burbia

i may not have been blogging terribly often the last few weeks but that’s because i was making this!  it’s for james annesley’s virtual proximity – the track’s called suburbia.  dig the album here.

the clip was made using a combination of stop motion animation and projection mapping and i put together a little video describing the process.  dig that below.

suburbia #02

quake anyone?

suburbia #01

i’ve started a new clip for Virtual Proximity – the sax/beats/pixels trio i VJ in.  the new clip uses a combination of stop motion animation and projection mapping.  so far the process has been something like this:

1.) animate thing
2.) project thing onto other thing
3.) capture thing 1 projected on to thing 2 one frame at a time and animate that

the track’s called suburbia and the clip has a big focus on power lines and houses (both large+real and small+paper).  i love the look of power lines and i’ve really been enjoying projecting onto them, making the ceramic insulating doohickies flicker and causing anxiety amongst my neighbors.




 

in the lab



getting reactive

Whaddaya Hear, Whaddaya Zay?

My good friend Subsketch has started a podcast and this week it features me talking about all things Zeal thusfar.  He’s done some tricky editing to make me say things i never really said…  check it out Y’all!  Oh yeah! Give me that podcast!

While you’re at it, check out all things Subsketch.  He makes tremendous stuff.  It is worthy of your attention.

Vizzable now a legal scrabble word.

peeps have been quick to jump on my new little max4live project Vizzable which has been great.
I put together a quick live set to take this audiovisual automobile for a test drive:

this is going to be the format of the new Zeal live set except expect some acoustic guitar, live sampling and words that sound nice but don’t mean much.

VIZZable


i’ve been wanting to run video plugins since before Max for Live came into existence and Max/MSPs VIZZIE VJ modules seemed perfect as Ableton plugins. so i swapped out all the non-MIDI automatable parts and shoehorned some plugins together.

Download: VIZZable Modular VJ plugins for Ableton Live

UPDATE!

These plugins are completely compatible with the amazing V-module suite by Fabrizio Poce. These two projects have now merged to provide a comprehensive suite of video, effects and real-time graphics tools for Live. If you’d like to become involved in testing and developing these plugins please join us in this google group.

Change list
6/12/2011
V 0.9.3
  • Updated auto-connect v 1.0
  • Syphon output added to the viewr module
  • new midigrid device – receives midi notes and outputs white squares.  originally made for the novation launchpad but will work with any midi input
  • new 2switchr device to toggle video between two different outputs
17/4/2011
V 0.9.2

  • All modules can now auto-connect (thanks to Chris Gough from the Jitter in Live google group)
  • All module’s preview windows can be disabled by clicking
  • Viewr GL optimized
  • Viewr can now toggle menubar in fullscreen mode
  • Viewr acts as a central hub to all other VIZZable modules allowing toggling of module preview windows and setting global resolution for all modules
  • New Previewr device, similar to viewr but without global controls or fullscreen
  • New Zamplr effect module
  • Playr has several performance improvements
  • Playr now properly saves loaded movie folders with live set
  • Clicking the Playrs name below the preview window activates a FPS meter and unique frame toggle for performance monitoring
  • VIZZIE preset code removed – presets can be saved in Live browser
7/4/2011
  • Effect modules are now bypassed when device is deactivated.

6/4/2011

  • All parameters can now be automated with clip envelopes
  • Code cleaned up
  • Scribbler bugs fixed
3/4/2011
  • All devices now connect using the same drop down system as V-module
  • Player now has selectable resolution
25/1/2011
  • all devices frozen and outputs plugged with “.” to prevent stack overflow errors
  • Grabbr – webcam source now selectable
  • Playr – clips in drop down now save properly

 

zeal’s twenty-ten

there goes 2010.  zeal relocated to melbourne and good things happened!  starting with what’s happening right now and working back…  i’m currently in adelaide where i’m set up in a bunker, recording new songs for some sort of ep early in the new year.

My album is ranked third on a whothehell.net  ”list”.  It’s the second time i’ve ever been on a list and it’s still fun.



Last week my song “clouds” made a top songs of 2010 podcast on polaroids of androids.  it was the first time i’d ever been on a list and it was fun.

i played alot of shows this year, all of which had secret words, many of which i can’t remember.  some were:

  • alphabetical
  • curvacious
  • rod stewart: android
  • william shatner
  • gumption
  • dental plan
  • dragon master
  • griffin slayer
  • cromulent
  • lights in the skies

the best gigs of the year were hobart + music = yeah and the gate.

i also had a great time at this is not art where i sat on a panel and talked about axis.

i got to make a mixtape sorta thing for a polaroids of androids podcast and inflict my taste in music on the masses.

i put out an animated film clip for vigilante with midi and lights:

my name was in sos

i released my debut album and it landed album of the week on FBi.

it was also uploaded to a russian file-sharing website.

it’s been a good year.  onwards into a happy and productive twenty-eleven!

bob.

shred ahead

two or three more zeal shows before the year is out!

1.) Thursday 9th of December at the toff with rush in attack and 8-bit love

2.) Thursday 16th of December @ Pony with Junk, Uncle Chunk and Keith Party

it’s the first time i’ve played either of these venues.  also, i might whip out a VJ set at the toff gig…

there’ll be one more show in Radelaide before the year is up but i’ll post about that later.  until then, enjoy a preview of colourful things in the works…