Some of our email exchanges posted here for the record…

17 March – Anthony:

Finally got to your thread on the blog.  Here’s my thoughts:

Using the Monome to control sound on Martyn’s 3D-AudioScape should be technically fairly straight forward, as would the visualisation grid.  MIDI to OSC is no problem.  I don’t know much about DMX, but I think I did a student project a couple of years ago that used DMX…  or there are hardware solutions to convert between MIDI/DMX (e.g. http://www.lanbox.com/products/LCDataSheet.html – about GBP350 – no idea how good they are).  I’ll have a think…

I’m interested in that hack that allows you to control per LED brightness – that would rock; have you got it to work? It might make my camera thing make sense for a start.  I’ll fiddle with the accelerometer thing too – it wasn’t incorporated into the download when I first installed the Monome, so I haven’t used it yet

As for discome – getting the Monome to trigger discrete animations onscreen is fine, but doing any kind of animation on the Monome itself is doable but won’t look any good – as you found out yourself, 8×8 is very small to make meaningful graphics…

20 March – Anthony:

this is interesting :  http://monolake.de/installations/cyclone.html

i’m warming to the 3D sound interface idea

20 March – Lewis:

Do you know of Ray Lee’s Siren piece? <http://www.invisible-forces.com>

I’d thought about recreating a virtual version of it… both visually and sonically…

I know Ray and think he’d be amenable to the idea…

20 March – Anthony:

I know the piece – I’ve got the DVD – though I haven’t seen it physically.  I think it’s wonderful, but it’s the physicality that’s so nice.

I’d like to use the Monome to control a physical installation of some kind.  A grid of Ray Lee’s sirens, or air raid sirens perhaps that are wound up by pressing the monome keys…  you might be able to control pitch/speed by how long you hold down the key…  i like it.  dunno what Sky would think of being subjected to 64 sirens though.  maybe a virtual version of that would be nice?  i guess that’s similar to what you are talking about, if you use the monome to wind up ray’s sirens…

yeah.  It’s a possibility.  I would like to work with Ray Lee too.