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

Related posts:

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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Experiments in the Revival of Organisms is a short animation exploring Dr. S.S. Bryukhonenko’s invention; the Autojector.

I have recently finished the animation which you can watch on YouTube above. It is a mixture of CGI, drawing, live action and collage.

The rather disturbing soviet propaganda video that it is based on can be viewed here.

Related posts:

1. The Guillotined Head