Numediart! is actually mostly in english, with very little French up there, and mostly about graphics and sound, though subscribing to the newsletter is so tricky, Gaberlunzie gave up!! If your are into and like Digital Media Arts, this a long term research programmed funded by the Wallonne region of Belgium aimed at fostering new media technologies in connection with local companies and artists.

In collaboration with Polytech Mons (IT R&D) department and UCL (TELE Lab) centres in Mons, the cultural capital of Wallonia, this is a bid toward MONS2015 to make Mons the cultural capital of Europe.

Among the projects you can find a video navigation tool, a hypersocial museum and the AVLaughterCycle: an audiovisual laughing machine .

How about music thumbnails? A video demon­strates a proof-of-concept for audio thumb­nail­ing and inter­ac­tive nav­i­ga­tion into music con­tent. Sim­i­lar sec­tions are detected and grouped with respect to a colour scheme. Detec­tion based on sim­i­lar­ity matri­ces com­puted with respect to
tim­bral, har­monic and rhyth­mic fea­tures. The GUI has been devel­oped with Processing.

Like to get downloads? There's DeviceCyle, a toolbox for PurData aiming at rapid prototyping of gestural interfaces with off the shelf devices. Or there Minim 2.1.0 beta, and the Multimodal Guitar Toolbox, as well as Transvoicetable (It works for both streamed audio input or sound files and allows to mod­ify pitch, tim­bre, dura­tion and whispering.)

Wonderful weekend time waster this one!!