Shantell Martin and Her Wacom

Shantell Martin sure likes to use her Wacom tablet when she does live performances and events, so much so that Wacom ended up doing a case study on her. I’ve embeded a video that’s part of the piece, but read the whole interview here.

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(via Jean Snow.)

Poême électronique 1958

First presented at the 1958 Brussels Worlds Fair with 425 speakers placed throughout the famous Philips pavilion, the placement of the speakers and design of the building gave the spectators a feeling of being housed within a concrete, silver seashell. A giant model of the atom hung from the ceiling and the sound & imagery premiered to standing room only crowds and I can only imagine was a complete mind-blower to all who witnessed the spectacle. Varese is considered to be the “father of electronic music”, Henry Miller described him as the “stratospheric colossus of sound.” When Philips (Philips electronic company) approached Le Corbusier to design a building for the fair, Le Corbusier said, “I will not make a pavilion for you (Philips) but an Electronic Poem and a vessel containing the poem; light, color, image, rhythm and sound joined together in an organic synthesis.”

(Via Tex-server.)

Homemade Video Synths and Visual Bending

DIY hardware isn’t just for abstract and noise musicians any more: visualists are getting in on the act. While on the subject of glitchy visuals from bent gaming hardware, GetLoFi reports this week on several new DIY projects to delight the eyes.

Homemade Video Synths and Visual Bending

Originally from Create Digital Motion by Peter Kirn”

(via ___ lowstandart > /reBlog.)

[tags]music, visual, vjing[/tags]

VScratch: “

V-Scratch by Valerio Spoletini is a software environment which allows for unique visual interpretations in turntable composition. It transposes aural nuances made by the rotation of the record: the variations of speed, audio spectrum and volume. In addition to the sonic aspects (volume and frequencies), the physical act of spinning the record back and forth is transmitted through an optical mouse. All these variables enable a simultaneous performance of moving image and sound while creating an infinite space for possible results.

Video 1 / Video 2.

Via wmmna.

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(Via Pixelsumo.)

[tags]ecal, m&id, switzerland, lausanne, vjing, visualisation, scratch[/tags]

Vidget 3.5

Vidget 3.5 is an experimental interactive audiovisual performance device which allows the user to manipulate video in real time online. As well as mixing a number of video clips together, the user may search for still images from the Flickr photo sharing site and mix them together. For a instructions on usage see previous versions above.