Thought we'd point out an interesting web app that we came across on our internet wanderings.
Audiotool is a stylishly executed electronic music creation suite with a comprehensive virtual gear list including groove boxes, effects pedals, mixers & synths for jamming out tunes. There are lots of options for wiring your signal chains and you can record out to harddisk when you're finished. What makes it pretty amazing is the fact that it runs on Flash within your web browser, for free.
Howdy, jus wanted to highlight some interesting club visuals/audio-visual installations. Might be some ideas for future Second Square events in here...
Anti VJ is a visual label that does visuals experiments, installations, architecture design & live visuals. They seek to 'step away from the usual projections screens and formats, explore projections in 3D spaces and study visual perception'. Below are three examples but check out their blog, their stuff is amazing.
AntiVJ - Nuit Blanche Bruxelles - The content is a mix of 2D / 3D visuals, with mapping and architecture related projections. The second half of the video is especially unbelievable.
AntiVJ - 3Destruct from AntiVJ on Vimeo. Audiovisual installation at Biennale d'art contemporain in Louvain, Belgium. May 2007
Electric Moons is a performance for a matrix of 64 gas balloons, lights, and sound
From their website: "A room is filled with deep, evolving noises from a four-channel sound system. An eight-by-eight array of white, self-illuminated spheres floats in space like the atoms of a complex molecule.
Through variable positioning and illumination of each atom, a dynamic display sculpture comes into being, composed of physical objects, patterns of light, and synchronous rhythmic and textural sonic events. Change, sound, and movement converge into a larger form.
The height of the helium balloons is adjusted with a computer-controlled cable, whilst the internal illumination is accomplished using dimmable super-bright LEDs, creating a pixel in a warped 8x8 spatial matrix.
The sonic events, the patterns of light, and the movement of the balloons are manipulated in real time as a 45-60 minute-long performance."
Punto y Raya Festival 2007 - Excerpt from the dot·line dvj session by Mia Makela (SOLU) and Raúl Santos (Supercinexcene) at Punto y Raya Festival (Madrid, September 1st 2007).
Cubatron display at Burning Man 2007 - Pretty lights
Pablo Valbuena - The Augmented Sculpture Project - The ability to write the following is the reason that this piece is in galleries/museums rather then clubs...: " This project is focused on the temporary quality of space, investigating space-time not only as a three dimensional environment, but as space in transformation.
For this purpose two layers are produced that explore different aspects of the space-time reality. On the one hand the physical layer, which controls the real space and shapes the volumetric base that serves as support for the next level. The second level is a virtual projected layer that allows controlling the transformation and sequentiality of space-time.
The blending of both levels gives the impression of physical geometry suitable of being transformed. The orverlapping produces a three-dimensional space augmented by a transformable layer suitable to be controlled, resulting in the capacity through the installation of altering multiple dimensions of space-time.
These ideas come to life in an abstract and geometric envelope, enhanced with synesthetic audio elements and establishing a dialogue with the observer." It looks real nice too.
Kubik is an open air club in Barcelona. Illuminated water tanks are stacked to create the structure, creating a synaesthetic relationship between light/architectural structure and the (dubious) tunes to create what must be a fairly mind blowing club experience.
We've finally gotten our act together and sorted out our venue related teething problems.
We can confirm that the next Second Square to None will be taking place on 28th of June in the Twisted Pepper.
In keeping with the ethos we've laid out from the start its gonna remain a cheap day out with no admission charge and we're assured there'll be some decent discounts at the bar to boot!
So SPREAD THE WORD and check here in the coming days for a completed line-up.
Download Right here is the first of the exclusive Second Square To None Monday downloads.
"Journey through Sprung Land while sipping hot whiskey and wrapped in warm yellow blankets. Occasionally noise blurs and blizzards obstruct your view; sonic squirrels throw rocks but miss. Wooded valleys loom as dusk approaches, and then!
..it's over.
Ingredients:
#1 toy megaphone
#1 home-made baritone zither with multiple pick-ups
#1 Mac laptop running Ableton Live
#1 dictaphone with a tape I made about 10 years ago - prank phone calls etc.
#1 distortion effect
#1 autopan effect
#1 pitch shifter effect
#1 loop sampler
#1 8 channel mixer
#1 Ed Devane
This was the first liveset to be played at Second Square to None, on a freezing cold Sunday at the end of November 2008. There were no heaters in the Joy Gallery and only a handful of people in attendance (for it was 12.30pm)."
Slideshow has artwork by Redmonk that accompanies this release. Check back tomorrow for hi-res pdf of complete artwork.
Just to say again, anyone who makes music, art or any permutation of those two loose descriptions of creative output, get in touch if you think you're good enough! We are especially interested in meeting folk who make visuals / video art, people who do interesting things with lights / dynamic colour and folk willing to do cover artwork for our mini-label. If you're reading this and don't do any of those things but know someone who might, let them know.
Depending on people's willingness to invest time and effort we'd like to facilitate one-off multimedia projects at our gigs, by allowing artist of different expertise to work together. For instance a music maker teams up with a video artist to create thematically linked music/visuals; instrumentalists ("real" musicians!) work with studio boffins (those of us more comfortable making/performing music with the help of a computer) and lighting artists make a surround sound synaesthetic wonderland in a dingy nightclub; web designers versed in interactive visual software work with sound designers versed in generative audio software to make audience-controlled interactive entities etc. etc. etc.
Unemployed post-grad media students and creative veterans alike we want you.
No jobs, no future, just loads of time that could be spent doing something constructive while you wait for your dole to come through and the combination of swine flu, nuclear war, starvation etc. to really throw salt in the recession wound! Woopee!
Call back here, or check the RSS feed for those of you into that sort of thing.
Thought we'd point out an interesting web app that we came across on our internet wanderings.
To celebrate the Second Square To None site redesign we have an exclusive mellow set by Redmonk.
