[Nettime-bold] FLTR 2.0 <all things shining version>

[Curt Cloninger <curt@lab404.com>]

FLTR 2.0 <all things shining version>
[11.05.01]


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{audio}
1. Jim O'Rourke / John Cage: May '00, 2000
2. crash!media: looplabs

{video}
3. Timothy 'Speed' Levitch: Waking Life

{interactive}
4. Sensomatic: elektro eier
5. Kleber for Warp Records: LFO

{architecture}
6. Frank Gehry et al.: Disney Concert Hall Construction Photo Documentary
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1.

Jim O'Rourke / John Cage: May '00, 2000
http://www.whitney.org/bitstreams/player/player.html?selectedClip=orourke

Last week's Stereolab focus was well received, so here is further 
proof that Stereolab producer/ collaborator Jim O'Rourke is 
officially hep.  This audio excerpt is from the Whitney BitStreams 
joint of yore.  O'Rourke takes short chunks of a John Cage piece and 
tweaks them.  Who cares how or why.  It sounds very pretty.


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And finally, An old review of Stereolab's _Cobra and Phases 
Group..._, cross-referencing such luminaries as William Gibson, Run 
DMC, Steve Reich, and Abba:

http://www.pifmagazine.com/vol34/m_clon.shtml
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2.

crash!media: looplabs
http://www.looplabs.com

looplabs is a relatively complex sequencer/ mixer made in Flash.  The 
available sample library is predictably techno, but there is also an 
entire "ambient" subset of pads and loops from which to choose.  And 
of course what beat engine would be complete without the obligatory 
(yet nonetheless gratifying) tabla loop?  With a little patience, you 
can milk some pretty keen stuff out of this engine, without having to 
sound like Depeche Mode doing a 27-minute house remix of "Don't You 
Want Me, Baby."  Sound Forge makes all sorts of software like this 
for more professional uses, but the novelty of looplabs is that it 
runs in real time on the web, right there in your browser window. 
Actual mileage may vary.  Check download rates and local CPU speed 
for details.


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3.

Timothy 'Speed' Levitch: Waking Life
http://www.wakinglifemovie.com/clip3_sm.html

Timothy Levitch is that effeminate, stream-of-consciousness Manhattan 
cruise bus tour guide from the aptly named documentary, _The Cruise_ 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0784012024/lab404webcreatio>. 
Released in 1999, _The Cruise_ ends with Levitch spinning around 
between the WTC towers, falling down dizzy, and looking up.  This 
makes the buildings seem like they're falling on top of him, which is 
the point of the whole exercise.  Eerie.  At any rate, here Levitch 
resurfaces as a dream guide in _Waking Life_.  Already way cartoonish 
and surreal, Levitch seems born to be animated.

It's not that I find any of the individual things he says profound or 
even lucid; it's just the whole deal taken together; it's Levitch 
himself.  I don't know why, I just like him.  The cool thing is, you 
know he's just ad libbing this stuff, as he's done a thousand times 
before leading guided tours.  Levitch has definitely earned his right 
to ramble -- a proletariat amalgam of Spalding Gray and Steven 
Wright.  "Starring clowns."


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4.

Sensomatic: elektro eier
http://www.sensomatic.com/sensorama/shox/elektro_eier.dcr

I like this piece because it feels so lo-fi.  Most interactive flash 
things are all vectorized and futuristic.  But "elektro eier" seems 
straight from the age of vacuum tubes and self-assembled home 
microscope kits.  The audio, the visuals, and even the fuzzy behavior 
of the interaction work together to establish an electro-analog vibe. 
Click on one of the blobs, and it kind of squooshes away from you, 
but in a vague way.  Click and drag a blob, and it gradually 
gravitates back towards where it was.  Keep clicking and dragging, 
and eventually all the blobs disappear outside the viewable area. 
You can hear them moving around out there.  Click and drag on the 
blank space, and sometimes the blobs reappear.  Sometimes they don't.


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my source code

http://www2.warnerbros.com/willywonka/med/video/wilder_sings_qt_300.mov
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5.

Kleber for Warp Records: LFO
http://www.warprecords.com/lfo/lfo.html

Yet another funky interactive Flash thingy, but this one's a bit more 
advanced.  A jacked-up kaleidoscope?  A spirograph on shrooms?  It 
can output a fairly versatile range of stuff.  Whereas most abstract 
interactive web pieces leave the user with only nominal control, LFO 
really lets you do some stuff.  It's not just hit or miss either. 
Once you get the hang of the parameters, you can begin to 
intentionally craft some gorgeous movements.

Keyboard letters control the parameters (draw mode, motion blur, 
random distort, scale), numbers control the audio loops (and prefab 
synchronous motion behavior), clicking and dragging the mouse spins 
the whole thing.  I'm a fan of audio #4, draw mode E, medium scale, 
with just a tad of motion blur.  For a more grotesque experience, try 
audio #3, draw mode E, medium scale, full blur.


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6.

Frank Gehry et al.: Disney Concert Hall Construction Photo Documentary
http://www.archinect.com/frank/index.html

This project is less a testament to Gehry and more a testament to the 
architecture fans obsessed enough to follow his work so closely. 
It's an ongoing, online series of construction site photos (starting 
in June, 2000 and leading up to the present) of Gehry's Disney 
Concert Hall.  Another building might not be so interesting to watch 
develop; but this one is so funky and organic, these images look cool 
in and of themselves, even apart from to the ongoing documentary 
aspect.  At certain stages, the structure looks more like a kind of 
gnarly Venusian roller coaster.  Construction is still ongoing so 
check back every now and then to see how things are shaping up.

The architect as rock star, just as Ayn Rand prophesied.


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