I keep receiving email asking for a wiimote to midi script for Mac.. Unfortunately I don’t use Macs (they are really nice, but too expensive..) so I can’t really help or develop anything for Apple addicts..
But here’s a compilation of the existing tools you can find online to use your Wii controler as a midi device on your Macintosh:
WiiToMidi allows you to convert signals from a Nintendo Wii controller to MIDI signals. Read more →
We did a new VJschool workshop a couple of weeks ago, as a part of the Compass film festival with conferences, live demos and screenings at the Watershed in Bristol.
I’ve been invited to a local radioshow with one of the Guest Vjs, Spark, to talk about visuals, vjing and cinema.. I’m not quite good at explaining things, but I found Toby captivating: Read more →
Mash a Kandinsky with a Duchamp, crumple one of Zaha Hadid’s smaller architectural experiments with H.R. Geiger’s eerie organic forms, cram the whole thing into a high-definition television, and you might end up with something like the art of Scott Pagano. Grind down the gritty, industrial detritus of Rotterdam — one of the world’s largest port cities — and process it in a digital audio factory and you may, if you’re lucky, get something that sounds like the mechanized mayhem of Jochem Paap, a.k.a. “Speedy J.” Blend it all together in a high-fidelity digital soup and you get, well, you get something entirely new. Read more →
A short video of the nice evening we spent in the studio working on the new Cuisine flyer..
The idea of using projections for the photoshoot came from some experiments I did recently, like these fruits projected into an empty plate, which looks a bit like holograms. Read more →
Radiohead’s new album is out today !
And believe it or not, you can pay whatever you want to get it.. “It’s up to you” says inrainbows.com, the album’s website, actually the only place where you can download the digital 10 track LP.
When their contract with the records label EMI expired, the band didn’t want to renew it, and decided to produce and distribute their seventh album themself, a choice that would be considered as risky, but Radiohead members don’t seem to care much..
They are well aware that the classic music industry model is Dying Read more →
UnitedVisualArtists strike again !
This time, the UVA brought their lightning installation skills to a disused Welsh quarry, for the new Warp video (latest Battles single: Tonto), and installed many bright white vertical LED bars in a slate bassin..
Standing up at equal distances, perfectly lined up and leveled, the LEDs becomes a unique light structure at night , controlled via DMX by UVA’s own software. Read more →
