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Diaryyou never quite know whats going to take flight at a festival, and suffice to say nobody had heard of million way but they blew the festival apart. not sure it would work at home, but live nobody could resist their groove.
you never quite know whats going to take flight at a festival, and suffice to say nobody had heard of million way but they blew the festival apart. not sure it would work at home, but live nobody could resist their groove.
diary | 21 jul 2012 | tagged: photo · adventures · sheep music
back to the wilds of radnorshire for sheep music, the home festival of friend louis. thankfully, this time it almost didn’t get washed away, and its charm shone. one field, with one of everything that a festival needs; everything done to a standard, probably by your village neighbour.
and where else could the backstage you have access to be that of the tea tent, complete with a fridge suitable for storing a car boot load of prosecco to share amongst friends.
diary | 21 jul 2012 | tagged: adventures · sheep music
new übercool project courtesy of sheep music’s archive of visuals equipment: grass valley controller to be turned into a midi/usb interface. so thats the buttons and lamps of high-end 80’s broadcast tech (not to mention the death star itself) but attached to the current state of the art in the form of a laptop with vdmx rather than its crate of obsolete analogue electronics. best of all, the connector isn’t some serial device we’d need to decode, its just an array of all the switches contacts etc, perfect for plugging straight into diy controller electronics like arduino or midibox.
diary | 24 jul 2007 | tagged: vj · i/o · sheep music
…and, quite spectacularly, the weather reverts to the stunning form it was on when we arrived, a week or so earlier.
striking the site. packing up mud covered equipment: urgh. thought of separating them later: double urgh.
…bunch of virtuosos that they are. and always good to catch up with old friends, harking back to uni days.
the destroyers, despite turning back once already, arrive and truly storm it…
“the committee” declare we can continue. and so we do. strange when a festival almost gets cancelled.
diary | 21 jul 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · sheep music
things that are kinda cool, but only once you’ve done them and never again -
#745 : approached the house with wifi in the garden, to find the road had turned into a half-foot deep river. nonetheless, cycle down it replete with laptop on back.
diary | 21 jul 2007 | tagged: vj · vdmx · sheep music
the latest visuals technology development to come off the *spark anvil is a mac-native titler application, made by wrapping a quartz composer patch with some fullscreen code and interface builder bindings. props to roger bolton of quartonian for the guts of the fullscreen xcode project, shared under gpl so expect to see the titler soon once it’s been tidied up.
truly came into its own during the ups and downs of the first day of the festival, where a huge rainfall threatened to wash away half the site. we could upload videos and images taken moments before, and pun the titles out till they got beyond baaaaaaaad. ‘shave yourself’ still my favourite.
diary | 20 jul 2007 | tagged: quartz composer · titler · vj · sheep music · code · mac os
perfect country evening: the mustills plus us lot head over the hill to the next village, mountain bikers joined by the electric bike brigade. sunset, beer outside, descents against the star lit sky. perfection.
not as in conserve, mind you. when careering around the wonderful hills round here on the beloved clockwork orange, you have to watch out for sheep traffic jams
diary | 17 jul 2007 | tagged: errata of life · sheep music | downloads: sheep-biketuesday.jpg
in the welsh borders, riding mountain bikes and playing with live broadcast style visuals with the peeps from sheep music. turns out tho’ - or rather, a curious by-product of animating their logo - that their long held assumption that the sheep is strumming a guitar is quite wrong…
diary | 16 jul 2007 | tagged: vj · sheep music
