best track EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVER!!!! enjoy this one

Some of you might have been there this weekend, Lens mentioned it in an earlier post: Into The City / Asian Village as part of the Wiener Festwochen going from 8th of may til 14th of June.

Here are some of my personal impressions:

I started my little tour on Saturday, May 23rd with a delicious snack from one of the street kitchens hosted by the Thai and Indonesian embassies at Gumpendorfer Straße in the 6th district (which was the center of asian village and closed down for automobiles the whole weekend).
At about 7pm I went to Semper Depot to see/hear a sound/dance performance by Singapur artists sonicbrat (sound), Lim Chin Huat (Motion) and Lim Woan Wen (Light). The show, which lasted about an hour featured a dark light setting with multichannel sound art / piano improvisations and a dance performance. The combination of the three worked quite well in my opinion, although I'm not much of a fan of lenghty and dreamy piano variations. That aside the performance was a success, especially the middle part, where resonances of space were fathomed out, and the ending with its unique lighting, almost turning the poles of semper depot into some kind of dark forest.
After that we went out on the street again to hear a performance by Stereotyp, Cee and AraByrd from Malaysia which was a defintive banger and got the street crowd moving pretty intense. Ranging from Dubstep to Techno to HipHop, Stereo and Cee broke genre borders once again and AraByrd found an answer to every one of their tracks.

Now to my sunday highlight which started at noon, also at Semper Depot. Some of you might have seen Daito Manabes YouTube videos already, yesterday he held a 20 minute performance with a colleague which was quite impressive to see live be honest. Called "Face Visualizer, Instrument and Copy" they hooked themselves up to electrodes which stimulate their facial muscles according to the sounds played. Here's my own short documentation, taken from the middle of the show (Daito is the guy on the right):

That's all from my side, after the performance I went out to enjoy a wonderfully sunny Vienna City sunday. Lens J. might hit you up with a more precise update this week. Stay tuned!

Oh what a great week this was for us tech aficionados!

First off, the Nintendo DSi is out since yesterday in Europe, with 2 cams integrated (waitin for homebrew! yay!), bigger screens and slimmer design... check it out.

Secondly, Ableton Live 8 (Kompact's most trusted choice for sequencing and live performance) is finally out with tons of new features like thight Max/MSP integration, Live Set sharing, new warping methods and lots of other stuff... more info here.

What happens if you combine some shepherds from Wales, tech geeks, sheep, LEDs and a camera? Find out in this video below:

this thread is supposed to give you some information about the possibilities to create music on the nintendoDS. as far as it comes to home-brewed applications you will need a ds card adapter like Edge, R4, CycloDS, ect.
here we go:

GlitchDS (homebrew, free)
Cellular Automaton music sequence with a really nice minimalist interface. you can load your own sounds in .raw format and it also has a visualization feature for the sound created, 8bit - style of course. ideal for IDM and noisy sounds.
developer site

RepeaterDS (homebrew, free)
repeaterDS is a free music application for the Nintendo DS that allows you to “play” a sample by drawing on the DS screen. The vertical axis controls repeat length. The horizontal axis controls the playback offset into the sample.
developer site

CellsDS (homebrew, free)
cellsDS is a free flexible, programmable grid-based music sequencer. cellsDS is six sequencers in one, with each sequencer being controlled by a user definable Lua script.  its interface is quite similar to the Tenori-On and Monome controller. latest version has a midi-Output feature
developer site

ProteineDS (homebrew, free)
homebrew scratch application. load a sound, set cue points, pitch, pan, ect. nice for cutting beats and a capellas.
developer site

KorgDS-10 (commercial)
A really nice adaptation of the legendary Korg MS-20 synthesizer. 16step, 2 synths, one drum sequencer and the ability to jam with friends through wifi synch.
developer site

Nitro Tracker DS (homebrew, free)
NitroTracker is a FastTracker II style tracker. it has many nice features such as: recording sound with the DS microphone, loading .wav and xm modules(no effects yet), midi via dsmi, ...
developer site

Nanoloop (commercial)
nanoloop is a simplified stepsequencer, addictve character of loop-based music creation. works on GBA.
developer site

Elektroplankton DS (commercial)
The game offers two game modes — Performance and Audience. The Performance mode is considered to be the more significant portion of Electroplankton, allowing the user to interact with the plankton with the use of the stylus, touchscreen, and microphone. Audience mode is like a demo mode.
developer site

anything missing? post below.
enjoy!

After previous 162 releases in the last 7 years the Processing team now finally releases Processing 1.0.

If you have never heard of Processing here is a short quote from their website:

Processing is a programming language, development environment, and online community that since 2001 has promoted software literacy within the visual arts. Initially created to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, Processing quickly developed into a tool for creating finished professional work as well.

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Processing.org

Art created with Processing