in the lab



racing snail

Another gig!  I’ll be playing the first official zeal gig of the year next wednesday Thursday the 24th at 303 supporting Sydney’s Karoshi.  The new audio visual set’s really coming together after last weeks trial run and it should be even better by next wednesday.  I’m also scheming some evil live streaming schemes so all of you in internet land can check out the shiny new moving pictures and sounds…  more gigs coming.  and videos and things.  oh, the unbearable intrigue.

dig the facebook event

P.S. I’ve revamped my facebook page!  go like it, eh?

laser switch

i’m playing this saturday night at the empress with JUNK! and the time shield – and this time not as zeal but as my VJing alter ego lazy laser.  i’ll be trailing some new AV material (using VIZZable)  and it will be under rehearsed but hopefully interesting. it should be a taste of the future zeal live show.  the inimitable junk will be doing some stripped down acoustic or ambient or jazzy versions of their songs and time shield will be there to shield us from the horrors of time (and also make pretty pictures and sounds).  back to getting my shit together!

go dig the facebook event.

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


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  originally made for the novation launchpad but will work with any midi input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…

Walking into the Light

New clip for Vigilante!  mmmmm…. lights.

The pretty colours are provided by a Novation Launchpad which is sequenced/animated in Ableton Live. This track and the rest of the album are still free. Go get it.

UPDATE:
I’ve uploaded the MIDI file used to run the clip.  If you have a Launchpad and want to see the clip in glorious real life download this MIDI file and play it in your DAW of choice with the Launchpad selected as your MIDI output.

cheap beatz

I’ve been getting asked for this keypad to midi patch a lot recently so I thought I’d upload it.  You can get it here.  You’ll also need the free max/msp runtime from cycling74.com.  If you’re on windows you’ll need loopbe too.

and remember – Zeal’s live Melbourne debut this Friday!

roar.

Zeal returns to the stage in his Melbourne debut (sort of) with some tops bands.

It’ll be an awesome night of experimental indie-poptronica, ear melty goodness and I’ll be unleashing some new songs and brandishing some new stagecraft.  Woop!

Dig the facebook event for more.