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Re: OT: VJ Programs, tested... by me!!



Mark,
If your scheme chops are up for it, you should have a look at
impromptu.  Even though it's purpose made for live coding, there's
nothing that prevents someone from coding in advance and loading the
program at the gig...  It allows you to mess directly with opengl
objects and create some pretty colours and shapes that change with the
beat.  You could send the audio reference from Live to a certain
channel on your audio device and have Impromtu read the data from that
channel.  A steeper learning curve, but there are some musical payoffs
as well (Impromptu can send/receive MIDI or OSC and host AU).

the software: http://impromptu.moso.com.au/

some graphics tutorials:
http://homepage.mac.com/digego/video_tutorial_one.mov
http://vimeo.com/4192785

demos
http://vimeo.com/2735394
http://vimeo.com/2502546
http://vimeo.com/2433303

Sylvain




On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 7:52 AM, mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com> 
wrote:
> Quite often it occurs on LD that there is a post about creating live 
> visuals
> to our music. I have always been interested in this, and have always 
> tried
> to have a visual element to what I do. Recently I have become involved 
> in a
> new art/music project, basically a looping band, with sensors and dancers
> and guest speakers and what-not... where we intend on creating a visual
> element Live as well. I do not want to use pr-made video loops, and 
> although
> having a permanent visual member on the band is an exiting option, we are
> not investigating that just yet.
> To that end, I spent this weekend doing a bit of research on VJ programs,
> and thought Id post my initail finding in my website... HERE!
>
> http://www.markfrancombe.com/wordpress/?p=1449
>
> Bare in mind the caveats, Im looking for very specific functionality, 
> but I
> think that my reviews were really all about overall impressions rather 
> than
> detailed analysis.
> Hope some of you find it useful... its been quite an eye-opener for me, 
> I'm
> even considering making something related, an MA degree project.
>
> --
> Mark Francombe
> www.markfrancombe.com
> www.ordoabkhao.com
> http://vimeo.com/user825094
> http://www.looop.no
> twitter @markfrancombe
>