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Mac ‘n’ Cheese from Mac 'N' Cheese on Vimeo. Mac ‘n’ Cheese is an animated short directed and created by four students at the Utrecht School of Arts in the Netherlands. This roughly two minute animation took about five months to make, and about a bajillion peanut butter sandwiches. Synopsis: When you find yourself running [...] View full post on Inside The Vault

fractal: STARWHEEL by Archie Washington, animated using Arkaos VJ software. music: GLOBAL COMMUNITY by DeWolfe Music.

Fractal image THE TOP OF HER CROWN TAKES OFF, created by Archie Washington and animated using Arkaos VJ software, with CASCADE by DeWolfe Music.

This fractal animation is AN ABSENCE OF CALM. The music is GRAND VISTA by DeWolfe Music. The image was created using Sterling Fractal freeware, animated with Arkaos VJ software, and edited in Final Cut Pro.

The Essence of Wax Grapes is a fractal by Archie Washington. It was created with Sterling Fractal freeware, and animated using Arkaos VJ software.

Music video for 31Sun(Samurai Tiger Dragon Rose) by TOYKULT – RadioEdit – Music, animation and fx by Tom Hamlyn The VJ High Definition Loops Collection is available on DVD fromVJLoopStation.com or TOYKULT.com – Each DVD contains more than 70+ exclusive loops in PhotoJpeg Quicktime format at 1280 x 720 HD resolution. Many of the movie loops in the collection have alpha channels for real time compositing. Original and exclusively produced the VJ DVD collection will add a unique flavour to any VJ Set or Party. Recommended for professional VJ’s, new media designers, DJ’s, Home enthusiasts & anyone who likes very cool and unusual visuals… Arkaos, VJAMM and Resolume ready these loops are optimized for use with software applications like: – Arkaos – Resolume – Final Cut Pro – VJAMM – Visual Jockey – ES-X – Jitter – Dance Studio – Electronica These loop animations can be used as screen savers and animated desktops or played on TV.

Taken from our introduction at the 2008 Russell Industrial Center People’s Arts Festival. ‘Lifegrinder’.

this episode: LO-CPU pixel smashing with gePHEX and a PII 333mhz (256ram) throw out laptop. video introduction to ‘TV-555′ A development of 486′s live lo-cpu video element for music video’s & stage performances. lo-cpu video production with dumpster dived gear & free open source software. Soundtrack MUSIC in order of appearance: 1. /firstenc.mod: the fox ii [reality (mono 1996)][298kb] 2. song for a paranoid [486 vs gotoXY (electrofolk sound 2001)] 3. TI Jazz [486 (taken from the 'LO-POP' album, electrofolk sound 2006)] BUY THIS MUSIC HERE: www.the486kid.com FOR MORE, SUBSCRIBE!

this is a video showing the first use of our own multiscreen-vj-software programmed in vvvv. beside playing live visuals on the stage (as usual , we mapped some graphic stuff onto the full length of the Oswald Thomas Hall in the Planetarium Wien. we used three projectors and one computer connected to a matrox triple head2go to get this panorama projection done… enjoy! location: Planetarium, Vienna party: raum for electronic arts main act: Axel Bartsch, Crunc Tesla video by www . lichterloh . tv track by www . myspace . com/shroomtune

If NAMM 2010 had nothing new for the control and integration of music and video it looks like innovation was in Frankfurt, at the MusikMesse. Yes, the old continent brings a new and very innovative controller to the market: the Karlax. And one of you lucky guys will be one of the first to perform with it! (More info at the end of this post).

DA FACT introduced the Karlax at MusikMesse 2010 as the first controller for digital Arts that re-establish the artist’s body at the heart of the performance. With it’s revolutionary ergonomic design, this instrument transmits the artist’s own natural movements wireless (using radio-waves and MIDI trough USB) to a computer, giving musicians and digital Artists freedom on stage.

Yes, 10 fingers running on a MIDI keyboard can trigger many events, for more flexibility you can also use some advanced controllers especially made for audio sampling software or directly aimed at VJ’s. But as Nintendo showed to the game industry, gestures and body movement can add a whole new fantastic layer to expression and control, as an example just Google GrandVJ+Wiimote and you’ll see that there is really some interest about controlling visuals with gestures.

At ArKaos, we designed GrandVJ so that everything can be controlled by MIDI and we tried as much as possible to make it compatible with any existing or future controller thanks to the MIDI-learn mode. So the Karlax was working out of the box with GrandVJ but we’ve been in contact with DA FACT to develop a better support for their controller in GrandVJ as we did previously with other manufacturers.

In this video from MusikMesse 2010 you see the GrandVJ in mixer mode mapped to the various MIDI notes and controllers generated by the Karlax. In this first implementation we mapped five controllers to the intensity of the first five mixer layers. You can use two keys to select the next and previous layer so you can edit live the state of all layers directly from the controller and the movement is mapped to Loop speed.

The other controls are used to affect loop speed, to trigger visuals from the patch, to select effects or change parameter values, to modify the visual position, etc… The Karlax is here used to control at the same time GrandVJ and an audio application.

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