We’ve been riotously busy doing visuals for the chiptunes scene, now finishing off this week in Philly for 8static.

Music by gwEm, Bubblyfish, Natty, and Gopherboy
Visuals for Natty and Bubblyfish by outpt + Paris

What you missed:
Sunday: “Fade to Fall” & “Seasonal Affective” release party

Music by Bubblyfish, Natty, Gopherboy, and Go Motion with guests Ary, Greenleaf, and Starscream
Visuals by outpt + Paris

Monday: Anamanaguchi “Dawn Metropolis” release party

Music by Anamanaguchi, Casio Kids, The New Wine, Kittens Ablaze
Visuals for Anamanaguchi by outpt + Paris

Wednesday: by DVD proxy, Paris and I did the visuals for Nullsleep for the Datapop 2009 party at SXSW. I will be cutting a video from some of that footage, and will post it eventually. :)

Another weekend of chip, this time in Philly! Paris and I will be spinning pixels for Nullsleep and Peter Swimm at 8static this Saturday. There will be some more gp2x action, including some new tricks up our sleeves.

Tomorrow, Paris and I join forces again for the first time since BlipFest to make the pixels all night long. This time, I’ve done some coding for the gp2x, so I’ll dropping some math of my own.
Pulsewave at The Tank
354 West 45th Street
doors at 9pm

If you haven’t made it out to Blip Fest yet, you’re missing out! I’ve been VJing with Paris for some of his sets, and the one we played with Nullsleep last night was epic. I’ll be back tonight for a 3 way VJ mix for the very last set, Trash-80.

As my visuals project has evolved, I’ve named each version after the event I was working towards. Last week, hopeSYSTM gave way to aeroSYSTM.

vade and I played like rockstars with the amazing and lovely Aerostatic for last Friday’s Eyewash. Back in 2007, Anton did a music video for one of their songs which had some footage of me in it. For the performance, we played a live remix of Funck, and it was fun taking a more active role this time around.

After the frustration of the first interface written in Processing, I ported it to Max 5. I’ve always grumbled about learning Max, but all of the niceties of the interface widgets made my life so much easier. Yay for bona fide buttons, sliders, and knobs.

old:

new:

I’m very partial to code that looks like code (that is, text editor windows full of text) in general, but breaking with habit saved me a lot of frustration. In Max, I worked faster, was better able to tweak values and placements, and had fewer bugs when duplicating and reconnecting sections (very nice when the only visible text is the params that have to be changed for each control).

I’ve come a long way since I first tried Max in 2006 and refused to wrap my head around it. So far, I have the interface and OSC communication working really well, so my next job is to fix some of the mess in the effects code and build more of them.

PS: I had to look up the Eyewash URL, and googling “eyewash monkeytown” brought up this photo from when Anton played there in July 2007. That’s me in the middle with my pink tipped hair and odd shirt. :)

My debut as outpt playing at HOPE went really well. :) After some eleventh hour efforts to write the controller, it went off without a hitch and I had an excellent time jamming with Anton and Paris. The next step is to squash the bug in the assembler code effect, rewrite the controller using Mrmr, and find out just how much I can add to it before Processing bursts into flames.

Some video shot that night:

Music @ the Last HOPE from Collin Cunningham on Vimeo.

And some new captured footage straight off the screen.

SYSTM (music: Plaid - Assault on Precinct Zero) from outpt on Vimeo.

This weekend is the last HOPE, the hackers conference at Hotel Pennsylvania. Tonight is my debut as a visualist playing a set with Anton and also mixing with Paris. I’ve written two brand new Processing sketches for the occasion to munge and visualize some UNIX kernel code.