This is a rough demo of a new iPhone music app that I plan to release in a few weeks. It’s a sort of musical instrument/meditation tool/artwork. The patterns are made from images of spinning quilts and rugs, and the audio is shifting loops of contemporary Christian music played backwards. The final version will have more advanced sound control and several modes with different samples, spin patterns, and sound options. I will probably also be porting it to Android.

I’m in a show opening Saturday, September 5th, 5:30PM - 7:30PM at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary. The show is curated by James Cope and also includes work by Brian Fridge, Amy Revier, and Edward Setina. I’ll be showing three new prints and a print/video combo.

You’re Not My Father is going to be installed at the MCA Denver, show opening this Tuesday. I got one more submission to the project since I finished it, so the version at the museum will be 20 seconds longer with the new footage. Here’s the AVISynth script that I used to edit the raw footage into the exact same cuts as the original clip:

#DJ: 271, 1267, 3130, 3744, (4210)
#close: 6744, 7565, 8704
#walk: 2905, 4750
#sit: 10702

sound=wavsource("original_audio.wav")
src1=DirectShowSource("raw_xvid_audio.avi",29.97)
#src1=DirectShowSource("dvd.mpg",29.97)

# DJ! (18 frames)
clip1start=3744
clip1=trim(src1,clip1start,clip1start+18)

# You can't tell me what to do (82 frames)
clip2start=8025
clip2=trim(src1,clip2start,clip2start+85)

# DJ walks away (61 frames)
clip3start=2905
clip3=trim(src1,clip3start,clip3start+61)

# Joey sits (216 frames)
clip4start=10702
clip4=trim(src1,clip4start,clip4start+216)

finalclip=clip1+clip2+clip3+clip4

#finalclip=tweak(finalclip,0,2.9,0,2)
#Tweak(clip clip [, float hue] [, float sat] [, float bright] [, float cont] [, bool coring] [, int startHue] [, int endHue] [, int maxSat] [, int minSat] [, int interp])

#finalclip=audiodub(finalclip,sound)

finalclip=trim(finalclip,0,340)

return(finalclip)

Since the Pi House Generator was posted on Make and some other places today and I’ve been meaning to do it for a while, I’m posting a longer sample of the program’s output. This mp3 is an hour and half randomly selected from a 10 hour recording I made recently (~100MB download).

update: here is a torrent of the full 10 hours, please seed!

update2: I’ve been told the torrent isn’t working. I can’t look into it now, but I’ll try again in a few days.

update3: A bunch of people have emailed asking about getting a copy of the Pi House program. I may release it at some point, but it needs some work to be ready for public release and it currently only supports uncompressed samples, which means the samples take up over a gig.

update4: Because I got dugg I had to temporarily remove the mp3s, I ran out of bandwidth. I’m looking for somebody else to host them…

update5: mp3s back up.

I finally updated my artwork catalog.

I meant to blog this earlier, but I have two pieces in the current show at CANADA in New York. It’s my Work Desktop prints which I’ve shown before, and a new piece called One frame of a GIF animation printed and hung above a video projection of the same animation scaled to approximately 66%. Installation image below, and the original animation is here.

As of today, my Frozen Myspace Login Page is no longer convincing.

We Make Money Not Art has posted some pics of the Holy Fire exhibition in Brussels, which includes my Color Sequencer.

Kevin Bewersdorf and I have launched a new group blog called Spirit Surfers. Don’t know where it’ll go, but join us for the ride.