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• 03.29.10
  Sharing screen madness Random | (0)

  Sharing screens in Skype is a useful feature, and you might even find some interesting side-effects from abusing it by making a screen shot of the shared screen, send it to the other and make a screenshot of him showing it and sending that, ad infinitum. You get the idea, a video feedback loop - bit of a convoluted way to do it, but who cares? Anyway, notice the colour change towards yellow? Who is stealing my blue?! Video Feedback, the easiest way to create fractals!

  Tagged: color, colour, skype, video feedback, weird
  
• 03.15.10
  Tetsu Kondo and his instruments Design, Music | (0)

  The past Sunday I visited Upgrade! #7 in Eindhoven. This event is part of a larger network that aims to bring technology and art together and give exposure to artists/designers/engineers/anyone really who aims to combine these in their work. That night the stage was set for Tetsu Kondo, a Japanse artist in residence at MAD Eindhoven. He has spend over 10 years building his own instruments, both analog and digital. Continue Reading...

  Tagged: art, generative design, instruments, Music, tetsu kondo, video art, vj
  
• 03.15.10
  Why does our musical scale have twelve notes? Mathematics, Music | (0)

  So you see, by getting into all that Jazz music, I do notice that my knowledge about music theory is a bit sketchy. I especially have trouble counting quickly between different tones. I need this to figure out how to form a chord. Say, I want to C Major chord. I know that I need the Prime, Major Third and Major Fifth for that. I just learned that to be C, E and G. I can recall this pretty quickly now, but that's only because I have memorized the combination of root note and interval. When I want to do the same ...

  Tagged: learning, making music, Music, music theory, notes, semitones
  

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