Hey Griddrs, long time no talk. I just got an email from Rodrigo Constanzo who’s been using Grid on his iPad for live performances. I hadn’t heard of him before but he’s doing some really interesting stuff in experimental music.

Also, particular to my tastes, he plays drums in a math/pop project called Deaf to Van Gogh’s Ear. They just released a new single, Assume Deviousness, on Bandcamp - definitely worth a look if your into tasty polyrhythms + shiny pop melodies. Plus, priced at 2 GBP, it’s a steal.

Happy Gridding!

FUNNIEESSS

MMBLR IS THE ACRNYM FOR

totally still alvie no wrries.

Familiar, no?

Yesterday, HWADO SOFTWARE released an oddly familiar app called Lattice.  Lattice is an amazing additive synthesizer for the iPhone with a really interesting looking grid that deforms as you play it.  Here’s the developer’s description:

Lattice is an additive synthesis system ideal for rhythmic, melodic, or textural applications. The utility is broad, amplification is ideal.

But has joy gone blind? No; there are primary colors in sound. There are primitives to sound, to the psychological constituents of sound; though there is a one to one correspondence between frequency and the reals, frequency is a property rather than a depiction of palpable tone. In this sense, the algorithm used is structurally formative rather than exhaustively descriptive of the sounds produced.

Sound familiar?  Yes, they’ve repackaged version 1.0 of Kin’s Grid.  Well, perhaps repackaged is an overstatement of the work they’ve done here.  HWADO has taken the source code we posted for developers a while back, changed the background color and resubmitted it with the same description!  The package names aren’t even changed so downloading it deletes Grid from the user’s iPhone.

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The early bump was activity from a few blogs - notcot.org, CreativeApplications.net, Pack of Strays, iainclaridge.net, &ampersand.  We advertised last month with Influads to no avail - either our price is too low to convert enough impressions to sales or our ads sucked.  Currently swamped with school but hopefully the iPad version will eventually make it out.

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Some app sales and stuff.  Started advertising with Influads on Friday so we’ll see how that goes.