VJ Heaven

Die Nachfolge des beliebten HTC Hero tritt bald das HTC Legend an. Schon alleine optisch beeindruckt das Handy mit seinem eleganten Aluminium-Gehäuse. Ob es wirklich das Zeug zur Handy-Legende hat, zeigt unser Praxis-Test.

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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Music is considered as the gift of God. It gives peace and relief in our daily life. It brings true colours in our life. Music videos are one of the sources to find the melodious music and your favourite songs. However, the variety and intensity of the music has seen a dramatic change in recent past. Now, we can see more and more pop songs and other party songs The TV channels and different internet sites also focus more on such kind of music. At the same time, music is not only an art now. It has taken the shape of a charismatic profession in many ways. People have started making their career in music industry. It is flourishing and giving employment to millions of people.

A music video is the collection of films, videos and songs that is made for entertaining the people who love music. You can find such videos in a music library where a wide variety of the latest hit videos are available. Online music stores are a new concept where music can be found online. Going to a regular music shop is often not so easy for many considering it is a time taking process. People can find a number of ways to find the great music and the options available to them are many. Internet is one of the most preferred choices these days. You can find the same quality and variety of music that you have been finding in your local store. The main disadvantage involved in purchasing a music video from the nearby store is that if you like any song and want to listen to that song, you will have to buy the whole album. Online music stores offer you any single song any time. You don’t need to buy the whole album in this case.

Online sites provide you the opportunity to listen to your favourite songs through a number of sites. To save your money, you can always download a variety of favourite songs to your personal computer or save in a CD/DVD. These sites also provide the option to save your preferred songs directly in your computer and listen to it with the help of several MP3 players that have been installed on your computer. It gives you a complete liberty to listen songs on your conditions, in your way.

The biggest advantage of the online music stores is that it is available all time during day or night. You can enjoy your desired music without any time restrictions. It has gone beyond the geographical, demographic or political boundary. You can obtain songs of any country, society and in any language. However, TV music channels do play the hit songs, but you may have to wait for the VJ to play your favourite song. It feels really tedious to listen to the same song which is repeated time and again. Certainly, music websites offers a lot of fun to the music lovers. All kind of features and functions which are common to the normal mp 3 player are available with the online music sites too. The option of Play, Rewind, Forward, skip and replay give the real fun of listening music here.

UK music stores are famous for its variety of songs and other music categories. The online version of the store is ahead of that. You can find the hit songs of famous UK Pop stars as well as the artists from the other parts of the world. The UK music stores in the UK are getting huge popularity these days. People like such a concept as they can listen to songs, download them and share with their friends. All these are available at a very reasonable cost which makes it more profitable deal. Rupizcompare.co.uk is one of the unique portals that give you such an opportunity. Now enjoy the music that you always wanted to have and share your thoughts with your friends.

Android tablet PC is a type or a kind of Tablet Shaped computing device which can be operated in any corner of the world where the electricity is available for charging the battery. Android tablet PC’s are used in order to overcome the disadvantages of the notebook PC’s. The basic difference between android tablet PC’s and notebooks is that the former are more light-weighted and easy to carry.

There are several advantages which contain the following information are readily available: Android tablet discussion, android tablet active topics, android tablet apps, Acer android tablets, Archos android tablets and dell android tablets. You can get these features downloaded from the internet through browsing. There are many android tablet pc which are available online and can be ordered from there. They contain the following salient features:

Video formatting.
Audio formatting.
Operating system Google Android OS.
Featuring of support adobe flash.
Screen size.
Color.
Resolution screen to maximum.
Screen type.
Control touching panel.
Card.
Support.

You can preload the tablet suite of the application on the android. You can download the more application from the android market and can get the knowledge of the new android tablet which is going to come in the market. It has slim size and is light in weigh which gives it a unique feature from the other flash drive models. The display contains the prevailing face and the power button and volume button is at the top edge of the screen. The first most thing is that keep the features that is important for you to handle with and the working model and its important salient features before buying any android tablet pc.

The internet is becoming popular in such a fast pace that you can feel the presence of the internet in all areas. Now a days music has become popular because of these online music videos. People can avail any kind of music from any where only just sitting beside a computer having an internet. Online music videos have broken the barrier of language, society and country for which music is getting attention of all music lovers. If you have passion for good music then you just have to go to various online music websites to avail your favourite tune.

Due to online music people don’t have to wait anxiously to see their favourite artist playing music. They just have to log on to any music website and can watch their favourite artist playing music. Beside this the music fanatics can also enjoy other advantages like they don’t have to hear songs that are getting repeated. This is a common problem you will face in music TV shows where music VJ play songs which start repeating after some time. The music lovers beside hearing songs they can download pictures, wallpapers of various music bands, artist and new music album releases. Beside this they can also perform various functions like stop, fast forward, rewind, skip and replay.

Now lets talk about the marketing of the online music websites.

Once you have made an website on online music then you have to make it popular so that people visit to your site and hear songs or watch music videos from your site.

Same thing is applicable for musicians also. Once they launch their music album they have to plan their strategies to successfully market the music online. It is not at all a easy task. You have to plan a smart strategy.

Music Marketing is always an art in its own right. You have to do proper research and have to do hard work. If your luck favors then you can be the next full time musician

Besides online marketing the musician or the singer has to promote their music in various music news channels and music magazines.

Every day the business on music is changing. It is becoming tougher and tougher. The competition on music has become very high. The major music brands are now a days signing less and less undiscovered artists. Thus the artist are not getting any permanent label or brand to sell their music. Even if someone gets any fixed brand, they will get less opportunity to sell it.

This means that more and more new singers will get chance to sing in the albums. The brands have to spend less money on the new singers and they can have more albums in one single year at same cost. Thus the individual artist will get the carve out niche of their own.

The internet has made its presence felt almost in all areas. In recent years, it has widely captured the attention of all music lovers from all across the world and allowed them watch their favorite music videos online. Online music videos and songs have broken the blockade of language, society and country.

It doesn’t matter, you are looking for jazz song videos, old or the hottest new music videos, video info websites have provided an online platform to find the all kinds of music videos that you love to watch. In fact, videos info sites and video search engines has became the host for a plethora of online music videos both user-generated as well professionally produced. Besides this, these days there are many video info sites that have introduced the concepts like “vote-up”. The concept of vote up or down helps in knowing the popularity of the particular music video.

Online video websites beyond doubt has certainly brought an extraordinary video thrill across the web world. Indeed, one’s personal collection of various music videos seems to be the hottest obsession of internet users, especially among the younger generation.

Why collecting online videos are getting popular?

One of the major reasons is that one can keep a particular video in his or her own personal media collection. This has helped avid music fans who like to keep copies of music videos.

Another key reason for its growing popularity is now people need not have to wait for the music VJ to play their particular song. Besides this, you need not have to wait for long hours to watch your favorite artists perform or pass the time for your favorite music video to appear on the screen. Once you collect video, you have the convenience of watching the music video clips anywhere and anytime. With various video info websites, you have many advantages to enjoy online.

How to collect online videos?

Today the process of collecting music videos is very simple. These social video info sites offer the best way for you to collect your videos and share them with your social circle. It provides you with a personal channel where you can embed the music videos you have found on the web. By embedding those videos you make them viewable and remotely locate media files wherever and whenever you choose.

Collecting online music videos are nothing more than collections of hyperlinks pointing to music files located on websites throughout the Internet. Video websites generally permits you to stream the data in those music files you have found so that you can listen to the music contained in those files. When you press the “play button” associated with a hyperlink on any video info websites, the remote server hosting the song directly begins to stream the data that further allows you to hear and view the song.

No wonder the digital music revolution caused by best free online music sites has made the breaking news in technology news bulletin these days. The entire internet has turned into hot platform where you can view songs online with a few clicks of the mouse in just few seconds.

Os Commerce development in India is one amongst the most pivotal and most technically better-quality creations of the web designing and development sector. To be more easy and precise, Os commerce is basically an online stock up management and e-commerce program based software that is easily operatable on all the categories of the web browsers that are incorporated with PHP and MySql programs. The software can be easily downloaded through the internet and work in co-ordination with any sort of system. The program is the best option for the entire requirement’s of the online traders and other online businesses. Besides these online trading the functionality of this software can also be modified according to the specific demands of the client, which refers to the process of Os Commerce customization, in the web industry.  All in all this customization process, with the help of its tools has made online trading much simplified and convenient.

Os commerce is an abbreviated form to the term “open source commerce”. It is quite a new process in the e-commerce arena. However, both literally and functionally it is mainly in accordance with the term e-commerce only. It is simply a web shop type of a web program. It can be accessed by one and all users of the internet technology. It is an application of e-commerce that is open to one and all on the internet but mainly used by the customers who are engaged in the online commerce and development. Nowadays there are many online Os commerce customization companies. You can easily get the information on all these companies by just making a single click on the internet browser. Afterwards, you can simply hire the company that sounds most viable to you. These organizations offer excellent and outstanding Os commerce facilities to their client’s.

Zen cart is amongst one of the most significant and technically innovative application of Os commerce development process. It can be easily defined as a web program for online store management system. All the Zen cart processes work in co-ordination with the PHP, MySql and HTML angle bracket components, similar to the Os Commerce development processes. The process of Zen cart customization is simply a task to modify the Zen cart program as per the needs and requirements of the client’s. The Zen cart processes have gained a wide popularity in the web development industry in India and many international clients are outsourcing their web processes and requirements through Indian web companies.

Music scores remain one of the best ways to record or share many musical ideas. If you’ve done even casual notation, you’ve likely had the experience of scrawling something down on a scrap piece of paper, manuscript or otherwise.

Imagine, instead, quickly scrawling something in the now-ubiquitous web browser window.

Gregory Dyke writes with a notation project he’s built with Paul Rosen; he says that it’s further along in its development than the notation project we saw last week. As before, it employs JavaScript and HTML5, and the Canvas element SVG support, rendering quickly in any modern browser right inside a web page. (Correction: it’s SVG, not Canvas, that makes this work, thanks to the raphaeljs library.)

Abcjs is an open source parsing and rendering tool for ABC written entirely in javascript, so it allows sheet music to be rendered as both standard notation and MIDI entirely with the browser.

Here are a couple ways to use this:

For rendering any ABC notation found on a web page as standard notation,
see http://drawthedots.com/abcjs

For a free on-line editor and tune storage website, see
http://drawthedots.com

Enjoy! And we’d appreciate feedback of all kinds.

Notes:
1) ABC 1.6 is mostly done, and many parts of ABC 2.0 are supported. We are actively working on improving the rendering.

2) We know that the rendering in IE is not as pretty as Firefox, Safari, and Chrome, but we’re working it!

Here, the ABC notation format is a standard, so you can simply type in or copy and paste any ABC-encoded text and render it right away.

It looks ideal for dropping musical excerpts or examples into a page, but this project even in its early stage offers another idea: why not quickly type in your notes in simple text characters, then store and share that score with others? There’s even instant music rendering.

Simple, lightweight examples do have a way of opening the door to more technically-involved discussions, and this is no exception.

ABC is nifty and easy, but it isn’t capable of representing more sophisticated scores in the way that the free Lilypond format is. I noted last week that Lilypond is nonetheless readable and easy for basic entry, even as it adds sophisticated features with a little more work. I think even having a web window with ABC is nice enough, and it should be possible to go from the simpler format (ABC) to other, more complex formats (MusicXML or Lilypond). But this question of how to interchange files remains one of interest. After the post last week, the project we saw spawned a long discussion in its blog’s comments on how interchange might work. Greg, for his part, concedes that “abc is quite powerful, but stops at complex multivoice scores where voices move across staves (simple multivoice and multistave is possible).” That could make putting Lilypond in the browser a useful activity, and since it is possible to go from MusicXML to Lilypond, it should enable MusicXML, as well.

As with sound synthesis, putting notation in the browser demonstrates how both the “desktop” app and the “browser” app can differentiate themselves. The browser focuses on quick, simple entry and sharing. The desktop app remains the tool for connecting to MIDI hardware, performing more sophisticated entry and layout, and project management. Far from competing, each gives the other greater purpose and a clearer sense of how the two design approaches can differ. Because a Web rendering engine like WebKit is also embeddable, the line doesn’t even need to be absolutely clear. I can imagine, for instance, Lilypond editors that use WebKit for lower-quality, real-time notation previews, prior to doing a full Lilypond render in PDF. (There are real-time PDF rendering libraries like Cairo, too, so I have no idea whether that makes sense, but the array of options open to developers is nonetheless expanded.)

The project is free and open, so let us know if you modify it somehow. (JavaScript-controlled, 3D-produced generative scores, perhaps?)

http://code.google.com/p/abcjs/

Updated: Gregory replies with an email, and it was useful enough to me that I’m reprinting it in full. He notes most importantly that ABCjs is capable of more sophisticated rendering than seen here, even if it doesn’t yet do as much as, say, the Lilypond renderer does.

Thanks a lot. You’re spot on with the note taking idea – I wonder whether this would be a good way to create a mobile browser app – still runs a bit slow on mobile safari though – about 8seconds for rendering on my 3g. Nice to see you discuss abcjs as a full blog post.

Just a note: we don’t use canvas, but svg, using raphaeljs to bridge across browsers.

In hindsight, we should probably put a more sophisticated example on the landing page. For example, the tunes below render quite nicely (although not with complete midi playback). We should probably finds ourselves a demo score which runs the whole gamut of several voices, ornamentation, chords, guitar chords, dynamics, etc.

Thanks again for the heads up

Greg

X:3
T: TEST: Erev Ba % —
C: from Israel
M: C|
L: 1/4
K:G
V:1
“G”dgf g/b/ | “Am”a3z | “D7″ab c’/d’/ b | “G”b3z | dgf g/b/ | “Am”a3z |
“D7″ab c’/d’/ b | “B7″b3z | “C”ceg>g | f/g/f/e/ e2 | “Am”Ace>e | “D”d>c B/A/G/F/ |
“Em”G2 E2 | “Am”A2 “D7″A/B/ G | (“G”G4|G2) z2 | dgf g/b/ | “Am”a3z |
“D7″ab c’/d’/ b | “G”b3z | dgf g/b/ | “Am”a3z | “D7″ab c’/d’/ b | “B7″b3z |
“C”ceg>g | f/g/ f/e/ e2 | “Am”Ace>e | “D”d>c B/A/G/F/ | “Em”G2 E2 | “Am”A2 “D7″A/B/ G |
“G”G>A B c/A/ | “G7″d>e =f/d/B/A/ [K:C] ||”C”G2z2| “Dm7″d/e/f/e/ d/c/B/A/ |\
“G7″G2z2 | “C”z/ G/c/B/ c/d/e/f/ |
g g/a/ g2 | “Dm7″f/g/a/g/ f/e/d/c/ | “G7″B/c/d/c/ B/A/ G| “E”^G>B e/d/c/B/|\
“F”c2 a>a | g/a/g/f/ .f .e |
“Dm”d2f>f | “G”e>d c/B/A/B/ | “Am”c/d/c/B/ A/G/F/E/ | “Dm”D/E/F/D/ “G7″G A/B/ |\
“C”c3 e| .g.a.g e/d/ |
GcBc/e/ | “Dm7″d3z | “G7″def/g/e| “C”e3z | GcBc/e/ | “Dm7″d3z |
“G7″def/g/e| “E”e3z | “F”FAc>c| B/c/B/A/ A2| “Dm”DFA>A| “G”G>F E/D/C/E/ |
“Am”c2A2 | “Dm”d2 “G7″d/e/c | (“C”c4|”Dm”c2) “G7″d/e/c| (“C”c4| c2) z2 |]
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V:2 gch=0
“G”z4 | “Am”z4 | “D7″z4 | “G”z4 | z4 | “Am”z4 |
“D7″z4 | “B7″z4 | “C”z4 | z4 | “Am”z4 | “D”z4 |
“Em”G2Bd | “Am”c2 “D7″c/d/ B | “G”B>ABd | B>A G/A/ B| d2 z2 | “Am”A/B/c/B/ A/G/F/E/ |
“D7″D2 z2 | “G”z/D/G/F/ G/A/B/c/ | d d/e/ d2| “Am”c/d/e/d/ c/B/A/G/ |\
“D7″F/G/A/G/ F/E/D/C/ | “B7″^D/B,/D/F/ B/A/G/F/ |
“C”c2 e>e | d/e/d/c/ cB| “Am”A2 c>c| “D”B>A G/F/E/F/ |\
“Em”G/A/G/F/ E/D/C/E/ | “Am”A/B/c/^c/ “D7″d e/f/ |
(“G”g4|”G7″g2)z2 [K:C] || “C”GcB c/e/ | “Dm7″d3z | “G7″de f/g/ e| “C”e3z |
GcB c/e/ | “Dm7″d3z | “G7″de f/g/ e| “E”e3z | “F”FAc>c | B/c/B/A/ Az |
“Dm”DFA>A | “G”G>F E/D/C/D/ | “Am”c2 A2 | “Dm”d2 “G7″d/e/c | (“C”c4|c2) z2 |
Gede/g/ | “Dm7″f>e f/e/d/c/ | “G7″Bcd/e/c| “C”c c/B/ c/B/c/d/ |\
e e/f/ ee | “Dm7″f>e f/e/d/c/ |
“G7″Bc d/e/ c | “E”B>A ^G/A/B/G/ | “F”F2 A2 | c2 FE | “Dm”D2 F2 | “G”B2 e2|
“Am”e2c2 | “Dm”f2 “G7″f/g/ e | (“C”e4| “Dm”e2) “G7″f/g/ e | (“C”e4|e2) z2 |]

The mobile question is especially interesting to me; it may be that you need non-JavaScript, “native” SVG libraries, but porting that shouldn’t be impossible either way. I’d love to have a mobile Android sketchpad, especially since my Droid has a keyboard. I’ll look into some testing.

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