On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Sylvain Poitras
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sylvain.trombone@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
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http://homepage.mac.com/digego/video_tutorial_one.mov
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http://vimeo.com/4192785
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> demos
>
http://vimeo.com/2735394
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http://vimeo.com/2502546
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http://vimeo.com/2433303
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> Sylvain
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> 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
>>
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