A lightsaber game for Nintendo's Wii

Rumours of a Star Wars game that uses the Nintendo Wii controller as a lightsaber have been fuelled by comments made by Jim Ward, president of LucasArts and a senior vice president at Lucasfilm.
"We’re all over that, and internally we have already played a lightsaber game on the Wii. It’s a lot of fun, and we’ll get there."

[read more - via gamasutra.com]
[view Playing Kyma, first-ever Jedi performance with the Wiimote]

Gary Rydstrom's corner

An Interview with Pixar’s Gary Rydstrom

[via blogtown.portlandmercury.com]

Gary Rydstrom: Sound Movies

[via upcomingpixar.blogspot.com]

Workshop: U.S.O. Project in Paris

On July 09-10, Federico Placidi is presenting an introduction to Kyma with particular emphasis on granular synthesis and live controls for students in the CCMIX summer course.

Federico Placidi Teaching schedule

CCMIX, Paris

July 2007

Monday 9th July

Morning

The Kyma Sound Design Environment

Afternoon

Introduction To Capytalk Expression Language

Tuesday 10th July

Morning

Granular Synthesis with Kyma

Composing the Interaction: From Continuous Envelopes to Control Signals as Spin Networks

Afternoon

Using Kyma with Max/MSP

Kyma and Open Sound Control

Readings: Carla Scaletti_Kyma X Revealed!

CCMIX, 41 rue des Noyers, Romainville
Paris -- France