Greetings, Perry and I rendered another chuck performance/disaster last night as part of FFMUp in Princeton. Perry played the VOMID (Voice-Oriented Melodica Interface Device) [1] and projected the sound through the amazing Noggin-phonics speaker head (also a PRC production), while I programmed on-the-fly: http://soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/listen/chuck@ffmup-2005.11.29.mov The breath pressure sensor, joystick, sliders, and linear FSR 1 on the VOMID controlled a live vocal model in chuck; the consonants (and belching) were sound clips, played by the keys and linear FSR 2 - all projected through metal head + mounted speakers of the Noggin-phonics! (The wild spatializing effect of this is unfortunately lost in the video.) Another notable aspect of the ordeal was the debut of two new chuck things, soon to be released. Both are authored by Spencer Salazar, a most righteous programmer and CS major here at Princeton. The ChucK Shell is a built-in command line interface *within* chuck, from which on-the-fly programming commands (and even live code) can be issued with great efficiency. The other is a prototypical native ChucK editor (called the miniAudicle, using Cocoa on OSX, Win32/MFC on Windows, and we-haven't-decided-what on linux). This will be released along with the Audicle, to add to our arsenal of chuck power toys. We will be hearing more about both the shell and the miniAudicle very soon (they are still in intense development)... So a big thanks to Spencer, and to Scott Smallwood for setting everything up for FFMUP. Best, Perry + Ge! --- Read more about the VOMID here: [1] http://hct.ece.ubc.ca/nime/2005/proc/nime2005_236.pdf