La fondation Langlois se focalise sur quelques extraits du travail de Steina et Woody Vasulka, 2 excellents vidéastes de l'europe de l'Est.
Exemple : La Machine Vision qui est un groupe d’installations qui visent à créer, par la caméra, une vision qui dépasse les limites de l’œil humain.
Allvision, I’un des premiers travaux du projet Machine Vision, et qui y joue un rôlie central, est un dispositif sphérique et rotatif qui médiatise l’expérience qu’a le spectateur de l’espace visuel. Le concept de " allvision " chez Steina Vasulka correspond à l’exploration d’un mode de voir selon une vision englobante dérivée de la machine.

Quote> A Spotlight on the Steina and Woody Vasulka fonds

The Daniel Langlois Foundation is proud to begin offering on-line access to its Vasulka Archives to coincide with the tribute to Steina and Woody Vasulka held within the 30th Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media.

The Steina and Woody Vasulka fonds, like all documents collected by the Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D), were first entered into our database so as to allow more in-depth research. Note that the Foundation doesn't systematically digitize all documents, rather only those whose physical or electromagnetic support (video, etc.) is deteriorating and those that back the findings of research conducted within our collections.

Our main goal in showcasing the Vasulkas' career and achievements is to enable people to discover the work of these two artists through innovative electronic means. A timeline we have drawn up sheds light on the philosophy driving the couple when they founded The Kitchen in 1971. This timeline closely follows the Vasulkas' career paths with a focus on their relationship with the different instruments and devices they acquired or developed with engineers. By including a selection of works, we want to stress the impact these instruments have had on the conceptual and aesthetic aspects of their art.

For their talent and dedication in getting this project off the ground, I'd like to thank Audrey Navarre, Alain Depocas, Julie Desautels, Jacques Perron, Catherine Mussely, Vincent Bonin and Angela Plohman.

Jean Gagnon
Director of Programs

Un gros chocho du DIY.

James E.Phillips est ingé son et développe ses propres machines. Une galerie à ne surtout pas louper. Le site est lent mais vaut vraiment le détour.

My name is James E.Phillips II. I am a Sound Engineer and electronic music enthusiast. I build my own Synthesizer & Recording devices. I am also into DIY tube amps & DIY tube HiFi. RetroSonik is the brand name I have chosen for my 'little creations". I have also built these musical instruments for other people. I don't take on commissions to build custom items. All of the things I build are unique,handmade devices & ,only occasionally will I put one up for sale. Look for links to pictures of my devices, also, I will put up pages outlining some of the techniques I have developed in building some of these items. There are a lot of High resolution photos, so if you use a dial up connection, turn your accelerator way up so these pages will download, quickly.
I am currently in the middle of putting together more pages of info & pictures - for DIY Synth enthusiasts and novices. Stay tuned...

Voici un russe old skool. Il a construit ses platines K7 lui-même ainsi que sa table de mix. Écoutez sa programmation chez audioarsenal.

DJ Aptem is a Russian DJ who's built a cassette tape mixing desk.

Une très belle interface de contrôle MIDI en version modulaire et française monsieur (Mont de Marsan). 32 modules en configuration de base et peut être étendue jusqu'à 128, chaque module coûte 20€ , 4 pour 60€. Des versions directement adaptées à des softs comme Traktor ou Ableton Live sont également proposées , autour de 1000€ HT. Plus d'images ici

Quote> The Mazwer is a new modular MIDI controller allowing an infinite customizable combination of controls. You can cange the configuration in seconds to adapt your studio project or live situation, day afer day, just by pluging Mowzer Modules in the Backplane, assign midi controls in your favorite software, and you're ready to play.

Mazwer will be available in June 2005. Estimated prices are (excl VAT) : empty box 550 euros, one module 20 euros, 4 modules 60 euros (example for a 16 track mixer 970 euros).

On est tous d'accord, Reaktor c'est une tuerie! Comme moi vous avez sans doute tenter de construire vos propres ensembles avec des résultats plus ou moins bons. Si vous n'avez encore rien tenté voici un lien qui va vous aider à y voir plus clair. Le tutoriel en anglais de Computer Music est plutôt bien réalisé et très pédagogique, je vous le recommande. Allez-y , lâchez vous et soyez créatif.

Reaktor may have won the 1999 readers' award for Best Soft Synth but, judging from the amount of mail we get, it's clear that a lot of you still see it as a bit enigmatic when it comes to building synths of your own from scratch. So, being the nice chaps that we are, we've digested, regurgitated, translated and rearranged the manual into something a little more coherent. In this two-part tutorial, we'll be concentrating on building a fairly basic analogue synth that can be used for lead and bass sounds, but more specifically for slow filter-sweeping pads. read more

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Le site coutant.org rassemble des tonnes d'infos sur les vieux micros. Une galerie qui rentre dans le détail de chaque modèle. Ce site constitue une bonne introduction au type de microphones utilisés dans les radios et les studios d'enregistrements. Des oldies mais aussi des micros plus contemporains. Bonne pioche!

Software gratuit de création de sons. [GleetchLAB] est disponible pour Mac OSX, la version pour Windows est prévue pour bientôt. Attention à vos HP!

[GleetchLAB] software is a complete freeware suite for sound designers and open minded musicians. Designed to create and manipulate drones, glitches and amazing digital noises with few mouse clicks. [GleetchLAB] software is a peculiar collection of instruments that you can patch togheter with a modular matrix. The suite features four stereo loopable wave readers/writers with different random loop point algorithms, one wavetable oscillator, ectoplasm generator, a sonic reducer, 3/4/5 bands parametric EQ, an amazing sonic disgregator, a granular re-synthesis engine, a 512 points convolver, a ring modulator, a 5 stereo tracks mixer with opto compressor/limiter, VST plugins implementation and a friendly spectrogram/sonogram/oscilloscope/ phase-scope analizer, as well as 2 stereo audio inputs to process several exernal sources. With [GleetchLAB] software you can create complex digital drones, design glitches and spikes with a pencil, process and reprocess samples, play live or prepare your samples for studio work. [GleetchLAB] is not a classic editor/instrument, there is no timeline, MIDI sync or sequencing. You just load samples or plug your real instruments and start manipulate them in realtime. It is an organic tool, it is perfect to create sound efxs and the most modern digital avant-garde sounds on the fly. It uses several synthesis thechniques and DSPs, and you can even use your favourite VST plugins. [GleetchLAB] is a tool designed for openminded people, researchers of the new frontiers of sound, mad scientists of the glitch art. Whether you are a sound designer or a fanatic of minimal microsound music, you’ll find [GleetchLAB] an incredible and versatile tool.
Due to the nature of digital noises, please pay attention to high sound pressures and very fast transients that may damage your speakers (and your ears), if you do not operate carefully the overall volume output.

Galerie de robots old skool. Plusieurs modèles sont disponibles à la vente. Ce n'est pas la première fois que je vous présente ce style de collection. Celle-ci est énorme, tant par le nombre que par la qualité.

Le site :

bergintoys.com

3 movies pour entamer cette semaine :

Le clip de Vitalic. C'est bon, c'est frais, ça sent le clip tourné avec 10$ de budget.

George Lucas in Love frôle l'excellence.

A young George Lucas fights writer's block while trying to complete his final screenplay for USC Film School. This satire of Star Wars and Shakespeare in Love has Lucas searching for the true origins of the Star Wars saga.

Je vous laisse découvrir le petit dernier. Pornographique ASCII

En 1978 sort un film qui connaîtra un tout petit succès : Thank God It's Friday. La bande son colle avec le style de l'époque mais c'est la reprise de Je t'aime (moi non plus) par Donna Summer et son compère Moroder qui font l'originalité de cette bande originale. Un titre de 15 minutes!
Je t'aime (moi non plus) a été repris plusieurs fois, mais là on touche du doigt le kitschissime! Ah Donna! Moi aussi je t'aime…
Dans un vide grenier d'un petit village, j'ai retrouvé le double vinyle, parfait état pour 1€, coincé entre un Joe Dassin et un Serge Lama à l'Olympia. Le pocast s'imposait! Njoy.