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Audio responsive video exploration, based on audio input, randomness and mouse gestures.

Audio: Amon Tobin - El Cargo
amontobin.com

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  • Josue Ibanez plus 2 years ago
    nice Gwen!
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  • SZ-Motion plus 2 years ago
    cool
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  • panic embryo 2 years ago
    fantastic!!!!!
    love the look and design of this. Amon Tobin a big fave of mine.
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  • reanimatr 2 years ago
    Wow! How did you do it? which soft use?
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  • Gwen Vanhee 2 years ago
    Thnx guys!

    @reanimatr
    A custom-coded brush (actionscript) is used to draw the imagery. While drawing all data is recorded to be rendered (frame by frame) afterwards.
  • reanimatr 2 years ago
    This is Abobe Flash?
  • Gwen Vanhee 2 years ago
    Well, Adobe Flash is the software but it's actionscript that does the tricks. This render/drawing system is build from scratch...
  • Nik Blackwell 1 year ago
    Have you got it available as Flash anywhere? Even at it's native resolution, I'm getting plenty of artefacts. When I try to watch it @ 1080p there are macro blocks everywhere because of the low bandwidth, and the nature of the vector imagery. It'd be nice to see this rendered flawlessly, along with any other such scripted stuff.
  • Daniel Jung 8 months ago
    ...i dont think he's going to hand over his Flash file. =)
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  • Vadim Smakhtin 2 years ago
    Love your style. Does it realtime?
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  • Gwen Vanhee 2 years ago
    Yes it does...
    However, performance issues make it very sluggish.
  • Vadim Smakhtin 2 years ago
    Hmm, it's pure AS3 or you use Flash IDE? I think flash must done things like this at 25-30 fps .
  • Gwen Vanhee 2 years ago
    it's pure AS3, based on a drawing system which i use to create 120Megapixel prints...
  • Beeker 2 years ago
    Can you give the as3 script a different audio file, and would it respond differently?

    Trying to understand how this could be handdrawn, and actionscripted at the same time, while responding to the audio amplitude/frequencies, like a visualizer.

    Seems like it's one or the other.

    Either way it's beautiful, and again either way, scripted, handdrawn, it's tremendously organic.
  • Gwen Vanhee 2 years ago
    Yep, different audio would give a different result, but the general look&feel would be the same.

    As for the AS3/handdrawn:
    I have a particle system which responds to movement , speed, rotation, mouse gestures, audio frequencies,...

    This system, attached to the mouse, is being used as a 'brush'. So i 'draw' the general sense, direction & rotation by hand. The resulting imagery is code reaction to mouse gestures.
  • Bob Scruggs 1 year ago
    It's alive!
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  • Videofronta 2 years ago
    I like it!
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  • A Rigged Production plus 2 years ago
    Excellent work dude, almost looked entirely 3D at more than one point.

    As a side note, absolutely love that album, was listening to it earlier today.

    Great for writing ;)

    Cheers!
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  • Josue Ibanez plus 2 years ago
    Oh! I forgot Gwen check out my blog ;) joystickmedia.tumblr.com/
    nicely done dude!
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  • Gwen Vanhee 2 years ago
    Thnx Josue!
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  • Jeff Hellman plus 2 years ago
    Bravo!!!
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  • Diego Pardo 2 years ago
    great! I love it! Why don't you make a lil' tutorial on how to do it and how the code works?
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  • Adam Joy plus 2 years ago
    fantastic work.
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  • mediamaker 2 years ago
    plus one dp. Great work Gwen
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  • Marcus Eckert plus 2 years ago
    wow, I'm just beginning to get grasp of action script but these things are a long way off...:)
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  • eric alba 2 years ago
    very cool.
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  • Don Relyea 2 years ago
    really nice!
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  • Ceven Knowles plus 2 years ago
    Really great!
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  • WillBeRain plus 2 years ago
    like the geometric forms and lines changed evert time - interesting. did you ever hear about this guy, Amit Pitaru pitaru.com/ ? check his folio you both work in the same field.
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  • Gwen Vanhee 2 years ago
    yes, i love the collaboration he did with James Paterson:
    blip.tv/file/2293226
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  • versa plus 2 years ago
    very nice and clean. love this style!
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  • Alex Smith 2 years ago
    fantastic.
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  • Nikolay Vanchev 2 years ago
    Impressive — both visually and the way you have achieved the result!
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  • naim alwan 2 years ago
    WTF!!! that was awesome, please show us how its done ;)
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  • Dale Hayward 2 years ago
    super cool, love to see this flying through a live action city
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  • keef chemistry 2 years ago
    very cool animation - i'd like to audition it to other soundtracks as well to see how it changes the mood - good choice using amon tobin
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  • HippieHouse plus 2 years ago
    Incredible work, I loved and watched from beginning to end without boring....

    Excelent colors and shapes!

    Congratulations from argentina
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  • moyano plus 2 years ago
    amazing!
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  • kid Neutrino plus 2 years ago
    sick! a beautiful work indeed.
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  • Simon HK Cassels 2 years ago
    fresh
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  • TiM 2 years ago
    Very Cool! Great choice of music.
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  • Satya Meka plus 2 years ago
    How did you draw, when the realtime performance is sluggish? Or did you have a placeholder when the audio is playing and later on rendered everything based on the data?

    Irrespective, very stylish.. and gave me ideas to do something in Processing...
  • Gwen Vanhee 2 years ago
    When drawing, a low-res version of the final result is shown on screen, optimizing the performance. Afterwards everything gets rendered in hi-res...
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  • Joey Bolender 2 years ago
    the audio isn't synced properly... the beats qued in your animation, to late..
  • Alomar Petgrave 1 year ago
    shut dude don't be an ass your pic isn't synced properly ur head is to big
  • Joey Bolender 1 year ago
    Oh wow, I commented on this 8 months ago, and it takes 8 months for some bitch to reply to my comment to call me an ass.

    The audio really isn't synced properly, this is true.
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  • Cheng Ka Chun plus 2 years ago
    great art piece~
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  • 12FRAMES™ 2 years ago
    very nice! like the stuff oscar fischinger did. and amon is always a good choice:
    vimeo.com/1399514
    seems like his music inspires people to come up with audio reactive visuals!

    anyways, really interesting work you are doing.
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  • ESTHER 2 years ago
    So clever and beautiful, love the music :)
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  • jarek sculz 2 years ago
    cool.
    reminds me of turing, but nicer looking
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  • squigglebooth 2 years ago
    Dang!!
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  • Andrew Morev 2 years ago
    Great work, Gwen!
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  • Maxette 2 years ago
    I was wondering why don't you propose it to apple, for an iTunes visualizer option...
    It would be amazing!
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  • Yordi Uytersprot 2 years ago
    Hi Gwen!
    I'm just amazed with your fabulous work.
    Plus it's made in AS3, which is like great stuff!
    I'm wondering if you could tell me more on the process of rendering the flash animation (result) frame by frame to a sequence of PNG's / JPG's.. Did you make it yourself, that rendering-system-program-thing? And are you willing to share it with the world? Feel free to let me know ^^.

    Kind regards, Yordi
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  • Gwen Vanhee 2 years ago
    Hi Yordi,
    I use Mark Knol's Image Saver Class to save each frame as a png. I'm sure there are other classes out there, but this one works really nice.

    You can find the class + tutorial here:
    blog.stroep.nl/2008/08/as3-imagesaver-class-v10

    and how you can make video's with it here:
    blog.stroep.nl/2008/11/process-rendering-actionscript-to-png-to-video
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  • Mariusz Kornatka 2 years ago
    Very cool
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  • makemassair 2 years ago
    Stunning.
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  • Jason V plus 2 years ago
    are these visualzation scripts public so we can plug our own music into them?
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  • Trey Ratcliff plus 2 years ago
    You are great and creative! I saw this on Abduzeedo
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  • Daniel Wichers 2 years ago
    awesome! fits the song too.
    great technique you've made to make these vids. I've been reading some comments on how you accomplished this. kudos!
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  • Chris Bourke 2 years ago
    So well done!
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  • takcom™ plus 2 years ago
    So dooope!
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  • Florence Artur 2 years ago
    Very interesting!
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  • deKO.lt 2 years ago
    Awesome style/colors
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  • Ralph Windischhofer 2 years ago
    cool
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  • DJ DDT 2 years ago
    Brilliant!
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  • Rami Schandall 2 years ago
    Totally amazing. I would love to do something like this with some of my soundscapes. music.ramidonya.net Posted recordings are getting old but more to come, soon. Using experimental instruments and found sound files, lots of free improvisation. Fits really beautifully with the mood of your work! Thanks for the inspiration!!
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  • Nikolay Shiderov 2 years ago
    Utterly amazing.
    Love it =]
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  • Robert Meireles 2 years ago
    A w e s o m e !
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  • Stef 2 years ago
    Hi Gwen,
    Very nice work!
    I posted your video on motiongraphics.nu. Hope you're fine with that.
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  • Gwen Vanhee 2 years ago
    thnx!
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  • makemassair 2 years ago
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  • Gwen Vanhee 2 years ago
    Thnx!
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  • Mike Monroe 2 years ago
    Man, this is amazing.
    I'm a graphic designer and want to know how the hell to program things like this. Do you have any recommended reading?
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  • timur turgunov 2 years ago
    perfect
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  • Toros Köse plus 2 years ago
    jaw-dropping O_O
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  • Mohammed Shawqi 2 years ago
    really amazing! would love it if it was a visualization for windows media ! =D
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  • Alomar Petgrave 2 years ago
    nice this is awesome

    also nice use of Splinter Cell 1 music
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  • Kousoulides 2 years ago
    The music is Tamon Tomin
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  • Dano Manion 2 years ago
    Hey, that's how I see music. Awesome!
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  • Nick M 2 years ago
    It's like a stereoscopic superhighway of sound!
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  • kikko 2 years ago
    beautiful. i'd love to see another version of this with a capture of your hands recording.
    very nice work
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  • Nevena Nikolcheva 2 years ago
    wish I knew even a little bit about AS ...
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  • Craig Liby 1 year ago
    elegance and rudimentary shapes, moving
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  • hadrien 1 year ago
    I must say WOW
    as an amon tobin fan i trully enjoyed the video :)
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  • Clim 1 year ago
    Wow!!! Cool!
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  • Craig Bilham 1 year ago
    WOW, so hypnotic!!!

    was reading your above post on how you created this piece, a lot of it went over my head if i'm honest.

    do you need a lot of knowlege of scripts to create a similar style of work? how long did it take to make?
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  • George Simeonidis 1 year ago
    very inspirational work Gwen!

    it reminded me of a manta ray gliding through the ocean...in a psychedelic-predatory kinda way :)
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  • anna tsalopoulos 1 year ago
    very nice
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  • Lee Ann Dufour 1 year ago
    this is great i love the feel of it
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  • Daniel Hayek staff 1 year ago
    How am I just finding this now?
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  • SUSHI ADV. 1 year ago
    Excellent work, man!

    I'm talking about it on my blog tatami.sushiadv.com
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  • Pascal 1 year ago
    MAN!!! love this, perfect track choice, would love to see this applied to more tracks. (Autechre!!!!?) :) cheers mate, great work!
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  • Andrew Vincent 1 year ago
    Chaos theory ost rules. Nice work man.
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  • uglytv 1 year ago
    Nice!!!!
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  • Digimites 1 year ago
    Your work looks like a really great demonstration of a new aesthetic sensibility for the digital medium. Very 'in tune' and synaesthetic.
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  • Dana Fusco 1 year ago
    Beautifully hypnotic
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  • Daniel Moreno 1 year ago
    This is great!
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  • Daniele Di Carlo 1 year ago
    great! good work man ;)
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  • Varela 1 year ago
    niiiiiiiiiiiiiice
    vimeo.com/5616917
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