2008 February Archive at Paris Graphics

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Note: Flash Player 9 is needed to view the clip. Linux version is here.

Their first feature documentary “Reformat the Planet” is an official entry in the South by Southwest Film Festival.

This film documents the 2006 Blipfestival and the chiptune music scene with performances by some of the top chiptune musicians in the world. My graphics (performing as Voltage Controlled) are featured throughout the film along with other video artists. It has been an honor to be included as a visualist in many chiptune music performances over the last few years.

On a technical note - the visuals that I created at the time of the filming of this documentary were done using a laptop with Pure Data and Gem (and sometimes PDP). Since then, my live visuals are done using a GP2X and Gameboy Advance.

Also check out the awesome videos by 2PP of Blip Festival 2007 on vimeo.

vimeo - movie sharing

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on February 21, 2008

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vimeo is another site for sharing videos that I recommend giving a try.

I haven’t read the details about the technology involved but my experience so far is that the video quality is much better than YouTube.

My profile is at: http://www.vimeo.com/parisgraphics and channel is: http://www.vimeo.com/parisvc

I haven’t done much with my channel yet but uploaded a few videos using the exact same files uploaded to YouTube and can see quite a difference.

One thing about YouTube is the large user base - so it’s been nice to get feedback from many people. I’m hoping that vimeo will take off in the same way. If you have videos to share, you might give it a try and see what you think. For the time being, I’ll probably continue to post to both sites - YouTube for the large user base and vimeo for the better quality.

Note: Flash Player 9 is needed to view vimeo clips. Linux users can get it here.

Digital Tools Magazine picks for Feb 08

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on February 15, 2008

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Digital Tools Magazine (a cool magazine based in Germany) features one of my videos featuring some of my gp2x work in “Interesting Findings Round-Up February 2008” post.

To quote: “Magical, magical circuitry and music ahead at this one: Paris/Voltage Controlled with minimal visual glitches on portable gaming devices and a looping addictive soundtrack. This is my personal pick of the month.”

Other posts related to my videos are here:

http://microcontent.nodepond.com/micro/view/274
http://microcontent.nodepond.com/micro/view/273

Thanks Guys!

San Francisco Micromusic Launch and pics

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on February 15, 2008

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The Micromusic HQ Launch show turned out to be awesome.

The music line up was: Nullsleep, A_Rival, Chibi-tech, Starpause, Trash80, Tumult and X|K and they all did great sets. I would have been happy to vj the entire show but shared the night with another vj (oops, can’t remember his name).

The venue turned out to be nice - good sound and even had their own video mixer which sure beat having to use my ghetto switch box.

Some pics are below, more are floating around the net…

Soundcheck of x|k with some of my visuals, photo by Trash80:

x|k by Trash80