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City: San Francisco
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 11/3/2005

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24 Aug 08 Sunday 
Last month I wrote about my weekend at O'Reilly's Foo Camp. During my performance, I mentioned that I was looking to work with someone doing music visualization. Well, someone there (Jeffrey Veen) hooked me up with this incredible artist, Robert Hodgin.

His work is astonishing, here is a piece he did to a song by Trentemoller:



We thought it would be cool to try something together, so Robert invited me to perform a couple days ago during his presentation at Flashforward 2008 (an Adobe Flash conference). Here's a video of it, certain parameters of his animations are responding, live, to musical input from my performance (as I understood it: pitch, density, that sort of thing). I hope somewhere out there is better video of it, because it looked amazing from what I could see in the stage video monitor.



I'd love to do more of this kind of thing. I dream about midi control as well as audio since it seems like things could easily be triggered via midi data from my foot controller and Ableton Live.

If you know anyone, or have any interest yourself, write to me!! (info zoekeating com).

more about Robert: http://www.flight404.com
Neal Trembath

 
Squidly Didly in a cloud chamber, or Zoe's hair sprites?
 
Posted by Neal Trembath on 22 Aug 08 Friday - 10:09 PM
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Edrie (One of the Broken Toys)
Edrie Edrie

 
If we have time in Amsterdam - I'd like to try a live drawing animation session and record and post it!
 
Posted by Edrie (One of the Broken Toys) on 23 Aug 08 Saturday - 4:27 PM
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Ðonny [AFP]
Donald Tilghman

 
You never fail to absolutly floor me! This was amazing! Great job!
 
Posted by Ðonny [AFP] on 23 Aug 08 Saturday - 12:39 AM
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Alisaur
Alison Parker

 
That's fantastic! I love it. I would like to imagine that it is quite a thrill to see your music come alive quite literally right before your own eyes. Simply amazing! Beautiful as always, Zoe
 
Posted by Alisaur on 23 Aug 08 Saturday - 3:04 AM
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Aleksandra

 
oh the visualisation is indeed marvellous! but why isn't it stretched onto the whole screen? these arrows are like a barbed wire, fencing it, preventing the merging with its surrounding and the music itself. that frame makes you feel like - and reminds you constantly - the visualisation is a completely detached work...
 
Posted by Aleksandra on 23 Aug 08 Saturday - 11:17 AM
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Zoe Keating

 
that arrow-box thing was the conference format that everyone had to present inside of (for the Flashforward conference). that's why there is text on the screen too. but i agree, that's why i want to do it again, on our own without a tech conference involved!
 
Posted by Zoe Keating on 23 Aug 08 Saturday - 6:45 PM
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Mike and the Moon

 
Very well achieved. The first video production, would benifit if the viewer travelled in motion between the stars, instead of the single static 3D rotating camera. But .. is indeed a "Big Bang".

And Zoe, if you are so interested in these kind of visualizations, why don..t you give it a try ... there is a little program called Particule illusion, it is really easy to work, you can then bind the result video with your beatiful music.

Check in youtube for particule illusion tutorial,

Greetings from Portugal,
Mike
 
Posted by Mike and the Moon on 23 Aug 08 Saturday - 12:58 PM
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Zoe Keating

 
well, i'd like to collaborate with people who are just as focused on their visual art as i am on my music, rather than spreading myself even thinner!
 
Posted by Zoe Keating on 23 Aug 08 Saturday - 6:55 PM
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