Bertrand Gondouin - Max-MSP

Multimedia as a helping device in dance teaching and choreographic process

Bertrand Gondouin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:00:00 +0000

I'm giving a workshop and lectures at the Choreography Department of Tallinn University,Estonia.24-26th april 2008.

What happen when the body becomes the only interface ? How can the body learn, play and compose an audio-visual artifact ? How does it affect creativity and emotion. Can the body function as a visual instrument ?

Topics:

Presentation of the Laeterna Machine Digital Dance Collective
Overview of electronic devices, sensors and their usage
Overview of mainstream electronic devices and their usage
Live video mixing history and interactive visuals software
The virtual space: Social Networks and VR
Drawing in space: from gesture to artificial intelligence

Workshops:

Live Video Editing, Motion Tracking, Video Publishing on the internet, 3D drawing with the Wii Controller. and my Tag Cloud!

fLiM - Nordic Light Hotel - Stockholm

Bertrand Gondouin — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:00:00 +0000

I'm in charge of the live visuals for the first fLiM!

fLiM will be a once-a-week hang out place for lovers of ambient, electronica and visuals at Nordic Light Hotel in Stockholm, starting January 9th 2008.

Guest DJ: Ola Bergman (New Speak)
Guest VJ: Bertrand Gondouin

Onsdagar | 20-01 | Nordic Light Hotel
Gratis inträde | 18 år

Wii remote + Bluetooth + Max-MSP + aka.wiimote + HTTP request + Apache + PHP + XML-RPC + SLS Second Life = 16 seconds delays

Bertrand Gondouin — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:27:00 +0000

Proud of first experiments with the Wii remote (wiimote) and Max/msp (Videos), I´m experimenting now interactions between the wiimote and Second Life!

But 16 seconds delay is a bit too much for real time interaction. I need to find a better way.

Interdisciplinary Studies Course, Konstfack, Stockholm

Bertrand Gondouin — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:00:00 +0000

I'm guest lecturer at Konstfack for an Interdisciplinary Studies Course organized by Nadia El-Imam (more info below). I will present a short history of live visuals production tools and software + projects I'm involved in. Students will be invited to mis/use my "Sramble" software using their own digital materials. Scramble will be used in an semi-immersive environment / fake Second Life using the Wii remote control as the main control interface.

Course Background:

As we spend more and more of our time socialising and conducting the business of our everyday lives Online, we see the rise of economies of the virtual; over the past eight years alone, Real-money trade of virtual property ('RMT') has burgeoned into a 2 Bn USD market. With the emerging visibility of new relationships and communities we see the emergence of new forms of ownership related to the accumulation of meta-data; these can be seen as attempts to obtain outwardly extending, all- encompassing ownership of information as opposed ownership of content, or enclosures of information. In order to identify and meet the challenges these developments pose to our lives in general and work in particular, we need to understand human experience in these environments. Exploring relationships between embodiment and enclosure as related to ownership is a central concern, obliging us to revisit what we know about how and what it is that distinguishes between how we function in bodied and disembodied contexts.

Course Description:

We are de-constructing idea of ownership as related to embodiment and the boundaries of integrity or ìthe state of being wholeî. This obliges us to revisit what we know about how and what it is that distinguishes between how we function in bodied and disembodied environments. With its central concern with the implications of ìpost humanî experience and embodiment, the course finds its natural home and setting in Second Life (SL), the Linden Labs online platform, and students are expected to participate in related seminars and lectures. Students are also expected to make presentations that explore and relate the different aspects of implementation using the Second Life platform with ones they make in a designated physical space.

Rehearsals in Toulouse

Bertrand Gondouin — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:09:00 +0000

Laeterna Machina is having rehearsals in Toulouse at the "Pavillon Mazar" !

Wii and Dual screens experiments! More videos

Wii immersive 3d - Didactic Forest sent by b_gondouin

Wii immersive 3d sent by b_gondouin

Podesk is featured as "Interesting Work" on the Cycling74 website !

Bertrand Gondouin — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:23:00 +0000

Cycling74 is my favorite software company! I have created Podesk Publisher with theirs programming tools Max/MSP and Jitter

About Cycling '74

Cycling '74 creates and distributes Mac OS and Windows software and hardware for audio, video, and new media innovators. Products include the Max/MSP/Jitter graphical programming environment, the Pluggo, Mode and Hipno collections of Max/MSP-based audio plug-ins, the Radial loop-based composition and performance system, the Octirama and UpMix advanced surround design tools, and the interactive algorithmic composition program M. Cycling '74 also releases creative musical works through their c74 recording label and audio source libraries for musicians, sound designers and media producers through its Cycles series. http://www.cycling74.com

Scramble

Bertrand Gondouin — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:45:00 +0000

The Scramble software is my playground when experimenting with live video. It's a kind of Magic Lantern into which you can throw any kind of picture and animate it – I feed scramble with my own drawings, videos or photos – or start drawing from scratch in a 3D space.

Scramble has its roots in film history. One of its animation effects is a remake of the Zoetrope, a pre-cinema technology. Inspired by Orson Welles, I have also created a Soft/Deep Focus effect that simulates the depth of field of the traditional camera.

Technical details:

Unlimited numbers of layers
GPU image processing with shaders
Live video input, and image grabbing
Controls: sensors, midi, audio, Internet
Output: HDTV resolution 1920*1080
Language: Max/Msp/Jitter

Grains & Pixels at the Big Love Gallery

Bertrand Gondouin — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:40:00 +0000

2004-10-25 | until october 30 2004 6 p.m. -8 p.m

A red ball, some dot matrix prints, beautiful music, real attractors and AI goodies.

Bertrand Gondouin, Jacob Munkberg och Kristofer Sunden Ringner will be working in house and invites you to follow Grains & Pixels - a collective creation where the limits between the workingprocess and the final product is blurred. Similarly to old school painters who manufactured their own oil and colors, Grains & Pixels create their own software and interfaces.

The galleryspace will be filled with historic (and nostalgic!) references and a dokumentation of the workingprocess that culminates in a performance on Saturday the 30th October at 6 p.m. Welcome!