Ctrl Alt Shift is a documentary exploring VJ culture, featuring interviews and footage from:

• The Light Surgeons
• D-Fuse
• Hexstatic
• Vj Anyone
• Addictive TV
• Vector Meldrew
• and
• Fatamorgana

This project was created by Dean G Moore & Simon Lane.

via accentfeed

This is an example of gorgeous psychedelic generative video from flight404:

I have been working on a real-time version of the Solar piece from a couple years ago. Since it is going to be responding to people’s voices and ambient noise instead of music, I started listening to podcasts while I was developing it.

I made this video to commemorate my new found love for WNYC’s RadioLab podcast. Thanks to Branden Hall and Bill Lindmeier for introducing me to it.

I’d like to see this on some music!

Pulp Fiction gets remixed, Kutiman style, by knoertz:

What you see is what you hear!

Let me know what you think of knoertz’s remix!

This video is a demonstration of video being generated using Quartz Composer and Ableton Live:

The song is a performance of the song Now Now Now. All is done live.

There will be a tutorial showing how to set something like this up shortly.

via ThePurestData

This is a video showing a prototype of the Lumièrophone, a screen with embedded sensors that create sound in real time based on what is projected on it.

This demo shows it in action using the Walter Ruttman films Opus I and II.

We’ve featured a few videos previously that demonstrate the new Livid Block controller with Ableton Live 8.

This video demonstrates using Block to display video.

Critter and Guitari’s Color Television Oscilloscope is a $99 device that turns your audio input into psychedelic video output:

This video device has an audio input and video output. It behaves like a traditional oscilloscope, with a control to change the display mode and colors. The sweep rate is fixed at the NTSC frame rate, about 30 Hz.

One knob controls the input gain, and the other controls the display. There are 2 modes: line mode, and color shifter mode. The first half of the knob rotation is color shifter mode, and the second half is line mode. Line mode is simply a line with adjustable width and color. Color shifter mode is made up of bars that change color. The rate of change is adjustable.

Video Scope mounted to painted panel with 2 knobs, RCA audio input, video output (NTSC only), 9v power input (adapter included)

Here’s some video of the Color Television Oscilloscope in action:

Click here to view the embedded video.

These look like they could be a great effect, run off different channels of audio.

If you’ve used Critter and Guitari’s Color Television Oscilloscope, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Sunday Synth Jam: This is the latest video demo of Christian Bannister’s work in progress, Touch Loop Navigator (name subject to change!) – a multi-touch sound manipulation program.

A few months back, we featured Bannister’s Low Frequency Entity. He’s been busy since then.

I love how this combines VJ and DJ concepts, with some hardcore sound manipulation, in an interface that not only looks like it would be fun to use, but would be fun an audience, too.

New in this build of the app:

• 3D sound visuals for the texture of the sound.
• Switching between song segments with controller (old Kaoss pad in front of screen) and no I am not using Live (yet)
• Random color when new sound is selected
• Integration of the joystick array (my Costa Rica project 2007.12.28)
• Real-time effect controls (distortion, bitcrush, delay/feedback, timestretch FX)
• Zoom and rate control of the sound
• One shot effects on USB keypad next to the controller

“The essence of a new instrument is simply an elegant and effective method for manipulating sound,” says Bannister.

This is one of the most interesting new electronic music interfaces in a long time – and, it looks like a taste of the future.

Livid Instruments has announced that their new Ohm64 MIDI control surface is now available.

All controls can be custom-edited to send a variety of MIDI commands, while LED lighting can be controlled with user-defined MIDI commands. The Ohm64 is USB-powered for plug-and-play capability on Macs and PCs.

The Livid Ohm64 retails for $599 a the Livid Instruments site.

Ohm64 Features:

• USB Powered
• Bi-Directional MIDI communication
• Class-compliant: no drivers needed
• 75 Programmable backlight buttons for talk-back and interactive performance
• Programmable MIDI mapping allows you to change the MIDI settings on the hardware
• Immersion Gold Platted Circuit Boards
• Anodized Aluminum Faceplate
• Open Source software tools to create your own LED talkback interaction
• Ohm Core software included for MIDI editing, and LED talkback programming
• Cell DNA video performance software included
• Standard MIDI IN and OUT jacks
• Made in the USA by humans
• Available in Aluminum and Wood models. Wood is available in blue, red, natural, and unfinished so you can stain or paint it any color you want.

This is a demo video of 64 (Video) Fingers, a free monome audio and video sequencer, inspired by Kutiman’s Thru-You videos.

Video turntablist Mike Relm explains how he became a video mashup artist.

Relm is know for his live performances which feature audio, video, images and sound manipulated in real-time.

via wired

Audio & Visual mix by: Morris La Mantia [Lucid house]

Starring:
Patricia Arquette, Pierce Brosnan, Maggie Cheung, Doris Day, Faye Dunaway, Cary Grant, Richard Harris, Ethan Hawke, Charlton Heston, Bruce Lee, Tony Leung, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Omar Sharif, Uma Thurman, Joanne Whalley,

Film Samples:
A Man Called Horse (1970)
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
El Cid (1961)
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
Frankie & Johnny (1966)
Gattaca (1997)
Genghis Khan (1965)
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Jumanji (1995)
Lover Come Back (1961)
Monkey Business (1952)
Power Rangers
Scandal (1989)
Stigmata (1999)
The Bride Of Frankenstein (1935)
The Green Hornet (1966)
The lawnmower Man (1992)

Music
In order of Play:
Danjel Esperanza-Der Sonne Entgegen
Sam K-Desperate Housetrack
Pete Voyager-Dripfeed (Al Calavicci Nachtmusik Dub)
The Truffle Tribe-Start Funk
Lucas Tesselhoff-Body’s Perfect
ORQUESM-Teknoot
Tom Clark & Daniel Dreier-Smells Like
Cloud-Carbondub
Marco Menichelli-Special D
Kalahari Surfers-Sustainable Development
Constructus-It Don’t Mean A Thing If You A
Krushed & Sorted-Interlude 1
Trentemoller-Nightwalker

[Like these tunes? Support the musicians, search and buy their tracks.]
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download this audio-visual mix for your hand held devices [iPhone, iPod, Mobile phone] or a hi-res mpeg4 you can burn as a Video DVD.
lucidhouse.com/lucidworx/lucidhouse-06-09.htm

It’s been a long time since Microsoft came out with something cool enough to make people drool, but VPlay could break that dry spell.

VPlay is a multi-touch tabletop application that lets you mix and manipulate multiple video streams in real-time.

According to the Microsoft researchers behind VPlay:

Our aim is to explore how such an interactive surface can support and augment practices around VJing – a form of video performance art that is becoming increasingly popular in nightclubs and other music events. We conclude with observations from a field deployment, which highlight some initial thoughts and reflections on our design rationale.

That description doesn’t really do VPlay justice, so I’ve embedded another demo video below.

Check it out and let me know what you think of Microsoft VPlay!

Click here to view the embedded video.

Livid Instruments has posted some preview videos of their new Ohm64 DJ/VJ control surface, and it’s clear that we’re not going to have trouble finding sexy, powerful control surfaces any more.

Between the Ohm64, the Akai APC40 and a bunch of other cool new controllers, it’s going to be tough deciding which one is the best fit for you and your music.

Ohm64 Features:

• USB Powered
• Bi-Directional MIDI communication
• Class-compliant: no drivers needed
• 75 Programmable backlight buttons for talk-back and interactive performance
• Programmable MIDI mapping allows you to change the MIDI settings on the hardware
• Immersion Gold Platted Circuit Boards
• Anodized Aluminum Faceplate
• Open Source software tools to create your own LED talkback interaction
• Ohm Core software included for MIDI editing, and LED talkback programming
• Cell DNA video performance software included
• Standard MIDI IN and OUT jacks
• Made in the USA by humans
• Available in Aluminum and Wood models. Wood is available in blue,
  red, natural, and unfinished so you can stain or paint it any color you
  want.

The Ohm64 retails for $599. See our previous coverage of the Livid Instruments Ohm64 for more details.

Here’s another Sunday Synth Jam for you, hamageddon’s Nostromo – an audiovisual synth jam featuring Edirol CG8 Visual Synthesizer visuals and music by Klankombinat

Vistalizer is a demo of some of the visualization options available in Resolume 3 VJ software.

The music is based on Microsoft Vista system sounds.

via salzmanufaktur:

Well, that’s pretty basic: this little clip only shows 3 of dozends of FX Resolume has to offer. This program is awesome! Resolume is a VJ tool but you can resample video and audio footage “on the fly”. The new material will be saved on your harddisc for further editing in your NLE – automatically.So I made this little tune – mainly based on Vista system sounds. Then I grabbed some of my old video clips, made with Artmatic and Apple Motion. Resolume’s video FX are triggered by the audio volume.Check out the programs website for more informations: http://www.resolume.com

Mabuse is a VST plugin for OS X that lets you mashup movie files using MIDI within Ableton Live.

Features:

• Run video within a VST plugin
• Automatic Tempo matching
• MIDI controllable video fx
• Easy to use browser
• Record to Quicktime Movie

A PC version may be made available if there’s enough interest.

More Mabuse videos below.

Mabuse Tutorial

Click here to view the embedded video.

Mabuse Demo

Click here to view the embedded video.

via MabuseSoftware

Analogica – aka Jean Michel Jarre on LSD, at least according to I Have Synth – features vintage analog synthesizers animated in 3D Space.

via klangkombinat

Visual Music Composition #002 – excerpts from a live mixing session performed on 8 VCR decks with some analog feedback/delay effects.

May contain micro samples from Yuri by Meat Beat Manifesto,
Right as Rain by Deadbeat, Circus Train by Patric Dawes,
Silver Circle by Jan Jelinek and Renku Corporation.

via rhizome

This video demonstrates Jack Lykins’ Static: an Interactive Approach to Animation.

Lykins triggers video clips via MIDI and then manipulates them, using a turntable as a control interface.

The animation is cool by itself, but it’s even more interesting how Lykins uses technology to blur the lines between music and animation.

via Peter Kirn at CDM