http://dutycycle.org/

wduwsts: This is a demonstration of a 16-bit Sample pack made...

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:05:04 -0700

This is a demonstration of a 16-bit Sample pack made up of FM drums created by me in TFM Maker1.4

All samples have been loaded and sequenced in LGPT “Piggy Tracker” on my PSP.

More info @:
http://shiru.untergrund.net/software.shtml
http://littlegptracker.com/

piggy in the wild

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:34:37 -0700

piggy in the wild

jyk: starscreamband: Future, and It Doesn’t Work + Remixes...

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:19:56 -0700

jyk:

starscreamband:

Future, and It Doesn’t Work + Remixes and The Space Years both streamable and downloadable now at http://starscream.bandcamp.com/ ! Super cheap entire album download prices. All proceeds go to recording our first proper full length record (details coming soon) in December. LOVE YOU ALL!

Matt Nida has figured out how to sync piggy tracker on PSP with...

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:23:06 -0700

Matt Nida has figured out how to sync piggy tracker on PSP with any Tape Sync capable hardware! full writeup on click through.

kidrobotrules: The genius behind Graffiti Analysis, Evan Roth...

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:43:11 -0700

kidrobotrules:

The genius behind Graffiti Analysis, Evan Roth has taken the proverbial street tag into the gallery in a way never seen before. The seven seconds it took to record a simple outdoor sketch with Roth’s groundbreaking software is all that’s needed to transform the motion data captured into a 3D model. From that model rendering, a real life sculptural tag was fabricated and frozen in time and space. This amazing first of its kind artwork is on display at the Kunsthalle Museum in Vienna, Austria.

Evan Roth shares his view of this advanced adaptation of street art…

Graffiti Analysis: Sculptures is a series of new physical sculptures that I am making from motion tracked graffiti data. New software (GA 3D) imports .gml files (Graffiti Markup Language) captured using Graffiti Analysis, creates 3D geometry based on the data and then exports a 3D representation of the tag as a .stl file (a common file format compatible with most 3D software packages including Blender, Maya and 3DS Max). Time is extruded in the Z dimension and pen speed is represented by the thickness of the model at any given point. I then have this data 3D printed to create a physical sculpture that serves as a data visualization of the tag. For the Street and Studio exhibition at the Kunsthalle Wein, I collaborated with an anonymous local Viennese graffiti writer and had the GA sculpture printed in ABS plastic. Graffiti motion data of his tag was captured in the streets (for the first time) at various points around Vienna.

via woostercollective

30seconds of chill visuals in between sets at the lovetech party...

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 23:25:36 -0700

30seconds of chill visuals in between sets at the lovetech party I was part of the mashup vj mess for on Saturday. I did a full report on my new wordpress!

illillill: Louis+Vuitton+-+Pig+bag.jpg (image)

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 10:02:40 -0700

illillill:

Louis+Vuitton+-+Pig+bag.jpg (image)

sfhaps: Tetris tournament? I’m there...

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:31:00 -0700

sfhaps:

Tetris tournament? I’m there
http://sf.funcheap.com/tetris-tournament-ii-mission-dist/

Saturday 8pm at The Lab
2948 16th Street & Capp
tsibugan:

thedailywhat:

OlasNich.

round em up~~ Staypuft DJ on sub.fm this sunday

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:29:53 -0700

round em up~~ Staypuft DJ on sub.fm this sunday:

nastysonix:

more juke. more skweee. more dubstep. mas musica!! Staypuft DJ serves up the hot skewered beats this sunday, 3-5pm PST, 11pm-1am GMT on the legendary SUB.FM. see y’all thurr.

more at davidoreilly.com

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 14:45:04 -0700

more at davidoreilly.com

Sifting cards on a sunny sunday! Remembering the fun of seeing...

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:01:48 -0700

Sifting cards on a sunny sunday! Remembering the fun of seeing Open Music Labs Floppy Audio Effect in action.

Three modified 3.5 inch floppy drives that can record and playback analog audio from a normal diskette.

The audio effect of playing sound from the drives is similar to a reverb/delay. The heads can also be scrubbed across the media to create a kind of random-access Mellotron instrument.

jyk: WORLD OF VIDEO (by MUSCLEBEAVER)

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:56:45 -0700

jyk:

WORLD OF VIDEO (by MUSCLEBEAVER)

Last Thursday’s 8BITSF/DUTYCYCLE party at DNA LOUNGE was...

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:00:00 -0700

Last Thursday’s 8BITSF/DUTYCYCLE party at DNA LOUNGE was my first go at the Video Jockey game. Considering that I started learning to VJ less than 7 days prior, the fiasco could have been an epic fail. However, all hurdles were cleared and the sets I did for COMPUTEHER and NULLSLEEP went over without any unintentional glitches!

My journey began with a pile of free/opensource software to try and run on a MacBook Pro: CoGe, Gephax and Onyx.

CoGe was great at handling folders of images and gifs—I used it to create a few clips I uploaded to videopong.net (think ccMixter for video). But to do a full set with it I felt like I’d have to learn QuartzComposer and when I left CoGe running for any length of time it would unexpectedly quit.

Onyx held my heart because it’s an AIR application—meaning I could get into the hairy Action Script plumbing if I felt the need, but I didn’t even get that far: Midi control through a socket connection is supposedly possible but I’ve only seen people on PC/WIN doing that successfully. Gephax was an even shorter trial when I couldn’t get it running in either OSX native or VirtualBox.

So in the end of my software testing, I reached out to friends for commercial advice and wound up running VDMX which costs a pretty penny but is modular, does clean midi detect, and has advanced sequencing/lfo/sync capabilities. And yes, it does crash but not nearly as regularly as CoGe.

As far as source material went, I was sitting on piles of gifs and stills I’d collected in tumblr click trances over the past few months. I had to save the gifs as mov using quicktime for VDMX to recognize them but as far as conversion processes can go, it was fairly painless. Additionally, the veterans nocarrier, jeanyk and abuliaconcepts dished me some clips and advice along the way.

The last interesting bit of content was receiving all of the trial/wip material for the collapsed desires tour poster created by videogramo, which I turned into this video loop using the flash timeline.

Despite the fact that I was still patching, midi-detecting and clip-cropping at DNA Lounge, the greatest trial was that no one had asked ahead about what video inputs were available and I was left trying to plug digital (VGA) into either S-VIDEO or RCA. So 30 minutes before doors opened I biked to the unhelpful Best Buy and then Radio Shack, which I walked out of with a Grandtec PC to TV box.

After all that, I was ready to party and had a great time dancing around on the dials and sliders! I was only planning on doing the NULLSLEEP set but Lubaboop, who was also VJing, needed a break so I wound up doing the COMPUTEHER set as well. It was a good warm up and let me play some of the more colorful, fun gifs that weren’t appropriate for NULLSLEEP’s grayscale & red mandate.

The midi controller I wound up using was the Korg Nano Kontrol. It was really nice having butons to slam on for tap tempo, downbeat, and timer reset. Then I had 3 layers of video set up with basic controls like scale and playback speed/direction. The rest of the controls were an ad-hock arrangement of effects and I didn’t wind up using the scene switching feature of the Kontrol at all. All of the clip cueing and switching was performed on the laptop.

In sum, I had an Epic Win, in the full sense that Jane McGonigal uses the term. I had the impression Video Jockey work was involved, but now I know why VJs never sleep. But since I’ve collected all the pieces needed to project, I’ll likely be at it again soon and look forward to collaborating with friends through videopong or in the booth!

At FASHION PROOF NETLABEL, two new releases dropped last night! A new live set by Lisbent from Denmark, and 3 battle tracks by Bankie Phones.

Thu, 27 May 2010 19:14:10 -0700

At FASHION PROOF NETLABEL, two new releases dropped last night! A new live set by Lisbent from Denmark, and 3 battle tracks by Bankie Phones.:

(via dogpolice)

rollerbladers are down with evan morris music. come down to...

Fri, 21 May 2010 09:09:15 -0700

rollerbladers are down with evan morris music. come down to maker faire and chill wittus! chipmusic.org booth in the electronc art and sound hall

enso: Done for the starPause/K9D/Dinoaids Maker Faire zine

Tue, 18 May 2010 22:15:42 -0700

enso:

Done for the starPause/K9D/Dinoaids Maker Faire zine

WDUWSTS: YEAH YEAH YEAH. coming in real thick…. been doing some experimenting...

Thu, 13 May 2010 23:30:23 -0700

WDUWSTS: YEAH YEAH YEAH. coming in real thick…. been doing some experimenting...:

YEAH YEAH YEAH. coming in real thick….

been doing some experimenting as of late and i have made a wonderful discovery. It is completely true. there can’t be too much bass.

grinding screeching synths mixed with thick filter cuts and saw basssssss is soooo sexy. just what i am looking for….

xwdishere: I made you another mixtape. This one is completely...

Mon, 10 May 2010 22:15:54 -0700

xwdishere:

I made you another mixtape. This one is completely crazy and full of the synthy and/or chippy jams I love to blast in lieu of sleep. Enjoy, and try not to keep the neighbors up too late.

myspace music previews:Broken Figures | Nonfinite | WDUWSTS |...

Mon, 03 May 2010 22:56:00 -0700

myspace music previews:
Broken Figures | Nonfinite | WDUWSTS | Drown Radio | Mushen

workshop nfoz:
Learn the ropes of nanoloop for iPhone with Drown Radio! Aimed at seasoned producers and curious chip music connoisseurs alike, this informal workshop will touch on all the screens by taking you through the making of a track. Get nanoloop now while it’s still .99 cents to follow along =) And if you’re already a user, come answer questions or make your own track to contribute to the Diplodocus2 compo

facebuk rsvp:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=123425744336267

when/where:
Friday, May 7th | fivepoints arthouse | 72 Tehama St., San Francisco

Moby and his indulgent drum machine collection covered by...

Sat, 01 May 2010 14:30:00 -0700

Moby and his indulgent drum machine collection covered by motherboard (a show dell sponsers? hmm) … so many great quotes in this … !