In this clip we used Video library and proMidi library for Processing.

Music, lights and video sinchronized with midi.

Cast: n4p41m

Audio by Murcof (live at Montreux feat. Eric Truffaz on the trompet and Talvin Singh on the tablas).

Inspired by the concept of nodes by Jared Tarbel. This experiment is autonomous, that mean that it doesn’t need any input from me.
The concept is really simple; if a certain distance is detected between two particle, there is a communication. Here I think it’s the more basic communication:…

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Keywords: processing processing.org nodes murcof
Added: November 21, 2007

Last week I was playing a lot with type experiments, trying to re-explore classical subject of generative graphics. I first started with circle packed types and then moved to nodes influenced types. I remember Nodes is certainly the first thing I play with years ago with Actionscript after reading this tutorial of Keith Peter. Keith was inspirated of course by the crazy and now so famous Node Garden applet of Jared Tarbel.

Audio by Murcof (live at Montreux feat. Eric Truffaz on the trompet and Talvin Singh on the tablas).

After playing with types and nodes i decide to move to something sound reactive.

This work is a lot inspired by Tarbel first ideas.

This experiment is autonomous, that mean that it doesn’t need any input from me.
The concept is really simple; if a certain distance is detected between two particle, there is a communication. Here I think it’s the more basic communication: the particles simply attract each others. I just add to this concept the fact that each particles represent a certain frequency of the sound spectrum and those frequencies change the size and the influence area of each particles. So the more the frequency of one particle is high, the more the influence area will be big.

Best quality video here.

I’m writting this post because a lot of people asked me how do I do to retrieve the font outline and as I did’nt discover anything I will just talk about the different tools I use to do that.

The first way I found to do that is using a little patch in the free live perf tool VVVV. I don’t know that much this software but this patch is very easy. Just create a typospread node, choose a Font, input a string and modify all the type options as you want. If you’re lazy or if you don’t know VVVV you can download my version of the patch here. It will output a text file with all the coordinate of the font. Then just “open” the file threw processing, parsed the data and then you got the x,y coordinate of the font.

Then, reading some stuffs on processinghacks I found that Dave Bollinger has written a small algorithm that does all this trick inside processing, using some librairies of the java.awt package. This trick work very well except the fact that you have to interpolate coordinates if you want more precision. There’s is another problem (maibee only for me) with the choose of the font (like often in Java).

After playing with this two nice tools, Ricard Marxer Pinon send me a mail with some cool explanations and a link to his great library: Geomerative. (If you don’t know him take a look at his wonderfull work with typography). I did not look too much at the library for other stuffs but it work really really fine for retrieving the outline. Just give a ttf and everything gonna be allright! Add to this a lot of type and interpolation options and you got (for me) the best way to do that! (here’s a little source showing what you can do with the library). So thanks a lot to Ricard, because I think now I will almost forget about the two first tool I was talking about, but you know “les gouts et les couleurs,….”(in english it gives something like “the tastes and the colors is not something that you can share”).

Hope it help! (just leave a comment if you got some troubles to make all that working)

This is a short view from Fedra-Prozac.
We used Processing with blobdetection and beatdetection to “draw” and “move” the actress on the screen.

Cast: n4p41m

Finally got something out of Processing I like. This is a rendered version using Dave Bollinger’s render example but the realtime version is identical and runs easily on my MacBook full screen.

Bass peaks trigger random scene change, background colour and select a new camera position. No user interaction at all. It’s all random.

Music is the instrumental version of J’ai Pas Sommell by TTC. Taken from the album Batards Sensibles

Cast: Stefan Goodchild

Audio by Murcof (live at Montreux feat. Eric Truffaz on the trompet and Talvin Singh on the tablas).

Inspired by the concept of nodes by Jared Tarbel. This experiment is autonomous, that mean that it doesn’t need any input from me.
The concept is really simple; if a certain distance is detected between two particle, there is a communication. Here I think it’s the more basic communication: the particles simply attract each others. I just add to this concept the fact that each particles represent a certain frequency of the sound spectrum and those frequencies change the size and the influence area of each particles. So the more the frequency of one particle is high, the more the influence area will be big.

Cast: Simon

Processing version 135 was released today and 134 was released on the 17th. Both include bug fixes. Enjoy and download here.

The Oculon Pocket Projector Pro 920 and 1440 are.. well.. actual pocket projectors. Available in December the tiny projectors pack 640×480 VGA for the 920 ($299) and 800×600 SVGA for the 1440 ($399), and literally fit in the palm of your hand. The 1440 sports both composite and VGA (D-SUB 15 pin) inputs connections, while the 920 supports only composite RCA. Both have optional SD card slots and Mpeg4 video playback - which could prove fun.

Obviously, there is a catch - or two. The specs on the product pages seem a bit inconsistent, with the 1440 mentioning 250 lumens (yes, two hundred and fifty), while the 950s spec only quoted at 25 (yes, two hundred and fifty divided by ten. That was not a typo on my part at least). The suggested throw at one meter being a diminutive 24 inches. Still, they could prove quite fun. Oculon mentioned a portable battery pack for the projector. Can anyone say head mounted projector?

I can. See the Oculon Pocket Projector homepage for more information.

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I don’t think the CreateDigitalNoise forums are particularly popular, in the scheme of things. We’ve got a couple of hundred real users posting (and several thousand spam registrations - one of the reasons we’re moving to bbPress soon) 7000ish articles.

The only reason we haven’t run away from phpBB sooner is that the Moderators (and myself) are spam destroying ninjas. Most forum spammers thinly veiled attempts to insinuate their commercial pandering in our very serious artistic conversations are very obvious.

However, we’ve recently had a spammer who spent a little time, adding a couple of almost-relevant posts before revealing their flackishness. They started in the “Introduce yourself” thread:

hey party people

wanted to intro myself.

i live in washington dc, i work for a marketing firm and i have been a music groupie my whole life. my mother lived next to mick jagger once — it runs in my blood stream.

see you all on the forums.

Should have noticed the “i work for a marketing firm” bit and just banned them. Oh well. They added two more, slightly confused sounding posts before dropping this bomb in a thread entitled “the strengths and unique qualities of digital sound“:

hey all - one of my clients is Energizer and they just released these new beta boards at www.pandoradiscussionarea.com that are a great place for discussions like this and a place to get more advice on gear, sound and the hottest steez. they are also promoting this new iPod battery — SO if you do go Digital with your iPod — you can plug the battery into it for a much longer set….let me know what you think.

Wow. That’s is a particularly pathetic attempt. Especially when you take a look at the site! I’ve had it open in a tab since this morning, marvelling at how terrible it is.

“Exclusive discussion area brought to you by Energizer(R) Energi to go(TM)”
“Portable Power: Mobile DJ’s & electronic artists, discuss your techniques, BPM and strategies here”

If that’s not bad enough, it looks to me like many of the posts within the “discussion area” itself are PR flacks as well:

Lee Fams, on November 12th, 2007 at 1:07 pm Said:

um. can Energizer make a battery for cell phones? My phone/PDA runs out of charge after 5 hours ?!
Energizer should work on cell phone batteries. kthx.

Julian, on November 14th, 2007 at 6:05 am Said:

@Lee Fams, they do.
http://energitogo.com

Depressing stuff. Better forgotten really, except this is a great lesson for us on how not to do branded or partnered content. Peter and I have had plenty of discussions this year about having companies sponsor or otherwise give us money for the content we’re creating.

Keep this in mind as a failed attempt at “Sponsored Content”.

An interactive SMS Wall built by Media Lab Toronto for CaseCamp6 in Toronto. You can read more at http://medialabtoronto.ca/2007/11/media-lab-toronto-launches-with-txtris.

Cast: Patrick Dinnen

Stores like iTunes (and all those Windows Media-based alternatives, if anyone ever uses them) aren’t just the domain of major labels. Indie artists and smaller labels are finding their way onto these services, courtesy the power of distributors and other conduits. (For music, tools like CD Baby have been a big boon.)

But part of the potential of all of this technology was supposed to be video content as well as music. TuneCore has stepped up to the plate with a beta service that lets artists sell music videos via iTunes. Many artists, I suspect, will prefer to use videos as promotional tools only, but what’s nice here is you get iTunes to cover bandwidth for higher-quality downloads and get a little revenue stream, to boot. TuneCore explains the arrangement:

Delivery of the video will be completed with a flat, upfront fee paid to TuneCore and, as always, TuneCore customers receive 100% of the revenue from the sale of their music in a non-exclusive agreement that they can cancel at any time.

Here’s one example, a music video from Grammy winner Ziggy Marley, “Love is My Religion”, now available for purchase via TuneCore. (And I expect this could be commonplace: promote on YouTube, sell on iTunes, etc.)

TuneCore

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Testing some ideas around mixed reality.

Cast: matt

Coinciding with the Regent Street Christmas lights being switched on, the COS ‘xmas glow’ projection goes live. Here are some sample screenshots - will document more thoroughly once the graphics are up and running.

The graphics are launched in the London store today followed by Stuttgart, Berlin and Copenhagen stores shortly.