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[Paris Treantafeles]

Hi Jean and List,

Haha... you saw that remark about the $4 video mixer!

First off you sound busy and that's cool.
I'd like to see more activities to encourage open source here.
Unfortunately, there's not much.
In fact, I don't know of anyone else doing visuals in NYC with Open  
Source.

My set up is similar to yours.
I really like video synthesis - meaning: creating the images from  
scratch often using the same ideas behind analog audio synthesis but  
to create video. I do a lot of this in Pd. I also edit down some of  
this to clips that I then have fun with using Gephex.
I have two laptops that are pretty old (both from a company that i  
used to work for).
One is 600 MHz and the other 800 MHz.
Since neither has the power to do everything live (process incoming  
audio, filtering, etc. then creating visuals from it), I come up with  
minimal Pd patches on one laptop and Gephex on the other.
I found this mixer for $4.00 - it's an "Ambico" made in the 80's for  
making home video tapes.
Very cheesy fades and so on.
Composite ins and out.
In doing some cleaning and fixing of the wires, I seem to have done  
something weird to the cross fade.
At first I thought it was bad and kind of embarrassing then I  
realized that i actually liked it - a glitchy mixed up signal  
combination! So I started using it as an effect :-)

The commodore64: that i bought a year ago for $1 - sometimes i use it  
live but since i don't have a floppy disk drive for it that's kind of  
a pain unless you like to see live coding. So sometime I just type in  
some basic programs then save then send the video out to another  
machine to record and make clips out of it. Some of the best stuff  
that I do when I play shows with chiptunes music performers are done  
by putting these commodore64 clips into gephex.

Both the video mixer and the commodore are things that I bought at  
yearly sale to support a local library.
It will be happening again next week so I'm hoping to find some other  
old and cheap gear to play with :-)

Best,
p

On Sep 9, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Jean Habib wrote:

> I`m very happy to see this conversation
>
> I`m having made some presentaions with other VJ`s software 4linux,
> like gveejay, PD+PiDiP and DelVJ... but no one has the same flow for
> VJ work as gephex...
>
> Last year i made a serie of workshops around Brazil teaching (n
> learning) how to use open source software to work with
> multi(hyper)media.. GePhex was one of the most software that I teach..
> Sided by Cinelerra, Kino and Blender... this series of workshop has
> been made with people from diferent places n formation, as part of
> government project called "Cultural Hot Spots" with consists in give a
> Free Studio - runnig a ubuntu dapper MOD - with cams, mics, web
> connection and wotkshops around tactical midia construction... GePhex
> was  an important part of the process. While Brazilians talked about
> new Digital Television patern we talked on how make TV with free
> software and copy left licenses for the contents.
>
> Next weekend I`ll perform on a psy RAVE called MADA in transe, where
> Alien Project will DJ... I`ll use GePhex and DelVJ in a vs with a MAV
> running EDO, another dataflow VJ software
>
> my researchs now are focus on PD - for VJ and Stream - and arduino, an
> open hardware...
> Hey paris talk a little more about this think with commodore64 and a
> $4,00 mixer... I like these recycling very much...
>
> On 7 Sep 2006 07:07:40 -0000, flavius.32139898 at bloglines.com
> <flavius.32139898 at bloglines.com> wrote:
>> Hi Pierre,
>>
>> > ok, i love talking about myself :)
>>
>> :D
>>
>> > so, with Gephex
>> i do :
>> > - live performance in clubs/concerts/bars with few huges midi  
>> controlled
>>
>> > graphs,
>>
>> Do you have pictures from performances of the MIDI controllers
>> and the show?
>>
>> > at the beginning i was using Gephex with many many little
>> graphs with
>> > many many differents things
>> > but with time, i now use just
>> few graphs but complex
>>
>> Can you share one of those huge graphs? I've also
>> been going from little solutions to more complex ones and  
>> interested to see
>> how others are doing it.
>>
>> > (and in this context i also use sometimes PD+Gem
>> for 3d things)
>>
>> You control 3D elements in realtime? video please!
>> check
>> out this amazing vvvv-controlled 3d mesh by sanch: http:// 
>> www.sanchtv.com/?p=9
>> . Do you believe in aliens?
>>
>> >
>> > - workshops about multimedia/livevideo
>> and linux
>> > and in this case Gephex is really really great because people
>> understand
>> > quickly what happen,
>> > in 1 or 2 hours people can have a basic
>> (or more) use of the program and
>> > can do interestings things
>> > and this
>> is very very nice
>> > voila :)
>> >
>>
>> Couldn't agree more. Although many of
>> my students have found the GUI a little non-standard, especially  
>> adding a
>> new module and connecting GUI elements to it, but they got over it  
>> after all.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Flavius
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>
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