Here are some results:

I also recorded some video. The quality of the dithering is poor due to the video compression, but you get the idea.

Here’s the app over body magic by the amazing 53os

An then over a docu about the opening of an op art exhibition from the 60s published on ubuweb, which seemed totally appropriate.

While writing this I’ve seen that creative apps has written about it, which is very flattering for a quick hack. Thanks!

(shameless plug)

After having had a show cancelled, steve roden drove back home and performed there alone, when the sun was rising. He recorded himself and made the piece available along with the story and a couple of blurry cell phone pictures of the moments in which he started and finished. The piece is a calm and intimate improvisation, with imperfections that denote the just-because-ness of the event:

when sun rises in spite of hooligans

The three elements (writing, music, pictures) make the story so lively that I’ve almost came to regard it as my own memory.

He tells the story in a light but touching way.

At the time of this recording, they believed they had found the key to happiness and equality.

Next time I tried to login somewhere I still had them in mind.

I recorded some explorations. I find it interesting to imagine what is happening inside the circuit to make the sound vary so wildly, as I was just slowly turning up and down a couple of knobs.

handmade, 15 jan by jesusgollonet

His mention of chris cutler makes the article appropiately relevant for the discussion sparked by his recent filesharing epiphany published in the wire, in which he admitted “As a result, just like you, I stopped buying music.”, and got responses from chris cutler and david keenan. The fact that the 90s article seems to be based on one of the record hunting field trips that he mentions in epyphany no.4 gives a nice context to the discussion.

But it ended being a linkless, 5 minute post because it was getting long, and was going to get lost as always, and the only thing that I really wanted was an excuse to plug a concert by erikm & ferran fages next week (wednesday 4th, 21:00) at cccb (bcn). organised by l’ull cec, a collective that is arranging lots of concerts that I usually haven’t attended because I didn’t know the artists, but end up invariably regreting 2 or 3 months later when I discover them.

Not this time.

The equally talented Chris Sugrue will be doing the same in Madrid’s Medialab. Every friday from 19 to 21pm. +info

Last, and this has been going on for some months now, the incombustible Alba Corral has created an increasingly active spanish speaking processing community, with forum, wiki and more cool projects on the way.

Edit: I almost forget that there is also an introductory workshop to computer sound synthesis taught (with chuck) by Eduard Aylon. In a couple of weeks also in hangar.