RE: video during shows -- (was: Re: stumbling around in the dark.....)

[Warren Sirota <wsirota@wsdesigns.com>]

I gotta agree, Charles, the iTunes visualizer is ridiculously good. Much
prettier than my app, which is more designed to be obvious than artful (at
present, anyway).

I continue to solicit reactions....

Best wishes,
Warren Sirota


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Winters [mailto:chasw44@comcast.net] 
> Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 10:47 AM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: video during shows -- (was: Re: stumbling around 
> in the dark.....)
> 
> 
> Good idea Warren.  I say go for it.  There is a long history 
> of people 
> projecting images on screens during music concerts, usually 
> with some sort 
> of synchronization of the image with the music.  You idea of 
> showing the 
> software GUI is a novel one and not without its risks.  My 
> son John often 
> performs his acoustic guitar music along with a laptop 
> running Ableton Live, 
> but he makes a point of orienting the laptop so the audience 
> cannot see the 
> screen.  The audience's perception of him playing the guitar and 
> occasionally working the midi keyboard, the foot controller 
> and the mouse 
> while the music unfolds creates feelings of wonder and 
> mystery.  Seeing the 
> computer screen would detract from that effect and break the 
> spell, he 
> maintains.
> 
> Instead, his (or maybe my) ambition is to augment his regular 
> performance 
> with an ordinary LCD projector, hooked up to his laptop, 
> projecting the 
> images his music makes through the standard iTunes player.  
> iTunes has the 
> best visualizer app I've yet seen, vastly superior to the one 
> bundled with 
> WMPlayer.   I imagine the end result will be a modern version 
> of what Bill 
> Graham used to provide for rock bands at the old Avalon 
> Ballroom in SF. 
> Downright hypnotic. - CW
> www.johnwinters.biz
> 
>