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Well the VJ Loops hiatus seems to be over. My hosting provider took their sweet time switching servers and making database backups. Maybe they are upset because I am taking advantage of the unlimited transfer and space. They probably didnt expect a site with nearly 2TB of data to be on there.

Here’s what’s new.

A ton of content in 1080p, 720p, 576p and ultra wide are up and ready to browse. We also received a shipment of 20 Source Visuals DVD’s. Great for stocking stuffers this holiday.

We also did a little head hunting and found two new artists that your sure to love. Kim Pimmel and Johannes LDC Guerreiro.

Kim works with light painting and timelapse/stop motion with slow shutter using turntables, motors, Arduino technology and a ton of LED Lights. Check out his video below.

Light Drive from Kim Pimmel on Vimeo.

Stop motion form and colour, using light painting techniques.

Lighting: Kim Pimmel
Sound: Tron Legacy trailers

I’ve been interested in taking my Light Study photo series and evolving them into motion pieces. I shot a lot of footage for a VJ gig for FITC San Francisco. So I edited together those stop motion sequences, mashed up some audio from the Tron Legacy trailers, and out came Light Drive.

The video is stop motion, so every frame is an individually shot photograph. Each photograph is a long exposure photo, with exposures reaching up to 20 seconds in some cases.

To control the lights, I used an Arduino controlled via bluetooth to drive a stepper motor. The stepper motor controls the movements of the lights remotely from Processing.

The light sources include cold cathode case lights, EL wire, lasers and more.

If you like this video, check out: http://vimeo.com/9630188

Twitter: http://twitter.com/kpimmel

Light Studies

http://www.flickr.com/photos/djspyhunter/sets/72157615077454920/

Stop motion form and colour, using light painting techniques.

Lighting: Kim Pimmel
Sound: Tron Legacy trailers

I’ve been interested in taking my Light Study photo series and evolving them into motion pieces. I shot a lot of footage for a VJ gig for FITC San Francisco. So I edited together those stop motion sequences, mashed up some audio from the Tron Legacy trailers, and out came Light Drive.

The video is stop motion, so every frame is an individually shot photograph. Each photograph is a long exposure photo, with exposures reaching up to 20 seconds in some cases.

To control the lights, I used an Arduino controlled via bluetooth to drive a stepper motor. The stepper motor controls the movements of the lights remotely from Processing.

The light sources include cold cathode case lights, EL wire, lasers and more.

If you like this video, check out: http://vimeo.com/9630188

Twitter: http://twitter.com/kpimmel

Light Studies

http://www.flickr.com/photos/djspyhunter/sets/72157615077454920/

You can check out his pack here at VJLoops.tv http://www.vjloops.tv/vj-loops-sd/vj-loops-sd-pal-ntsc/kim-pimmel/vj-loops-pack-545-kim-pimmel

Johannes I came across in a Facebook post. The word object mapping came up. Curious I took a look and was very happy with what I saw. VJLoops.tv is happy to have Johannas and his Object mapping work in our shop. Check out his demo video below.

01 Zentrale – Projection Mapping from Johannes LDC Guerreiro on Vimeo.

The project 01 Zentrale was planned to be ready to install at platine festival 2010 in cologne. http://www.platine-cologne.de/10/?p=71 It was the first time experimenting with Video Projection Mapping on real Objects. It is a pity to film all the stuff, because the real light mapping experience is too impressive in live.

The project 01 Zentrale was planned to be ready to install at platine festival 2010 in cologne. http://www.platine-cologne.de/10/?p=71 It was the first time experimenting with Video Projection Mapping on real Objects. It is a pity to film all the stuff, because the real light mapping experience is too impressive in live.

Like what you see? Head on over to VJLoops.tv for his content in all formats. http://www.vjloops.tv/vj-loops-sd/vj-loops-sd-pal-ntsc/johannes-ldc-guerreiro/vj-loops-pack-550-johannes-ldc-guerreiro-zentrale

On top of that we have a ton of new content from our regular contributors. SteveG is relentless with many new releases and a special offer. Buy SteveG HD content and receive over 100 euros in free loops.

ehmotion deserves special mention for breaking his 3000 loop mark with over 100 SD packs. Congrats and thank you for your contributions.

Visit www.vjloops.tv and get the holiday themed content your looking for.  We have Christmas and New Years content ready to go!

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Digital music is of course created the moment you commit a recording to a file, so it’s fitting to me that we can take musical inspiration from acoustic sources as well as electronic. And one of the album releases I’m most thrilled by this summer is the collaboration between Björk and the eclectic band Dirty Projectors, whose African rhythm-influenced “Bitte Orca” was to me one of the fresher sounds in recent years.

For the digital-only release “Mount Wittenberg Orca,” the coupling return to bare, stripped-down vocals, with harmonies at once folk-influenced and mysterious. Buzz about this new direction started just as the grouping performed live at the diminutive Housing Works Cafe here in Manhattan. (I unfortunately was out of town; see the video after the break below.) There was just something viscerally wonderful about what the ensemble made, something very different from either Dirty Projectors or Björk; those familiar personalities melted away into something new.

The inspiration from the track comes from Dirty Projectors’ Amber watching a school of whales from Mount Wittenberg, outside San Francisco. Accordingly, proceeds benefit the planet, by way of the National Geographic Society. Donations of US$7 and up gets you 320kbps or Apple Lossless downloads and full liner notes.

Here’s the mountain geographic area in question, as a visual aid:

My only regret is that the mountain-inspired work is fit into a hill-sized EP; I hope they release more tracks.

You can have a free taste as a stream below via Soundcloud.

Mount Wittenberg Orca [Official site, download]

I’ve been meaning to point to the release for a couple of weeks, but this comes as I read some reflections by my friend (and very electronic artist) Ezekiel Honig.

http://www.ezekielhonig.com/words.php

At a time when half my friends talk about the demise of the conventional record release (including some with actual resumes in the record business, as opposed to my never-ending study of the arcane), there are reasons to see something else rising from the ashes. A lot of what Zeke is describing fits the mountain EP here, from his ideas about the non-narrative “accumulation of moments” to the meaning of the album. (“A container is needed to define the extent of one’s work, to give it both breathing room and a place for that air to stop,” Zeke muses.) A lot of wisdom about everything from recording fidelity to the album as a business model are becoming the victims of violent change in the music world. But on the other hand, in their place is a new sense of freedom, recording impromptu vocals with an enthusiasm that goes back in this country to much earlier American music, or making records about – and to benefit – whales. At the risk of being overly crunchy, there’s something nice about that new ocean of possibility, even if, like the ecological reality, it’s a fragile one.

“When was the last time you listened to a whole album? Do you do that any more? Do you still go buy albums and EPs?”

Yep.

Dirty Projectors + Björk- All We Are by DominoRecordCo

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Those crazy Amiga artists were ahead of their time. The lightweight real-time music engines and formats they began were uncommonly efficient, and allowed the exchange of elaborate electronic music using a minimum of resources – with some accompanying compositional and sound design ingenuity required, as well. As a result, getting a phone handset to reproduce their work today is a pretty manageable task, and some of the music available is concise and clever. Pop on some headphones, load up some tunes, and you may feel you’re starring in your very own Amiga point and click adventure the next time you hit the grocery market.

There are a number of trackers and mod players for mobile platforms from iPhone to Windows Mobile, but Android is now in on the game thanks to Xmp (Extended Module Player). Using Android’s JNI-based NDK interface for accessing native code from Java, the “experimental” queue up some files and play back on your SD card. My sense is that this hasn’t been widely tested, which is where you come in: got an Android phone? Ideally, got some obscure models of Android phone? Load this up and see if you’re getting the retro tracker music love. Let us know in comments how it goes.

Full downloads and code for Xmp, a command-line mod player for Mac, Windows, Linux and pretty much every OS every invented, along with the experimental Android port:
http://xmp.sourceforge.net/

Thanks to Dan Galpin, developer advocate at Google, for pointing this out to me.

Now, this brings me to my open question. Suffice to say, someone could build a pretty player interface for Xmp, with playlist support and the lot. But what about actually editing files on your Android device, as you can on iPhone, PSP, GamePark, PC, Mac, etc.? It’s possible that the Xmp code could be used as a template for porting the engine of something like LittleGPTracker. But looking through quickly, I wonder if Xmp itself might serve as a real-time engine? It’d also be interesting to design a tracker interface that took the UI patterns of platforms like Android to heart, rather than just reproducing interfaces designed for other platforms. If you’re interested in such a project or have some insight into what might be practical, let us know in comments.

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