Cyclo (Carsten Nicolai & Ryoji Ikeda) - ID

  On 5/13/2011 at 2:47 PM, Lianne said:

This CD is mind bending. Brilliant stuff.

 

This will sound stupid, but I am a little put off by the emphasis on the visual aspect in the press stuff surrounding this release. I feel like I'm only getting half the experience, or something.

 

Still, great sounds! :)

Raster-Noton says "later on there will be a publication with an extensive presentation of their visuals."

So fingers crossed this means at least a DVD release (Blu-Ray?!)

I too am put off purchasing for now, since I do not have an X-Y Oscilloscope lying around, but will definitely pick up a DVD/Blu-Ray release if one turns up...

  On 5/15/2011 at 12:03 PM, feltcher said:

Raster-Noton says "later on there will be a publication with an extensive presentation of their visuals."

So fingers crossed this means at least a DVD release (Blu-Ray?!)

Christ I hope that's gonna be a DVD

This is so beautiful. Ah I just love the nice arrangement of these beautiful bass waves

If it just was a bit more complex but it's still very nice

  On 5/15/2011 at 12:03 PM, feltcher said:

  On 5/13/2011 at 2:47 PM, Lianne said:

This CD is mind bending. Brilliant stuff.

 

This will sound stupid, but I am a little put off by the emphasis on the visual aspect in the press stuff surrounding this release. I feel like I'm only getting half the experience, or something.

 

Still, great sounds! :)

 

Raster-Noton says "later on there will be a publication with an extensive presentation of their visuals."

So fingers crossed this means at least a DVD release (Blu-Ray?!)

 

I too am put off purchasing for now, since I do not have an X-Y Oscilloscope lying around, but will definitely pick up a DVD/Blu-Ray release if one turns up...

Up... Finally got around to checking this out with visuals. IT'S FUCKING CRAZY. Holy shit!

It's pretty easy to track down a software phase scope, I'd recommend it highly. I'm not a programmer at all but I cooked one up in Processing in one night cribbing from a bunch of examples. There's a Reaktor module as well. All you do is plot the amplitude of the left channel on the X-axis against the amplitude of the right channel on the Y-axis. Or the reverse, it doesn't really matter. HIGHLY HIGHLY worth it.

Ooh any chance you could post that Processing code please?

Sure, I can post it later tonight. It's no big thing though. I snagged basically the whole thing from the minim (this is the Processing library for audio) Quickstart guide. If you want to puzzle it out, just build the oscilloscope example here:

http://code.compartmental.net/tools/minim/quickstart/

and then change the part that draws lines to draw points with location (left amplitude, right amplitude) instead.

Okay here ya go guys. You'll need the GSVideo library installed if you want output an mkv, as I am doing. Otherwise you can comment that jazz out.

You'll also need the Cyclo wav of your choice in a “Data” subfolder of your Processing sketch folder.

Here's the output mkv from ‘Id#05’ if you're super lazy and just want to see what it looks like. Note to modz: there's no audio in the file, it's the visuals only: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1903376/id_05.mkv

Noobish code ahoy…

import codeanticode.gsvideo.*;
// import processing.video.*;
import ddf.minim.*;
import ddf.minim.signals.*;
import ddf.minim.analysis.*;
import ddf.minim.effects.*;
GSMovieMaker mm;
Minim minim;
AudioPlayer player;
AudioInput input;
void setup()
{
 size(360, 360);
 smooth();
 frameRate(30);

 mm = new GSMovieMaker(this, 360, 360, "test.mkv", GSMovieMaker.X264, GSMovieMaker.BEST, 30);

 minim = new Minim(this);
 player = minim.loadFile("id_05.wav", 512);
 // input = minim.getLineIn();
 player.play();

 mm.setQueueSize(50, 10);
 mm.start();
 // background(0);
}
void draw()
{
 // things
 background(0);
 // stroke(0, 0.1);
 // fill(0, 0.1);
 // rect(0, 0, 720, 720);
 stroke(255);

 for(int i = 0; i < player.bufferSize() - 1; i++)
 {
// line(i, 50 + player.left.get(i) * 50, i + 1, 50 + player.left.get(i + 1) * 50);
// line(i, 150 + player.right.get(i) * 50, i + 1, 150 + player.right.get(i + 1) * 50);
point(180 + player.left.get(i) * 180, 180 - player.right.get(i) * 180);
// point(360 + player.left.get(i + 1) * 320, 360 + player.right.get(i + 1) * 320);
// line(360 + player.left.get(i) * 360, 360 + player.right.get(i) * 360,
//   360 + player.left.get(i + 1) * 360, 360 + player.right.get(i + 1) * 360);
 }
 loadPixels();
 mm.addFrame(pixels);
}
void stop()
{
 // close AudioPlayer
 player.close();
 // close AudioInput
 // input.close();
 // stop minim
 minim.stop();

 mm.finish();
 // stop top stop method
 super.stop();
}