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Green Komm After Hour – Less Admission with Cock-Pit Stamp
Posted: September 2, 2010, 6:05pm CEST by VJ
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Mandelbox Zoom by Hömpörgő
Posted: September 2, 2010, 5:49pm CEST by radley
Mandelbox Zoom from hömpörgő on Vimeo. (dosenation.com) I wanted to go further too, but at the end part a single frame took 18 minutes to render, and the whole 1:27 minute video needed 12 days nonstop rendering. I felt thats more than enough at the time. It was just my first experiment with Mandelbulb 3D, a [...]
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CONIGLIOVIOLA in “Recuperate Le Vostre Radici Quadrate” MULTIMEDIA THEATRE
Posted: September 2, 2010, 3:00pm CEST by VJ
From 2004 to 2006 ConiglioViola was engaged in the production of the colossal-project “Recuperate Le Vostre Radici Quadrate” (Go Back to Your Square Roots) starting point of a multimedia live show, an anthology of 21 videos, an audio-cd and a collection of photographs and installations presented in a big solo show in Milan in May 2006. The point of departure are 21 songs hits by female80s Italian singers completely rearranged by ConiglioViolas electronic orchestration and by live interpretation. For each song, ConiglioViola created a video halfway between a music video and a videoart, which, , becomes the background during the performing show, drafting a mutable scenography with which performers interact, in a constant switch from the cinematic to the theatrical dimension. The whole show is played within a huge inflatable television from which characters come in and out, shredding the borders between reality and virtuality, and between flesh and projection. In this way, “Recuperate Le Vostre Radici Quadrate” becomes, a show that appeals to all senses, involving the audience with different atmospheres, through the different Worlds that each song relates to. 80s Nostalgia is the medium for a project that is strongly contemporary: an investigation on the cutting edge of artistic genres and on the relationship between music and image. “Divas of the 80s” become in an ironic and mythological way the herald of criticism to the contemporary visual culture. In it, image and …
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mapping "à la maison"
Posted: September 2, 2010, 12:29pm CEST
Dans la série "les mappings à la maison" à l'initiative de Jerome Bregu (alias Dc. Olfta), Voici les photos de la deuxième session de mappage vidéo du pigeonnier de Cornebarrieu prés de Toulouse. L'occasion une nouvelle fois avec Pauline Monnet, Julien Rondot et Jerome Bregu de voir les[...]
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Elektronika sterująca i serwa do modelu samochodu RC
Posted: September 2, 2010, 11:21am CEST by VJ
Serwo skrętu to kompilacja seryjnego małego serwa hitec oraz samochodowego silnika z wycieraczek
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Live VJ Mix by VJ Love Mushroom
Posted: September 2, 2010, 10:54am CEST
This is my old live VJ mix recorded on DV tape in August, 2001. Mixing 3,4 layers of 320x240, cinepack movies on VJ software "Composite Station" using Sony Vaio, Pentium II 450Mhz, 128MB RAM, 16MB video memory with only 13.4GB HDD. -
Feel Mystic Moorpark College March 4, 2010 Performance
Posted: September 2, 2010, 10:52am CEST
Feel Mystic Moorpark College March 4, 2010 Performance from Matt Loniero on Vimeo.
This is the video of the performance done by the group of artists known as "Feel Mystic" during a Humanities class on their annual "Squigglefest". -
(visuals) Zakee Kuduro ft. Anbuley - Sane Eba
Posted: September 2, 2010, 10:47am CEST
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Peggy Lee - Fever / Steve Orchard Remix
Posted: September 2, 2010, 10:45am CEST
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New Apple iPod Nano ad – 1234 by Feist
Posted: September 2, 2010, 10:08am CEST by VJ
The song is “1 2 3 4″ by “Feist”. “”"READ HERE THE ESPECIFICATIONS PLEASE”"” New colors, new interface, new form, thiner, with video… the new Apple iPod Nano ad. The song is “1 2 3 4″ by “Feist”. You can buy it at phobos.apple.com You can see the veideoclip here es.youtube.com Yo can buy the new iPod at www.apple.com PRICES: 4Gb-$149 (silver) 8Gb-$199 (all other colors)
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Convert/save/export iMovie video files to avi/wmv/mpg on Mac OS X
Posted: September 2, 2010, 4:36am CEST by VJ
IMovie to AVI Converter
iMovie export as avi problem on a Mac OS X
iMovie makes it easy for Mac users to edit their video clips. Then they can upload them to blogs, share them through YouTube, recreate versions fitting iPod, iPhone and Apple TV, or play on iTunes, QuickTime.But when you try to save the resultant imovie projects in the format .avi and export it to other handy editing applications or storage devices, it wont work fine and you even cannot get the complete movie. So what can you do to solve this problem?
How to export an iMovie project as a avi file on Mac OS?
Before we get started, here are some ins and outs about how iMovie worked when you manipulate video files in it. To my certain knowledge, when you imported the avi file into iMovie, it virtually would have converted it to DV footage, since iMovie can only manage DV-Standard and HDV (High Definition Video)as well as MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 footage (formats often used for recording video on mobile phones).In fact, iMovie would do the conversion from avi, wmv, mpeg etc to DV. You would ask -Is it possible to export an iMovie project as an avi file after you finish the editing?Convert imovie video files to avi/wmv/mpg on Mac and save imovie project to .avi with Mac OS X.
There is a good bet ahead of us-export iMovie to AVI Converter, which has a powerful codec pack built-in, can encode and convert almost any popular video clips like DV,HDV,MOV to AVI,WMV,MPG with fast conversion speed and superb quality.One of the benefits about this export iMovie to AVI Converter is that the ratio aspect can be set before the conversion took place. Say, your iMovie project is 16:9 in aspect ratio, other applications prefer read it as 4:3, in this case you can manually define the exact ratio aspect you want the avi to be, for example 4:3 or whatever according to your special need.
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TouchOSC to Modul8
Posted: September 2, 2010, 4:25am CEST by VJ
In diesem Kleine Video wird gezeigt wie man Modul8 mit dem iPhone Steuert Ich benutze die software TouchOSC und OSCulator. Ein Tutorial wird in kürzte folgen.
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Motorola Will Bring 10-Inch Android Gingerbread Tablet in November 2010
Posted: September 2, 2010, 4:22am CEST by VJ
It looks like Motorola is a childhood lover of Android because we are noticing that the company is just not only showing there interest in making the Android based smartphones, but now Motorola is just about to bring Android tablets in the near future and we have just came to hear that Motorola is planning to launch a 10-inch Android Gingerbread tablet in the month of November year 2010.
The interesting fact is that the newly coming tablet will not running the Android 2.2 Froyo OS but it will equip the next generation/version of OS i.e Gingerbread which can be or cannot be termed as Android 3.0. Anyways yet we have just only this few piece of information and we are still waiting for some more details on new Moto Android tablet. This gadget is also expecting to be the rival of iPad and it will surely compete with Apple iPad but Moto Android need to be work harder because Apple iPad has already sold its moreover 3 million units in the marketplace, and it just not only compete with Apple iPad but Moto tablet will also give the challenge to other Android based tablets which includes LG, Acer, Samsung and with other brands.
There is no doubt that may be Android tablets will taking over the whole tablet market in coming years and Motorola will be the leading provider of Android based devices. Well you guys have to stay tuned with us and we will surely update you about this if we get any other information about the new Moto 10-inch Android Gingerbread tablet
More Info [www.themobicrunch.com]
Danish Faheem
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Serato Scratch Live 2.0 & the Rane 68 Mixer
Posted: September 2, 2010, 1:57am CEST by VJ
Serato Scratch Live 2.0 & Rane 68 mixer demo @ the Winter NAMM show in Anaheim.
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Subvertigo demotape circa. 93
Posted: September 2, 2010, 1:37am CEST by VJ
This isn’t a Sevs clip. Subvertigo was an Australian VJ team busy in the early to mid 90′s at raves and warehouse parties. They used modified video hardware (eg the Panasonic MX10), VHS and cameras to make the live mix. The effects here are the kind that inspired current VJ software. This is part of a longer demo VHS that was used to get gigs, which I have archived. I asked permission of a member to share this with you.
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residentalien vj club visuals
Posted: September 2, 2010, 1:34am CEST by VJ
art85 excerpt from volume one VJ Loops
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New EP, loops, & contest from Amoeba (UK)
Posted: September 1, 2010, 9:43pm CEST by radley
Mr Amoeba has been busy this year. Recently released are his new ep, a bunch of high rez loops over at vjloops.tv, and a remix contest with Lightrhythm featuring free high rez loops to play with. aple.EP and remixes promo from amoeba on Vimeo. aple.loop pack_DVD from amoeba on Vimeo. Link to aple.ep Link to loop packs Link to contest [...]
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Onyx-VJ article in ffdmag
Posted: September 1, 2010, 8:32pm CEST by Bruce Lane
In the september issue of ffdmag, I wrote an article for developers wanting to get started in Onyx-VJ development.
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Jungle Drummer Slo
Posted: September 1, 2010, 8:16pm CEST by VJ
demo loop from www.vjamm.com
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What is Android and What Does it Do?
Posted: September 1, 2010, 8:09pm CEST by VJ
By now you have seen the commercials for the new Android phone that state that it is something that “does” things. The things that this new smart phone does were created by Android application developers in conjunction with Google. Introduced as an alternative to the iPhone, the very things that this smart phone does will be what can differentiate it from the competition.
What exactly is an Android phone and what does it do? Is it like the iPhone or better? To better understand what it is and what it can do, you first need a little background information on cell phones and how they work.
All cell phones smart or otherwise, have operating systems. This software that is permanently stored on your phone is what makes the phone function. In the past, these systems would only support apps or programs that were created by the original developers giving them complete control over the functionality of the phone. With Android, this is not the case.
Android features and open source operating system which means that anyone who wants to develop apps for the Android platform can. Android apps developers can create new applications or programs for anyone to use. This shift from the past proprietary systems gives freedom and offers advantages for users.Some notable benefits are:
Application Variety. With innumerable apps developers using their creativity to develop unique apps, there can be an endless variety of types and functions of apps. Nearly any idea for an app that can be conceived can be made into reality.
Innovative applications. In the past, applications could take months to create. With this platform, Android developers can create their applications in less time while bringing new and fresh ideas to life.
Money saving. Due to the move past proprietary systems to open source systems, the cost of your cell phone will be reflective of the actual hardware as the costs for research and development will not be present. This used to be a major part of the cost of the phones in the past.
Multiple carriers. With Android you have your choice of cell phone carriers rather than just one carrier, like the iPhone. This can possibly be money saving as well as you can compare several companies to find the best plan for you. Additionally, there have been issues with the coverage area for iPhone users that may not be present with those that offer Android.
Multi-task. With the Android phone, the notification bar will alert you to various things such as new voice messages, email messages (in Gmail and others), Facebook notifications and new text messages for example. If the Android app developer created an app that has notification capability, it can alert you quickly and in the background without disrupting anything else you may be doing with your phone. With the iPhone, which depends on a single system where not all applications may have access, you do not have this ability.
Arnold Ward is an Android App Developer with apps available in Android Market. After working for a few Android application development companies he decided to form a company with 2 other Android Developers.
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Frameworks by NID Students (India)
Posted: September 1, 2010, 7:18pm CEST by radley
FRAMEWORKS – A mixed reality game using projection mapping from Sures Kumar TS on Vimeo. FRAMEWORKS is an interactive installation based on the principle of mixed reality, which tries to enhance the meaning of an architectural space. We tried achieving it by developing a game, where a virtual character plays with the real space, walls and [...]
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All About Podcasting – the Medium of the Future
Posted: September 1, 2010, 7:12pm CEST by VJ
Perhaps you have heard of it, or perhaps you are already an avid follower. Podcasting is one of newest buzzwords that has been catching the attention of hoards of people all over the world. But not everyone exactly know what it is. At a first glance, or at a first hearing, term podcast could evoke of images of the now legendary iPod, which has taken the world of audiophiles by storm. Now add the image of that great gadget to broadcasting and you would see a whole new world of possibilities that offers a new medium of distributing information. For those who have little idea of what podcasting is, here is a short overview as to what it is, and why it is good to engage in it.
What is Podcasting
As hinted earlier, the term podcasting is a fusion of the iPod and broadcasting. Well this is actually a misnomer because one does not really need an iPod to do podcasting, and the process does not really involve announcing on air. Nevertheless, the term is still quite the popular one used to refer to the process of disseminating multimedia files, may it be a music video or an audio program, via the internet through either an Atom syndication or an RSS format, to be played on personal computers or portable media-playing devices. Like on TV or radio, podcasts usually features shows that have episodes that people release either regularly or intermittently.
How did Podcasting come about?
The idea of podcasting first emerged in the year 2000, and a year after, the technical requirements for podcasting were already available. However, it was only by the year 2003 that the method caught on the popular websites. It was also around this time when Adam Curry, a media entrepreneur who was once an MTV VJ, popularized the term. By 2004, podcasting experienced an exponential growth, extending to the general public and encompassing a wider-than-ever area of interests. Now, podcast is seen to be the new media of reaching people and distributing information to them.
How does it Podcasting work?
The method of podcasting is actually very simple. First, a podcaster (i.e. a podcast publisher) would create an audio content, usually in mp3 or mp4 format, and then have it uploaded to a server. The podcast is then published as a news feed in either RSS, XML or Atom format. The audience may then subscribe to a particular podcast they like using a news-feed aggregator, which in turn updates them whenever new episodes are released. The subscribers may then listen to or watch the podcast at their own convenience.
Whatâs good about it and why should it be used?
A lot of people see great potential in podcasting. First of all, it is fun to do. Many find podcasting as a new way of being creative. Being a new medium, that uses different types of media, people can now use various ways of disseminating information. No longer are people limited to typed text, they can now use their voice, their face, animation, or just about anything to tell people something. Now, instead of just writing about facts, you can now tell people things they want to know in ways that would keep them engrossed. It is a great means of self expression.
The format in which podcasts are delivered also helps people increase their audience, and at the same time serve them. News feeds are becoming increasingly popular every day, and many people are now being able to get information about the things they are interested in. Likewise, podcasters can now reach the particular type of audience that they are targeting. This creates a more continual relationship between publishers and their audiences, helping each other flourish in their craft.
Podcasting also empowers the podcaster. Usually, someone who has to say something would need to find something or somebody else to help distribute the information. But now, with podcasting, you become your own media. If you want to inform people, you just say what you have to say, and bring your news directly to them.
Podcasting also has great potential in making money through media. If you have something interesting to say that people are willing to pay just to hear about it, then you could sell the content of your podcasts. If you have services or products to sell, you can use podcasts to show people why they would want to avail of your services or buy your products. You can also use podcasts as a means of selling âspaceâ for advertisers to pitch in their commercials. With this new type of media, there are numerous possibilities for gaining profits.
Podcasting may still be in its infancy, but who knows for sure how big it may grow. Right now what people can say is that it is indeed growing faster than they have imagined. Podcasting could be the medium of the future, and taking advantage of its development could be one of the best decisions you would make.
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CLP on Ableton Live
Posted: September 1, 2010, 7:09pm CEST by VJ
CLP is Chris de Luca and Phon.o. The sound they make is a funky hybrid of intergalactic hip hop, ghetto beats, sexy booty IDM and dirty techno that takes musical genres, chews them up and turns them into good-natured grooviness. CLP is currently getting kudos on both sides of the Atlantic for their LP ‘Supercontinental’, released at the end of 2008 on Shitkatapult records. In this movie, they open up their Live Sets and talk about making music with Live, effect chains, performance and triggering video with Live. The guys also share their thoughts on Live 8, which they’ve been Beta testing.
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Apple’s HTTP Live Streaming Proposal is Actually Pretty Cool, But it Needs Partners
Posted: September 1, 2010, 4:11pm CEST by Peter Kirn
It takes two to tango, and lots of people for a line dance.
Yes, as the rest of the Web has noticed, Apple has just proudly touted the fact that it’s streaming its own press event in a format only people with the latest Apple devices can actually watch. Even Mac site TUAW, gearing up for today’s press event, thinks it’s pretty odd. But let’s skip straight to the good stuff: what’s this HTTP live streaming, anyway? The short answer is, it’s something cool – but it’ll be far cooler if Apple can acquire some friends doing the same thing.
Apple PR has this to say about their stream:
Apple® will broadcast its September 1 event online using Apple’s industry-leading HTTP Live Streaming, which is based on open standards.
(Update – it may also help if you have a $1 billion server farm, as that could be the reason Apple is doing this at all. I’m, uh, still holding out for some magical nginx module, myself, but okay. How many billions would Apple have needed to reach more than Mac and iOS devices?)
Note that they never actually claim HTTP Live Streaming is a standard, because it isn’t. Apple has proposed">[http-live-streaming-01">proposed] it to the Internet Engineering Task Force, but it hasn’t been accepted yet. Meanwhile, as we’ve learned painfully in the case of ISO-certified AVC and H.264, just having a standard accepted is far from the end of the story – standards on paper aren’t the same as standards in use. Ironically, presumably all Apple means by saying HTTP Live Streaming is “industry-leading” is that they’ve done it first, and no one else has.
Apple can claim, correctly, that HTTP Live Streaming is “based on Internet standards.” In lay terms, you take a video, chop it up into bits, and re-assemble it at the other end. While common in proprietary streaming server software (think Flash), that hasn’t been something you can do simply with an encoder, a server, and a standard client. As Ars Technica explains, one key advantage of Apple’s approach is that by using larger slices or buffers – at the expense of low latency – you can count on higher reliability than real-time streams. And unlike previous approaches, the use of HTTP means you don’t have to worry about which ports are open. So you get something that’s reliable, easy to implement, and doesn’t require pricey additional software.
Other than that, it’s all basic stuff, meaning implementations should be easy to accomplish, software stays lightweight, and lots of clients could easily add support on a broad variety of desktop and mobile platforms. Here are the basic ingredients:
- MPEG-2 Transport stream, set by the encoder.
- Video encoding – Apple’s proposal suggests only that you use something the client can support, so while they require H.264 video and HE-AAC audio for their implementation, you could also use VP8 video and OGG Vorbis audio; you just have to hope the client has the same support.
- Stream segmenter – this is the part that actually chops up the video.
- Media segment files – the output of the streamer, this could be a video .ts file (the MPEG-2 format), or even, as Apple observes in their developer documentation, a standard M3U (M3U8 unicode) file, just as you may be accustomed to using with Internet radio stations and the like.
- The client reads the result, by reading the standard playlist file. That’s the reason multi-platform, open source player VLC can read Apple’s stream.
It all makes perfect sense, and it’s actually a bit odd that it hasn’t been done sooner in this way. For the record, just streaming video over HTTP doesn’t cut it; you need exactly the kind of implementation Apple is proposing. The proposal is so simple, I’d be surprised if someone hadn’t implemented something similar under a different name, but then, I can’t personally find a case of that. Sometimes, technologists overlook just these kinds of simple, elegant solutions.
All of this raises an obvious question: why is Apple crowing about how cool it is that only they are using it? (“Look at me! I’m the only one on the dance floor!”) I suppose the message is supposed to be that other people should join, but that leads to the second question: where are the implementations?
There’s no reason HTTP Live Streaming couldn’t see free encoding tools on every platform, and still more-ubiquitous client tools. John Nack of Adobe muses that it’d be nice to see it in Flash. Browsers could work as clients via the video tag, as Safari does now. VLC appears to work as a client already.
One likely missing piece there is the encoder. In their FAQ from the developer documentation, Apple lists two encoders they’ve tested:
Inlet Technologies Spinnaker 7000
Envivio 4Caster C4This tech is currently used as a way of streaming to iPhones specifically, but it’s not exactly household stuff.
Client implementations shouldn’t be that hard. But that brings us to a climate in the tech world that, for all the progress on open standards, could still use some improvement.
Making interoperable technologies work requires building partnerships. Apple hasn’t exactly been focused on building bridges lately, it seems. Nor are they alone; today’s lawsuit-heavy, savagely competitive, politically-charged tech environment seems to have everyone at each other’s throats. I’m all for competition. Friendly competition can even help standards implementation: witness the near-daily improvements to rival browsers Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and others, all of which are made by a group of engineers who share a common interest in getting compatibility for these innovations in the near term, and within a standard framework. A little one-upsmanship on getting those things done first or better is absolutely healthy.
But even as the draft HTML5 spec continues to evolve and open Web standards improve, badly-needed, genuine working partnerships seem to be fewer and further between. Posturing between competitors isn’t helping.
And nor can I find evidence that, while this is in draft, it’s set up for people to implement. Even the draft document begins by telling you you’re not allowed to use it:
Pursuant to Section 8.f. of the Legal Provisions (see the IETF Trust’s Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents effective December 28, 2009), Section 4 of the Legal Provisions does not apply to this document. Thus, to the extent that this Informational Internet Draft contains one or more Code Components, no license to such Code Components is granted. Furthermore, this document may not be modified, and derivative works of it may not be created, and it may not be published except as an Internet-Draft.
So, in other words, you can read the draft, but you can’t use the code in it, and you can’t make derivative works of the draft. (As far as I know, this is standard boilerplate for IETF drafts. But then, much legal writing in general can be summed up in one word: just, “No.”)
The bottom line:
1. HTTP Live Streaming is super cool.
2. It’s based on open standards and should be easy to implement.
3. Let’s hope we get implementations.
4. This PR stunt aside, it’s unclear what efforts Apple has made to reach out to anyone else doing an implementation, though information is sketchy.
Regardless, this somewhat odd move will certainly raise visibility of the tech. Whether that lasts beyond today’s media event remains to be seen.
Here’s where to go for more information.
HTTP Streaming Architecture [iOS Developer Library]
Apple">[http-streaming-feature-as-a-protocol-standard.ars">Apple] proposes HTTP streaming feature as IETF standard [Ars Technica]
Image (CC-BY-SA) Ryan Harvey.
Updated: I’m indeed remiss in not talking about the excellent open-source, Java-based Red5 media server:
[red5.org]And to Adobe’s credit, open standards support in Flash – along with tolerance in place of litigation – is part of why such projects can exist.
In fact, I don’t see any reason Red5 couldn’t be the basis of a solution that streams to browsers using the video tag. I’ll try to follow up on that very topic, because I’m ignorant of the details.
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Si Si Si – LOS COQUILLOS – canarias
Posted: September 1, 2010, 1:36pm CEST by VJ
Videoclip de Los Coquillos. disco “heroe antiguo” 1996. Dirigido y realizado por Pedro Ruiz Mateos (RUIMA VIDEOART)
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me on nuvj
Posted: September 1, 2010, 11:11am CEST by VJ
clip of me vjing on nuvj, im still learning so feedback would be appreciated, all clips are my own and the music is taken from the radio
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(visuals) 6th Sense - Sounds From The Front Row
Posted: September 1, 2010, 9:54am CEST
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Lucid house 06:2009
Posted: September 1, 2010, 9:44am CEST
Lucid house 06:2009 - chapter 11 from lucidhouse on Vimeo.
Am cutting up “Lucid house June 2009” into twelve bite-sized portions, starting from the back of 27 minute piece and retaining original 4:3 aspect ratio.
here's “Chapter 11”
Starring:
Pierce Brosnan, Faye Dunaway, Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman,
Film Samples:
The Green Hornet (1966)
The lawnmower Man (1992)
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Stigmata (1999)
Gattaca (1997)
online sample- Polar 2007 by: Pierre Michel
Music:
Marco Menichelli-Special D
Constructus-It Don't Mean A Thing If You A
Krushed & Sorted-Interlude 1
Trentemoller-Nightwalker
.Audio visual mix > Lucidhouse
Lucid house 06:2009 - chapter 12 from lucidhouse on Vimeo.
Am cutting up “Lucid house June 2009” into twelve bite-sized portions, starting from the back of 27 minute piece and retaining original 4:3 aspect ratio.
So here's “Chapter 12”.
Starring:
Patricia Arquette, Maggie Cheung, Richard Harris, Tony Leung
Film Samples:
Gattaca (1997)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Stigmata (1999)
A Man Called Horse (1970)
Music:
Trentemoller-Nightwalker
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Solu-Hyperinstrument
Posted: September 1, 2010, 6:35am CEST
Demonstration of the theory 'Audible and Visible Spectrums - a proposal of correspondence'
SoLu was designed to demonstrate André Rangel's theory of correspondence between sound and light at the 'EVA Conference - Electronic Visualisation and the Arts' which took place at the BCS - British Computer Society, London 2010. The proposed theory of correspondence can be accessed here. SoLu is a smaller and simplified version of the previous Colmus produced early in 2009. SoLu gives its users the control over a audiovisual algorithmic composition generated in real-time. This hyperinstrument was designed and produced at 3kta studios. Visual documentation was produced at 'Sala do Coro' from Portuguese Catholic University - UCP.
SoLu - Multisensorial Hyperinstrument from Arm on Vimeo.
Demonstration of a theoretical correspondence between sound frequency and color light frequency. Theory proposed by André Rangel. Design and Production by 3kta, Art directed by André Rangel and Anne-Kathrin Siegel
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How to convert .rmvb to iPod, iPhone etc .mp4 files on Mac OS?
Posted: September 1, 2010, 4:07am CEST by VJ
How to convert .rmvb to iPod, iPhone etc .mp4 files on Mac OS? Looking for some instructions on how to convert Real Media .rmvb files into mpeg-4(.mp4) or MP3 to playback on iPod touch, iPod Nano, iPod classic or iPhone? There are many app there can convert rmvb files easily to mp4 movie on Windows, but things are totally different when converting Real player file rmvb to mp4 on Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, PowerPC and Intel PC, rmvb files are hardly play on QuickTime. It’s troublesome to install Real Media Player for Mac.
Rmvb and rm (Real Movie) format are video format that most Mac users hate to use. It’s quite annoying when playing this video format with Real player and tons of ads showing up without warning. However, it’s inevitable if sometime you have to watch some movies in which available only this format.
The easiest way to view/play/convert/edit rmvb file on OSX is to use Mac RMVB to MP4 converter converting from rmvb files on Mac to Mp4 video ready for iPod and iPhone. Rmvb file to MP4 converter Mac can convert rmvb file to mp4 on Mac, play rmvb file on Mac on iPod, and edit rmvb file (Include crop rmvb file, join/merge rmvb file, trim rmvb files on Mac OSX). Rmvb converter to mp4 can convert rmvb to iPod mp4 in different file size/resolution to fit on different screen.
Converting rmvb on Mac to mp4 is a multifunctional program; it is a free rmvb file player on Mac, a rmvb file converter to convert rmvb to mpeg-4 mp4, avi, wmv, flv, mov, dv, m4v, mp3, flac, aac with audio-visual quality and rmvb file editing tool allowing to customize resolution, bit rate, frame rate on Mac.
RMVB to MP4 converter for Mac is not just a professional video converter. More extended features can be expected. It is also an all-in-one editor that gives you enough flexibility to customize your video files depending on your preference. It enables you to crop off unwanted frames such as black edges from the video clip, trim the video to a specific length according to your project, tweak video brightness, contrast and saturation, apply special effect to it. Besides, you can also merge several files into a single one so as to save your previous time. All in all, it is without doubt a trustworthy software, just go to try and use it. Have fun!
Note: This tutorial is only for Mac OS X user. If you are using Windows™, you can use this guides
Pleases read through the tutorial below on how to convert .rmvb to QuickTime .mp4?
Step 1: Import RMVB files
Load the .RMVB files from your local hard disk to RMVB Converter for Mac.Step 2: Export to MP4 format
Select the MP4 as output video format from the profile drop down menu, set the video and audio parameters by click “Settings” button next to profile box.Step 3: Video Editing
You can make simple change for RMVB video, like trimming, cropping, adding effects.Step 4: Convert RMVB to MP4
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BlindType on Android
Posted: September 1, 2010, 3:53am CEST by VJ
BlindType – A new touch typing method. No accuracy required! What is BlindType? It is a revolutionary system that: * Eliminates touch typing frustrations * Allows for super sloppy typing * Helps you type easier and faster * Constantly adjusts to the user’s “perceived” keyboard and typing style * Just type the way you are used to – no gestures, nothing new to learn! Music credit to Free Royalty Free Music by DanoSongs.com
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NOXGENUS LIVE AV SET @ Cinemarienburg 21-7-2010
Posted: September 1, 2010, 3:14am CEST by VJ
Live analog music by Minotaur Electronics, Visuals by ZLK. Visuals synced via MIDI clock and controlled by audio input to Visualjockey/Karma1.1 (realtime 3d/2d animation and video input processing) and routed thru Resolume 2.41 (realtime fx and midi synced avi looping). External video sources: 1x dancefloor webcam thru Resolume and 1x wireless 2.4GHz camera faced on Mino’s synths thru VJO/Karma engine.
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modul8 video mapping test
Posted: September 1, 2010, 2:49am CEST by VJ
this is a first attempt to use the perspective transform filter of modul8 to map video onto a plinth, done in the sca Noko installation space in april 2010.It is the enochian letter Graph with the Graph Square with sound loop from the installation.
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Mix Revolution TV: Rane Serato Scratch Live 1.8 Demo
Posted: September 1, 2010, 1:29am CEST by VJ
This is an exclusive video of Sam from Serato demonstrating some of the new features that will be on the upcoming release of version 1.8 with Video. Enjoy and for more info head over to MixRevolution.tv and DJs can go to MixRevolution.com
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Resolume 3 Effects
Posted: September 1, 2010, 1:09am CEST by VJ
Checkout how to use effects in Resolume 3. More details on www.resolume.com
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Plastikman LIVE @ Sonar,Barcelona 2010.MP4
Posted: September 1, 2010, 1:06am CEST by VJ
Richie Hawtin returns with his LIVE tour featuring his alter ego Plastikman! All music copyright Richi Hawtin (Plastikman) for more info visit his site plastikman.com. See my review at vjforums.com
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BLADE RUNNER revisited by François Vautier (Paris)
Posted: September 1, 2010, 12:30am CEST by radley
BLADE RUNNER revisited >3.6 gigapixels from françois vautier on Vimeo. An experimental film in tribute to Ridley Scott’s legendary film “Blade Runner” (1982) This film was made as a unique picture with a resolution of 60.000 x 60.000 pixels (3.6 gigapixels) It was made with 167,819 frames from ‘Blade Runner’. 1>first step : the “picture” of the film I extracted [...]
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Bob Sinclar @ Puerto Vallarta :: 1 Enero 2010 :: Elektronika.Com.Mx
Posted: September 1, 2010, 12:15am CEST by VJ
www.elektronika.com.mx || Bob Sinclar playing at Pto.Vallarta, Mexico. || January 1. 2010
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The World’s Biggest Drum Machine by Propellerheads
Posted: August 31, 2010, 9:10pm CEST by radley
(via spit-take)
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Jungle Drummer Goodfill
Posted: August 31, 2010, 6:52pm CEST by VJ
demo loop from www.vjamm.com
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12twelve “l’universe” (live)
Posted: August 31, 2010, 12:12pm CEST by VJ
Concierto del festival de musica y videoart de Zamora EXPonentes en 2006
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5 GUM Walls Alive – Making of
Posted: August 31, 2010, 11:16am CEST by visualdrugstore
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Retro VJ set
Posted: August 31, 2010, 8:21am CEST
Retro VJ set from Gonçalo Nobre on Vimeo.
This is a showreel of my main VJ set.
With a revivalist thematic, gathering references from the early's XX century to the late 60's, mainly from advertising, magazines and newspapers.
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Estas são algumas imagens do meu principal VJ set.
Com uma temática revivalista, onde são reunidas referências desde o ínicio do século XX até ao final dos anos 60, vindas principalmente de antigos jornais e revistas.
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Music: Ray Charles - I Got A Woman (Gold Digger Diplo-Edit
Retro VJ loops02 from Gonçalo Nobre on Vimeo.
This are some video loops from my Retro VJ set.
Those are some specific videos that i made to be used on bar.
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Pikidoo - VJ software for Dingoo A320 handheld system
Posted: August 31, 2010, 8:13am CEST
It's a quick port from our previous project Pikix
While working with the Dingoo device, I have been quite disapointed by this system on various points, so cannot really recommend to purchase one.
But if you happen to own a Dingoo A320, check out Pikidoo!
We only used this software live once, for our AV show Classic Masakra at LPM Roma
Pikidoo is compatible with k17 video files compressed with the kouky2x tool.
See Pikix for more infos about those video files
Dingoo features:
Fits into your pocket!
Rechargeable battery
Composite output (PAL and NTSC)
Screen resolution 320x240 pixels
4GB Internal memory
Mini SD card slot
more infos on [en.wikipedia.org]
Download PikidooPikilipita 3 | Classic Masakra | LPM 2010 @ Brancaleone, Roma from pikilipita on Vimeo.
A Classic Masakra!
Performed by Pikilipita 3 as a collaboration between Pikilipita and Icyd.
Big cheers to Aga for her first live performance!
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Demoscene
Posted: August 31, 2010, 8:09am CEST
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Today’S Greatest Dvd Mov To Iphone Converter
Posted: August 31, 2010, 7:26am CEST by VJ
zuneconverter.net( [www.zuneconverter.net] )We here at POPSnail love fancy software, and we’ll try anything for our “World’s Most Popular Now!” award. The name of the game today is DVD MOV to iPhone. Of course, some programs work better than others, and we’ve made it our mission to help you find the best of them, without you having to download and delete six different ones! We give our “World’s Most Popular Now!” award to the best of the best and nine runners up in five categories ? UI skin, speed, ease of use, user rating and popularity.
For today, the best of the best in DVD MOV to iPhone are listed below. They’re clearly the winners in all five categories, as you’ll be able to tell immediately when you download them.
1. Cucusoft DVD + Video to iPhone Converter SuiteCucusoft iPhone Video Converter Suite is an all-in-one iPhone video Conversion software. This iPhone includes “Cucusoft iPhone Video Converter” and “Cucusoft DVD to iPhone Converter”.
2. Accelerate DVD + Video to iPhone Converter
It converts almost all formats of video files that are already on your computer (AVI, MPG, MPEG, ASF, WMV, MOV, 3GP, AMR, FLV, FLIC, SWF, RM, RMVB etc.) and DVD movies into a format that’s compatible with iPhone video, that is, iPhone mp4 format.
3. Cucusoft iPhone Video Converter
Cucusoft iPhone Movie/Video Converter is the easiest to use video converter software available. It can convert almost any video format to play on Microsoft iPhone Video Player, e.g. DivX, XviD, MOV, RM, rmvb, MPEG, WMV, AVI to iPhone Movie / iPhone Video format
4. Lenogo DVD + Video to iPhone Converter
It converts almost all formats of video files that are already on your computer (AVI, MPG, MPEG, ASF, WMV, MOV, 3GP, AMR, FLV, FLIC, SWF, RM, RMVB etc.) and DVD movies into a format that’s compatible with iPhone video, that is, iPhone mp4 format.
5. Wondershare iPhone Converter Suite
Wondershare iPhone Video Suite is an extremely easy to use DVD/Video to iphone converter. The software makes the process of converting DVD Movie, MTV, Music Video and TV Show to Apple iPhone MP4 or H.264 Video easily.
6. Lenogo Video to iPhone Converter
Lenogo Video to iPhone Converter is a professional video to iPhone converter software. It can convert AVI, MPG, MPEG, ASF, WMV, MOV, 3GP, AMR, FLV, FLIC, SWF, RM, RMVB to iPhone
7. Alive iPhone Video Converter
Alive iPhone Video Converter is a professional video converter to convert almost all popular video/movie formats to iPhone MP4 format.
8. Accelerate Video to iPhone Converter
Its conversion speed is 3 times of the playback speed, even faster than real-time.AVI, MPG, MPEG, ASF, WMV, MOV, 3GP, AMR, FLV, FLIC, SWF, RM, RMVB to iPhone Converter.
9. Digiters DVD + Video to iPhone Converter
Digiters DVD to iPhone Video Converter Suite is a One-Click, All-In-One solution to convert DVD to iPhone, Tivo to iPhone, DivX movie to iPhone, Xvid movie to iPhone, MPEG video to iPhone, WMV to iPhone, AVI to iPhone, RealMedia to iPhone, etc.
10. PQ DVD to iPhone Video Suite
PQ DVD to iPhone Video Suite (PQ DVD to iPhone + iPhone Video Converter) is a One-Click, All-In-One solution to convert DVD, Tivo, DivX, MPEG, WMV, AVI, RealMedia and many more to iPhone and iPod Video.
source: [www.zuneconverter.net]
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Mac M4V to MP4 Converter——convert itunes M4V files to mp4 on Mac OS X
Posted: August 31, 2010, 3:40am CEST by VJ
1. What’s MP4 formats?
MP4 format is much more common than the M4V format. It is supported by various hardware devices, like Apple iPod, iPhone, Zune, Sony Walkman, PSP, Mobile phones and other MP4 players. But M4V is limited too much on these devices, let alone its DRM protection. So you may need to convert your purchased M4V videos to plain MP4 format for more use.
Let Tune4mac iTunes Video Converter Platinum help you, which is a powerful M4V to MP4 Converter for mac users. It converts M4V to MP4 format on Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, even 10.6 OS Snowleopard easily and legally. Follow the simple steps below:2. How to convert M4V videos to MP4 on Mac OS X
Step 1. Download Tune4mac iTunes Video Converter Platinum free
http://www.tune4mac.com/download/mac-itunes-video-converter-platinum.dmg
Step 2.Install Tune4mac iTunes Video Converter on your Mac and lanuch it by double clicking the iTunes Video Converter mac icon
Note: There is 3 minites limitation on the output videos in free trial version. You can register Tune4mac iTunes Video Converter to remove the time limitation.
Step 3. Add M4V movies to Tune4mac iTunes Video Converter
Click the “Add” button in the top-left to add the video files you want to convert. The software will open the iTunes movies library by default. Select the files and then click “OK”.
Step 4. Choose output format as MP4 format by clicking the profile drop down list.
Step 5. Click Convert icon to start conversion.
Provide best solution for converting drm itunes musics and movies or converting DVD videos on Mac OS. Learn more from [www.tune4mac.com]
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Os Barbixas – Improvável – Frases 3 (com Bruno Motta e Cristiane Wersom)
Posted: August 31, 2010, 3:40am CEST by VJ
www.improvavel.com.br — Convidados Jogadora: Cristiane Wersom MC: Bruno Motta Jogo: Frases Regra: Antes de começar o espetáculo a platéia coloca sugestões de frases numa caixa. Cada jogador recebe duas frases dessa caixa, que eles não sabem quais são, e no decorrer da improvisação eles têm que encaixá-las na cena. “Improvável” é um espetáculo criado, encenado e produzido pela Cia. Barbixas de Humor. www.barbixas.com.br Gravado no Teatro Municipal de Santo André – SP Dia 07/03/10 Esse vídeo faz parte do DVD do espetáculo Improvável, que será lançado em breve.
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Twitter Application Launched For Android 2.1
Posted: August 31, 2010, 3:25am CEST by VJ
Twitter have now released an official app for Android 2.1. The official Twitter applications has arrived for Android Market but it only works with Android 2.1 or higher. The Twitter Application has excellent features. both visually and feature-wise.
Check out the video for more information.
Twitter Application has standard features, they are Search, Geo location, lists and profiles are all there. But with some nice additions, such as in-line previews of images in your stream and a home screen widget you can view both and post from.
See the more Images and videos click here
Twitter Application has some interesting features, they have the ability to sync tweets with your phone book contacts so you can view your Spock persons are listed in the latest tweets straight from your phone book any where that uses Android’s quick contact bar.Twitter have now released an official app for Android 2.1. The official Twitter applications has arrived for Android Market but it only works with Android 2.1 or higher. The Twitter Application has excellent features. both visually and feature-wise.
Twitter Application has standard features, they are Search, Geo location, lists and profiles are all there. But with some nice additions, such as in-line previews of images in your stream and a home screen widget you can view both and post from.
Twitter Application has some interesting features, they have the ability to sync tweets with your phone book contacts so you can view your Spock persons are listed in the latest tweets straight from your phone book any where that uses Android’s quick contact bar.
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coup digital – simon rojas on modul8
Posted: August 31, 2010, 1:12am CEST by VJ
coup digital: coupdigital.com
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Le Petit Orb / Volt 2010
Posted: August 31, 2010, 1:05am CEST by Sta12 & VO
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Rane ttm 57 Serato scratch live issue freezing fix
Posted: August 31, 2010, 1:03am CEST by VJ
Issue: i connected my mac ttm57 and my external and nothing worked it was freezing i tried many things and i found a way to fix it. 1. turn on mac 2.run scratchlive 3.turn on ttm57 4.on the the ttm57 turn off a green light thats on below j1 by pressing the knob button down and then do the same for j2 5. connect ttm57 usb to mac 6. connect your external 7. everything should work GOOD LUCK! Mac book pro 4 ram 320 g of memory + 500g external storage with a firewire 800 connection
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Wildlife
Posted: August 31, 2010, 1:01am CEST by Sta12 & VO
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Liquid Borderland Mega Farlig + VJ Xorume
Posted: August 31, 2010, 12:40am CEST by VJ
Liquid Borderland 2009 Aalborg Denmark Mega Farlig + VJ Xorume Light paint with the Quase-Cinema VJ software www.tossestreger.org http www.myspace.com www.quasecinema.org
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‘Tunes’ VJ Loop DVD
Posted: August 31, 2010, 12:38am CEST by VJ
The ‘Tunes’ Loop DVD pack and mix DVD, are a collection of footage of Turntabalism and knob twiddling, MCs, drummers, bassists, guitarists and dancers. & FREE VJ loops at… www.vjdigitaleyes.com All VJ Loops in AVI & MOV, on data DVD, to use with all good VJ software. The 1 hr video mix comes on video DVD which can played on any DVD player or computer, so no need for a VJ. Just add music ***NOW 160 FREE VJ LOOPS***
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Powerful 3D Tech, Housebroken: Unity, OpenFrameworks, Blender, Dog in Action
Posted: August 30, 2010, 9:55pm CEST by Peter Kirn
Sniff from karolina sobecka on Vimeo.
Right on cue, after mentioning that game engines like Unity can become powerful tools for live and interactive visuals — not just digital “games” in the conventional sense — here’s an example, via the Unity Twitter feed. SNIFF, by Karolina Sobecka with software development by Jim George, combines the beautiful, commercial Unity game engine with two free and open source tools — Blender for generating models, and OpenFrameworks for providing a tool for analyzing video input for interaction.
Yes, the model could have been done in Blender’s own game engine, or with more OF code, but Unity is a nice tool, too — and I think it’s a healthy sign that commercial and free tools can compete with one another.
Sniff system from karolina sobecka on Vimeo.
More information on this project, from 2009:
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Unity 3 Game Engine Approaches Mind-Blowing Upgrade
Posted: August 30, 2010, 9:30pm CEST by Peter Kirn
Unity, the commercial game engine, has long been a development tool of interest to those working not only in games but other live and interactive 3D visuals. In contrast to traditional tools, Unity is simply friendlier to designers and programmers alike. It’s what you’d imagine a game engine to be. After first attracting developers on the Mac, Unity has since become a powerhouse on various platforms.
Interestingly, it’s all powered by the open-source Mono, a free version of Microsoft’s .net platform (and a painful reminder to Java advocates of what Java could have been). You can read a case study of that success story; PDF only.
The coming Unity 3 upgrade is looking significant.
- Greater cross-platform support. Not only Mac, Windows, and Wii, but Xbox 360, iPhone, iPod touch, and Android. (I saw an impressive Android presentation at a panel in Berlin in May; it’s looking like you’ll get the same stuff the iOS developers get, but perhaps with even better multi-platform support. It could mean the iOS version improves, simultaneously, as that work under the hood gets done.
- Unified editor. Open one editor, target any and every platform.
- New visual goodness. Superb lightmapping for more realistic lighting effects, lens effects, and deferred rendering for improved performance mean better-looking visuals. The lightmapping uses the lovely Beast.
- Source-level debugging. Thanks to improvements in Mono’s MonoDevelop code environment, you can finally debug your scripts with ease.
- Occlusion culling for improved performance across platforms, mobile and otherwise.
- Easier asset management via a new browser.
You can see an overview of the features that most excite the dev team on the Unity blog. One big highlight, as I profiled today on Create Digital Music, is new real-time audio capabilities. That could make this an ideal choice for people looking to build innovative new audiovisual environments.
Other key features the dev team spotlights: powerful, easier new scene editing, surface shaders and easy shaders for OpenGL ES, XOR operator in JavaScript, easier math functions, and lots more — see the post.
All in all, it clearly makes Unity the environment to beat for independent creators.
I still long for a strong game engine choice for open source developers, one built on higher-level languages than C++ (or using something other than primitive bindings to C++ engines). I don’t imagine such an environment would ever compete directly with something like Unity; on the contrary, it could go in other, more experimental directions than a more comprehensive commercial game would, and conceivably be more lightweight. PyGame, jMonkeyEngine, and the Blender Game Engine are a few examples that might fill the category; I’m curious if readers are using any of these (Unity included).
Unity’s place is clear, though; they’re doing extraordinary work and reshaping the notion of what a game engine is. Stay tuned for that version 3 release.
Unity 3 Coming Soon [New features, available for preorder]
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Prepared Piano
Posted: August 30, 2010, 7:30pm CEST by VJ
Background information
The prepared piano is often regarded[weasel words] a kind of random technique, mainly popularised by John Cage. However this is a widespread[citation needed] misunderstanding of the technique. Richard Bunger wrote a book The Well Prepared Piano in which he explains how Cage prepared his pianos and even which pianos are suitable, because of the deviation of string lengths within different types of brands. Bunger also clarifies why the preparations were done in such ways, in other words, what sound it causes per adaption. The timbre of the instrument changes heavily when you prepare, but also how you prepare. Much of the technique is related to the harmonic positions of the strings. For instance a preparation on 1/2 of the string length causes a different sound than on 1/3. Cage was aware of this and made use of this knowledge. In other words, the preparations don’t cause a random sound as often assumed.
History
John Cage coined the term prepared piano and was undoubtedly the composer who made the technique famous. He credited Henry Cowell and, to a lesser extent, Erik Satie, for contributing to the idea, but it is unclear if Cage was aware of many other precedents described below.
Since the later days of the harpsichord (17th18th century), stringed keyboard instruments could have registers, for instance giving a drier or more ample sound when the instrument’s stop was pulled (a stop in the meaning of a similar disposition for organs, known as organ stops).
Fortepiano
Main article: Fortepiano
When the first pianos were invented around the beginning of the 18th century, the only “coloring” of the sounds produced by the instrument resulted from how the individual keys were pressed (loud = forte, or softly = piano, giving the name to the instrument: fortepiano). A type of register, first implemented with a stop above the keyboard, which became a standard device for pianos in the second half of the 18th century, was engaging or disengaging the muting of the strings after the release of a key. Only by the end of the 18th century, the muting mechanism was triggered with a pedal, after an intermediate period when this register was operated by the pianist’s knees.
Reed stop
But the idea of harpsichord-like registers lived on: in the early 19th century some pianos were provided with a reed stop, which lowered a strip of paper onto the strings. This led musicologists such as Tom Beghin to believe that the technique of placing a strip of paper on piano strings would probably have originated before it was standardised as a register operated with stops, and that, for instance, Mozart’s Alla Turca can safely be played with a piece of paper on some of the strings as a historical interpretation (see [www.klara.be] or [streampower.belgacom.be] for an audio example of this Alla Turca played on a prepared rebuilt authentic Mozart piano, in Tom Beghin’s interpretation).
Turkish stop
Around the turn of the nineteenth century, Turkish music was so popular that piano manufacturers made special pianos with a Turkish stop, also called the military or Janissary stop. The player would press a pedal that caused a bell to ring and/or a padded hammer to strike the soundboard in imitation of a bass drum. The Turkish stop was popular for playing the famous Mozart Rondo alla Turca, K. 331.
Satie’s Pige de Mduse
In the piano version of his Pige de Mduse (1913 or 1914) Erik Satie’s score called for placing sheets of paper on the piano strings in order to imitate the mechanical sound of a monkey puppet that figured in the play.
Villa-Lobos’s Choros no. 8
In his 1925 work for two pianos and large orchestra, Heitor Villa-Lobos added to his score instructions to the pianist to insert pieces of paper between the strings and the hammers to attain a certain sonority.
Luthal
Main article: Luthal
In the 1920s, a new invention was presented, the Luthal, which extended the register possibilities of a piano to its maximum, producing cimbalon-like sounds in some registers, exploiting harmonics of the strings when pulling other register-stops, and also some registers making other objects, which were lowered just above the strings, resound. But that instrument became obsolete before it became popular, partly due to most of the mechanics of the instrument being too sensitive, needing constant adjustment. The only pieces in the general repertoire to feature the Luthal are L’Enfant et les Sortilges (19205) and Tzigane (1924) by Maurice Ravel, performances of which tend to substitute an upright piano, either prepared with paper or straight.
Ragamalika
Another precedent to the prepared piano was an experiment by the French composer Maurice Delage (18791961): his Ragamalika (191222), based on the classical music of India, calls for a piece of cardboard to be placed under the B-flat in the second line of the bass clef to dampen the sound, imitating the sound of an Indian drum.
String piano
Main article: String piano
In the 1920s, American composer Henry Cowell coined the term string piano”to describe direct manipulation of piano strings, such as by plucking them with fingers or stroking them with a brush.
John Cage and later composers
See also: Works for prepared piano by John Cage
John Cage was a composer who used prepared piano extensively and is credited with inventing the instrument. Cage popularized the prepared piano, particularly by the seminal Sonatas and Interludes, and inspired many other composers. Arvo Prt’s popular Tabula Rasa (1977) is one of the better-known compositions to make extensive use of a prepared piano.
Cage first prepared a piano when he was commissioned to write music for “Bacchanale”, a dance by Syvilla Fort in 1938. For some time previously, Cage had been writing exclusively for a percussion ensemble, but the hall where Fort dance was to be staged had no room for a percussion group. The only instrument available was a single grand piano. After some consideration, Cage said that he realized it was possible o place in the hands of a single pianist the equivalent of an entire percussion orchestra … With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard. (Cage and Charles, 38) Cage would often quip that by preparing a piano he left it in better condition than he found it.
Cage himself said he was greatly inspired by Henry Cowell’s experiments with the so-called string piano, in which the performer plucks and scrapes the strings of the piano directly.
In Cage’s use, the preparations are typically nuts, bolts, and pieces of rubber to be lodged between and entwined around the strings. Some preparations make duller, more percussive sounds than usual, while others create sonorous bell-like tones. Additionally, the individual parts of a preparation such as a nut loosely screwed onto a bolt will vibrate themselves, adding their own unique sound. By placing the preparation between two of the strings on a note that has three strings assigned to it, it is possible to change the timbre of that note by depressing the soft pedal on the piano, which moves the hammers so they strike only two strings instead of all three (the soft pedal is traditionally called “una corda” on a grand). Other prepared piano sounds can be reminiscent of mbiras, marimbas, bells, wood blocks, Indonesian gendrs from a gamelan, or many other sounds less easily defined.
Although it is possible to prepare an upright piano, it is far easier, and far more common, on a grand piano.
On some pianos, a bar is installed above the hammers and activated by the center pedal. This bar can be furnished with felthich will significantly mute the sound of the piano (a practice mute) or strips of cloth tape with metal attached to the ends, and the hammers will hit the metal bits onto the string. This is sometimes called a mandolin attachmentlthough mandolin players would likely object that the sound is nothing like a mandolin. This gives a sound similar to the tack piano, but it can instantly be returned to a regular piano sound by releasing the center pedal.
In classical music, the American composer Lou Harrison called for tack piano in some of his compositions, primarily for its clarity of tone. The composer Conlon Nancarrow adapted his player pianos in a similar way, covering the hammers of his pianos with metal bands and hardened leather strips.
More recent composers to use prepared pianos include Sophie Agnel, Koka Nikoladze, Michael Staley, Philip Corner, Roberto Carnevale, Carson Kievman, Jason Moran, Marina Leonardi, Stephen Scott and George Aroshidze. Andrea Neumann takes an extreme approach to piano preparation, having gradually dismantled pianos until the wooden frame and piano strings are all that remain.
Australian composers Erik Griswold and Anthony Pateras have further developed the potential of the prepared piano in an improvisational context, as well as exploring the microtonal possibilities of the medium, while Ross Bolleter has taken the idea into an innovative directionxploring the use of ruined pianos, or pianos decayed by weather and time.
American composer Chris Brown created a type of prepared electric piano, the gazamba from the shell of a Wurlitzer electric piano. American composer Eric Glick Rieman composed extensively for prepared Rhodes pianos.
Tack Piano
Main article: Tack piano
The phrase prepared piano is also sometimes applied to other kinds of preparations. The tack piano is a piano that has been altered by inserting thumbtacks or small nails into the striking end of each hammer, so that the instrument will produce a more percussive sound and brighter timbre. The resulting tone often resembles the sound of a very old and uncared-for piano. The tack piano has been used primarily in honky-tonk-style piano playing, or to make a piano sound like an antique piano that might have been heard in a saloon or brothel around the early 20th century. The application of tacks is generally discouraged by piano technicians as the tacks can drop off the hammers and lodge in the strings or jam the mechanism. On normal pianos, felt coverings on the hammers will harden with age (though not usually for at least several decades), yielding a characteristic tinny sound. This can be cured by softening the hammers with a device consisting of multiple needles, resembling a comb. Where the felt is too far gone, it can be simply replaced.
In popular music
“All Tomorrow’s Parties” from The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967), John Cale prepared his piano with a chain of paper clips.
The Flying Lizards’ version of Barrett Strong’s “Money (That’s What I Want)”. Featuring a piano prepared with small pieces of tin and phone books, the minimalist song had a unique sound which turned it into a huge hit in the early 1980s. It is now often used in advertisements.[citation needed]
On David Bowie’s 1979 album Lodger, Brian Eno used a looped prepared piano to provide the rhythmic basis of the track “African Night Flight.”[citation needed]
Ernst Horn from the German group Deine Lakaien uses a prepared upright piano during live concerts, most notably during the song “The Mirror Men.”[citation needed]
In 1994, Tori Amos used a prepared upright piano for “Bells for Her” on her album Under the Pink, which was also played on a prepared piano for the second half of that album’s live tour.[citation needed]
Richard D. James (better known as Aphex Twin) used a prepared piano on his 2001 album drukqs, recorded by programming a MIDI-controlled Yamaha Disklavier.[citation needed] Live versions of two of the pieces can be heard on the 2006 CD Warp Works & Twentieth Century Masters, performed by Clive Williamson.
Artist Ben Folds recorded numerous songs using a tack piano as well. Additionally, he achieved the percussive, almost computer-like effects on his song “Free Coffee” (from his 2008 album Way to Normal) by placing Altoids tins on top of the strings of a grand piano.[citation needed]
Denman Maroney performs on what he has dubbed hyperpiano, which “involves stopping, sliding, bowing, plucking, striking and strumming the strings with copper bars, aluminum bowls, rubber blocks, plastic boxes and other household objects.”
Chris Butler’s The Waitresses used prepared piano on its song “No Guilt.”[citation needed]
Tom Constanten of the Grateful Dead used prepared-piano techniques on “That’s it for the Other One,” the opening track on the group second studio album, Anthem of the Sun, which was released in 1968.[citation needed]
American jazz pianist Brad Mehldau used prepared piano in his recording of Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android” on his album Largo. The prepared piano parts were actually played by guitarist Jon Brion and percussionist Jim Keltner.[citation needed]
Swedish jazz pianist Esbjrn Svensson used prepared piano techniques on the songs “The Gold-hearted miner” and “Brewery of Beggars” on his 2006 album Tuesday Wonderland.[citation needed]
Christine McVie, former pianist of Fleetwood Mac, used a prepared upright piano (metal bar attachment) on “Sara” from the album Tusk.[citation needed] A piano like this was also used on the Tusk Tour.
Terry Adams, pianist of NRBQ, released an album titled Love Letter To Andromeda in 2008. The album features six songs performed on prepared piano.[citation needed]
Eddie Van Halen uses a prepared piano on the song “Strung Out” from Van Halen’s album Balance.[citation needed]
A tack piano is used in the song “Lovers in Japan” by Coldplay on the album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, while a distant-sounding, heavily reverberated tack piano can be heard on its song “Life in Technicolor II.”[citation needed]
Prepared piano is used on the 1975 album Rubycon by the German electronic music group Tangerine Dream.[citation needed]
Jerry Dammers of The Specials plucked the strings of his piano in the intro and instrumental sections of “Rat Race” and can be seen doing so in the music video.[citation needed]
Noah and the Whale use prepared piano in the song “Our Window” from their 2009 album “The First Days of Spring[citation needed]
Composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim used a prepared piano to perform demos of some of his compositions (including the cut song “Prayer”) for his 1976 musical Pacific Overtures.
See also
Piano extended technique
Notes
^ Anna Stella Schic (1987). Villa-Lobos, Souvenirs de l’Indien Blanc, Actes Sud, p. 82.
^ Pasler, Jann (2000). “Race, Orientalism, and Distinction in the Wake of the ‘Yellow Peril’.” In Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music, ed. Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, p. 107.
^ Mitchell, Tim Sedition and Alchemy : A Biography of John Cale, 2003, ISBN 0-7206-1132-6
^ “Philadelphia FRINGE Festival 2000 – Hyperpiano”. [www.pafringe.com] Retrieved 2005-12-23.Â
Further reading
Bunger, Richard (1973). The Well-Prepared Piano. Colorado Springs: Colorado College Music Press
Frst-Heidtmann, Monika (1979). Das prparierte Klavier des John Cage. Gustav Bose Verlag Regensburg. ISBN 978-3-7649-2183-5.
Cage, John, and Daniel Charles (1981). For The Birds: John Cage in Conversation with Daniel Charles. Marion Boyers London. ISBN 0-7145-2690-8.
Dianova, Tzenka (2008). John Cage’s Prepared Piano: The Nuts & Bolts. Mutasis Books Victoria. ISBN 978-0-9809657-0-4.
External links
‘Are You Prepared’ 17-key Online Prepared Piano by Andreas Busk-Jepsen. Site includes free downloadable prepared piano sampler for Ableton Live, NI’s Kontakt and Logic’s EXS Sampler
The Sound Collector – The Prepared Piano of John Cage by Tim Ovens (PDF version).
If you build it, they will come! essay by Kyle Gann, includes video performance of preparation by Margaret Leng Tan (here).
Prepared Piano Sample Set – By Tom Gersic. Some free, others cheap
Prepared Piano Max/MSP-Object – By Dr. Stefan Bilbao, ported to Max/MSP by Thomas Resch
Jingle Bells on Prepared Piano – By George Aroshidze
Listening
Prepared piano demonstration and performance by Richard Bunger
Epitonic.com: John Cage performed by Margaret Leng Tan, featuring In the Name of the Holocaust
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Biennale Registration is open!
Posted: August 30, 2010, 6:41pm CEST by petra
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Numark NuVJ File Types
Posted: August 30, 2010, 6:38pm CEST by VJ
www.karaokeequipment.com With the NuVJ, the VJ can trigger images and video clips, add effects to them, mix them through an onboard DJ style crossfader and tweak them in order to create unique and spectacular shows. The hardware controller works seamlessly with existing DJ gear and the software is compatible with most computers and laptops.
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Midi Miliz – No Alibi // Boshke Beats // VJ Kyle Lyons
Posted: August 30, 2010, 6:15pm CEST by VJ
Video of Midi Miliz release “No Alibi” for Boshke Beats Records. Video is a live performance from the Transit Festival an event run by Alex “Boshke” Tolstey. Video was cut by Kyle Lyons of www.vjloops.tv. Extrawelt was recently added to Sven Vath’s Cocoon records as well as James Holden’s Border Community Label. Shot in Benicassim, Spain.
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Jungle Drummer BigFIll
Posted: August 30, 2010, 5:26pm CEST by VJ
demo loop from www.vjamm.com
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Hands-on Visuals, Literally: MIDI Glove + Modul8
Posted: August 30, 2010, 5:09pm CEST by Peter Kirn
STOPMOTION 2.0. Controlado en directo por sensores from Rubén Fernández on Vimeo.
Madrid-based artist Rubén Fernández sends along his most recent project, which layers stop motion video with novel live control. The material itself is composed of stop motion footage produced with everyday materials, most notably beer and soda cans. The stop motion footage was reprocessed into more stylized animation, and then is controlled via MIDI using both conventional faders and flex-sensor gloves, using the Mac VJ app Modul8.
I love the sense of a layered process here; I hope we get to see more of this work – it looks to me like a great step toward a larger performance.
Description:
Vídeo-Arte. Audiovisual Stopmotion controlado en directo por MIDI y guante con SENSORES DE FLEXIÓN bajo software de VJ MODUL8.
Creado a partir de materiales cotidianos como latas de cerveza, refrescos y otros.
Lots of additional information, documentation, and more on his work:
[ginmov.cwahi.net]
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bye bye
Posted: August 30, 2010, 2:39pm CEST by gael
La Société VisionSonore remercie tout le monde avec qui elle a collaborée pendant ces cinq dernieres années. L’activité est actuellement suspendue.
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Intersys @ Equinoxio 8 :: 20 Marzo 2010 :: Guadalajara :: Elektronika.Com.Mx
Posted: August 30, 2010, 1:06pm CEST by VJ
www.elektronika.com.mx || Intersys playing at Guadalajara, Mexico. || March 8. 2010
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Old Skool Two
Posted: August 30, 2010, 12:20pm CEST by VJ
Music made with Tobybear’s Screamer and Hammerhead (put together in VSThost) then run through a Sonique plugin called Jazz and then various processes applied over that using VisualJockey SP1. The Jazz plugin is one of the great visualisation plugins, creating an effect similar to pressing on closed eyelids and then graphically extrapolated. I’ve taken that extrapolation a little further. There’s a better quality version in the Internet Archive at: www.archive.org
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Microsoft iPod
Posted: August 30, 2010, 11:31am CEST by VJ
Microsoft’s next generation iPod (sorry folks but I lost the original source. can’t find the author – apologies to the author)
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Masbedo – Invideo 2006
Posted: August 30, 2010, 10:44am CEST by VJ
www.mostrainvideo.com Masbedo at Invideo 2006 – mostra videoart e cinema oltre
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Dragontape
Posted: August 30, 2010, 8:06am CEST
Create gapless video streams from online clips
Sound complicated?
- Just search for a video,
- drag&drop some clips on your tape,
- lay back and watch or share it with friends!Sound complicated?
- Just search for a video,
- drag&drop some clips on your tape,
- lay back and watch or share it with friends!Dragontape is a webapp that enables you to create mixtapes of your favorite online videos, so you can watch them as a continuous show. The tapes you create are accessed through a single URL, so you can easily share with friends or embed them in a webpage. The source clips remain in their original locations, Dragontape simply remembers where to find them.Dragontape Demo Video from Dragontape on Vimeo.
Learn how to use the Dragontape editor!
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VJ Retina Error vs. Patrick Wurzwallner
Posted: August 30, 2010, 8:05am CEST
VJ Retina Error vs. Patrick Wurzwallner from retina error on Vimeo.
This is from the Home Research Jam-Session between me and Patrick. Done at the KTC-Wittenberg for the wbmotion e.V. project "European Roots Movement 2010"
Drums and Sound: Patrick Wurzwallner
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essay: Resolume Avenue 3.1
Posted: August 30, 2010, 7:04am CEST
VeeJayTsunaMiX Paris-Vegas-Nautilus essay 01 : Resolume Avenue 3.1 from veejaytsunamix on Vimeo.
VeeJayTsunaMiX, Producer, First Resolume Avenue 3.1 essay : Paris-Vegas-Nautilus : demo Hi Def vjaying HD
VeeJayTsunaMiX BUTTERFLY EFFECTS essay 02 : Resolume Avenue 3.1 from veejaytsunamix on Vimeo.
VeeJayTsunaMiX BUTTERFLY EFFECTS essay 02 : Resolume Avenue 3.1
VeeJayTsunaMiX Moon Eclipse - Sphinx - Fire Performers essay 03 from veejaytsunamix on Vimeo.
VeeJayTsunaMiX Moon Eclipse - Sphinx - Fire Performers essay 03 : Resolume Avenue 3.1
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Os Barbixas – Improvável – Frases (com Bruno Motta e Fábio Rabin)
Posted: August 30, 2010, 3:10am CEST by VJ
www.improvavel.com.br — Convidados Jogador:Fábio Rabin MC: Bruno Motta Jogo: Frases Regra: Antes de começar o espetáculo, a platéia coloca sugestões de frases numa caixa. Cada jogador recebe duas frases dessa caixa, que eles não sabem quais são, e no decorrer da improvisação eles tem que encaixá-las na cena. Improvável é um espetáculo criado, encenado e produzido pela Cia. Barbixas de Humor. www.barbixas.com.br Gravado no TUCA Dia 05/11/09
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Androidology – Part 1 of 3 – Architecture Overview
Posted: August 30, 2010, 2:57am CEST by VJ
Part 1 of 3 in an overview series on the Android platform. In this segment, Mike gives an overview of the system architecture.
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RANE SERATO SCRATCH LIVE AND M44-7 SHURE NEEDLES
Posted: August 30, 2010, 12:32am CEST by VJ
htto://www.hitcreatormusic.ning.com RANE SERATO SCRATCH LIVE AND M44-7 SHURE NEEDLES BUY ON AMAZON.COM FOR THE BEST DEAL ON THESE NEEDLES CLICK HERE ow.ly Remember when you were first learning how to scratch? Remember what happened to your sister’s copy of Blondie’s Eat To The Beat? Remember the beating she gave you when she found out? Even after that painful experience, you still practiced your turntable skills, till finally you’ve become the deck-master you are today. Still, you’re reminded of that prodigious beat-down every time you have to replace a needle-shredded LP, every time you pull a heat-warped album out of its sleeve, and every time you load your vinyl crates into your car. Wouldn’t it be nice, in this digital age, to be able to do away with costly and burdensome vinyl, but still retain the tactile control and familiar feel of DJing on a turntable? With Rane Serato Scratch Live, you can! Serato has been revolutionizing the DJ world since its introduction in 2004. Using timecode-engraved vinyl discs (or CDs), Serato Scratch provides real-vinyl control over digital audio files. All the inconveniences of vinyl are done away with, while the satisfying and expressive feel that only LPs can provide remains intact. Hesitant to scratch on that that rare pressing of Dancing in Your Head? Load up the digital version and cut away! Tired of lugging your LP library with you to gigs? Access your multiple-Gigs’ worth of music directly from your laptop! Can’t seem to find …
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creating maps for resolume
Posted: August 30, 2010, 12:12am CEST by VJ
just a quick demonstration how to create a mask for the vj software resolume (www.resolume.com) music by the wind-up robots killed my cat (www.myspace.com/twrkmc) here’s a little guide: the resolution of the second screen should be the resolution of the output in resolume (eg 640*480). in photoshop you create a file with the same resolution (transparent or black background) drag the window to the second screen. press “F” two times to go into full screen mode and hide the rulers if visible (cmd+R). choose the pen tool “P” and select “shape layers” in the bar at the top (first button). i usually choose red as the foreground/shape color. now draw one square with the pen tool. if you draw a second shape, a new layer will be created automatically. with the shapes it is possible to fine tune the squares, if you didn’t put the corners exactly. just use the direct selection tool “A”. when finished (delete the background layer and ) save the file as transparent png.
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Lightning Dogs 2 Sample Clip – Upcoming DVD
Posted: August 30, 2010, 12:09am CEST by VJ
As it’s turned out to be two DVDs in the end, here’s a sample from the second one. It’s a little bit more mellow than the first, using more multiply mixing than displacement and finishes on the super-glowey, and as-yet-never-released “nexus” clip.
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Video blog, mpd24 using live and modul8
Posted: August 29, 2010, 11:35pm CEST by VJ
test for my 3d project, see my blog for more info www.elliotttrent.wordpress.com
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Android tablets becomes popular
Posted: August 29, 2010, 8:24pm CEST by VJ
So I am currently waiting for the open source Google Android based tablets. I just love the idea of iPad and portable tablet device, but hate the idea of not being open to public. They are arrogant and try to control the users with their iPhone products. Unless you jailbreak your device, you cannot enjoy the application freely.
Android is open source OS developed by Google. Many smart phones and Internet tablet device vendors are adopting Android rapidly. Isn’t Android just great or what?
Some android tablets are already on the market (such as Archos 5 and Archos 7) already. But many major computer manufacturers are planning to release Android tablets by the end of 2010. Also price wise, Apple iPad is about $500 and you would still need to spend extra money to use some of their services. But Android based devices are expected to be around $200 ~ $300 . Also They will support the micro SD which the device function that everybody wants. Then who would want expensive Apple products? I personally foresee that the iPhone will become more like the Macintosh and Android will become like the Microsoft Windows in the past. I just can’t wait! If you want more information on Android Tablets, please visit [androidtablet101.com] . You will be able to find the latest information and comparisons on the android tablets.
While the Android Tablet is under the production, you can enjoy Google Android phone. You can find more information on current popular HTC android phones at http://htcphones101.com and http://htcphones.us . So do you like the Apple’s devices or Android devices?
Since the beggining of the Google Android OS , I was the enthusiast of theAndroid OS! It’s powerful , free , and many devices support it. I would love to write about Android OS and it’s functionalities
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Bret Battey - Sinus Aestum (2009)
Posted: August 29, 2010, 8:11pm CEST by Maura McDonnell
Bret Battey - Sinus Aestum (2009)
Bret Battey is a composer of audio-visual artworks. He uses "custom software and generative techniques to create hybrid sound and image evocations of distinctive ways of being in the world". This work "Sinus Aestum" needs to be seen in high quality visuals and audio. I was lucky to see this work presented in Bath Spa last year. Quite incredible. However, the vimeo excerpt gives you a good idea of the piece. Enjoy.
Sinus Aestum (Luna Series #3) (2009) from Bret Battey on Vimeo.
"Sinus Aestum (Bay of Billows) is a dark lunar plain articulated by threads of white dust, like tips of flowing and silent waves. Drawing from this image, the sound and image composition "Sinus Aestum" presents one sound-synthesis process and nearly 12,000 individual points, which are continually transformed and warped, restrained and released, without cuts, to form compound, multi-dimensional waves of activity moving through unstable states between plateaus of pitch and noise. Mathematical processes are transformed into a contemplation of the continual ebb and flow of human experience." Source: [vimeo.com] Visual Music - Resources on the web by Maura McDonnell
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PCDJ VJ – An introduction – Part 2 – by www.pcdj.co.uk
Posted: August 29, 2010, 5:50pm CEST by VJ
A beginner’s guide to PCDJ VJ. Part 2 by www.pcdj.co.uk
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Bike Song – Rawbone
Posted: August 29, 2010, 4:01pm CEST by VJ
A little audiovisual artwork about a bike and a couple of cars.
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Tempus Visuals Pack
Posted: August 29, 2010, 3:19pm CEST
Tempus Visuals Pack from John Hammond on Vimeo.
11 original VJ clips for you to use in your visual performances. All clips are either 2, 4, or 8 seconds long and some will seamlessly loop.
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audio reactive content experiment #1
Posted: August 29, 2010, 3:14pm CEST
audio reactive content experiment #1 from Justin C. Larwick on Vimeo.
all original material created in quartz composer, running in vdmx, filmed with a cheap point and shoot sony cam. good things are coming soon... (sorry about the horribly low sound quality). this was a test not a "real" performance (yet) -
Black Hole
Posted: August 29, 2010, 3:11pm CEST
Black Hole from 360angles on Vimeo.
Made with Processing. Audio by John Murphy.
blog.arsthanea.com/2009/01/05/black-hole/ - here you can read about my process.
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TV Dinner by Jay E (St. Louis)
Posted: August 29, 2010, 4:47am CEST by radley
TV Dinner from Jay E on Vimeo. (via @dj2ndnature)
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Propellerheads Reason 4 for Mac OS X buy cheap
Posted: August 29, 2010, 2:42am CEST by VJ
Propellerheads Reason 4 for Mac OS X buy cheap
Reason’s virtual rack format was a big hit when it appeared in 2000. The idea of emulating a customisable rack full of synthesizers, drum machines and audio effects had instant appeal, because it was so easy to understand. Since then, Reason has kept the core model and added new features.
What’s different in this version is that not much is different. The biggest addition is the Thor softsynth, which is a multi-format monster packed with synthesis and modulation options. It’s so powerful you can almost ignore the older softsynths because it can cover most of the same ground – although big patches can be processor hungry, so the older softsynths like Subtractor can still fill in handily for smaller jobs. The sound is good, but not earth-flatteningly massive. There are some clever effects, but there are so many softsynths available elsewhere now with so many features that Thor struggles to stand out sonically.
Also included is an arpeggiation module cannily called RGP-8 – perfect for trancers – and an updated sequencer with better automation and clip support. It doesn’t support audio loops, however – you’ll need to load them into a sampler module, which isn’t the most intuitive approach.
There’s also a unique ReGroove mixer. Expert sequencer users know that tiny timing and volume changes lock listeners in to the beat. With ReGroove a groove feel can be applied to an entire song – or each track can have a subtly different feel.
It’s a clever and original idea, and in gifted hands can breathe life into songs that otherwise sound mechanical and sterile already.
If you love Reason already, you’ll love the new features. If you’re new to sequencing and synthesis it’s a good entry-level environment, and for the price you get a fantastic range of virtual instruments and effects – almost literally a studio in a box.
The catch is that once you get more experienced, Reason’s rigid format starts to get in the way. Big patches suffer from endless up-and-down scrolling as you change settings. Reason’s improved sequencer still isn’t as polished as it could be. And it’s still odd that you can’t record and process audio with it.
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Android and Ubuntu Linux on HD2 with Touchscreen Working
Posted: August 29, 2010, 2:29am CEST by VJ
Well that was a quick update! Touchscreen is now working! Now hopefully the stability of Android can be improved! GO TEAM #HTC-LINUX!
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Numark NuVJ (La Boite Noire)
Posted: August 29, 2010, 2:07am CEST by VJ
Présentation de la console vidéo professionnelle portable NuVJ de Numark. Plus d’infos sur www.laboitenoiredumusicien.com
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Space Cat @ Equinoxio 8 :: 20 Marzo 2010 :: Guadalajara :: Elektronika.Com.Mx
Posted: August 29, 2010, 1:59am CEST by VJ
www.elektronika.com.mx || Space Cat playing at Guadalajara, Mexico. || March 8. 2010
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DJ TRICK – anni 30 (serato scratch live)
Posted: August 29, 2010, 12:04am CEST by VJ
a little song with serato scratch live!! www.myspace.com/trick79
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Atomic Groove 2010: Vitalic, D’Jamency & VJ Julie Meitz
Posted: August 28, 2010, 11:44pm CEST by VJ
This is an event promo of an ‘Atomic Groove’ party for Eject Management (09.01.2010). At this event I VJ-ed, videotaped, photographed and then made this promo (concept, editing & effects). Merci to Vitalic (& the label Different) for his piece ‘One Above One’. Merci à Marc et Pierre-Yves, mes bon amis
Merci to Globull staff, and thanx to all of those who I videotaped! Thanx to Bernard-Pierre Sampo for allowing his neuron video to be downloaded: vimeo.com/887388 *** Notes *** Consumer Camcorders: Sony D8 & Panasonic MiniDV (Yes, I want to buy an HD camera one of these days! But I must say, the old Sony D8 series still kick ass!) Live Feed: CCTV Panasonic security camera (great deal on ebay! lucky me!) Software: Adobe Premiere Pro VJ Software: Resolume 2.4 Shooting in a night club with low or no lighting is always an issue, so I use the “night-shot” feature (infrared). However, there are issues of “hot spots” and severe graininess. So, it’s always a challenge making these videos…also, not always having the latest technology toys forces me to explore deeper into the tools I already have. myspace.com/ejectmanagement myspace.com/vitalicofficial myspace.com/djamency globull.ch DJs: Vitalic, D’Jamency, Mathew Freeman & Erony -
TECHNO SEXUAL
Posted: August 28, 2010, 11:41pm CEST by VJ
This is a video i made with vj clips,movie clips,effects and music.Kinda like a mash up.All vj loops from www.vj vault .com.Music i used for the video from internet archive from Author: Dan Becker mix under the creativecommons.org
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3lab / Vj-Loop3 produced with modul8
Posted: August 28, 2010, 9:58pm CEST by VJ
soundreactive layers with a bit housestyle
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Eien No Toki
Posted: August 28, 2010, 9:28pm CEST by VJ
We produce this content video for visual background at SING OUT ASIA OKINAWA LIVE 2009 Asia South Pacific Music Festival Place: TEDAKO big hall at Urazoe City Song title : Eien No Toki Song writer & Singer : Imelasari Kuswantina (Imel Ten2Five) Music arrangement : Rio Pasaribu Anyone in Okinawa Japan? check this website for the schedule event: singoutasia.com
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Ableton Live 8: Quantizing Audio
Posted: August 28, 2010, 7:52pm CEST by VJ
Berkleemusic instructor Loudon Stearns covers the usage of warp markers, transient detection, and quantizing of audio new in Ableton Live 8. This free lesson is from Loudon’s Advanced Music Production with Ableton Live online course: www.berkleemusic.com
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Share Festival SMART MISTAKES
Posted: August 28, 2010, 2:45pm CEST by mutech
Ogni anno Share Festival propone di dedicarsi a un tema particolare per ampliare la mente, affinare la capacità e ispirare la creatività. Le prossime date dal 2 al 7 of Novembre 2010 a Torino!
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Club To Club X Superstition - La line up
Posted: August 28, 2010, 2:11pm CEST by mutech
Club to club festeggia i dieci anni con una edizione dal sapore mistico, “The X Superstition”: l’alternativa fra
magia, superstizione e razionalità sarà il leitmotiv della celebrazione del decennale del festival, all’inizio degli anni dieci.
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Fassade mapping on Midsummer
Posted: August 28, 2010, 8:46am CEST
Fassade mapping on Midsummer from Swen Seyerlen on Vimeo.
Fassadenmapping zum Summer Opening 2010 des Partner Port in Walldorf
