On 21st September, thanks to the Chair Liz Danzico, I had the chance to talk about the design process of OTTO at the people of the Interaction Design program of the School of Visual Arts in New York.
I’m always happy to visit such a nice places, share my design design process with nice people and get feedbacks from them. Thank you guys.

BTW, after leaving the school I forgot to shot a picture to the right flag.. The one above is on the building on the opposite side of the street!

Finally I’ve found some time to write about what’s happened in Pula.
Differently from what we planned, in the end it was a five days jam session and user testing. There has been no official performances. We were there just jamming with OTTO and the people were free to stop us playing to try the instrument or just ask us to explain how it works. In the end it has been a lot of fun and we are very happy about how thing went and want to thank all the people who has been there and all the new friends we made.

We also want to thank all the people who sent us their sample for this event. In the next days we are going to upload some stuff. Maybe a video or something, so probably some of you can recognize his sample here and there.

OTTO is going to have few dates in Croatia this summer for the Media Mediterranea festival. The five nights live demo performances and user testing session will be alternated as follow:

Aug 11 ~ 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm ~ Live demo performance
Aug 12 ~ 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm ~ User testing session
Aug 13 ~ 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm ~ Live demo performance
Aug 14 ~ 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm ~ User testing session
Aug 15 ~ 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm ~ Live demo performance

Here is the map to reach the place.

Live demo performances will be about showing OTTO live. Since there will be two OTTO we are going to play both rhythm and melody, but not with just our audio samples. For these sessions we would like to use your samples as well! So please feel free to send us what you have done or, if you like, make something especially for us. As a little reward, we’ll share with you the videos of the three nights and of course you’ll be credited everywhere your samples will be used by us. Uh, and by the way, we are NOT going to make money with them but just having fun and using them to spread OTTO’s voice, literally!

There are only a couple of rules to follow:
1-Indicate the BPM of the sample at the begin of your file’s name, like this: 180_fileName.aif
2-For rhythmical sample please don’t go over 3 seconds length.

Send your files at: otto@lucaderosso.com

User testing sessions will be about letting you to play with OTTO, tell us your impression and suggestion but basically just have fun with it.

By the way, a Nano Blog is nothing different from a blog. Is just a way, for us, to feel less the pressure of posting. Nano Blog means nano pressure. Hopefully it will help to keep it more up do date.. I don’t know. Anyway it’s a Nano Blog that’s it!

Thanks : )