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Pseudotoad http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog Helsinki based crossover of software production and media art who take a sociological and philosophical stance towards technology Sun, 22 May 2005 14:49:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Eurovision visuals 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 ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/eurovision-visuals/ Minter’s realtime visuals go Xbox 360 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 ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/minters-realtime-visuals-go-xbox-360/ Collaborations with Amoeba et al 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 ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/collaborations-with-amoeba/ Antti S at PikselLiveCD 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 ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/a-silvast-at-piksellivecd/ Amoeba Technologies (US) in Helsinki 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 ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/amoeba-technologies-us-in-helsinki/ Pseudotoad at PixelACHE 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! http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/pseudotoad-at-pixelache/ OSC test Made a small Open Sound Control server test available at downloads. http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/osc-test/ OpenSound Control 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 ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/opensound-control/ New Years Eve visuals 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 ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/new-years-eve-visuals/ Edo - an image composition program by Pauli O and New Years Eve by Antti S 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 ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/edo-an-image-composition-program-by-pauli-o-and-new-years-eve-by-antti-s/ Thoughts on Umo Jazz House gig Well well, the last night’s gig was just as fun as I anticipated. Magnus Zinmark played a crossover DJ set of spy jazz, samba, hip hop and electro, and my colourful pseudoanalog looking visuals seemed to back that up really plausibly. This is an audiovisual connection I would like to ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/thoughts-on-umo-jazz-house-gig/ Umo Jazz House gig This will come with an extremely short notice (since I didn’t know it myself three hours ago) but it is still probably worth mentioning that I’ll be doing some visuals for DJ Magnus Zingmark (KOOP) at UMO Jazz House tonight from 22:00 to 03:00. The music should be jazz combined ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/umo-jazz-house-gig/ Piksel04 aftermath I’ve returned from piksel.no at Norway and the spirits are high. The very openness of the open source community was an eye-opener and I’ll try to contribute to that scene in the future. Greetings fly out to all the people I met, it was interesting talking to you. Check out ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/piksel04-aftermath/ Piksel04 in Bergen, Norway! The gig autumn already seemed alarmingly quiet, but just recently we were invited to perform at piksel04 in Bergen, Norway, where Antti S’s programmed visual fripperies will be joined by the amfiphile media artist Teemu K. The pair aims at exploring the boundaries between software and art and will exhibit ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/piksel04-in-bergen-norway/ Pseudotoad summer The Koneisto festival, ISEA 2004 and flow’04 festival are finally done with and the Pseudotoad crew is feeling justifiedly exhausted. Two weeks, six gigs and one Baltic cruise with multimedia posse is a lot to handle - plus Antti S even managed to release a couple of demos ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/pseudotoad-summer/ Links to interesting projects Just updated a diversified bunch of upcoming gigs to our calendar. Why not audit them? Plenty of interesting projects running over and about the net: check the open source dynamics engine ODE; the small realtime render engine with audio analysis, Fluxus (whose aesthetics surprisingly resemble Antti S’s figurines, possibly because they ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/links-to-interesting-projects/ Antti S involved in Amiga demo Antti S, Markku Reunanen and Jarkko Rotstén decided to hack together a demonstration for Amiga-AGA (receiving additional help from Yrjö Fager and Petri Isomäki), and a VJ esque bravura of black and white catastrophie clips emerged! Called Chrysler, it placed first at Motorola Inside 2004. Versions for various platforms as ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/antti-s-involved-in-amiga-demo/ Yellow Rose of Texas at Scene Awards 2003 Scene.org has posted the combined jury comments on all the Awards 2003 winners. Here is what they had to say about Yellow Rose: “A short yet powerful performance, displaying an expert use of attractive colors and camera view points. One of the best examples of generative code, as it cleverly ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/yellow-rose-of-texas-at-scene-awards-2003/ Weathermatrix system at Korjaamo An automated version of the Weathermatrix-software will be displayed in the Master of Arts exhibition of University of Art and Design Helsinki. Date & time 30.4.2004 from 19:30 onwards, location Korjaamo near Raitiovaunumuseo in Töölö, Helsinki. Not actually a graduation work of anyone, but the work was invited anyway. http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/weathermatrix-system-at-korjaamo/ Yellow Rose of Texas won at Scene Awards The Yellow Rose of Texas won this year’s scene.org awards for the best 4k intro. Head to their site for brief results. http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/yellow-rose-of-texas-won-at-scene-awards/ Photos of Weathermatrix at Kiasma Pictures from the Kiasma gig of Weathermatrix updated to gallery. http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/photos-of-weathermatrix-at-kiasma/ Weathermatrix performances Two performances of the Weathermatrix were given in Kiasma Theatre and attracted quite big an audience of clearly over 100 people each time. I’m really glad about all the positive feedback we got, although many people (including Helsingin Sanomat) assumed a connection between the showing of weather pictures and the ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/weathermatrix-performances/ Weathermatrix at Fylkingen The first batch of Grey Zone: Weathermatrix performances were given in Fylkingen @ Stockholm and seemed to be a success. Props to all the people in CNCD, Nursery (the organisers in Stockholm) and Pixelache for help, patience and of course, the opportunity - it was a very nice gig ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/weathermatrix-at-fylkingen/ Disco, Weathermatrix and The Communist Manifesto Disco are about to embark on 4 gig promo tour and Maippi/Amfibio, Pauli O and Antti S will provide the visuals as usual. There will be 4 new songs and hence the same amount of new visual clips. No performing though as the videos will be shown from tapes. See ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/disco-weathermatrix-and-the-communist-manifesto/ Greyzone gigs updated Exact time for all three Harmaa Vyöhyke (or Greyzone, if you prefer) performances updated to gigs. http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/greyzone-gigs-updated/ CNCD Harmaa Vyöhyke Added the CNCD Harmaa Vyöhyke gigs that we’re supporting to upcoming gigs. Exact time of the Pixelache performance to be announced. http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/cncd-harmaa-vyohyke/ Micery demo Micery is finished. Head to downloads to get your own copy. http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/micery-demo/ Altparty demo - Micery All right, the Altparty draft version of the latest Antti S/Markku Reunanen collaboration Micery is finished and released for Mac OSX. I’ll post a more complete news item and put the prod for download once the Linux/Windows/etc ports are finished (probably this week). In the mean while you may ... http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/altparty-demo-micery/ The Alternative Party starts today! The Alternative Party starts today at Helsinki and although there’s almost nothing assembled as we speak, we should release a demo there. We’ll know that in a few days time, won’t we. http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/the-alternative-party-starts-today/ Old news Older news here. (Will be blogged some time.) http://www.anioni.com/pseudotoad/blog/archives/old-news/