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DEMF 2009

Movement 2009 is scheduled for Saturday, May 23, 2009 thru Monday, May 25, 2009 in Hart Plaza in Detroit, Michigan. This is the 10th year of the festival. See you there !

Droid: Interface 26 Aftermath

Silent Servant @ Droids Interface 26 from drumcell on Vimeo.

DJ set by Silent Servent of Sandwell District at Droid Behaviors 26th Interface warehouse installment.

Interface 26 from CyberPatrolUnit on Vimeo.

CLP and D2 @ the Vine Bar
ME space

I broke; I finally caved into the MySpace generation.
http://www.myspace.com/cyberpatrolunit

OFF the GRID

Wow. My last post was in October ..
Anyway; I am doing Brokenbeat this Saturday, stop by, say hello, and check out the latest

VJ CPU @ Interface 23

VJ CPU at Droid Behavior’s Interface 23.0
Playing with Richard Devine:

Playing with Jimmy Edgar:

Xenophanes; Ambient AV
3L live - Deepermoods 7.26.08

CPU using 3L live @ Deepermoods underground dance party.
3L explanation;
I have a object called a ‘plain’ - with it I have various video clips (previously captured
in 3L) mapped to the surface of the plain. XYZ size values of the ‘plain’ are reacting to
the mic audio input on my laptop.
Next, I have deformation ‘amount’ AND ‘random’ [...]

Deepermoods - vjFader & CPU

Deepermoods = kick-ass underground dance parties throughout Los Angles.
Recent event footage from July and June, 2008.

Lemurized; newscool Reaktor template by Antonio Blanca

Lemurized newscool; Complements of Antonio, and will be available to the public soon.
What is newscool ?

Newscool is a Reaktor classic – now it’s completely rebuilt, with an innovative
sequencer (at the top) and the characteristic sound engine (at the bottom).
The engine consists of a tone generator on the left and a multi-effect unit
on the right. The [...]

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This is a live visual jam hot off the press.
The music and visual is captured in real-time; notice the ‘itunes’ at the beginning of the clip.

Music by Arovane
Visuals by CPU

Mapped for Logic; Tremolator

Tremolator
emulates the tremolo effect of classic guitar amps such as the Fender, and even the great tremolo sound of the Wurlitzer electric piano. Add dynamic control of speed and depth that lets the tremolo respond to the music. Then toss in MIDI sync to lock to your tempo. Oh, yeah, then [...]

AVjamming Pt.2

Some more 3L AVjamming
Three objects, with various parameters reacting to audio. Each of the three objects react to low, mid, and high frequencies. The audio input in 3L is line-in, so the signal is clear. Sometimes using the built-in mic, just don’t cut it.

AVjamming.2 Live from CyberPatrolUnit on Vimeo.
The Lemur is controlling the scene space, [...]

Live 7 - Operator and Lemur

Here is the Operator in Live. I have the 4 oscillators and LFO mapped in Lemur.  Add a phaser, and some fancy Lemur MIDI mapping, and this is the result:

Live 7 - Another look at the Operator w/ Lemur from CyberPatrolUnit on Vimeo.
If there are any Live / Lemur users out there, download the project [...]

Turbo Scum @ BrokenBeat

Turbo Scum @ Brokenbeat July 5th 2008 from Accent Creative on Vimeo.

Mapped for Logic; GATEboy

Gateboyis an advanced gate sequencer which allows to add motion to any audio. It includes a swing-capable sequencer with up to 16 steps having individual levels and two working modes. Each step can trigger the flexible envelope generator with multiple forms and unique shaping options such as lag processor and modulation saturation.
Here is the plug-in:

This [...]

BrokenBeat July5th - Turbo Scum Live_AV
L-2-3L

CPU >>> Licensed to 3L from CyberPatrolUnit on Vimeo.
I whipped this up today in just a few hours. Original music by Julian and Bryant.
Check out the full audio track (T3-Loop) over in [Audio]

Official; Licensed to Thrill

It’s official; CPU is now licensed to 3L.

link to download

Justice Using CPU’s Vectory Lemur Template On Tour

JazzMutant recently added a blurb about Justice using Lemurs - “touring extensively over the past year, showing up at various festivals including Coachella in the US, the Fuji Rock Festival in Japan, the Roslkilde Festival in Denmark and Dour Festival in Belgium”
And I noticed something interesting ..

Justice is using team Antonio and Bryant’s Vectory [...]

3L Public This Week; Plus New Sequencer Feature

This is the new 3L Movie SEQUENCER:
(also known as the ‘media cell’)

What can this do ?

The user can apply the 32 cells to a time-line, and apply the slider to automation.
The user can have the audio triggering the clips in the cells.

Or apply a single graph to it and have it step through the clips [...]

VJ’ing in 3D Space

Here is a 3D .obj file - imported into Thrill.
The source clip is 5 mins, here is the preview ..
 VJ loop - WooFA [preview] from CyberPatrolUnit on Vimeo.

3L Experiments …followup

 3L Experiments from CyberPatrolUnit on Vimeo.

Visuals with THRILL via Lemur

I’ve been testing THRILL for a while now, and I have to say the software is downright deep. Here are a few features that I have been using the most:

Font Synthesizer

character, word, and line cycling modes

Lighting

light positions
specular
diffusion

FX Engine
3L Objects

complex mesh objects and supershapes
draw / render modes
importing 3D .obj files
x and y vertex amounts
deformation

[...]