These are some old prints that I made for an exhibition called Ishihara, back in 2008. They’re created using a tool I built called Rotator, which degrades vector drawings as they are printed to a bitmap, whilst following the path of a random wander. I found them on an old hard drive and thought I’d share.

On reflection, the morphing shapes mixed with simple line drawings remind me of James Paterson’s work over at presstube or Victor Taba’s animations (but not as good as either). I’ll see if the hard drive has the Rotator AIR app these were made with on there somewhere too, it could be fun to play around with adding some colour and using more complicated vectors.

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1. Recursive Polygon Subdivision
2. Illustrated IChing

Just a quick (and slightly belated) announcement.

The distinguished Bandcamp has recently been regaled with another round of audio-visual snacks. I’ve had a lot of fun working on them, and there will be even more in the not too distant future.

The whole Bandcamp site in fact is bursting with more and more tasty new features which you should check out. In terms of my little contribution on the music visualistions front, there are currently four new full fat flavors to feast on…

Ribbons » which uses my Papervision3D Ribbons Class and is designed for crunching riffs and hard beats.

Strata » which was inspired by stream-graphs and rock formations, and flows like a charred pizza in a log-flume along an imaginary Teflon oven dish.

Plughole » which comprises of disembodied appendages and iconography encapsulating the zeitgeist of generation stupid – mashes the aforementioned archetypes up into crumbs before offering them to the esophagus of oblivion.

Hypno » which was designed to bring about universal harmony and spiritual equilibrium but accidentally caused the credit crunch.

You can see them in action by visiting an artist’s page (such as Hot Bitch Arsenal or Pattern), hitting play and selecting a visualisation from the pop-out menu underneath the cover art.

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1. Bandcamp Music Visualisations
2. AS3 Music Visualisation
3. Disabed Algebra

Screenshot taken from ‘Sharing My Pigeonhole’

Disabled Algebra is a showcase for the incredible music of Jason kerley, aka Blackpepper.

It was also my first venture into Actionscript 3.0, using the computeSpectrum function to visualise streaming audio.

Disabled Algebra is build around a 3D engine I put together, which uses Fuse to tween the camera in 3D space. There are also four distinctive music visualisations, one for each track on one disc of the release.

All visualisations are dynamic, and some interactive also, so play with the mouse. They utilise a basic Actionscript 3 mp3 player I built to stream the music, and the user can scrub through the track with the visualisation reacting as they do so.

Check out some Actionscript 3.0 sound visualisations on www.disabled-algebra.co.uk. Project no longer online

You can buy Blackpepper’s music from Dirty Demos

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1. Bandcamp Music Visualisations
2. More Music Visualisations
3. AS3 Music Visualisation

I became interested in the I Ching after reading biography of Philip K Dick, who used the I Ching to establish a lot of the content for his novel ‘The Man in the High Castle’.

There are several interesting visual adaptations of the I Ching, such as the Photographic I Ching and AG Muller’s I Ching Holitzka, however these seemed to either appear dated or at least not represent a more western interpretation of the hexagrams.

I decided to begin a project based on the narrative of the I Ching, and produce appropriate but also contemporary illustrations for the I Ching hexagrams. The idea was that not only could the Illustrated hexagrams be read in the traditional manner (as a result of coin or yarrow stalk divination) but also could be arranged into arbitrary sequences and actually create new stories and narrative ideas (As Philip K Dick had done)

I intend to use some of the initial ideas from my current illustrations to produce a full set of 64 hexagrams in the future, for now though you can see the current set of illustrated I Ching hexagrams here.

If anyone is interested in prints, please contact me. Also, I would be keen to hear ideas about how these could be adapted, for example I was considering building a Flash application for performing readings, decorated by animations based on the Illustrations.

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