If you're a musician or multimedia artist you'll want to read this book about Open Sound Control.
OSC gives you freaky magic powers.
Open Sound Control, AKA OSC, lets you create and control sound, graphics, lighting, whatever audio-visual delight you can imagine.
It's a geeky-techie technology but you don't need to be a geeky-techie person to use it.
Make no mistake; geeky-techie people are obviously very cool, but not everyone wants to be one. Here's the good news: you can use OSC to make wicked cool stuff without having to bury your head in endless tech tomes.
The book is available for purchase in PDF, mobi, and epub formats. You get all three formats when you buy the book
The published book version also has more, and more up-to-date, content.
OSC connects you to an endless array of controllers and multimedia devices.
- Use your phone as a remote musical device
- Control computer animations from an XBox Kinect or other game controller
- Synchronize sound and lighting for stage events
Just the Best Parts: OSC for Artists, written by artist/musician/programmer James Britt, will give you the tech chops you need to get rolling with OSC.
It's fun, it's fast, it's to the point.