1 THEpUBLIC Displays Some Backbone {anchor:THEpUBLIC Displays Some Backbone} {image:img=pinkhat.jpeg|align=float-right} We're just back from a technical demonstration / debugging / milestone session for the [Projects/Audio Bounce] sound installation, which will be one of the initial works on display at {link:THEpUBLIC|http://www.thepublic.com/} when it opens in September. This was my first chance to work with a release of the {link:gallery's high-speed media backbone|http://www.thepublic.com/building-galleryspaces.asp}, which integrates a database of media assets recorded by visitors with a gallery-wide RFID sensing network. Thanks to [MaxMSP|Gearhead/Cycling '74 Max], its integration with Java, some tense multithreading and a small rubble of XML/XPath libraries, we've successfully linked into the media profiling process. A live demonstration with the Huron surround-sound processor was thwarted by the hardware being lost in customs somewhere, but we've had the spatialisation (i.e. the actual audio "bouncing") running on {link:PGAD|http://www.pgacoustics.org/home.htm}'s Huron rig as of last week. The actual gallery space is still a building site, so it's pink hard-hats all round, but we did get to take some [photos|Projects/Audio Bounce/Photos-20060202]. 2006-02-03 17:13:02.463 2006-02-03 17:02:31.275 Fri Feb 03 17:03:06 UTC 2006