Sound+Graphics(4): Seaquence 11:11

My apologies to the regular readers of Monsieur Bandit. It’s been a while since my last conf… ahum…post. Life got in the way. Nasty thing, life. You know…

Today Monsieur Bandit is back with a fourth installment in the sound + graphics series. You might remember the last one (check it out here), the “Tonematrix”, a virtual sequencer, something resembling a monome, and lots of fun to play with.

This one is quite similar, but more elaborate. And again, it looks like a great thing for people like me, who know absolutely zip-all about music but still would like to play.(I’ve got a very sad story about how my musical aptitude got crushed in kindergarten. Remind me to tell it one day…),

The “Seaquence” adopts a biological metaphor: it allows you to create musical life-forms in a virtual petri-dish, and combine them into pretty convincing compositions. It is hopeless to try and explain it with words, so please check out this video for an introduction and then head over to http://seaquence.org where you can play with the actual thing!

Try and get not too addicted…

 

Seaquence Demo from Daniel Massey on Vimeo.

 

(Found via Co.Design)

SMSlingshot 12:48

It’s stupid. I know…

 

SMSlingshot from FILE PRIX LUX on Vimeo.

 

Check out VR Urban at www.vrurban.org

Sound+Graphics(3): Tonematrix 17:19

It looks sooooo simple, yet it’s totally addictive: The Tonematrix-toy-thingy… It is in fact a sine wave synthesizer triggered by a 16step sequencer.

No, I have no idea what I just said. Just copied it from the site.

Ah, well…

Just go an play with it for a bit. Have some fun.

 

You can find the Tonematrix here on the site of Andre Michelle. Be sure to click a little further to the other sound-thingies as well…

And if you are really up for some serious music-making, check out the Audiotool by Mr. Michelle. That’s all far away from the focus of this here blog, but man-oh-man, does that look awesome…

(Found via imjustcreative)

New series: Games and Graphics 13:04

Again: a new series on Monsieur Bandit, again one with a self-explanatory title.

Of course, this is not going to turn into a gallery of big-muscled men and big-bosomed girls, tooting big Freudian guns and killing big bad political-incorrectly chosen enemies. No, sir…

Nevertheless, we kick this off with a classic : Mario. Granddad of videogames. But with a twist…

 

Super Mario Bros. from Andreas Heikaus on Vimeo.

This video is part of the Bachelor thesis of Andreas Heikaus, which deals with “matchmoving work”, the process of matching CG elements into live-action footage. Check out some more of his work here.

The (ahum) ”Printing Machine” 13:15

 

At the Festival de l’Affiche in Chaumont, France, Thomas Bernard and Florian Chevillard presented their latest invention: a printing machine. I’m sure it will turn out to be a huge success once humanity has figured out a use for it…

(Sorry, the video is in French, without subtitles, but you’ll get the gist of it…)

 

Thomas Bernard & Florian Chevillard : Festival de l'Affiche de Chaumont from Etapes on Vimeo.

 

Check out more videos from the Chaumont Festival at Etapes on Vimeo.

Have you ever seen… 12:43

“Avez-vous déjà vu…?” is a series of very short animation films, each about 45 seconds or so, made by Pierre Alain Bloch and narrated by Alain Chabat. They are all in French, but some of them are perfectly understandable whether you speak French or not and I even found one with subtitles (one that doesn’t really need it at all, but, well, alors, ça va?…). If you like them, you are in for a real treat, because there are a whole lot of them: 150 episodes in total. I’ve selected three of them to wet your appetite…Enjoy.

 

Have you ever seen… a not so perfect crime?

 

Have you ever seen… a yoghurt singing Opera?

 

Have you ever seen…the cell phone elf?

 

You can find all of the episodes on this blog : avezvous-deja-vu.skyrock.com/ or on YouTube… And can somebody please translate the bunch? Thank you.

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Fun and games: Little Wheel 15:11

Look what a beautiful little game this is….

(click picture to go out and play)                                                            (Found on notcot)