http://frey.co.nz/old art with machines Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:34:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en hey, sorry about the late notice but I'm performing at a placard (headphone) concert tonight at 2300 CET (11am Saturday morning, New Zealand time) in Poitiers, France as part of the Make Art festival. you should be able to listen to to it here: http://makeart.goto10.org/2008/?page=streaming&lang=en http://frey.co.nz/old/2008/11/placard-concert-tonight/ So, if you happen to be doing what the subject line says - drawing anything into a CGContextRef that was created using CGBitmapContextCreate - and you're seeing nothing but black, the trick is the following: you have to memset the the pixel data to all 0xFF's before you draw. For example, ... http://frey.co.nz/old/2008/11/cgbitmapcontextcreat/ From April until July 2007 I was resident with the Modulate collective in Birmingham, UK. They hosted me and looked after me and generally provided an excellent environment for me to develop my practise, to work out some things about what i was doing, and to begin to explore the ... http://frey.co.nz/old/2008/11/reflections-on-modulate-residency/ So, I'm involved in this project called RjDj, which is artistically very hard to describe, but technically, generative music via Pd on the iPhone. And it's getting a little bit real; it's interesting (great, actually) to be involved in a project generating this much attention. I made two scenes for the ... http://frey.co.nz/old/2008/10/rjdj-getting-a-bit-real/ all right, that was surprisingly painless. now running the newest most spangliest version of WordPress. huzzah! the tracks stuff is still a bit broken. i've been meaning to overhaul that for ages anyway... http://frey.co.nz/old/2008/10/mostly-back-up/ hey, this site got hacked - probably because i was running a very old version of WordPress. update, children! updating is Good! will be restoring most content soon, hopefully. cheers http://frey.co.nz/old/2008/10/site-got-hacked/ Hey, I'm at Ars Electronica, as part of the openFrameworks Lab @ars: http://ars.oflab.cc/ http://www.aec.at/en/festival2008/program/project.asp?iProjectID=14447 More updates later, possibly, if I'm not having too much fun... ;-) http://frey.co.nz/old/2008/09/of-lab-ars-electronica/ i just dug this up out of an old hard drive - it's for a project for school, back when i was studying eloctroacoustic composition at Victoria University. MP3 sociocultural meanings What it does ------------ Compresses digital audio signals, allowing them to be transmitted across computer networks with significantly reduced size and thus cost and ... http://frey.co.nz/old/2008/08/social-and-cultural-meanings-of-mp3s/ Since I couldn't find this in an easy-to-use format anywhere else, here's how you use gnuplot to plot a list of numbers sent in with stdin: (echo plot \"-\" with lines; cat numbers.txt) | gnuplot numbers.txt is a list of numbers, with or without terminating semicolons. Scientific notation is ok. (30 minutes later) ... http://frey.co.nz/old/2008/08/clever/ I've updated ofxOsc to v0.2 - now with OSC Bundle support. Check it out here. http://frey.co.nz/old/2008/08/ofxosc/