
Broken Note - Let Em Hang
2 years ago
IMPORTANT: Play this video in fullscreen mode.
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For people interested in the track itself, it is taken from the "Let 'Em Hang / Meltdown" record. Info, mp3 etc:
adnoiseam.net/adn113
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The visuals are mixed algorithmically, with minimal human intervention. The AI I wrote makes ~95% of the decisions.
Made entirely with dvj, interim_descriptor's open source music video DJ+VJ software. No commercial video editing software was used to create this video.
GPLv3 source code: code.google.com/p/dvj
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CREDITS
Music - Broken Note
Macro-scale visual mixing - interim_descriptor
Micro-scale visual mixing - interim_descriptor's dvj AI
Particle Interlude - Mark Newman
Programming - interim_descriptor & Mark Newman
Inspiration - Chris Cunningham, Alex Rutterford
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An ultrawide 1920x480 version is also available:
vimeo.com/6040364
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---
For people interested in the track itself, it is taken from the "Let 'Em Hang / Meltdown" record. Info, mp3 etc:
adnoiseam.net/adn113
---
The visuals are mixed algorithmically, with minimal human intervention. The AI I wrote makes ~95% of the decisions.
Made entirely with dvj, interim_descriptor's open source music video DJ+VJ software. No commercial video editing software was used to create this video.
GPLv3 source code: code.google.com/p/dvj
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CREDITS
Music - Broken Note
Macro-scale visual mixing - interim_descriptor
Micro-scale visual mixing - interim_descriptor's dvj AI
Particle Interlude - Mark Newman
Programming - interim_descriptor & Mark Newman
Inspiration - Chris Cunningham, Alex Rutterford
---
This 480p version is intended for display on home computer systems.
An ultrawide 1920x480 version is also available:
vimeo.com/6040364
---
This video assumes it will be displayed in a dark environment, on an ultra-bright projector, so it can assault your fully dilated pupils. Viewing it on your computer monitor, in a lit room, with Vimeo's white background, at 30 frames per second, will be pretty much like listening to dubstep on laptop speakers. The best way to experience this, as intended, is to see it live.
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And for people interested in the track itself, it is taken from the "Let 'Em Hang / Meltdown" record.
Info, mp3 etc:
adnoiseam.net/adn113
are well i'll stick to using modul8 for the time being
Glad you like the video.
It was another ~3 months of intensive coding & scripting before the video was completed.
I split the track into ~16 measure segments, and worked on each segment until the synaesthesia was "correct" in my mind, and not a single frame felt wrong (this is, of course, highly subjective, and specific to my brain's mapping of sight and sound). The c++ code got about 95% of it right, but I had to implement and use a scripting language to get the remaining 5%.
Now that I have the finished code and the scripting language, I was able to prepare 60 minutes of ultra-wide triple-projector 1920x480 audio-reactive frequency-sensitive video in about a week, for a show I did in Boston:
interimdescriptor.blogspot.com/2009/12/live-at-glitchgiving-boston.html
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