Resonance Ghent Review

by pixelpusher on Saturday 7 March 2009
[Blog, Visuals, images, video]

Resonance Livecoding with Gabor and PixelPusher, photo by Dave Griffiths

Resonance Ghent invited a group of livecoders, audio and visual to perform livecoding all day in the delightful little gallery Espace Ladda, next to the Vooruit cutlural center, in the center of town. As a piece of what can almost be described as “productive performance art” we sat in a tight circle of laptops enmeshed with projectors and surrounded by projection screens, grinding out audio and visuals from live software coding. Interested people wandered around us, and occasionally asked what we were doing, sparking off some pleasant conversations about all things art, code, visual, and audio.

The Resonance festival as seen by Spin Magazine (video).

Photos from Bram De Jong.

Dave Griffith’s blog recap of Resonance (with pics)

Read On for More about the festival…

Noise Spears Processing Sketch

by pixelpusher on Friday 26 September 2008
[Blog, Software, images]

This is my suped-up version of the old flight404 and toxi Processing sketch - it uses Perlin noise to create a moving field of very organic-looking daggers.  toxi used it for hairs, and now I made an intricate version that uses 3D daggers drawn using OpenGL.

Noise Spears - PixelPusher (after toxi and flight404)

Read on for more plus source code

Immersion Wrap-up 7 Aug 2008

by pixelpusher on Monday 15 September 2008
[Visuals, images, video]

Thanks to all who packed in The Flea Pit to hear and see the last Immersion night.  Alias had his Immersion pixelist debut during Dr. No’s and Straight’s rather laid-back sets.  I rolled out my new Jellotail live drawing software during Michael Santos’s richly textured tones and got so immersed in the performance that I forgot to change visuals.  Special gues VJ and VJ Loops impresario Kyle Lyons was in from Spain to provide some visual cover to the machine gun synths of Jamka, while Dr. Mo accompanied the very danceable beats of Manchester’s MOQ.  Somehow, though, it was slub who brought the house down at the end with their autonomous-robot-drum-machine-livecoding-textual-based-computer-sound-madness culminating in crashing (or at least shutting down in a not-so-safe manner) all their laptops at the apex of their sonic madness.

Thanks to all who came, and those who performed! Definitely one of my favorite Immersion nights.

beardos at Area10 MediaLab

by pixelpusher on Sunday 20 April 2008
[Visuals, images, video]

The Beardos at Re:Boot at Peckham’s Area10 Medialab launch party. Read on for images and video and more

Area10 Media Lab Gig

by pixelpusher on Sunday 13 April 2008
[Blog, images]

the beardos

Originally uploaded by yaxu

Yaxu (Alex McLean of http://lurk.org) captured this great shot from Area 10 Medialab launch gig this weekend. I have a nice hi-res video of the event, plus some of the other performances, which I’ll upload soon. I also have some great audio and video (audio straight from the soundboard, really clean and clear as a mountain spring) from the last Immersion that I’ve been meaning to post. My computer had a Quicktime meltdown, but is back in fine working shape again and ready to spend hours rendering quality video once more.

UPDATE: Oli (yesyesnono.com) has some more photos

Some video and more can be found here