On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 10:55 +0800, Chris McCormick wrote: fijuu and ergates do indeed indicate a new direction for a/v performance - I like to see the visuals driving the music for a change :) my contribution to this field is called al-jazari, a gamepad controlled programmable robot music sequencer: http://www.pawfal.org/al-jazari/ I've only done one performance with it so far, but it went down quite well, as I think it's a more inclusive take on livecoding cheers, dave http://www.pawfal.org/dave

On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 14:05 +0800, Chris McCormick wrote: fluxus runs on linux or osx. to use al-jazari you need the cvs version (0.12) which depends on PLT scheme http://www.plt-scheme.org/ it also uses my live synth and sampler which can be found here: http://www.pawfal.org/Software/livenoisetools/ (itchy and scratchy) everything requires libjack, liblo, libsndfile etc etc cheers, dave http://www.pawfal.org/dave

I talked to them at LAC 2007, they use Ogre as engine and Pure Data as sound synthesizer. The Blender reference on their page is for content creation when I am right. Its a long going discussion if a good performance need visuals or not. My opinion is that the music should be non boring in the first place and the classical tape concerts can be still exciting. But because of my background of visual arts I am too seeking the Gesamtkunstwerk and working on it over 20 years now, of course different approaches as everything has changed in the last decades, but yes, one of my first computer creations included C64 those were the times :) One of my recent projects uses the P5 glove as controler of sound and vision, a custom OpenGL application I wrote in C++ and pd as soundengine: http://elektronengehirn.de/glove.html Other approach with other project was to control urban images with a wind controller which also drives the sound: http://www.veoh.com/videos/v2970162DnrADsM http://www.urbanunits.com/index.php?page=41 BTW, Chris and Dave, I really love your works too and see some new styles and movement. The Fijuu project actually made me looking at the Ogre project. I was fiddling around with Crystal Space but they lack a good documentation (or hide it well), but got it running on OSX and Linux rather well. Ogre seems less complete but focused and better documented, the rest you can add on your own (like networking for control and physics) but there are documents too. Cheers, Malte -- Malte Steiner media art + development -www.block4.com-