vinyl+ is an interactive project by designer jonas bohatsch which explores expanded timecode vinyl. the project uses visual and interactive elements to take turntable DJing to a new level. the design works by sending the turntables rotational speed and needle position to a processing sketch on a computer.
this sketch projects the corresponding visuals onto the vinyl record on the turntable. as the user speeds up and slows down the record, the visuals and the sounds are affected. users can scratch the record, speed it up or slow it down, eve repositioning the needle. the visuals are affected by the speed of the record, changing colour and form accordingly.
In the early 1960s digital computers became available to artists for the first time (although they cost from $100.000 to several millions, required air conditioning, and therefore located in separate computer rooms, uninhabitable studios; programs and data had to be prepared with the keypunch, punch cards then fed into the computer; systems were not interactive and could produce only still images).
The output medium was usually a pen plotter, microfilm plotter (hybrid bwn vector CRT and a raster image device), line printer or an alphanumeric printout, which was then manually transferred into a visual medium.
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SILICA-ESC is a generative movie that portrays possible computing platform for the future. The story takes place in Singapore, where the decision about massive production of the new computing platform – SILICA-ESC is about to be made. The protagonists challenge the emerging supercomputer with issues like: class segregations, rules of art making, and spirituality. These questions seem like they are very important for the future developments of the global IT sector. Also, they are considered to be the most difficult ones and challenging for the super computer. But, SILICA-ESC responds with ease. By emitting audio, visual and scent impulses, she mesmerizes her first public users.
The movie is created by writing code and designing a software environment, which can generate high number of variations and visual material in short periods of time. All the visual material is generated by working with computer language Processing.
While doing this movie, the author worked with a variety of supercomputer clusters and High Performance Computing systems consisting of high number of processors. This movie remixes works of Jean Luc Godard (Weekend), Velimir Khlebnikov (Radio of the Future), Fyodor Dostoyevsky(Notes from the Underground), and Caspar David Friedrich(artist’s quotes).
Step-sequencer is the spinal of many of today’s musical evolution. The Lego Step-sequencer is 3 channels 8 steps sequencer. The different coloured Lego pieces each have their own sound. Connecting the Lego three-dimensional makes complex sound. This is building sound more than playing sound.
Der elektronische Reporter erläutert, wie die Technologie der erweiterten Wahrnehmung zukünftig unser aller Leben verbessern könnte. Vermutlich aber eher in die Hölle auf Erden verwandeln wird. Wohl eine Frage der Interpretation… Entscheide selbst.
The SynPad is a position sensitive midi drum pad that you can build yourself using simple materials and tools for around 50 UK pounds (depending on what materials you already have, and how many pads you want to make.) The idea is to produce a pad which can detect where on the pad you have hit it as well as how hard, so that the synth it is driving can change the sound continuously according to the x and y coordinates of the strike.
