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Neptune’s Fields: Wax

grimmwerks — Thu, 28 May 2009 03:45:01 +0000

Recorded back in 1991-ish on my Fostex 1/4″ reel — the drums, mic’d with plastic Radioshack mics, and bounced down to stereo (while in the room with the drums), stereo bounce down of some bass/guitar combo, single harmoica track, 2 single guitar noodlings, and the main vox by Tom was recorded tiny and thin.. so there’s not much I can do now…

Another is the song Sunflower – think it was the first we’d done, and using my Sequential Circuits drum machine; extremely simple but I got Anthony’s guitar to feedback *JUST PERFECTLY*. Always reminded me of Skinny Puppy’s “One Time One Place”:

Bebot

grimmwerks — Sat, 16 May 2009 18:55:04 +0000

Just saw this app on TUAW and my fear that robots will take over has gotten one step closer in reality. Â Though that little mechanical friend seems so cute (awww! A tuxedo!) it’s really powerful (as I’ve been claiming our future overlords will be!), as seen in the super capable mits of Jordan Rudess:

Scratching Augmented Reality

grimmwerks — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:01:26 +0000

I caught this post over on Peter Kirn’s Create Digital Music that shows another example of Augmented Reality being used in an extremely cool way.Â Todd Vanderlin updates us on his little virtual dj projects and demonstrates how he’s using augmented reality for his scratching.Â Now the only scratching I know would usually entail some use of topical cream, but the augmented reality stuff all the kids are talking about on the intertubes is something I’ve been interested in after seeing examples of the FLAR Toolkit (FLAR being an acronymn for FLash Augmented Reality.Â Kids today and their acronymns.)

Multi-touch OSC Client for iPhone

grimmwerks — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:32:27 +0000

Saw this over at Peter Kirn’s CreateDigitalMusic and luckily I’ve got a jailbroken iPhone, so I’m going to have to play with this. I’ve already had TouchOSC going through OSCulator to control Live so there’s nothing new there – but would like to see if the multi-touch control is reminiscent of the reactable.

MSAFluid for processing (Controlled by iPhone) from Memo Akten on Vimeo.

free vst synths

grimmwerks — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:40:55 +0000

Great site to get free or donationware vst plugins and the like can be foundÂ here.

iPhone Live and Screenflow

grimmwerks — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:33:03 +0000

I finally got akaRemote installed and launching properly on my iPhone (copy to the iPhone via AFP, then chmod -R 777 *), and, using artificialeyes.tv on my MacBookPro as translation to Ableton Live, I threw together this little screencast:

This is also using the fantastically new ScreenFlow which allows you to have two video sources at the same time: youâ??re desktop AND your iSight as input. ScreenFlow also keeps each video source seperate so you can edit it AFTER youâ??ve recorded â?? here I scaled up the iSight track, used a shadow, and added the Apple-influenced reflection on it. Guess you could say this post is a two-fer. I intend to write up a separate post about ScreenFlow, and am going to play more with akaRemote and Live. I fooled around slightly with the accelerometer sending midi control, but it was a bit iffy. I hope that soon my hippie dance will influence the music, just as the music causes me to hippie dance.

DIY: Make Your Own Open Source Video Mixer

grimmwerks — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:32:39 +0000

Thereâ??s a number of programming languages that allow you to manipulate video – high end applications like Max/MSP/Jitter, or open source languages like Processing are common examples of these languages. Lately thereâ??s been a bit of a new kid on the scene called PureData – or Pd – which seems to be Maxâ??s open source younger brother, as itâ??s created by the same father.

Beau, aka DJCypod created a great video tutorial on building a simple 2-way mixer in Pd, which you can see here:

Found via CreateDigitalMotion.

** originally posted at scribemedia