Stuff that may be relevant for the Digital Media programme in Bremen.
Procrastination is so easy these days. There’s a lot we can do when sitting in front of the computer. Checking Emails. Only one more video on YouTube, checking my subscribed Feeds, the weather, the stocks. Takes only a second.
Seriously, it gets even worse when we try to do all the things at the same time, to save time – while in fact it is actually inefficient, so does this study say.
Fifty years ago, Miles Davis legendary Kind of Blue was released. Kind of Bloop is a hommage to the Album in 8-Bit Sound. Before I heard it I was fearing the worst since chiptune remakes tend to add an infantile and unsophisticated timbre (is it just me?), a quality highly arguably in Jazz. I would like to say that those guys prevented the worst and that alone is a highly seldom judgement you will hear from me when it comes to that kind of musical modification.
Art & Copy is a cinematic documentary about advertisement. I would say – according to the trailer – it is one typical self-criticizing and at the same time self-adulating fast paced movie with the motivation of mystifying things more than they probably deserve to be. Maybe it’s all of that not because it’s just the trailer. Then again, you know what they say about trailers. Well, have a look for yourself.
I feel that people started to listen to Radiohead just because their usage of distribution is not only just innovative but because the whole thing, how they play with media became a social experiment. People wanted to be a part in this experiment. But Radiohead are not necessarily the ones, who are playing, or are they?
A couple of days ago, shortly after Radiohead presented their song “Harry Patch“, in dedication to the last british survivor of the first world war who has recently deceased, they announced that they probably would never release a full Album again. I remember hearing this even on the local radio station. Then, probably only one day later, a new song called “These Are My Twisted Words” surfaced, first seemingly over unofficial channels, then officially available on the waste.co.uk website. And with this release came up the rumour of, well, a new album called “Wall Of Ice”… Read the protocol here.
A few years ago I saw an interface for blind people which consisted out of a camera which was recording the contours of what was in front of it and translated that to an array of little actuators inside a device which the blind person would attach between his eyes. Unfortunately, I forgot about the projects name shortly after.
Today I got to know BrainPort. It’s very similar. Instead of using the area between ones eyes it uses the tongue, which is much more sensitive and differentiating than the skin. It applies a electrotactile stimulation over an array of actuators. The composition of the signal then creates (over the course of a learning process) an “image” of the situation. See the amazing device in action in this demo video.
On September 3rd – 8th this years AEC festival takes place in Linz. It’s a special one, as this year the new building (see it here) of the AEC was opened, which increases the available space quite a bit. Also, Linz is European Capital of Culture (Linz09). Reasons enough for me to go there (who else is planning to visit it ???).
The programme features…
Also nice: The facade of the AEC will be illuminated during the festival by VJ’s hosted by FM4.
Looks like an in really nice programme. The reduced festival ticket costs 85 €.
Find more info on the festival website.
Our goal is to create a powerful free and open cinema camera that we as filmmakers love to use. The idea of using an Elphel camera for this particular purpose was born in 2006, found many followers over the years and ultimately resulted in this community driven project entitled “Apertus” and this website.
Check out the (early) status and some convincing footage of the camera here.
Japanese “ARTIST, DESIGNER, PROGRAMMER, DJ, VJ, COMPOSER” Daito Manabe took over the sound generation part in this amazing interface concept.