigroup.com

mutli-touch console
http://macrone.de/multitouch/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1

Building a multi-touch sensitive table
http://dundee.cs.queensu.ca/wiki/index.php/Building_a_Multi-Touch_Sensitive_Table

MERL diamond touch
http://www.merl.com/projects/DiamondTouch/
Jazzmutant, very expensive small multi-touch device, midi in/out.
http://www.jazzmutant.com/lemur_overview.php
Tactex, Tactex MTC Express:
http://www.tactex.com/products_array.php
Sony CSL, SmartSkin:
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/smartskin/
Sony CSL, HoloWall:
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/rekimoto/holowall/
Andrew D.Wilson, …