vdmo Kstati

Quick news update. Pure Dyne Leek and Potato release release from the 6th of January.
(CD/DVD ISO, liveUSB, Debian packages, etc)

pure:dyne is an operating system developed to provide media artists with a complete set of tools for realtime audio and video processing. pure:dyne is a live distribution, you don’t need to install anything. Simply boot your computer using the live CD and you’re ready to start using software such as Pure Data, Supercollider, Icecast, Csound, Fluxus, Processing, and much much more.

Download Now:
https://code.goto10.org/projects/puredyne/wiki/GetPureDyne

Before I proceed with this post, I would like to put a few acknowledgements and small history path of events that have lead me onto this exploration. Just over a month ago, I have come across Animata – open source real-time animation software, designed to create animations, interactive background projections for concerts, theatre and dance performances. My excitement of discovery lead me to share the news with my good friends at Create Digital Motion (Peter Kirn and Jaymis Loveday) who have followed up with 3D Animation, Made Real-Time: Open-Source Animata for Mac, Windows post. That same CDM post was shortly found by Michael Forrest who blogged about that discovery on his Homebrew Adventures post as seen below.

Sometimes the software you can buy isn’t enough. I spent a few years playing in bands and always wanted to use samples to bring some more life into the sound. But it always felt so disembodied and strange to have sounds coming from nowhere when it was obvious what was coming from the guitars or drums. So I conceived this idea of a ‘virtual band’. This would give form to the weird and wonderful sounds possible through audio synthesis and processing, and could inject a lot of interest into live performances. Over the years I have tried to realise this vision in many different ways. I’ve created models with Poser and 3DS Max, I’ve written MIDI responsive software in Director, I’ve made sample players in Flash, but there was always too much latency, or 3D modelling, or rendering or… well … non-realtime problems, and I always ended up putting the idea on the back burner. Then, a couple of weeks ago, Create Digital Motion blogged about Animata. An open source animation tool with a really simple concept at its core, and the ability to do exactly what I’ve wanted to do all these years, with a fast workflow, flexibly, and in realtime. So I got to work.

What has followed from this development I have recently found by stumbling upon Michael Forrest blog via Animata Mailing List. Continue reading »

Happy 2009 Everyone!

Well I surely hope that most of you had a lovely time over this festive season and your new years resolution are starting to turn wheels.
This year is a mark of starting something new for me.  This week I have marked upon making a permanent move to Cairns in North Queensland.   Somewhat of a long time coming as I had it playing on my mind for close to 2 years, now it finally came true.   The environment is much better suited from both culturally and spiritual aspects of being here, very well established and progressive electronic scene (which I feel I have become a part of), amazing people, beautiful  surroundings among other very worthwhile reasons which all gave me green lights ahead to finally DO it.

My arrival here coincided with performance at NYE festival called : Infinity & Beyond. Wow and what festival it was. The location was chosen up at Atherton Tableland by Mungalli Falls with established dorm rooms and apartment buildings and other infrustructure which provided to be so useful as mother nature had some other ideas in mind.

As we arrived to the site to the ongoing rain, you left but wonder of the commitment and dedication of people involved in the event.  A bit after myself, Suspect made our way to the stages and were in preparation for our upcoming sets. I came down and have set up equipment and began organising the vision to the projector which after short period of time was running like clockwork.

The first part of the set was alongside dropbear and its always an enjoyable experience as we compliment each other styles and techniques and provide for an interesting combo if visuals that go with the music. After midnight I went of for another 3 hours playing to variety of progressive and psy sounds.
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