io 0.0.1 beta++
Although I know no songs, I do, in a sense, sing.

‘In Conversation with an Automaton: Identities and Agency in a Heterogeneous Social and Musical Network’, my article on io 0.0.1 beta, is published in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac.

Rackmount components: 2U or 3U?

Okay, let’s quickly revise the proposed timetable by shifting the start back by four months (i.e. to the present), deleting one of the breaks, repositioning the other, and see what we get.

intermediate objectives (projected)

initial design phase: january 2008–

Software: design, preliminary implementation and testing of software components.
Analog electronics: design and testing.

alpha build: may 2008

Software: initial working system.
Electronics: begin final build.
Hardware: begin construction.

break: june-july 2008

beta build: november 2008

Complete working system: testing carried out with beta testers.

final build: march/april 2009

This is/was the timescale as proposed in the grant application. With the (then unforeseen) delays of the funding process, all this will need to be revised.

intermediate objectives (projected)

initial design phase: september 2007–

Software: design, preliminary implementation and testing of software components.
Analog electronics: design and testing.

break: november 2007

alpha build: february 2008

Software: initial working system.
Electronics: begin final build.
Hardware: begin construction.

break: may–june 2007

beta build: august 2008

Complete working system: testing carried out with beta testers.

final build: november/december 2008

After the usual delays, Arts Council support in hand, here’s the launch of the io 0.0.1 beta++ site! (I expect the usual teething problems…)