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Because every makers/creators/artists have their own universe, it is obvious that, at a particular point of their lives, they want to make the big equation of everything in order to describe it.

Indeed, we (artists), are strange people.
We want to show you everything of us, sometimes nothing, oscillations being a huge part of our work, if we can consider we are working, because I’d prefer to write we are living, instead working.. our life being our work or vice versa.

Building an universe from nothing seems to be hard.
But there are already many parts we just have to stick, to agglomerate, to join.

In my case, I’m just multiple which doesn’t mean mentally ill!

The multiple parts of myself – working together

Art takes its sense with the word technic.
Indeed, even if some doesn’t agree with that, we know art is also relatic to skill.
Britannica Online says Art is “the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others.”

How to separate skill & imagination ?
Indeed, it seems hard, but education, societies, and globally jobs & bosses tend to make you using right & left parts of the brain absolutely not at the same time, which breaks absolutely our bunch of super-powers being inside of us.
My great friend Laurent (Boghossian) agrees 100% with that and it means a lot for me as he’s one of the most accurate to explain that kind of global human theory through his books about management, self-improvement.

Indeed, you have to notice that: each Continue reading »

Small teaser of my second iOS app

Those evolving particles remind me birds.
They are all independent and generated in real time.

It will be available soon on App store and for a very very cheap price, you’ll have this app including a 13′ track by me as protofuse

Basically, it is a generative system based on objects instantiate from a global agent class.
That class implement a constructor and an update method which also draws the instance itself.

I still didn’t spoil the UI.
By touching the screen, you can see 7 sliders + 1 for sound volume.
Those 7 sliders provide a way to alter the global particles clouds behaviors, but also the design of each particle.

It is designed for iPhone & iPad (retina or not) & iPod.
It is a nice way to enter into my minimal world.

Some mobile particles

I just finished another (wow) iOS application.
It would be better on iPad, but is totally designed for iPhone / iPod too.

This is an algorithme which generates in real time particules with strange behaviours.
You’ll have some sliders to interact with the algorithm.
I hope you’ll like it.

The nice thing is: A totally new & high quality music loop by me will be included inside the app in order to illustrate on an accoustic way the strange particles cloud atmosphere.

It would be released on app store this afternoon.
It means, considering the long Apple’s process of reviewing, it would be available if everything is fine, around end of march.

Laurent interviewing me on his blog

Laurent Boghossian is a great friend and one of this guy who could build a world with 5 kg of sand only.
I already talked about him here, and I’m doing again today because he made and published an interview of me.

(if you cannot wait for reading my interview on his website, the link is .. a bit below )

I’m very moved by his words and he described very well how our both new lives have begun several months, years ago.

I’m inviting you to go there to read the interview entitled:

Design the media : Design your music like you’d like to design your life

 
I’m also inviting you to browse his blog 35nextyears.com
It is full of a lot of nice life design tips & tricks which can teach you a lot!

The latest weekend release…

Available here, I launched the protoclidean on latest saturday night.
I want to thank you all for your enthusiasm.
Launching tools for you is everytime a huge experience.

Synthtopia reviews website already reviewed and featured it.
I really appreciate that and I’m each time more honored.

Someone wrote about the fact it would contain an accent feature.
My euclidean sequencer probably won’t feature it.
I’d prefer to have constant velocity in each channel and a real scaler between each channel.
It is a bit the sequence approach I introduced with the Uncanny Sequencer with the one note per channel mode.

It forces the mind to build the sequencer VERY differently compared to usual sequencers.
There is not a process like “that channel contains different notes” but more “each channel contains one notes offering a micro approach, but the global sequencer contains 8 channels offering a more global approach”

Let’s see what YOU think about that.

The Protoclidean sequencer for Ableton Live

Announcing the next sequencer for Ableton Live. Based on euclidean algorithm, it offers a very nice & flexible way to distribute your notes in a time interval.

It will be available very soon at http://designthemedia.com/theprotoclidean 

I enjoyed to design it because I tried to use the sketch javascript object inside JSUI Max6 object.
This is a very nice way to embed UI + engine inside something that is … very fast.

I hope you’ll like this new unusual sequencer.
As you already know, I don’t like boring usual stuff.

Break the line, go where noone waits for you then become unique!

From program development to life design

This article talks about how we can design our life and what it can be related to program design.
It is my own experiences, and some I saw for some close friends too.
This isn’t the guide I could write about “How to change your life & have fun by creating your path?” but just a kind of introduction to some concepts (at the end) amongst a lot of other sweet words

This is not my best photo, but it is just me.
I’m just a human, but I decide where I want to go.

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My video generator begins to live

Designing & testing my video generator with Max & Max for Live as written in some previous posts (especially this one where you can see the global architecture), here is a very light & short video.

Thanks to Synthtopia for the review.

The video generated (in the little black window on the left) has been made with a javascript + MGraphics code designed by Darwin Grosse and provided the 02 / 11 / 12 here)
I altered it a bit in order to follow the requirements of the video generator (framework, I could add)

I’d like to make the core available for you.
We’ll see this point later but not very late

As I wrote previously, the only important point shown here in that video is the concept, not the video generated or else.
Also, I can say I’ll use it as soon as it will be fully functional.
My couple of algorithms will generated strange minimalistic videos and, all along my music performance, these videos will be altered, changed by :
- me tweaked parameters not directly related to visuals (I push a button to mute, I accelerate the tempo, I tweak a panning on this track)
- audio part of music itself (volume, frequency too)

Designing minimal elements

Dear followers & friends,
I cannot tease too much, but a bit.
The word bit is important.
It defines “the smallest element in the digital world” named Binary digIT.

I love elementary structures, because Continue reading »