Krause

Yesterday Krause had her CD release in the Vera in Groningen. It was great! In collaboration with Ramon Putman, and two students from the Academy for Popculture, Egmar Irausquin and Thomas van den Heuvel, we created the visuals for her live show. The visuals are placed in Ableton Live, synchronized with her music tracks, so Krause can control them herself. Here are some photo's of her performance yesterday. When you take a closer look you can actually see some visuals;).

The Opera

Yesterday we had the last play of the Opera 'The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat'. Here are some photo's of the preparations and the performance.Very satisfying to see the final results of the stage design combined with the light and the animations.

At first the idea was to use brain activity measurements to interact with the video. As you can see in this blog, we did some experiments with this. But finally we decided to skip this idea. Mostly because of the reason that the connection of the measurements, which are not very clear, and the supposed reaction of the image was not at all obvious.  We didn't see a connection and/or an addition with the neurological lesion of the patient doctor P. in the story, and the way we could visualize this by measuring the brain activity of the singers. Maybe interesting for another project or experiments.

One of the ideas we integrated as a video concept, was an animated lecture about 'visual perception'. During the play we liked to inform the public about the journey through the brain when your eyes see a certain object. In the case of doctor P. a hat. In what way do your brains compute this information?
If you are interested in this you should check this website. There you can find extensive and very well illustrated lectures about this subject.

N&H VJ Farm @ Cinekid 2009

The Farm

Some pictures of the farm almost finished.

Processing

This is an experiment to embed Processing sketches in my blog.
To achive this I used the iframe html code:
iframe src="http://www.yourserverdomain/applet/index.html" height="500" width="500"

The 'applet' folder is the folder in the root of the server where the processing html, jar, and pde files are placed. For this action you need a web server, for example the one where your website is located.

WiiMotionPlus HackNight

I finally managed to read the yaw, pitch, and roll data from a Wii Motion Plus adapter with gyroscope. With some soldering and rewiring connected the WM+ to an Arduino, uploaded the code found on this blog, and it works! All done with my humble assistant Jippie!

A very early sketch of the new visuals for Krause

sketch for visuals Krause from Snow on Vimeo.

IME the E of building a Vee-Jay Farm

Snow has a side-project which carries the name Nou & Herkauw. Freely translated in English Now & Ruminate. N&H is VJ-collective with a variable formation of designers, artists, poets and musicians. The aim of N&H is to create a audio/visual performance by starting with completely nothing and create all the content on the spot during the performance. What starts with nothing ends up into a performance made out of beats, loops, glitches, buffers, animations, errors, and more.
For the Cinekid Festival N&H is developing a worklab for kids with the age of 8 to 14. Its called the Nou&Herkauw Veejay Farm and is a combination of a playful animal farm and animation vj/dj workshop. At this moment we are executing the design of the farm. We asked Richard, Gerrald, and Willemijn to collaborate in this project. The three of them are design students from the Academy of Popculture.