http://visualdisplayunit.org Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:06:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://visualdisplayunit.org/past-future-sequence/ http://visualdisplayunit.org/past-future-sequence/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:49:25 +0000 admin http://visualdisplayunit.org/?p=1009 The first music release using my VDU moniker is now available... For the last couple of years I have been lamenting the general lack of futurism that has been the "noughties" I really was expecting it to be a lot more like Space 1999 and THX had suggested by now. Over this period it seems [...]]]> http://visualdisplayunit.org/past-future-sequence/feed/ 0 http://visualdisplayunit.org/cascade-graphic-phase/ http://visualdisplayunit.org/cascade-graphic-phase/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:28:38 +0000 admin http://visualdisplayunit.org/?p=871 In June this year (2011) I was chosen to represent the UK at Parks In Progress 4 in Paris. As part of my submission I proposed to extend a previous project named Cascade, creating a visual element to the work. I won't go into the mechanics of the Cascade project again in this post, but [...]]]> http://visualdisplayunit.org/cascade-graphic-phase/feed/ 0 http://visualdisplayunit.org/blockwerk-orchestra/ http://visualdisplayunit.org/blockwerk-orchestra/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:46:20 +0000 admin http://visualdisplayunit.org/?p=688 ....an interactive sound installation made in collaboration with Tom Hill The Commission This work was created in response to a call for proposals by a group called Artfully Sighted. The group is made up of a handful of NRSB members with a range of visual impairments. The group wanted a piece of work that would [...]]]> http://visualdisplayunit.org/blockwerk-orchestra/feed/ 0 http://visualdisplayunit.org/toadskull/ http://visualdisplayunit.org/toadskull/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:37:06 +0000 admin http://visualdisplayunit.org/?p=671 Traditionally I upload a track as a Christmas present to friends and family, this year im just posting something i have been working on as a little taster of a new music project that i'll hopefully be sharing a lot more of here over the next year... Merry Christmas folks, and a happy new year! [...]]]> http://visualdisplayunit.org/toadskull/feed/ 0 http://visualdisplayunit.org/halloween/ http://visualdisplayunit.org/halloween/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:48:52 +0000 admin http://visualdisplayunit.org/?p=650 Halloween, but with lasers. HalloweenSwing by visualdisplayunit]]> http://visualdisplayunit.org/halloween/feed/ 0 http://visualdisplayunit.org/control-hoof/ http://visualdisplayunit.org/control-hoof/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:46:59 +0000 admin http://visualdisplayunit.org/?p=635 Custom pedal for sending on/off messages over USB. Built for use with my homemade looping software. The control hoof is pretty much just a butchered USB keypad. I tore it apart, sanded down the trace contacts on the pcb and soldered 2 sets of them up to some push to make momentary switch's. My looper [...]]]> http://visualdisplayunit.org/control-hoof/feed/ 0 http://visualdisplayunit.org/cascade-sequencer-research-phase/ http://visualdisplayunit.org/cascade-sequencer-research-phase/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:20:59 +0000 admin http://visualdisplayunit.org/?p=568 The cascade sequencer is another experiment in generative music composition. Using the Cantor set as inspiration the sequencer allows high levels of complexity to develop from a very small amount of input. This project differs from my previous sequencer experiments in that it involves no random numbers. In a similar way to the tape experiments [...]]]> http://visualdisplayunit.org/cascade-sequencer-research-phase/feed/ 0 http://visualdisplayunit.org/3d-processing/ http://visualdisplayunit.org/3d-processing/#comments Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:39:51 +0000 admin http://visualdisplayunit.org/?p=510 More Processing based procrastinating, but this time in 3d with a little help from the openGL library. Gallery after the jump... Again these images are extrusions of 2d pictures, the brightness of a pixel dictates its "height" within the 3d void.]]> http://visualdisplayunit.org/3d-processing/feed/ 0 http://visualdisplayunit.org/from-the-vaults-part4/ http://visualdisplayunit.org/from-the-vaults-part4/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:22:38 +0000 admin http://visualdisplayunit.org/?p=470 Back in the day we used to make special little intro's and stuff for our live shows. In a strange twist of fate this one actually survived all the thefts and hard drive failures, funny how the runts survive... Waterman by visualdisplayunit]]> http://visualdisplayunit.org/from-the-vaults-part4/feed/ 0 http://visualdisplayunit.org/processing-with-processing/ http://visualdisplayunit.org/processing-with-processing/#comments Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:30:08 +0000 admin http://visualdisplayunit.org/?p=446 Lazy Sunday afternoon spent tinkering with image maps, gallery after the jump...]]> http://visualdisplayunit.org/processing-with-processing/feed/ 0