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Graphic for Microsound Pi Day 2010:

Six visualizations in Blender of audio by Darren Nelsen.

Presented at Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA, 20 March 2009.

Process.

Ambigram from Al Matthews on Vimeo.

Bird Seed from Al Matthews on Vimeo.

Remapped Rain from Al Matthews on Vimeo.

Ambigram_v2.1 from Al Matthews on Vimeo.

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I design and code for computer-mediated environments.

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Real-time video slitscan, in Flex, using bitmap animation.


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Slitscanning has been an interest since I read about TxTransform in "Future Cinema" some years back. This particular slitscan algorithm comes from Golan Levin and Ben Fry, who implemented it in Java.

It reads pixel values live from a video stream, in the exact center of the playback image. Then it wipes them on the viewing canvas from right to left.

Two of the videos included here are from the Thelma project, which is my initial experiment in automated video assembly (these are by hand). The clips relate stories from Hurricanes Rita and Katrina.

Flex project, using the beta library known as Papervision3D.


Audio: Perotin


Audio: Mark Godfrey

Audioresponsive animation is in AS3 using bitmaps, actually.
These are test items, projected as a billboard (i.e., frontally).

A motion graphics piece I made for Cox Communications in 2007, while working in their Strategy and Product Development group.

The product itself remains under NDA.

However, I took the following roles:

(1) Design: research
(2) Design: UX
(3) Vendor management
(4) Full product specification

Stills and boards from a promo I directed and designed in 2006.
For CNN and British Petroleum (subsequently Lincoln Financial).

Click image below to view the spot:

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Sonic Generator commissioned this, their inaugural video installation, for performance of George Crumb's "Vox Balaenae," or "Voice of the Whale."

Each musical instrument -- flute, piano, cello -- is miked independently. The moire patterns rotate responsively, in real-time. Rest of patch was performed live over the course of 20min, in January 2007.

Sonic Generator is a contemporary-repertory classical ensemble, comprised of Atlanta-area teaching and symphony musicians.

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I'm really in the thicket here for a few days, adminwise.

Roadmap, in order of execution:

1) Brief content.
2) Rework CSS.
3) Backlogged content.
4) English language again appearing in this space.

Thanks for your patience as I scrub this thing clean.
Do feel free to reach me at prolepsis at fatmilk dot tv.

-Al