Leave No Trace » Music

Are the Nineties retro already?

Alec — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:02:34 +0000

Anyone going to Spain in the near future? This Playlist exhibition in Gijon looks interesting:

PLAYLIST is an exhibition that wants to explore the role played by music in the adoption and manipulation, since the mid Nineties, of obsolete, digital as well as analogue, technologies: vinyls, old computers, game platforms and alikes.

Anti-motion graphics

Alec — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:59:08 +0000

Some people say that the most interesting work is created when working within severe constraints, because it forces you to be more creative. Well, how about these for constraints:

No easy easy key-frames or curves aceleration

No gradients

No feathers

No perspective or 3d space

Forget Third-party plugins

The result is surprisingly interesting.

Terry Riley in See

Alec — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:28:43 +0000

The creators of this music sequencer (based on light levels from a webcam) describe it as too compex but a fun experiment, and I’d have to agree – but I couldn’t resist posting a link to something described as “what might happen if Terry Riley did chiptunes”.

bITjAM

Alec — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:13:43 +0000

I went to bITjAM at the Rigger last night, which I enjoyed. I wasn’t able to stay till the end, but I watched film clips change and pixellate in Binary Aesthetic’s real-time response, using Processing, to the music by EskimoElktro. I talked to a few people and gave out flyers promoting the event at the School of Art on 18th November. There seemed to be a lot of interest in it, so I hope we get a good turnout.

Collaborations

bitjam — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:35:15 +0000

Hello it’s Carl from the bITjAM, the Leave No Trace project is a fantastic idea and opens up so many possibilities. Over the last 3 years we have seen great many new and aspiring digital artists around the area and there’s hope that we can develop more useful collaborations (especially in a live performance space) during the lead up to this project.

Table-top drums

Alec — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:41:16 +0000

Here’s a fun project to try, for those of you interested in linking your computer to your surroundings: using sheets of paper as a drum kit. This particular example uses Max/MSP, and the code is available to download, but presumably the same effect could be achieved with Processing.