I was in a bar yesterday and just happened to watch through the entire Eurovision song contest. I noticed that along with the usual stage antics of dancers, lights, rotating mirrors and flame throwers the show sported computer-generated visuals. This reminded me of an article in Helsingin Sanomat that I cut out one year ago. […]

Jeff Minter, a cult figure in the computer game industry, has gotten his latest “light synthesizer” Neon built into the Xbox 360. Its a piece of realtime software that syncs on both audio and four joypads. I like the sample movies - they take the hypnotic, multi-layered Winamp plugin aesthetics to the extreme, […]

Inventive, idiosyncratic and international! Or how would you describe a dozen artists from several different nationalities performing inside an inflatable bubble? This is how I spent my Friday night a couple of weeks ago. Below in the pictures by Antti Ahonen the bubble is first constructed by Amoeba and then used as a projection medium. […]

The people at piksel.no are putting together a liveCD (which is a bootable Gnu/Linux CD) with Piksel software and artwork. Actant Automatique by Antti S, a small display of audio sync which is an excerpt from a larger VJ software of his, sees its first appereance there. Antti provides two mp3 tracks with the […]

Amoeba technologies from New York, USA, are visiting Helsinki 1.5-12.5. They will perform in Gloria 4.5, on La-Bas in Valssaamo, Kaapeli 6.5 and in Kolinaklubi in vuoritalo 10.5. I will be giving technical assistance during the La-Bas gig (but who knows if I’ll do some visuals). As these guys have been the VJ’s for Psychic […]

Antti S will be VJ’ing at the BANG PixelACHE Closing Party this Sunday in mbar/Helsinki starting at 20.00, and a Selfish Shellfish + Amfibio performance featuring Pauli O is setup in Nifca project space in Suomenlinna, Helsinki, this Friday at 20.00. See you there!

Made a small Open Sound Control server test available at downloads.

I have been investigating a bit of OpenSound Control for purposes of integrating my software with those of others. If the visual software had a decent OpenSound Control server, it could mean for instance collaborations with people running Pure Data. But not much is written as we speak aside from some preliminary tests. Anyway, here […]

The New Year’s Eve saw me, O-P Lehto and Teemu K. doing ten hours of visuals for Entropy, myself standing behind the desk at least six of them. Didn’t catch any sleep or see the rockets, but it’s the performance that’s important, right? Below are some photographs where the visuals are, sadly, barely visible. But […]

Pauli O, my Pseudotoad collaborator (though we rarely have chances to work together anymore), has put his image compositing software up for grabs here. It’s free and from what I’ve seen it in work, a really good and practical piece of tool. You should check out his other offerings as well.

It seems I will be […]