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Nu Gaze under the tracks…

admin — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:33:14 +0000

This Friday ( 7/08) at Kung Fu Necktie under Philly’s fabulous Blue line El tracks: The wall of sound you’ve been waiting for!

Pointcloud, Speed Skating, & Music for Headphones. Though getting out-of-genre & playing with these bands has been one of the high-points of the year, it looks like this could be my last Fishtown show for the near future. I’ll be re-locating to the wilds of central PA, where musicians & visualists hide among the trees, with their MacBook Pros balanced on their knees and … ok, maybe it’s not that remote. We’ll see!

Needless to say; I’ll miss playing in dark places under the El tracks! See you there!

VBLANK on DOS

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:06:06 +0000

DOS /?

Yeah… I’ve been cranking up the 486 again to let the soldering burns heal from my recent kit prototyping.

I decided to work on the blue-screen tan for a few days and port aalib back to DOS (the OS… not the little box in Windows Vista), for some new video insanity. This port was also my first dive into x86 assembly, and I’m read to start soldering again…

Should look good mixed down with my recent chip8 video work. … Anybody selling a COSMAC VIP?

See you at Pulsewave : )

Sweet Recovery from Bent Fest

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:56:10 +0000

Finally back at the code & circuits….

Bumped into this pic from Mark Dalzell, snapped of my first video-driven-audio performance at Bent Festival.

It went incredibly well & inspired me back to the code & circuit work. Many projects in the works.

VBLANK at Pulsewave this month!

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:12:45 +0000

I’m splitting sets next Saturday with Paris of Voltage Controlled fame!

Should be a great show. It’s fashion week in NYC, so expect a little extra 8bit flair!

This set as well as the Less than Three show will highlight my newest breadboard design with 2 controllers, and an audio input. i’ve also graduated to a pro video mixer this week, thanks to craigslist.

See you there!

No Carrier does it again… a beautiful ROM serving as flier for this saturday’s show!

What the hell is VBLANK?

admin — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:41:01 +0000

Though My debut visualist gig was in May of this year, I have finally gotten some information online.

I hope this will be an information source for my live visual performances and the chip-based video synthesizer I use. Information on my circuit and software based live visuals can be found from the links at the top.

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Special props to NO CARRIER for helping me endlessly! Thanks! More props to Voltage Controlled and Nullsleep for supporting me at Pulsewave and showing me what a few blips & pixels can lead to. Thanks to Mike ( & Susan ) at the Tank NYC for giving us a home ( now let’s find you one). & Thanks to the folks at 8BITPEOPLES for keeping the beeps & blippy goodness on the map, and making Pulsewave happen!

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