SnipShot is streamlined - there are only five tools to choose from (undo, resize, crop, rotate, adjust), so your choices are limited. But SnipShot is not about complicated; this is a barebones graphics editor for when you just need to smallify that overwhelmingly huge pic of Tom Selleck for your fan blog. Snipshot also allows you to save your image in a variety of forms: .gif, .jpg, even to your Flickr account.
I’ve been staring at the iDJ2, and noticed there’s no nudge controls … you know, the thing that lets you simulate a spindle-twist or a finger on the platter to momentarily speed up or slow down a track that you’re beatmatching to another track … these are absolutely critical tools to beat matching … Oof. To come within 99% of solving all of the criticisms of the original iDJ, and then fall on your face for the last 1%… that’s a shame.
MeatBall Machine é o novo filme deYûdai Yamaguchi, remake do filme com o mesmo título de 1999 do realizador Jun'ichi Yamamoto. O filme lida com extraterrestres que vêm ao nosso planeta com o simples propósito de nos comer.
O Beatboxer da Verizon é um mixer aonde você pode criar a batida perfeita. Você pode escolher entre vários estilos de Beatbox, misturar os ritmos e criar o seu próprio som, além de escolher o visual de fundo. Depois é só salvar a música e enviar para os seus amigos.
An old friend living in Florida has just gifted me with an all of his dance compilations from the last 15 years. Some great stuff and I will post more soon in between tapes from the Dalston bin.
VJ: Audio-Visual Art and VJ Culture
D-FUSE. Laurence King, 2006.
A major change has taken place at dance clubs worldwide: the advent of the VJ. Once the term referred to the video jockey who introduced music videos on MTV, but now it defines an artist who creates and mixes video, live and synced to music, in clubs or at concerts. This book is an in-depth look at the artists at the forefront of this amazing audio-visual experience. The book combines how-to, showcase and reference elements, opening with a series of articles on contextual and historical issues. The central section showcases the work of a wide selection of international VJs, and the last chapter covers equipment (hardware and software) and typical stage set-ups (explaining equipment, the use of space, how to create an environment to suit an audience, and more) along with supplementary guidelines and tips on how to master a performance.
Here's my notes of the talk that Atau Tanaka gave about Mobile Music: Creating New Musical Forms For New Infrastrucutres at Futuresonic. I was particularly thrilled to hear him talk as one of his works, Bondage, was my favourite piece at last year's edition of Ars Electronica.
Most Visual Novels have multiple storylines and many endings; the gameplay mechanic in these cases typically consists of intermittent multiple-choice decision points, where the player selects a direction in which to take the game. This style of gameplay has been compared to the Choose Your Own Adventure novels. Most, however, strive for a higher level of plot and character depth than the aforementioned series of interactive children's books. These can be more closely compared to story-driven interactive fiction.
A comprehensive project documenting the history of minimal synth, minimal electronik, and coldwave music from all over the world. Minimal Wave is dedicated to keeping this music alive via special edition releases, and providing current news.
Before the British Hip-Hop, House and Techno scenes emerged, Electro-Funk, the catalyst for all three, held sway. Pioneering DJ, Greg Wilson, looks back at the impact and influence of this pivotal '80s underground movement which would sow the seeds of the subsequent UK dance revolution.
The Vintage Synth Explorer was established back in 1996 in order to provide a fast and easy way to learn about vintage analog and digital synthesizers. This has grown to include modern analog emulators, software synths, plug-ins, and other new synthesizers and samplers.
female pressure is an international database of female djs, producers and visual artists - mostly related to the electronic music scene. this database is a worldwide resource of female talent and can be searched by geographic locations, professions, styles and artist names. "why are there so few female activists in the electronic music scene?" - each one of us has heard this question a thousand times... here is the answer: it's not our number, it's about how and if we are recognized!
Business columns may swell with lusty talk of future online delivery models, from the few to the many, but this neglects one of the greatest things about the internet – it’s remarkable capacities for allowing people to creatively collaborate with each other.
The Center for Tactical Magic engages in extensive research, development, and deployment of the pragmatic system known as Tactical Magic. A fusion force summoned from the ways of the artist, the magician, the ninja, and the private investigator, Tactical Magic is an amalgam of disparate arts invoked for the purpose of actively addressing Power on individual, communal, and transnational fronts. At the CTM we are committed to achieving the Great Work of Tactical Magic through community-based projects, daily interdiction, and the activation of latent energies toward positive social transformation.
Cory Doctorow >> Science Fiction is the Only Literature People Care Enough About to Steal on the Internet.
O Plug é um núcleo de música eletrônica, sediado em Barreiras - Bahia, fundado em janeiro de 2006. Com os objetivos de realizar festas com música eletrônica; pesquisar acerca da cena eletrônica e executar projetos sociais, visando disseminar a cultura da música eletrônica de forma mais democrática.
With that in mind, we here at Stylus have democratically selected our humble and largely unofficial picks for the 100 best videos ever made, and are presenting them here, fully equipped with YouTube links for your viewing pleasure.
Chris Cunningham's first promo in 7 years is Sheena is a Parasite for The Horrors, a band that Chris picked off MySpace. The 1.5-minute clip, narrated by lead singer Faris Badwan, stars Samantha Morton as the song's manic, transmogrifying subject who whips around like a banshee and spews her intestines at you. Sharply edited and shot on a low budget, the video burns on the bass' running pulse, and provides more fleshy fodder for Cunningham fans.
TamTam is intended both as an instrument in itself and an environment for learning music. It has basic sequencing and synthesis capabilities, presented in a child-friendly format. It’s also networked so children can play together. The sounds themselves will be influenced by the countries in which the OLPC will be distributed, with instruments of various kinds from Brazil, China, India, Thailand, and Nigeria.
From July 19-24, Paul Fyvolent, a radio activist, artist and writer, and Daniel Gorman, an electronic music composer, will host an interactive workshop for artists, musicians, DJs, students and other participants from Cluj interested in acoustic experiments and radio art.
A festa DJs do Pragatecno no Portal Cruz Aguiar (Parque Cruz Aguiar, Rio Vermelho, Salvador) terá revezamento de djs do grupo, além de apresentação dos vjs pixel & C!b0rg5. A festa acontecerá no sábado (05 de agosto/2006), a partir das 22 horas. Pista de dança, área aberta, área coberta e galeria de artes visuais serão os espaços da festa. Drinks, cerveja e destilados, além de alguns petiscos, estarão no cardápio, com bar sob produção da Cia da Pizza. A entrada é R$ 12 (R$ 10 com flyer). Door: Melo. O evento tem o apoio da Canal Som e Luz. Os djs do grupo são Adriana Prates, Angelis Sanctus (aka Claudio M.), André Urso, Gabão, Kikily, Mauro Telefunksoul e Môpa.
Okay, so I signed-up for Droid's 'Bloggariddims' podcast thingy, then rashly offered to do one of the early ones (this is actually #2 in the series) without having a clue what form my podcast would take. So then I decided it wouldn't have any dubstep, or any current music at all, instead focusing on a few 'golden oldies'. But planning a proper continuous mix seemed like too much hard work in the time given, so then I thought I might try doing something like John Eden's 'RSI Radio', which operated at a 'John Peel' pace, but my own attempts came out shit.
Datasound is a fully functional musical instrument that enables you to hear, mix, scratch and perform digital data signals, from a picture, an old program floppy, a computer virus, a love letter, or a drawing…
Taking place within the Arts District of Downtown Long Beach, SoundWalk is an annual art event, produced by the Long Beach artist group, FLOOD. During this, our third year, in addition to the main sound installation-based event on Saturday, we will offer an extra evening of performances on Friday. The sound installations will encompass a wide range of work that will integrate visual and aural elements. Included will be sculptures, environments and installations, both interactive and passive
a hybrid visualization system that explores the dynamic & spatial qualities of smoke & light in relation to contemporary mobile SMS messaging technologies.
O Motronic Netlabel irá lançar mensalmente trabalhos originais de artistas brasileiros e internacionais, sempre com foco no minimal, seja Techno oou House.
Os lançamentos estarão disponíveis gratuitamente nos formatos MP3 ou FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), e serão acompanhados de uma capa digital.
MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your MP3 collections.
a new method of searching music by its acoustic content & context, such as: lyrics, musical theme, melody, tempo, rhythm, & instrumentation. one visualization features data from a collection of about 5000 songs, & displays the "acoustic distance" among these songs of different genres as plotted on a 3D grid. songs that sound similar are positioned near to one another. the visualization can be used to browse a music collection as well as to generate playlists be finding a path through the music space.
Pole Com/position stems from the idea that Midi controllers tend to be small and there are no large, expressive gestures that correspond to the "sonic scultping" that takes place on the laptop. The core of the Pole Com/position sound installation is a pole dance that creates various audio effects. A pole dancer modifies the music by climbing and twirling up, down and across the pole. The DJ can respond to the music created, heightening the DJ’s and the dancer’s performance in the process.
O Rádio Tranquera vai ao ar todo domingo, das 20h00 às 22h00, no Submusica.com. Ouça o brodcast ao vivo e participe da programação através do chat. Se você perdeu, confira o tracklist e faça o download do podcast
Unsatisfied with just creating virtual plant life, a provactive multiplayer game, and ambitious machinima, Robbie Dingo has also been hard at work creating virtual world musical instruments that actually play in-world in real time.
LEMUR is a Brooklyn-based group of artists and technologists developing robotic musical instruments. Founded in 2000 by musician and engineer Eric Singer, LEMUR creates exotic, sculptural musical instruments which integrate robotic technology. LEMUR's philosophy is to build robots that are instruments as opposed to robots that play existing instruments.
A arte do remix tem um papel decisivo no cenário musical contemporâneo. Desde o início dos anos noventa, produtores e DJs vem desenvolvendo técnicas, seja em estúdio ou nos clubes e festas, que permitem a reconstrução de material sonoro alheio de um modo verdadeiramente criativo. Hoje, o remix é encarado como uma nova forma de composição, uma técnica autoral, e não apenas como um jeito de deixar mais “radiofônicas” aquelas faixas destinadas à execução massificada.
O espaço ocupado pelo remix na indústria do disco é diretamente proporcional a essa enorme revolução. Quase todos os artistas liberam suas músicas para serem retrabalhadas pelos DJs e produtores especializados. Depois, boa parte dessas faixas acaba invadindo as pistas de dança, as colunas especializadas dos jornais e revistas e até mesmo os programas de rádio.
Há muito as bandas e os DJs pernambucanos já se aperceberam da importância do remix como ferramenta criativa e de divulgação, idealizando trabalhos que tiveram sucesso de público e de crítica. Falta, no entanto, algo mais sistematizado, que chame a atenção para a quantidade de excelentes artistas locais envolvidos com essa arte, ajudando, assim, a acrescentar uma atração a mais entre as oferecidas pela cena local.
TRANSFORMER vem para suprir essa ausência, servindo tanto como uma mostra da capacidade de nossos artistas em utilizar o potencial criativo do remix como, também, como arma para divulgar ainda mais a produção musical do estado.
Obakemono >> In Japanese, O is a prefix denoting respect, and bakemono literally means a changed thing - something perverted and altered and moved beyond its natural state - a monster.
LocoSound is a flux audio experience that is synchronized with the landscape viewed from a train window.
We go nuts for Dick (Philip K., that is) with the director of “A Scanner Darkly”: Richard Linklater. He explains the nuance of adapting the Dick vision to film and the struggle of dealing with Hollywood.
Firefox extension ‘Video Downloader’ let’s you download and keep videos from youtube.com, google and 60 other video hosting sites. The just launched flock.com browser is well worth a look too, for a taste of easy media-sharing and a glimpse of future online browsing.
Founding father Benjamin Franklin was more than a skilled negotiator, statesman, inventor/maker, and kite flying hobbyist. He was also an inventor of musical instruments. Musical sound from glass, and eventually wine glasses (thank you, Gallileo) came long before Franklin’s instrument. But the glass armonica (not to be confused with harmonica) is entirely Franklin’s. The instrument involves a series of glass discs, mounted around a cylinder, then rotated mechanically, so that you can play by touching the glass directly. It’s a much more compelling instrument than the later glass harmonicas, which used a keyboard; with the armonica, your touch creates the sound without any mediating apparatus. The sound is delicate and rich; no wonder composers like Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were enchanted.
Frisson #03: electro nacional
1- Digitaria - Teen Years
2- 808 Sex - 26
3- Two Divided by Zero - 2 Life is Good
4- Techno Mustang - Touch the Light
5- No Porn - Xingu
6- Ung&Bastos - I need Some
7- Rodrigo Moita - Cold Game
The Lightrhythm Visuals “VJ Single” series is a collection of compositions carefully curated for visual performers, clubs and others who need to add visuals to music. They are silent DVDs that are designed to be played alone or mixed as part of a VJ set. The first 10 VJ Singles have already been released on compilation albums.
Acompanhe um pouquinho da Pupila, balada que rolou no Afrospot no último dia 24, com um som de primeira, imagens fantásticas e apresentações audio-visuais muito divertidas.
The Crown Fountains at Chicago's Millennium Park convert video signals (live or recorded) and stream them to an LED lighting system that projects the pixels of the images through thousands of individually controlled LED nodes. It features two 50-foot glass block towers that gradually change color and feature LED display screens that project photographs of faces of Chicago residents and video nature scenes.
Futuresonic, the electronic music and media arts festival, this year celebrates ten years at the forefront of its field.
New Beat originated in Belgium and gained worldwide exposure briefly in the late nineteen eighties as all eyes in the worlds then fledgling dance community homed in to Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels. Characteristically New Beat tracks were between 95 bpm and 115 bpm. Tracks were often repetitive with heart stopping bass and explosive percussion.
Share is an open jam, not just for digirati, but for all new culture lovers. Participants bring their portable equipment, plug into our system, improvise on each others' signal and perform live audio and video. We furnish the amplification and projection.
