We’ll Do it Live:Real Time and Motion
PETER KIRNcreatedigitalmotion.comcreatedigitalmusic.com
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music
motion
Rendering
Words
Production
• Workflow• “Pro”• Industry• Publish• Export• Distribution• Content
Performance
• Live• Toys, Play• Real-time• Jam• Improvisation• Ephemeral• Party
The two cultures
Composition, improvisation
Technology: What’s in a knob?
Live Visuals: The Beginning
Live visualadvancesare precededby projectionadvances.
SCENES:Color organ
FuturistsAcid tests
WarholNam Jun Paik
interactivity:Myron Krueger
Intel OpenCV
motion is input
Dawn of Modern Visualism
• Live remix / mash-up• Emergency Broadcast Network, Coldcut• Demoscene (code)• Circuit bending, DIY electronics (wires)• Interactive scene (patching)• VJ/club scene• Games + 3D
Today’s tools: VJ apps
• Early predecessors: VJAMM, Motion Dive• Vidvox vdmx (Mac)• Resolume Avenue 3• Arkaos GrandVJ• Livid Union• Modul8
generatorsignal
control
Hardware: a transition?
• Edirol V-4 / V-8• Vixid, http://vixid.noisepages.com• Effects units• The end of TV out• A DIY future?
Today’s tools: DIY apps
• Onyx VJ (Flash/AIR)• Max/MSP/Jitter (commercial)• Apple Quartz Composer• Pd/GEM/pidip• Processing (processing.org)• vvvv (free-ish)
wiringgenerativeinteractive
actionpainting?
The future
• Projection + surface• 3D• Data• Convergence
Visualization
Screens, speakers, spaceand the Magic Lantern