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2 V-P Makes Performing Live with Quartz Composer Effortless, Powerful
Apple’s Quartz Composer has long enabled beautiful, intricate generative and responsive visuals, often even with simple patches. But assembling its compositions into something with which you can perform is more of a chore. 2 V-P isn’t the first attempt to wrap Quartz’s interactive visualizations into a performance tool. But it might be the most practical. […]
Read moreNew TouchDesigner Goes Gold, with Free Sharing, Ableton Live Sync, More
From top: TouchDesigner powering the Plastikman show, Steve Mason’s Chapichapo. If you’ve been watching big-league visuals lately, things that made your eyeballs roll out into the crowd, odds are TouchDesigner might have been some of the software in use. The tool, established in years of use but perhaps little known outside a few select circles, […]
Peter Kirn - November 18, 2011
Archive Motion Music tech
Plastikman Visuals, Condensed to 60 Seconds
Pacing live visuals over the course of a performance can be a key to its success, so it makes this 60-second timelapse of the Plastikman (Richie Hawtin) show all the more compelling to watch. You have a sense in this condensed version of how color and imagery are mapped to the flow of the performance, […]
Peter Kirn - October 17, 2011
Archive Motion Music tech
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