Tag Archive for 'pure data'

BiLE Business

Published on 19/01/2012 in Events. 0 Comments Tags: bile, network music festival, NMF, Performance, pure data.

The world of BiLE is a busy one recently! On January 3rd we were featured in an article in the Financial Times about Laptop Orchestra’s

Read the interview here

Thanks to Alex Newman for writing the article. The article also makes reference to Network Music Festival, which is taking place in from 27-29th January in various locations around Birmingham.

The festival will featrue performances, workshops and lectures from national and international laptop ensembles and performers including Benoît and the Mandelbrots – we both performed at Laptops Meet Musicians Festival in Venice last year – and BiLE

Local journalist Ross Cotton interviewed BiLE ahead of our performance next week:

With elements of both art and music within their sound, BiLE fuse together two creative outlets and present their experiments through performance.

“It’s very much a musical background that we all come from, and I think that translates into the approach that we take” says Iain.

[...]

“We’re more about exploring other avenues alongside the other things that we are doing. But the stuff that we’re doing in BiLE is definitely influencing my other compositions. Working with a group of composers with other ideas just opens your eyes to other avenues.”

“We are always trying to create interesting music”, says fellow member Chris.

“We’re not about technical fetishes or using technology for the sake of it, we are just using technology as a way of enabling us to do interesting and new things.

“The technology is much more of an enabling factor, rather than a necessity. It’s about new ways of expression, rather than genre-based roots”, he says.

Full interview is available here

BiLE will be performing XYZ and will be premiering Laptopera. In terms of visuals, for this performance I wanted to move away from using pre-recorded videos and instead use purely generative visuals. This required me to learn a lot about using particles in GEM – [part_head], [part_velocity] etc. Here’s a preview of the results for XYZ and Laptopera.

It still needs a bit of work, but it’s coming along nicely!

Tickets for Network Music Festival can be bought from the website and costs from £8 for day tickets to £25 for a weekend pass.

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Making Skin Cells

Published on 25/09/2011 in Tutorials. 0 Comments Tags: glitch, patches, pd, portrait, pure data, skin.

The making of Skin Cells was quite a long process. It started projecting my Bunnies video onto me and filming this. I then took this and ran it through the What Glitch? sgi script to create a glitched version of the video, leaving me with two versions of the video.

When it came to merging the two videos together I took some inspiration from Tidepool by Tabor Robak. Putting the videos on top of each other I wanted to use chromakeying to reveal parts of the video at the bottom at the same time as really oversaturating the video. For this I employed the help of Pure Data:

By using [pix_chroma_key] and setting the [range( to random values the patch was constantly hiding and revealing random parts of the videos. Some wizardry in Gridflow gave the videos that oversaturated look.

If you want to try this patch for yourself go ahead and download it. Although it may work on other setups, I used the following:

Ubuntu 11.04
Pure Data Extended 0.42.5
Gridflow 9.13

To use the patch, first load a directory of videos, create the GEM window and then press the big red start button. A video is automatically saved (using PDP), though do be careful as these files get very large very quickly! If, for any reason, saving the video doesn't work just delete the line going from [#from_pix, colorspace rgb] to [#to_pdp].

If any assistance is required please direct your attention to this thread on the Pure Data forum.

GLI.TC/H 2011 – This website does not supply identity information

Published on 25/09/2011 in Art. 0 Comments Tags: gli.tc/h, glidottcslashh, glitch, no otters, pd, pure data.

My bumper for GLI.TC/H 2011. Download the Pure Data patch that made this and make your own!

Discuss it with others on the Pure Data forum.

.our_name/website {
GLI.TC/H
gli.tc/h
}
.theDates {
Chicago_USA: Nov 4-6 2011;
Amsterdam_NL: Nov 11-12 2011;
Birmingham_UK: Nov 19 2011;
}

I’ve also recently started making diagrams of my Pure Data patches. I hope they go some way to helping people learn Pure Data

Pretty pictures

The face game

Published on 07/04/2010 in Blog. 2 Comments Tags: animata, face, pd, pure data.

I’m working on a live performance that in some ways will incorporate glitch and perhaps animation. This is one step towards getting a finished performance down, but also a bit of fun.