Student: Adrian Whyte (0814504)
Chosen blog: http://www.podcomplex.com/blog/hands-on-music/#more-472
Chosen post: Getting Your Hands On The Music
Build Your Own Touch Screen Interface
Touch Screen Technology With Knobs On
The Author:
This Music Technology blog posts was published on Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 at 12:57 pm ,Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 at 12:01 pm, Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 at 4:34pm in the DAW category.

Main topics:
This is a music blog which are short and specific information about new technologies in the music industry.
Getting your hands on the music is the heading of the blog describing touch screen technology, it had a link to Build your own touch screen interface showed that more people are using touch screen device e.g. phone so this blog talks about a drum touch screen “ DEAF Drummer Touch, using it for the live performance sequencing and synthesis, computers now serve as a replacement for vast racks of hardware that used to fill recording studios, and interacting with such complex production equipment is not best done with a mouse.”
Each of the blogs give demo from youtube demonstrating it’s use.
Touch Screen Technology With Knobs was the next linked page and was a continuation of the previous page it talk about “Touch screens are gaining widespread traction, and it seems that the boundaries between display and interface are converging. Devices such as JazzMutant’s Dexter brought a new level of interaction to DAW controllers, but now Girton Labs have devised a way of sticking physical knobs onto a computer screen…” Due to the technology being some far away of performer getting use to touch screen technology they felt that creating a magnet knob interface to give a more physical feel e.g SenseSurface

- The frequency of posts and its variation over time,
The blogs are very space out May 26th, 2009, October 28th, 2008 and August 6th, 2008.
- The target audience,
Musicians, Sound engineers and people in the technology development.
- The language used,
Simple, straight to the point, technology based.
- The page layout(graphics)
Heading on top, Links with the heading, ads on the side of the screen with
links to music and music technologies.
- Embedded artefacts (pictures, videos, audio files),
Icons, youtube, pictures on the topic.
- The interaction taking place (comments, trackbacks, subscribing
to mailing lists)
The only down side was you couldn’t leave a comment on the page.

Pick up your favourite post on that blog, link to it and explain why you liked it:
I couldn’t pick a favourite out of the three, i thought the website has a whole linked very well as a whole but I really like the sensesurface with the interaction interface of using knobs on the screen, I could see it’s usefulness in a live music setting!

http://www.podcomplex.com/blog/touch-screen-technology/

Comment 1
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