Blipfestival is dedicated to music generated by 80ies game consoles. Every year a crowd of music lovers and/or nerds comes together to bend the circuits of 8bit toys. This years edition took place in NY from Nov.29 till Dec.2.

for more info check:
blipfestival.org
www.8bitpeoples.com

artists:
BitShifter / Sabrepulse / 8GB / Virt / Bodenständig 2000 / and many more

Mixxx is a mixing software for professional and amateur djs. its free and opensource.

It allows DJs to mix music live with a clean, simple interface. Futhermore, Mixxx has a number of key features to help DJs in the mix like Beat estimation, parallel visual displays, and support for various DJ hardware controllers.

go get it @

mixxx.sourceforge.net

available for Win/Osx/Linux.

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just stumbled across a very handy service called spamgourmet.

the problem: surfing the internet u need to give away your mail details for registration or confirmation issues. sometimes the site u trust with your information sells it to spamservers, ect. ... and now you´re getting all kind of stock allerts and viagra advertising. damn.

spamgourmet gives u the opportunity to create an infinite number of mail accounts and specify how many mail can be send to it. all mails will be spamfiltered and afterwards forewarded to your protected adress.

like this:

(any word).(number of emails).(username)@spamgourmet.com

ex: nomorespam.5.clrcdd@spamgourmet.com would allow to send 5 emails to this specific address.

go get it @ www.spamgourmet.com

peace

Cory Doctorow is an activist/sci-fi writer/blogger/public speaker/technology person and canadian.

Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, Disney, and post-scarcity economics.

All of his books are available 4free on his website in all possible formats & the community is contributing language translations, artwork, conversions ect.

I am pro-user, and while I’ll tolerate just about any re-use of my books, the one perversion I won’t stomach is the use of bullshit DRM in connection with it, if I can help it. (quote: ground-rules for DIY file-conversions ;) )

 

The author will be in vienna for monochrom´s taugshow # 15 which will take place @ Brut, Konzerthaus.

Fri November 23, 8:00pm.

links:

craphound.com

www.boingboing.net

latest book "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town"

Oh my God! This is the stuff nerd's dreams (at least mine...) are made out of: two singing tesla-coils (a.k.a. "zeusaphones") playing the super mario bros. theme. It is something i could never have imagined being build/performed but always knew i wanted to happen my whole life. As for how it works, this is the description from one of the attendees of the Duckon 2007 Teslathon, where Steve Ward first presented his (single) singing coil :

"This is a solid-state Tesla coil. The primary runs at its resonant frequency in the 41 KHz range, and is modulated from the control unit in order to generate the tones you hear.

So just to explain a little further, yes, it is the actual high voltage sparks that are making the noise. Every cycle of the music is a burst of sparks at 41 KHz, triggered by digital circuitry at the end of a "long" piece of fiber optics.

What's not immediately obvious in this video is how loud this is. Many people were covering their ears, dogs were barking. In the sections where the crowd is cheering and the coils is starting and stopping, you can hear the crowd is drowned out by the coil when it's firing.

This Tesla coil was built and is owned by Steve Ward. Steve is a EE student at U of I Urbana-Champaign. He and Jeff have been going to Teslathons, which is where they met..."

(quotation taken from hauntedfrog.com)

another description taken from the Makezine Blog:

"The music that you hear is coming from the sparks that these two identical high power solid state Tesla coils are generating.

There are no speakers involved. The Tesla coils stand 7 feet tall and are each capable of putting out over 12 foot of spark.

They are spaced about 18 feet apart. The coils are controlled over a fiber optic link by a single laptop computer. Each coil is

assigned to a midi channel which it responds to by playing notes that are programed into the computer software."

Damn... might be a good idea to use for my album.. >)

just found this very entertaining screensaver by michael zoellner. u can check out all his projects on...

i.document.m05.de

SurveillanceSaver is an OS X screensaver that shows live images of over 600 network surveillance cameras worldwide.

a haunting live soap opera.

more info & download here

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well here´s my preffered approach...

(full size image)

...another one using the tokyo subway map and the periodic table

... for serious visualisations u might wanna check out the Opte Project.

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This one just looks awsome, like the first music gameboy.

it reminds me somehow that music has to be "play" _ed.

link: tonori-on site, uk-site

now to the facts...

The tenori-on a 'visible music interface', or a digital music instrument featuring a 16x16 matrix of LED lights, allowing even non-musicians to play sounds & improvise intuitively. each LED light also functions as a touch-sensitive switch that is capable of emulating related sounds when touched. when users push a switch a short time, a ripple of light & sound spreads out. when a switch is held longer, the light dot & sound will be played repeatedly (looped). several tenori-ons can be wirelessly connected & synchronized

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(still from brilliant noise)

Semiconductor make moving image works which reveal our physical world in flux.

Sc was founded by UK artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt back in 1999.

Currently they are on a touring exhibiton where they perform with a special real-time digital performance software called Sonic Inc.

for more information and sample works check...

www.semiconductorfilms.com

there is also a good interview about their live work on Dazed Digital.

interview link

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well... i DO.

there r just 2 many of them...

& i don´t wanna waste any more brain resources on 8digit numbers for random forum accounts.

but the good thing is... there are always other people having the same problems... ;)

here r 2 example tools that make life much easier

www.hashapass.com

www.angel.net/~nic/passwd.html