INDEX / JOURNAL // 33 entries // 2013–2021
Journal
Workshop journal
Tests, build logs, tutorials and things that caught our eye.
- Interview for Madrid Design Festival 2021 One of the best interviews I have been given, with a great team from MDF and above all from Quique Rodríguez and Pablo Coppel of BLO QUE studio, who had done their homework: they pulled out details, a
- LNO demo — 360º audiovisual performance Testing the new project «LNO» on the LouLadi set at Fluge Audiovisuales: an audiovisual concert with an immersive sound and image system. The show is built from twelve reactive screens running 12.1 so
- Interview for PSST.ONE While I was in Berlin, psst.one got in touch for an interview about my work: how the projects have evolved, the move from VJing into light, why I use TouchDesigner rather than other tools, the school
- TouchDesigner Summit 2018 As is becoming tradition, Berlin hosted another gathering this year to show work, share ideas and connect the TouchDesigner community, which keeps growing. It was called TouchDesigner Summit 2018. I w
- Philips Hue lights controlled with TouchDesigner and a NeuroSky MindWave EEG headset A demonstration of how to control Philips Hue lights from TouchDesigner using an EEG headset — the NeuroSky MindWave. I also used a Processing program to analyse the signal from the headset and send t
- Sónar 2017 — Ylia & Light Notes This year I had the pleasure of playing Sónar Festival, doing a visual set for Ylia — a fine artist, a good friend and a teacher at my school, MAD Center. We were on the Saturday at SonarLab, the Resi
- Kinnernet Catalonia 2017 Last weekend I had the chance to attend Kinnernet in Spain, held in Catalonia for the third time. It was the first time I set up Pentatonix outdoors, and it was an incredible experience. A thrilling w
- 10th anniversary of Hotel ME Madrid Reina Victoria We were invited to the event and installed Pentatonix inside the art circuit of the 7th Rooms at Hotel ME Madrid. Here are the video reports the hotel produced. Thanks to La Juan Gallery for the invit
- Javier Álvarez and Pentatonix on RTVE news Filmed around the exhibition we staged within the studio and artist circuit of Carabanchel during the ART-BANCHEL festival. More about the Pentatonix installation here: PENTATONIX . Carabanchel is tur
- ABB Robots A few days ago I finally got the chance to get up close to an ABB robot and play with it — a six-axis model. An enormous beast with astonishing strength and precision. Now that I am getting to know th
- Making of PENTATONIX, Interactive Light Instrument I was invited to the latest edition of MUTEK Barcelona to show my new project «PENTATONIX»: an interactive musical instrument, an experiment I had been working on for two years and had finally finishe
- Tutorial: syncing Ableton Live and TouchDesigner over MIDI This video walks step by step through the short demo I posted a few days ago, which seems to have caught a fair amount of interest: AV sync: TouchDesigner and Ableton Live . Both the Ableton and the T
- Tutorial: interactive mapping with Cinema 4D, IFTTT, Instagram and TouchDesigner In this tutorial on interactive mapping with Cinema 4D, IFTTT, Instagram and TouchDesigner, I want to show you the basic steps to: model a simple object in Cinema 4D, create a UV map and export it for
- AV sync: TouchDesigner and Ableton Live Testing and preparing an AV set where everything stays tightly in sync, so that TouchDesigner generates visual content at random from the MIDI notes coming out of Ableton Live , from audio frequency a
- WAVES — work in progress Waves is an interactive project that represents and animates wave systems in real time, driven by a large number of fans. This is the prototype for the final piece, currently in construction, which wi
- Deep Web — Robert Henke & Christopher Bauder I went to Berlin for the TouchDesigner Meeting organised by Derivative, and it happened to coincide with CTM. I could not leave without seeing this installation — one of the most astonishing things I
- Theo Jansen at Fundación Telefónica I already loved the videos of his creatures running along the beach, but seeing those enormous things up close was something else. What a giant Theo Jansen is.
- Working on Absolut Electrik Factory A summary of the process and the result of building bespoke lighting elements for the Absolut Electrik Factory event. A 360º summary of the light show — best viewed in Chrome.
- Transmit 2015 Transmit is the educational platform for digital culture, art and technology run by SIGNAL Festival. It brings a considerable community of artists, programmers, designers, makers, thinkers, researcher
- A motorised camera slider driven by TouchDesigner We have spent a few months tinkering with a slider for our new Blackmagic Pocket, trying to find a way to control five motors at once: slider, pan, tilt, zoom and focus. We will see where it ends up.
- Driving a 28BYJ-48 motor with TouchDesigner While testing motors for a few upcoming projects I ran into the 28BYJ-48 . As always, getting the data to Arduino over serial took some doing, but it is working smoothly now. In case anyone needs to k
- TouchDesigner — Leap Motion control A simple example of how to visualise your hands inside TouchDesigner with a Leap Motion controller.
- Interactive harp Working on new projects with TouchDesigner — this time an interactive harp driven by proximity sensors, so that one or more people can play music simply by being there, with light animations that reac
- Conductive paint & virtual MIDI I am always looking for new ways to put sensors into a space. Let's see what we can do with conductive ink.
- Digital LED strip installation demos Preparing new artistic installations and experimenting with LED strips.
- Interactive 3D real-time visuals Preparing some audio-reactive visual patches for upcoming festivals.
- Light, wood and shadows — step by step See also the post Light, wood and shadows .
- Zimoun Zimoun (born 1977) is a Swiss artist who lives and works in Bern. Self-taught, he is best known for sound sculptures, sound architectures and installation art that combine raw industrial materials — c
- Light art | Kinetica Art Fair 2013 A shimmering 5,000-pixel LED sphere, illuminated sculptures built from fluorescent fishing line, sound-reactive glowing fashion and a projection-mapped fallen star are just a few of the pieces of ligh
- Light, wood and shadows Saw in hand, paper, pencil, a hell of a lot of cable, wood, varnish… and plenty of light. Still going. But I am impatient to see it switched on. See also the post Light, wood and shadows — step by ste
- Particular things Testing some audio sync against a particle setup. This is one example from the Trapcode Particular workshop at MAD Center. Audio: Modeselektor & Thom Yorke — Dull Hull.
- Controlling RGB LEDs over OSC with Arduino and Processing An easy way to start experimenting with OSC and Arduino: a handful of LEDs and see what happens. You can work through the code in Processing and Arduino, or download the files directly: the source cod
- The BOX Remarkable work from Bot & Dolly. They are a design and engineering studio specialising in automation, robotics and filmmaking. Their raw material is sophisticated industrial robots taken out of the f
