Computer interfacing:
Atmel 328 communicates with a program designed in Max/MSP via xBee wireless communication.
4 Force sensing resistors: generate sounds and visuals by varying the amount of pressure applied to them.
3 axis accelerometer: modulates signals as the instrument is moved through space.
4 momentary push button switches: Generates sonic and visual accents and quick events.
6 flip switches: Used to change between the different program states throughout the performance.

Visualizations:
Multiple audio signals created by the Max/MSP patch are amplified by a 4 channel power amplifier @ 100W per channel and inserted into the CRT’s yoke (X and Y deflection axes controlled by different signals). This deflects the electron beam in a fashion that is directly connected to the audio being produced.
Additionally, an electromagnet inside the CRT, also being driven by an audible sine wave, deflects the beam further creating the colorization.

The de/Rastra oscillographic synthesizer is an open source project and will eventually be accompanied by tutorials on methods of CRT hacking. You can find many more info on the yaktronix website or in the following scribd document:

de/Rastra

SHINY TOYS promotes the work of artists who use analog and digital technologies to explore and cross boundaries in sight & sound. Artists who operate in the fields of sound, electronics, projection, light, video and film, will present their audiovisual projects that range from liveperformances to installations. Besides that, there will be workshops and of course the opportunity to discuss and exchange different views and ideas on media‐aesthetics.

Last year there have been some great live performances by Incite, Sculpture, 170cm, Pieces of Quiet, Tour de Vinyl and many more. Some ‘whistle-blowers’ just revealed to VS that in 2012 there will be fantastic video mappings and more great performances and workshops, so stay tuned for updates

SHINY TOYS CAMP | 18.10. – 21.10. 2012
Bollwerk 107 Moers

SHINY TOYS Festival | 16.11 – 17.11.2012
Ringlokschuppen Mülheim

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE | 18.10. – 18.11.2012
More infos soon…

For more info and registration visit shinytoys.eu

More info about how the Exquisite Motion Corpse works: http://www.exquisite-corpse.com/how-it-work/

“Touch Resolume” is a custom layout for TouchOSC that allows you to control Resolume Avenue and other programs capable of midi oder OSC over a wireless network directly with your iphone or ipod touch WITHOUT midi mapping. Just load the software and start controlling dozens of functions in Resolume, no mapping required.. Touch Resolume controls Resolume Avenue directly with OSC commands.

Downloads:
Resolume
touchOSC
Touch Resolume

also check out monoface for instant fun with identikit pictures

Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise – Realization (2002):
Treatise is a graphic musical score written by Cornelius Cardew in the 1960ies comprising 193 pages of lines, symbols, and various geometric or abstract shapes that eschew conventional musical notation. Implicit in the title is a reference to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, which was of particular inspiration to Cardew in composing the work. The score neither contains nor is accompanied by any explicit instruction to the performers in how to perform the work.
Shawn Feeney played the Treatise composition by using the software MetaSynth to generate the sounds from scans of the pages and then animating the score in After Effects. Sine waves are generated from the black areas of the score as it scrolls from right to left, with the y-axis corresponding to pitch. An imaginary vertical line in the center of the screen is the “sounding membrane”.

MIDI Visualization Techniques Using Correspondance (2002):
This work quite goes the other way round. Here the music comes first in form of of midi notes. Using the realtime MIDI note input (specifically pitch, velocity, and duration) an app made with Director and Flash generates corresponding animated visuals. Correspondance has a number of interpretation paradigms, mapping the MIDI input to various visual characteristics (x/y position, size, color, etc). As you can see, the av-sync is very straight forward.
Correspondance also has a networked option where two performers can link to each other. Each performer sees the animation generated by the other player’s musical performance. An audiovisual feedback loop can be created if each performer treats the visuals an an animated graphic score.

Unfortunately the app only works on Mac OS 9 so it’s not currently available.

Weblinks:
http://www.shawnfeeney.com/ (he build sculptures from Fruit & vegetable carving now)
An online animated analysis of Treatise at the Block Museum Website

[via Keun Phunk @ facebook]

VJ Fest Istanbul is an independent visual arts festival, gathering visual artists, musicians and researchers since 2008. In four years the festival has hosted more than 100 artists (58 VJs and visual artists) from 20 countries: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Poland, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, U.S.A. They performed at clubs, theater and open space. They made free workshops, presentations and gave talks.

On 12-16 June 2012, ten more multimedia and video artists will be joining. This year’s goal is to bring some light and color to public spaces. There will also be workshops and seminars on new media technologies. VJ Fest will happen at Peyote and Istiklal Street:

Agotha (Bosna-Herzogevina), Charles Bones (Colombia), Soham Sarcar (India), Granda (Andorra), .mrt and Woei (Austria), Sinsynplus, Quirin Empl, Lynx de Luxe and Herr Schoder (Germany), Vjunk and Vidbeat (Turkey) are live visual artists. Alishya (Latvia), Oscar Babani (Spain), Bessumi and Emre Kocabas are the musicians.

VJ FEST ISTANBUL is a promoter of collaborations and contacts for VJs on an international level. VJ FEST Istanbul is dedicated to VJ arts and the developement of VJ culture. It is open and free. VJ meeting LPM from Rome, Born Digital’s VJ festival Freemote from Utrecht, Visual Berlin from Germany, Experimental Art Events Dimanche Rouge from Paris and are our partners.

Our sponsors are Austrian Culture Office, Goethe Institute, M.E.T.U., Modul8, Clandestino and hünerliadam.com.

www.vjfestist.org
www.vimeo.com/vjfestist
www.vjfestist.blogspot.com

Saturday is reserved for collective discussion, software workshops and artist presentations. It is encouraged that everyone involved contribute to these areas. This can be as facilitating a general discussion to a detailed instructional workshop. Without pressure we would like to give everyone the opportunity to present. The activities are also open to attendees with little or no visuals experience.

Saturday evening is time to show-off, have fun and party. There is a vast amount of areas in and around the factory to beam on and map including the central hall and bar with AV acts and DJ’s.

Sunday = Free-form.

Project Pixel will be held in the renegade art factory Polymer

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Culture-Factory-Polymer/90122321580

Madara 22
Tallinn, Estonia 10613

Phone 58220052

Website http://www.kultuuritehas.ee/

Größere Kartenansicht

If you require assistance on travel advice please contact kimberley.bianca@gmail.com

You can come earliest on Friday and stay till Monday in a shared room in Polymer we just ask for a 8euro donation per night.

Plug-in your puter and project some pixels!

check out @ http://www.vjbooking.eu

A decent quote by Vaserely refers to his idea about the meeting point between art and science – which might also fit as a description of vjing:

‘the two creative expressions of man, art and science, meet again to form an imaginary construct that is in accord with our sensibility and contemporary knowledge’.

If you are around in europe this summer, a visit to Fondation Vasarely in Aix-en-Provence (France) is strongly recommended.

Find out more about Victor Vasarely at www.op-art.co.uk/victor-vasarely or wikipedia
or just get directly to his website www.vasarely.com

As you might well know from any kind of events, there are three common technologies of Moving Lights. The Followsspot which is moved manually as a whole e.g. in theatres, the Auto Scanner with a moving mirror and the Movinghead with a moving lamp.

With video you would have the choice between a Video Scanner (e.g. patented Video Moving System – VMS) and a Video Moving Head. There are pros and cons for both systems:
The Moving Head can be panned 360° degrees globally, the projector and the motors are integrated into one device. But it is quite heavy und not very easy to replace.
The Scanner is much lighter than the Moving Head, which also makes it faster at moving the image. The VMS is easier to replace, because you can just hang it up a traverse. But it will cover a smaller area than the Moving Head, because the mirror can not move as free as the moving head. There are VMS with and without an integrated projector, the systems without a projector are cheaper and will have a greater livetime than a Moving Head with built in Video projector, because you can just simply change the projector.

The VMS is equipped with a three-phase-step-motor, so that the projections can be freely positioned in the room precisely even with very low speed. This opens completely new possibilities in lighting and interior design, projection as well as video installations. Imagine projecting a video of circles, squares or diverse objects and panning this video in the room. How cool is that?!

In the end, the moving mirror of the VMS in combination with a projector provides a multifunctional source of light and video projection – in other words it is a video scanner which is lighter, more flexible and cheaper than moving head projectors. By using all kind of common light steering systems like DMX or an iPhone App, projections and light can be positioned anywhere in the room and easily be moved at your own convenience.

more @ www.vms-at.com

Unlike modern flat TV’s, old school CRT’s draw the image line by line onto their phosphorescent screen. A photo transistor, placed on a tube TV’s surface, can recognize when the part of the image is drawn underneath it. If this photo transistor is connected with a micro controller which generates the video signal, the controller can localize the exact position of the photo transistor on the screen. That’s the whole trick.

This project in a way goes back directly to the roots of computerization and internet, the Hypertext Editing System (HES) and the File Retrieval and Editing System (FRESS) developed within ARPANET in the 60ies.
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/4/1/000081/000081.html

The Hypertext Editing System (HES) console at Brown University. Original photo by Greg Lloyd, 1969.

You can find schemes, downloads and information about the Lumenoise project @ http://www.niklasroy.com/project/116

This competition aims to become the key event in the area of 3D video mapping, and to reward productions evolving in different creative and cultural areas each year. It will also encourage meetings between student artists and professionals by creating a powerful springboard for new talent seeking wider exposure.

This year, the candidates are invited to imagine a scene and create a visual universe using a model which can be downloaded, then to design a high quality HD video lasting 1minute, 30 seconds that can be projected onto a 3D structure which will be tailor-made for the occasion.

In 2011, Heavent Paris attracted over 16,000 visitors and 350 exhibitors. You have until 1 September 2012 to send in your HD film. So don’t hesitate any longer and register here.

The jury will be looking for different aspects of competent artistic expression and original works showing high quality in the areas of creation and technical expertise.

2011 presentations:

“Podium”

The virtual spaces and contents are growing, creating a new concept of reality and virtual reality. What eyes can see could be a illusion, but our brains wants to live that experience as real. The space could be more than we can see. In art there is no winner, just experiences. The podium could be not applied to art, but could be a stairs to imagination.

I have experimented how can I have minimal colour scheme with a lot of movement and motion on simple objects as the cubes. Just like a classic shape of a cube would have a hard time to find the right space of itself. There is two section of the animation, in the first part the cube is moving as a whole shape, and with a white wire creating a psychedelic effect. the second section, when the cubes find out how to be stable, from the static cubes moving out some form, and element. Sounddesign: RenDez.

fullscreen:

The work developed for the “Mapping Trophy Video” trying to put 3D in the foreground. More than a work of light and shadow, it attempts to deconstruct the projection surface and deceive the viewer by the prospect.

The shadow of darkness elusive zone formed by the interception of light by a body. As the video mapping, shadow, natural projection, is able to adopt any volume or surface. Shadow is inspired and appropriates the shadow theater by creating shadows in the light and not light. Inspired by traditional theatrical scenery and traditional methods of Chinese shadow play. Shadow tells the story of a young adventurer, Siegfried, opera created in 1876 by R. Wagner. An adventure capturing the volume of the scene.

For more videos please check the VLS Video Mapping Vimeo channel:
http://vimeo.com/vlsvideomappingtrophy

Btw: VLS is a pioneer in very large scale uncompressed HD projection, and its expertise can be seen at some of the biggest events all over the world. Website: www.vls.fr

Wait 41mp?? 41mp is an incredible resolution for a camera, thinking of ordinary DSLR like Canon EOS 5D Mark II just having a resolution of 21mp. With 1/1,2″ this phone definitely uses the biggest camera chip in a mobile ever, but its not about the pixelhype. The Nokia 808 PureView camera is an adaption of straight forward satellite technology developed by Carl Zeiss (Nokia is an exclusive parter of CZ).

The Nokia 808 uses the mega high pixel density to have a three times lossless digital zoom, so that you can zoom into the 41mp image and make a smaller foto of lets say native 5 or 8mp resolution without any optical or digital zooming, or it averages 1 superpixel out of 7 pixels, so that the camera can still take great fotos during the night with a resolution of 5 or 8mp (the averaging is no real interpolation, Nokia calls it ‘oversampling’).

To understand that in a better way, load these original pictures (big filesize!!) and meanwhile watch the video below:

Capoeira in Rio
Streetview in Rio
Climbing

To get more into detail also read the Nokia PureView Whitepaper

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No wonder it somehow reminds in Odyssey 2001, camera developer Damian Dining is a Stanley Kubrick fanbwoy

The other specs are also quite nice:
1080p video with 30 Frames (real 1080p!)
HDMI out
Bluetooth 3.0
DLNA
USB On-the-Go (Connect a harddrive, mouse, keyboard or whatever)
Secure NFC
FM transmitter (listen to mp3 on your radio)
SD-Slot
changeable battery
free worldwide navigation (Nokia Maps)

Nokia 808 Pureview will be available in Europe in Q2/2012 for roundabout 629€.

http://europe.nokia.com/pureview

http://www.viddler.com/v/e9abdbb4

http://smartmyphone.blogspot.com/

http://europe.nokia.com/pureview

http://europe.nokia.com/find-products/devices/nokia-808-pureview/specifications

http://forum.dailymobile.se/index.php?topic=64971.0

.. okay its quite a Canon ad, but who cares. Its epic!

When we listened to the ‘Bright Siren’,
we envisioned bright lights flickering in the darkness,
and the lyrics ‘not to make it a memory’ has stuck in our minds.
From these inspirations, we came up with the idea of using camera strobos
as pixels to create an animation out of light.
We actually lined up 250 cameras
and controlled each strobos through a computer program.
All the lights in the film are real, and no CG were used.

Director: Masashi Kawamura + Qanta Shimizu + Masatsugu Nagasoe
camera support: Canon Marketing Japan Inc.

■official website⇒http://www.androp.jp/

■more androp music videos: http://www.androp.jp/video/

Teaser A & B:

Unfortunately it only works when the streetart is viewable from a street that was captured by Google Streetview. So my town is not available, even tho we have some great streetart here.. but anyways.

http://www.streetartview.com/

It’s to be questioned, whether you would want a technical device to open and close your eyes automatically and get soring muscles from this, or not. But maybe this device could also help fighting common problems with screen work. Following a study by ophthalmic hospital in Tübingen, Germany, poor variation at display work leads to a reduction of eye blinking frequency from 9,7 to 4,3 blinks a minute [»Der Ophthalmologe« (Bd. 102, S. 805)]. By automatically increasing the eye blinking frequency, aching dry eyes could be prevented. Another plus could be that when the eyes are closed 50% of their usage during work, you could save up to 12 hours of sleep per day

B-Seite Festival by http://jetztkultur.de/

B-Seite will take place a whole week 17th till 24th of march 2012 in Mannheim, Germany.

If you want to visit, join or learn something, if you like connecting and jamming with other vjs or if you like to help us to make the B-Seite a great festival … come round!

This is the trailer for the B-Seite festival 2011. Check out jetztkultur.de for more information …

B-Seite @ facebook

Cymatic Frequencies II by DK – Part 1

Solid Steel in association with Serato. Some of the 2011 musical highlights include Africa Hitech, Machinedrum, Peverelist, Skream, Pearson Sound, Thundercat, Michael Kiwanuka and the Stepkids, plus there’s a few dips into the archive with Wayne Smith, Tribe of Issachar, Herbie Hancock, Burial and Vangelis.

This is just part of a set that is played out live using Serato Video-SL plug in for Scratch Live.

Artist – Title – Record Label – Visuals

The Clonious – Alter-Ego-Cate – Affine – (Visuals – Alex Roman)
Africa Hitech – Out In The Streets – Warp – (Visuals – Original Video Sixty40 )
Machinedrum – GBYE – Planet Mu – (Visuals – Aramaki koji )
Chrissy Murderbot – Braaain – Planet Mu – (Visuals – Morocco Vaughn)
Wayne Smith – Under Me Sleng Teng – Jammys – (Visuals – Lorenzo Fonda)
Skoobz – Sleng Teng – Rockers Dubs – (Visuals – Scott Pagano)
Tribe Of Issachar – Junglist – Congo Natty – (Visuals – Original Video)
Return of Macka Brown – Dub Heaven (Edit) – unknown – (Visuals – Adam Smith/Thalia Mavros)
Jo – R-Type – Awesome – (Visuals – Musuta)
Jo – R Type (T.Williams Refix) – unknown – (Visuals – Musuta)
Peverelist – Dance Til The Police Come – Hessle Audio – (Visuals – Phil Borst)
Herbie Hancock – Nobu – Sony – (Visuals -PBS / Openmind)
Albert – Side showed out – Studio Rockers – (Visuals – Dan Tassell)
Pearson Sound – Blanked – Hessle Audio – (Visuals – WOW)
Addison Groove – It’s Got Me – 3024 – (Visuals – Felix Thorn / Tom Mansfield)
Skream – Where You Should Be (Seiji Remix) – Tempa – (Visuals – Original Video Carl Burgess for Blinkart.)
STAGGA – PREHISTORIC UFO RHYTHM – Rag & Bone – (Visuals – Andrey Nepomnyaschev )
My Panda Shall Fly-Injury(Nightwave Remix)-Growing Records-(Visuals-NASA/Alex Cherney terrasto.com Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic License)
Pangaea – Runout – Hessle Audio – (Visuals – il Luster Productions)
Hexstatic – So Good – Lower Level – (Visuals – Original Video – Beeple/Hexstatic edit)
Burial – Archangel – Hyperdub – (Visuals – maurizio morucci)
Pearson Sound – Stifle – Hessle Audio – (Visuals – Takuya Hosogane / Phil Borst)
Bang On! – Got It (Martelo’s Dungeon mix) – Big Dada – (Visuals – Original Video)
MJ Cole & Wiley – From The Drop – Prolific – (Visuals – Beeple)
Pangaea – Won’t Hurt – Hessle Audio – (Visuals – Beeple)
SBTRKT – Ready Set Loop – Young Turks – (Visuals – Matthias Müller)
Thundercat – For Love I Come – Brainfeeder – (Visuals – Special Problems)
Michael Kiwanuka – Tell Me a Tale – Communion Records – (Visuals – Original Video Tom Henze)
Raphael Saadiq – The Answer – Columbia – (Visuals – Jaro Minne)
Vangelis – Let It Happen – Vertigo – (Visuals – Sculpture)
The Stepkids – Wonderfox – Stones Throw – (Visuals – Original Video – Henry DeMaio)

Cymatic Frequencies II by DK – Part 2

Solid Steel in association with Serato.
It’s a sombre start with Gil Scott-Heron RIP, followed by James Blake and hip hop from Paul White, Danny Brown and Shabazz Palaces. Ninja Tune feature with Mr Scruff, Toddla T, Raffertie and Fink, with Big Dada represented by Wiley & Offshore. There’s 2 from Martyn on Brainfeeder, Zed Bias features 3 times and it’s big club tracks from Joe Goddard, Julio Bashmore and Fourtet. Plus there’s a few classics from Liquid Liquid, Radiohead and Har You Percussion group to close a visual feast.

This is just part of a set that is played out live using Serato Video-SL plug in for Scratch Live.

Gil Scott-Heron – Me & The Devil (NYC Orchestral version) – XL Recordings (Original Video – Coodie & Chike and Michael Sterling Eaton.)
James Blake – The Wilhelm Scream – A & M (Original Video- Alexander Brown)
Paul White ft Guilty Simpson – Trust – One Handed Music (Original Video – A Simple Machine production)
Pusha T – Trouble On My Mind ft Tyler The Creator – GOOD Music (Original Video – Jason Goldwatch )
Danny Brown – Guitar Solo – Fool’s Gold (Original Video) – Free Lunch Kidz and Stedfast Media)
Stanley Clarke – Concerto for Jazz – Epic -(Visuals – Kahlil Joseph/Luke Meier)
Flying Lotus – Zodiac shit – Warp – (Visuals Kahlil Joseph/Luke Meier)
Shabazz Palaces – An echo from the hosts profess infinitum – Sub Pop (Visuals – Scott Holpainen / Robert Seidel)
Mario Basanov – Sheiker – Needwant (Visuals – Søren Bendt Pedersen)
Mr. Scruff – Wobble Control – Ninja Tune (Originlal Video)
Dego – Monday Blues – 2000 Black (Originlal Video – Heather Sommerfield)
Wiley – Numbers in Action – Big Dada (Original Video – Us)
Longevity – Tantrum – Decon Records (Original Video – Brian Mulchy)
Toddla T – Watch Me Dance [Andrew Weatherall Remix] – Ninja Tune
Liquid Liquid – Scraper – 99 Records (Visuals – Morgan Beringer)
Offshore – Pacer – Big Dada (Visuals – FutureDeluxe)
Raffertie – Mimetic – Ninja Tune (Visuals – Nando Costa)
Zomby – Natalia’s Song – 4AD (Visuals – Cassiano Prado)
Fink – Honesty – Ninja Tune -(Visuals used from 59 Productions)
Radiohead – Everything In Its Right Place – Parlophone
Paul Weller – Starlite (Deadboy Remix) – Island (Visuals – JJ Stereo )
Joe Goddard – Gabriel – Greco Roman (Original Video – Utile Creative and Jazz Goddard)
Maya Jane Coles – The High Life – 2020 Vision
Owiny Sigoma Band – Doyoi Nyajo Nam (Quantic Dub) – Brownswood (Visuals – Studio Ang)
Ossie – Set The Tone – Hyperdub (Visuals – Rui Branquinho/ Andy Russell / Different Films )
Omar + Zed Bias – Dancing – Tru Thoughts
Dj Graham B – Samba Madness – Freestyle Records
Hexstatic present Trailer Trax – Carnival Drop – Lower Level
Martyn – Viper – Brainfeeder (Original Video – Konx-om-Pax)
Zed Bias – Trouble In The Streets – Tru Thoughts (Visuals – factory fifteen)
Martyn – Popgun – Brainfeeder (Visuals – Yohsukechiai)
Zed Bias – Music deep inside – Swamp 81 (visuals – Yan Breuleux)
Julio Bashmore – Battle For Middle You – PMR Records
Four Tet – Pinnacles – Text
Har You percussion – Welcome to the party – ESP Disk

Cymatic Frequencies II by DK – Part 1 from Solid Steel on Vimeo
You can download just the audio here: soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-9-12-1
You can also download as a Video Podcast in iTunes .This version is a smaller file size, but comes complete with track idents;
itunes.apple.com/podcast/solid-steel/id88395834

Cymatic Frequencies II by DK – Part 2 from Solid Steel on Vimeo
You can download just the audio here soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-16-12-1

Email: solidsteel@ninjatune.net
Twitter: twitter.com/DK_SolidSteel

Cologne based LICHTFAKTOR collective is a pioneer at lightwriting in germany. At LICHTFAKTOR creative lab, elements ranging from photography, design, graffiti, computer art and video to jugglery and dance blend into an exciting urban art form that communicates on a global level. Have a look at two of their showreels, subbed with some music by german drum and bass legend and Basswerk Records chief The Green Man.

more here

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Here some well describing tutorials by Instructions, an audio-visual collective with members in Stockholm and London.