We’ll Do it Live:Real Time and Motion

PETER KIRNcreatedigitalmotion.comcreatedigitalmusic.com

Create Digital … Stuff?

music | motionvs.

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

peter@createdigitalmotion.com