Garagecube has announced a bunch of minor updates and releases: Modul8 2.8.3, a new printed manual for Modul8, an on-line Modul8 module manual, Mad Mapper 1.0.3 and MadLabs, a series of small apps for MadMapper.
Author Archives: The MIDI Thief
Summer time at Swedish VJ Union
It’s the time of the year when Swedish VJs lay very low. We don’t have that many sun hours per year so we try to enjoy the little we have. So don’t expect too many post the next month or so. Have a great summer!
Two new tutorials
I just made two new tutorials, one that shows how to enable Syphon in Modul8 and a second one that shows how to send track info (id3 data) as an image from an iTunes to Syphon so that you can display the track info in any Syphon enabled software.
Mapping worshop at Arvika Music Camp
The Midi Thief will be holding a video mapping workshop at the Arvika Music Camp and a live performance at Arvika’s Tiki Room.
Video mapping for dummies
Johan Holm from the Vidiots shared this with me on Facebook today. On this web page you can create a video mapping to be displayed on a building in Johannesburg or Capetown.
Interview with Anton “Vade” Marini
Kyle McDonald has made a great long interview with Anton “Vade” Marini asking all the essential questions. Vade has done tons of visual tools for the OSX platform one of the latest being Syphon that I’ve been raving about here on the blog.
eMotions
I discovered this software through the Syphon project’s Twitter. It’s a a tool for creating interactive motions of objects for live visual performances.
Draw live with TagTool at SPX 2011
Cartoonist Tinet Elmgren and artist/illustrator/vj Ilan Katin (also known as the community man from Garagecube) will present TagTool at the Small Press Expo (SPX) 2011. TagTool is a DIY kit for drawing and animating live. Come and see how it works and try it out.
The new Twitch controller
Novation has just announced the Twitch controller that has been developed together with Serato. It’s a hybrid of a conventional DJ controller and controllers made for softwares like Ableton Live. It has also been inspired by the Monome and the controller hacking communities.
VJs on the radio
So it’s time for VJs on the radio again. The Swedish radio show Ström (P2) has dedicated a whole show to the VJ scene. The interviews were carried out by Hanna “Knivflickan” Kihlander a few months ago and has now been edited together to a fabulous show with electronic music between the interviews. The show […]