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abertura3 » *spark/d-fuse noodle

abertura was the first time i really got to throw myself into a ‘particle-esque’ performance, using the d-fuse content with the live setup i’d created. as a warm-up for são paulo, it was a great one: the music and visuals really came together to give an intense show in the relatively small space of abertura’s hall, it really gave me a confidence boost.

i captured five minutes worth from abertura’s documentary footage, and its on vimeo here: http://vimeo.com/5731407

diary | 19 jul 2009 | tagged: quartz composer · particle · dfuse · *spark · vj · abertura · vdmx · live cinema

abertura3 » where live transcends the media

herein lies a little story. when i met ilan a few years ago, it was obvious he was a good type doing good stuff. he handed me a dvd of one of his main projects, and some time later back at home, relaxing of an evening, i found it and put it on. shall we just say that thrash metal with eye-bending visuals wasn’t the right thing for that moment, and to my taste, i couldn’t imagine a moment when it would be. but the world is diverse, it was a product of love, and so we move on.

so there i am at abertura actually experiencing lance blisters live, and am loving every minute of it. the disconnect between those two is the answer, often asked, of why i bother trying to do all this in realtime, as performance. to tease that disconnect out into words is a tricky thing though, and probably impossible for exactly the same reasons: the media != the experience, whether samples, video or text.

diary | 19 jul 2009 | tagged: vj · abertura

abertura3 » 'fisheye' web annotation

unrelated to visuals but very much in the real media world there was a really interesting project shown at abertura, a ‘such an obvious idea why hasn’t this happened already’ project called fisheye. simply, if you install the browser plug-in, you gain annotations that people have written about the webpages you visit. pair this with a well structured critique taxonomy, and you have a powerful media criticism tool. photo is geoff, the developer, giving us the tour.

Fisheye is a media hacking tool which allows criticism of web pages. Links to criticism are embedded like footnotes and visible to other Fisheye users who visit the page.

One goal is to take all the great media criticism scattered across the web and index it in a single place - the story being criticized. Links are tied to specific text and color-coded by type. At a glance, you can see what types of problems people have identified with the story.

http://fisheye.ffem.org/

diary | 19 jul 2009 | tagged: vj · abertura

abertura3 » taxi home, taxi airport, hello lisboa

stay till end of electrovision, pick up triplehead lent for last set, taxi home, pack bag for two weeks in brasil, taxi to airport, take off 6am bound for lisbon.

flying to brasil is good: you can stop over in lisbon. stopping off in lisbon is even better if the lovely ana and elsa have organised abertura3 around the same time.

and so it was a really good day of old friends, new faces, climbing ladders, beer at lunch, sleep deprived siesta afterwards, not to mention quite some noodling of visuals.

diary | 19 jul 2009 | tagged: vj · abertura