— modulations 2012

Live visuals. Music Performer: Chris Carlson @ CCRMA Modulations 2012

this visual set was based on live-coding experiments with non-periodic tiling patterns. I'm still fascinated with the forms. Towards the end of the night I started using color.

visual software created with: audio-shadertoy

for this setup, the live audio was analyzed by ChucK through the built-in mic on my macbook air. the ChucK script routes osc to Node, and the client receives via web sockets.

because osx-style full-screen multi-monitor support is completely broken in OSX Lion, we couldn't use chrome. so we stripped out all the chrome-only webaudioapi stuff, and replaced it with an osc receiver. This allowed us to analyze the audio with an external interface and use any browser that supports webgl canvas, and does multi-monitory fullscreen correctly on osx. we ended up using firefox.

live-audio branch with float-sliders ui [warning:totally hacky] : http://github.com/quilime/audio-shadertoy/tree/live-audio-ff-datgui

— studio pano

studio panorama taken by Ryan Alexander
flickr

— temple

— sun

— Water Is Life

near Quotar Minar in Dadabari.

— beg

— dushera

— alphabet

consanants

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— islands

Imagine that every man's mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spring. If the ocean were to vanish, that would be the end of the islands. They would all be part of one continent, but their individuality would be gone.

—"The Inspector" Overlord. Childhoods End, Arthur C. Clark. p.176

— childhoods end

The case of India is particularly instructive. The main difference between us and the British in India was that they had no real motives for going there—no conscious objectives, that is, except such trivial and temporary ones as trade or hostility to other European powers. They found themselves possessors of an empire before they knew what to do with it, and were never really happy until they had got rid of it again.

—"The Inspector" Overlord. Childhoods End, Arthur C. Clark. p.161

— dreams

My dreams have been incredibly vivid. probably due to the heat. sleeping at odd hours. been working in the studio most of the day at Vishal's house, so I haven't been going out as much as I would like. Very hot outside.

— sri

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— habitat

— arrival

                                 Bkng                          Meals/ Seat/
Day Date       Flight     Status Class       City        Time  Other  Cabin
--- ----- --------------- ------ ----- ---------------- ------ ------ -------
Thu 22SEP KLM ROYAL         OK     T   LV SAN FRANCISCO 200P     M     **
          DUTCH AIRLINES 606           AR AMSTERDAM     915A#         

Fri 23SEP KLM ROYAL         OK     T   LV AMSTERDAM     1120A    M     **
          DUTCH AIRLINES 871           AR DELHI         1050P