It’s time for this year’s edition of the VJ jam that will be hosted by the Swedish VJ Union in co-operation with Pixelvärk and Berns.
The event takes place friday october 17 11pm – 4am at the club 2.35:1 at Berns.
Author Archives: The MIDI Thief
The Party screen
All ways are good except the bad ones. I was at a friend’s birthday party the other night and he had made a simple and funny backprojection solution.
The union takes a sneak peak at Dejakru
We cruised down to Stockholm Zoo’s party at Berns last friday to check out Richie Hawtin and his über digital techno set (he runs two laptops, a Allen & Heath-mixer and some midi madness). Dejakru were doing the visuals.
News from the VJ Theory project
Ana and Brendan from VJ Theory asked us to spread this through our network. The book that is printed on the print-on-demand service Lulu costs only $13.70 and is available for downlowd for $5.44. You can also read the text for free at VJ Theory’s homepage
Muti-touch controller from Stanton
Three new MIDI controllers will be released from Stanton shortly. One multi-touch controller, one mixer with a FireWire sound card and one player that they claim is better than all Serrato like systems. They are marketed as DJ/VJ controllers but it remains to see what they can do for a VJ.
Updates from iTouch Midi
Yesterday iTouch Midi released some updates in their range of midi applications for the iPod and iPod Touch. They have improved the xy-pad app and changed the name to iTM Pad and they have also released a new app called iTM Tilt that is using the gyro.
Top 20 VJs Vote 2008
This is the headline on DJ Mags yearly spectacle. You can vote for your 5 favorite VJs and at on your favorite hard and software. The poll stops on september 24. Go there and vote for yourself. And while you’re at it, give me a vote. Top 20 DJs Vote 2008.
The iPhone as midi controller
It has started pop up some interesting midi applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch now. iTM MidiLab from iTouchMidi is the most interesting one for the time being.
Mini Midi Maxi
Before summer Futuremusic dropped some interesting news that Korg will release their new Nano series around christmas. The Nano series is three midi controllers in mini format. Who hasn’t longed for something smaller to lug around?
UC44+Beer=True
We had a gig at a LG party together with the club Ficks at F12 last week. A drunk buddy succeeded in the art of poring beer in to our Evolution UC33 midi controller.