Saturday 12 May 2007
I’ve been messing about with Flash and Actionscript lately, and one of my big motivations was was wanting to finish the Presonance site.
Some months ago, I started trading files with Rezo Largul, and we decided to use the name “Presonance” for our collaboration, and “Mycestene” as a name for an eventual CD. So far we’ve completed four tracks and have a couple of others in the works. The finished ones are now up, along with some pretty little visualizations (yup, there’s the Flash programming coming into play). Spacy analogue waltzes, mysterious orchestral arrangements colliding with mad electronic rhythms, a dose of Casseiopean free jazz…
Have a listen! You can download the tracks there too.
And in the acoustic world, another Toronto lamppost has been graced with its own built-in bass. Now that I’ve got a new digital audio recorder I’ll have to pay the new “Garrison Creek” bass a visit. All hail RGB for bringing more music to our parks and sidewalks!
Monday 30 April 2007
Particle simulation in Actionscript. Up to 10 particles in a simulated "container". Occasionally explodes if particles get too close (due to dividing by zero or almost zero) - common with higher number.
With one particle interacting with the container the path is regular and uniform. But add one more particle and things get crazy and chaotic. Essentially it's the three-body problem, with the container (a bowl, described by an equation something like z=kd6 where d is the distance from the origin) as the third "body".
[Update: Using SWFObject to embed Flash now. Fingers crossed.]
Saturday 3 December 2005
On the suggestion of the Spinglobe lads, who are soon to be swamped with a bigass project, I’ve started learning a little Flash, godhelpme.
Just for the hell of it, I whipped this up using a tablet and the brush tool. The drawing is scribbly, but I’m quite pleased with the motion in it. I added sound a bit later using my QS synth and a recording of me flapping a shirt, which I sped up to maybe three times normal speed. *flap*
