The kind folks at Whole Foods have agreed to let us move the show from the upstairs plaza to the front parking lot AND its now going to be held under a huge, crazy tent designed by Art Seen Alliance take a look at the pic[...]! The projections will be shown on the roof of the tent, which will be visible from both inside and outside of the tent. Things just got a million times more awesome!
via Hexadecagon.
I got the new version of Boxee running on our AppleTV last night, and it is officially fucking awesome.
Just in time for the onslaught of forward-thinking Interactive geeks, Switched On, the Eastsides new electronic music mecca, opens Saturday, offering an array of vintage and new instruments. Pataphysics, Survive, Silent Diane, and How I Quit Crack celebrate across the street at Victory Grill, starting at 9:30pm.
via Future Shock – Earache! Austin Music and Downloads Blog – AustinChronicle.com.
I’m acting as visualist for the Octopus Project’s upcoming show, Hexadecagon:
Hi everybody! Were tremendously excited to announce the project were knee-deep in creating right now…As you may have guessed from the title of this web page, its called HEXADECAGON. Thats the geometrical term for a sixteen-sided object, and we chose it because the show were working on is being written for an eight-channel sound and eight-channel video system: a sixteen-sided audiovisual panorama!
We’ve shot and animated all original footage for the show, and the visuals are being triggered on two computers connected to four HD projectors with midi cues from the performance. I’m working with VDMX, the excellent visual software for OS X, made by vidvox. And I’m incorporating a custom quartz composition by Dan Winckler of OpenEMU fame. Dan made us a single QC patch that we embedded our animations in to create a midi note visualizer for a few of the songs, which has been very handy. The audio routing is being accomplished with an ATmega-based device called the Bend Matrix. It was designed by Dann Green of 4ms Pedals and Handmade Music Austin, and built by Josh from The Octopus Project.
This has been a really exciting project to work on, and I’ve learned a lot about VDMX and Quartz Composer in the process. Some of the footage that we’ve shot has also been fairly eye-melting. The show will be FREE, but it’s first come first served. There will be two performances on March 19th. I hope to see everyone there!
Despite no longer being in the band, I’d be totally remiss in not plugging the radical video that Nick Smith made for Diagonals, which will be playing at SXSW film next month.
A cautionary tale of self-indulgence.
Director BioNick Smith hails from the suburban pastures of Houston. He came to Austin in the early 90s and discovered that the water tasted better there. He works as a commercial editor and compositor by day and ends up doing the same thing by night. He has contributed to music video projects by The Flaming Lips and The Deathray Davies and directed a video for The Octopus Project. He also plays trombone in a foot fetish funk band called Foot Patrol.
screening dates:Mar 12 10:15 PM at Alamo Lamar 3
Mar 17 01:00 PM at Alamo Ritz 2
Mar 20 03:00 PM at Alamo Ritz 1
My friend Rodney made this access tv video comp that will be playing in San Francisco this weekend. I made some faux crappy-video interstitial titles for it. Should be fun.
What would life be like without public access television? Unfortunately many communities have had to find out the hard way. We’ve lost many wacked-out gems due to cancellation or just the transient nature of public access programming, but thanks to obsessive collectors of pop culture ephemera there is a goldmine of lo-fi creativity to be found in the back catalogue of now-defunct public access stations. Fantastic Fest programmer and Twitch Film critic Rodney Perkins has put together an exclusive show for SF Indie that celebrates the weird and wonderful world of public access from San Francisco and beyond. Clips include SF fave Burn My Eye, the early Guy Maddin post-apocalypse show Survival, the anarchic Jerkbeast, musical interludes from the amazing R. Stevie Moore, talk shows, call-in shows, and more public access preachers than you can shake a stick at. Culled from rare, hard-to-find sources much of which is unavailable online or otherwise, fans of Found and TV Carnage would do well to check out this schizophrenic TV assault!
via San Francisco Independent Film Festival + Winter Music Festival 2010 : Access Denied.
The examples in this article are very audio-visulization heavy, but the following breakdowns of technologies are good and thorough, and provide a good introduction to what I’m babbling about late at night on twitter.
