DEMO: Max/MSP to USB/RS-485 converter to Mondomatrix LED Matrix

Posted on August 17, 2011 by ian

Garth Zeglin and I figured out a workaround, so that the Mondomatrix Led matrix could run off of a USB to RS-485 converter.

With the related patch, only max or max runtime is needed. No need for a microcontroller or arduino coding.

Here is a link to the max patch

I am having difficulty hosting the runtime version at the moment. Please let me know if you want direct access for now.

Here is the compressed code:

 

 

 


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Some thoughts after a summer of thinking

Posted on July 19, 2011 by ian

It’s been a long summer. I’ve read lot. I have a lot to say. In retrospect, its been hysterical.

hys·ter·i·cal (h-str-kl)
adj.
1. Of, characterized by, or arising from hysteria.
2. Having or prone to having hysterics.
3. Informal Extremely funny: told a hysterical story.
hys·teri·cal·ly adv.
the free dictionary.com

Some of the stuff here I need to unpack. passionate, cryptic and sincerely silly.

More to come in the comments

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Virtual Michael Collins

Posted on April 26, 2011 by ian

When Alberto Aguilar visited the Zoller Gallery at Penn State in October, 2010, Irina Arishtarkova’s “Contemporary Issues” class was met with the challenge of presenting him with hospitality. Amidst an array of interactive media that we handcrafted for him, one particular piece seems ripe for sharing “Virtual Michael Collins”.

Since Michael would be away in Hawaii at the time, witnessing his mother’s completion of the “Iron Man” contest, we made certain that he would still be available in some capacity.

The original version of this used green screen technology to place the Zollery Gallery in the background.

Hours of fun, warmth and shenanigans were had by all.

Our group consisted of:
Joseph Bolstad: (audio editing / content creation)
Ian Brill: (programming / interface design / theatrical content contribution / audio editing / content creation)
Michael Collins: (acting / green-screen recording)
Mayuko Kono: (theatrical content contribution / audio editing / content creation)

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Transmission 1

Posted on November 25, 2010 by ian

Here are pix from my current, immersive, audio/visual installation at “707 Penn” galleries, in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh!

Visuals were handled through Max/MSP/Jitter-Arduino-Sparkfun’s RGB LED Matrix Backpacks and individually shaved RGB LEDs inside of custom-built cabinets.

Audio is handled using an 8 channel, custom surround sound system I built using maxforlive

It is up until the Feb 20. Be sure to check it out if you can!

@ "707 Penn" Gallery- Photo by Joey Kennedy

@ "707 Penn" Gallery- Photo by Joey Kennedy

@ "707 Penn" Gallery- Photo by Joey Kennedy

Posted in Animation, Audio, Audio / Visual, Digitally Assisted Visual Improvisation, Generative, visual | 3 Comments

Salmon Run

Posted on December 15, 2009 by ian

Transmission: Salmon Run, 2009
Flash animation and custom max/msp A/V construction, melded through an automated Jitter effect sequence

The work is formed by two video feeds. On the left are 3 compound blobs morphing between themselves, struggling for identity. On the right is an “oscilloscope” read representing parametric changes to the performed audio.

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“A Challenge to the Uniqueness of the Absolute Infinity in the Nature of God”

Posted on December 11, 2009 by ian

“A Challenge to the Uniqueness of the Absolute Infinity in the Nature of God”, December 2009
Generative A/V installation

Made using max/msp by layering LCD objects. Birds are modulated polygons drawn using randomly generated coordinates. The landscape is composed of layered histograms, each displaying randomly generated data.

At an impulse, the limit of my interest in the creation of a self-regulated digital-ecosystem as I approach the theories of Georg Cantor, given Pantheism. An ironic hell.

Through various means of filtering random data (representing nature) into self-governing sets, new pantheistic solipsisms are created. Does this suggest that we each have the powers of a god, or have I merely excised a manifest destiny?

Ian Brill, December 2009

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“After Géricault”: Generative Recontexted Digital Film and Soundscape

Posted on December 8, 2009 by ian

“After Géricault”
(How Many Preparators Does it Take to Screw in a Lightbulb?)
- Ian Brill, 2009 

Premiers Friday December 11th,
as part of “Behind Our Scene” at Space Gallery, Pittsburgh

A one-pass sample. The piece has no beginning or end, and is always different.

Addressing both the “The Raft of the Medusa” and the reutilized premise of “changing a light bulb” this generative work uses modern digital tools and illusions to present the processes and recordings of an artist as an ever-changing image, or painting.

While addressing both the brutality of the Romantic painting and the necessity of fellow laborers to laugh off the harshnesses of life, through the unexpected abstraction of a familiar reality this work invites the viewer to retreat farther into a state of nature to consider our own motives and chosen roles in society.

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“A&E Presents: Megan Fox” (a Self-Portait)

Posted on September 13, 2009 by ian

A moment of reflection.

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SATURATION #9

Posted on August 14, 2009 by ian

SATURATION #9, Video

Music: “SideBlinder” by Ian Brill, 2008

Made entirely out of White Noise, resampled using the Ableton instrument “Sampler” and audio effect “Beat Repeater”, and various sends.

I used custom software to provide improvised video accompaniment.

This work is the final study of a series inspired by Kurt Hentschläger’s “ZEE” and  the “Machine Improvisation” show at the Wood Street Galleries in Pittsburgh, 2009. 

While my mind is riddled with endless notes, observations and inspiration from these works, I decided to formally cap the series with this engineered ambiguity of minimalism and dramatic expression.

Each creative limitation becomes leverage within another creative dimension. I immersed myself in this project for the first half of 2009, exploring options for self-regulated and decentralized image exploration (as it was magnificently done in “12_Series,” by Telcosystems,) sating a hunger left over from experiencing “ZEE.”

Like most of my generative work, what I am sharing with you now is just an excerpt. It is from a larger performance that has no definitive beginning or end. I am looking forward to Saturation #10.

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