The music cannot be released (legal dispute with EMI) so fans can download the music P2P and burn it to the CD-R.
The album can also be streamed in full from NPR.
This video was filmed in one take, with audio being recorded simultaneously with the film. The video features Nyle and is produced by Last Pictures and 194 Recordings.
“The goal: Make a night-time cityscape using nothing but procedurally generated content.”
If you are standing on the Moon, and holding a rock, and you let it go, it will:
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My Art and Code overview continues… (See: Part I & Part II)
The toolkit presentations continued after lunch.
I’ve written about Processing here before. It is still my goto tool for visual coding.
Jotted Down:
Fry, Reas, Shiffman, and Greenberg all in one room.
Should the concept of literacy be expanded to include programming fluency.
Max / MSP / Jitter is a graphical programming environment for music, audio and media. A patcher based languages that shares roots with Pd which was demoed in the morning.
Jotted Down:
I guess I’m a FLOSS snob; although this environment looks much more polished than Pd, I gave it less attention because it’s a commercial product. (There’s a 30-day trail version, but the full bundle costs $699 USD.)
Reminder to check out the work of Michael Joaquin Grey, especially Recapitulate: Retrace, Erase, Repeat which uses Goya’s The Disasters of War etchings as source fodder.
Also, check out Hello World, The Song (in Max/MSP)
Vvvv is a video-synthesis toolkit. The programming interface is similar to the patch-base language we’ve already seen (Pd and Max/MSP), graphical function-blocks connected with wires. For a more detailed look read Ctrl+B For Concurrency.
Of the visual languages presented at the conference, vvvv is the only one I downloaded and experimented with. Oh I do wish for infinite time to play with all these wonderful tools.
Jotted Down
Read the vvvv licensing page, commercial vs. non-commercial uses.
This language doesn’t contain any explicit looping structures.
Nerdy VJs would go wild for this.
And then we had a cookie break.
A number of Adobe products (Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffects) contain an implementation of Javascript (called Extendscript) which can be used to programmatically control (and potentially abuse) these products.
Jotted Down
Reminder to check out In the Mod.
openFrameworks is a C++ library for creative coding. It was described as a glue languages wrapping together several commonly-used open-source multimedia libraries. Minimal Design: There are very few classes, and inside of those classes, there are very few functions.
Jotted Down
Looks fast! Might lend itself nicely to augmented reality projects.
The Dorkbot Pecha Kucha at the Brillobox was fun. I presented early having greatly under-estimated the length of my presentation. The 10 minutes were over quickly, and I fear my last few minutes were a muddle.
Delicious beers were consumed. I chatted with some wonderful people.
Floating-Lightbulb of the night, bringing Jonathan Brodsky idea of coding competitions to RRC.
Panel discussions, CODE and FORM at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, pizza and beers with some interesting folks, and then a cab ride to the airport and home again home.
John Conway (of Game of Life fame) is currently presenting a series of public lectures at Princeton to explain his work with Simon Kochen on the free will of elementary particles.
They assert, roughly, “that if indeed we humans have free will, then elementary particles already have their own small share of this valuable commodity. [… A] particle’s response [to human intervention] (to be pedantic—the universe’s response near the particle) is not determined by the entire previous history of the universe.”
For the Mathematicians and Physicists: The Free Will Theorem
