If you just can't get enough of social networking, Andreas Tolf Tolfsen has setup a Jamoma group at identi.ca.
We wrote and submitted conference papers on some new parts of the Jamoma framework structure to the ICMC and DAFx conference. While waiting for the DAFx review, we are very glad to announce Tim's presentation entitled "A Flexible and Dynamic C++ Framework and Library for Digital Audio Signal Processing" at the ICMC at Wednesday June 2nd!
Also, Pascal Baltazar will present a paper at the ICMC on a project which uses Jamoma: ``Virage : Designing an Interactive Intermedia Sequencer from Users Requirements and Theoretical Background''.
Further, Jamoma developers Pascal Baltazar and Théo de la Hogue from the Virage team submitted a request for comments to the Open Sound Control developer at CNMAT for a query system using OSC.
www.jamoma.org got a new web design. Thanks to Julien Rabin for all the work. See his blog post about the redesign.
Moviestar is an interactive installation by Marieke Verbiesen & Neeltje Sprengers. The installation moulds old and new media together in order to create a reallife moving filmset. Classic 16mm film, animation, robotics, sound and motiontracking are used to simulate a real life filmset where visitors play the mainrole.
Moviestar from marieke v on Vimeo.
The visitor can see his or herself on a large screen as an actor in a movie surrounded by monsters, UFO´s and other surrealistic events, which they controll realtime themselves.
The installation forms a tribute to the young history of Special Effects, that through the years has evolved in high tempo. The first use of special effects suddenly opened up oppertunities for filmmakes with a low budget to realise their fantasies and create movies by putting together different filmed scenes, and blend animation with real actor recordings.
Like the brothers Sid & Marty Kroft, who started their filmstudio from their garage in the late 1970´s, where they used clay, wood and gardenutilities to create filmsets for their series “Land of the Lost”. In this series a family travels through a timewarp loophole and gets stuck in a strange world where history and future times meet. While getting chased by dinosaurs and haunted by aliens they try to find their way back to the world they came from while being in an enegmatic zone where time and location are unknown, they soon realise they can find their way back by discovering the meaning between past, present and future.
In “Moviestar” visitors get a look in front and behind the scenes in a strange world in which they play a role, and control events themselves. Using several old and new techniques to create this reality.
FIAT LUX was a collaboration between Josefin Johansson, Daniel Sørensen and Ricardo del Pozo for Oslo Fashion Week, dressing models through the use of video projections, and receiving rave reviews:
In times of financial crisis, recession and too much focus on commercial values in the fashion industry, it’s such a joy and relief to see that there are still a few dedicated souls out there, who create, not with the purpose to make money, but with a pure and honest ambition to share a creative vision, to give us a soulful experience in between art, happening and fashion. Josefin Johansson, designer and stylist for Surferosa and Daniel Sørensen, both fashion designer and light designer and the winner of Project Runway, in a collaboration with AV designer Richardo del Pozo, gave us the most mind-blowing performance last night at Dansens Hus. I don’t think anyone in the audience expected to see a traditional fashion show… we all know that Josefin and Daniel are far from conventional fashion designers, but still, the fantastic, short and intense performance they gave us completely blew our heads off!
Three naked models entered a huge black stage and positioned themselves in the spotlight. Then the show started. Their naked bodies were transformed from blanc canvases into art objects in a spectacular show of light, patterns and colors. It was so clean and simple and still one of the most powerful presentations I have ever seen. We were not allowed to take pictures with flash, because that would have ruined the show, but for those of you who wants to experience a little moment of magic, take a look at YOU TUBE.
More pictures can be found here.
For the show Ricardo controlled video using Jamoma and his Jamoma adaptation of Video Projection Tool.
Moviestar is an interactive installation by Marieke Verbiesen & Neeltje Sprengers.
The installation moulds old and new media together in order to create a reallife moving filmset. Classic 16mm film, animation, robotics, sound and motion-tracking are used to simulate a real life film set where visitors play the main role.
A miniature robotic film set forms the background for the movie, while interactive animations come are activated once a visitor enters the film set.
In front of a green screen on the other side of the space,
the visitors movements are tracked in real time, both sound and image
respond their movements. Projected into a world that consists of
monsters, UFO´s and other slightly surreal events, visitors can
control animations by by moving in front of the camera. Jamoma, cv.jit and FTM were used for live video analysis, processing and control.
Moviestar was presented at Filmhuis Den Haag September - October 2009.
There are always lots of things going on with Jamoma development, thanks to the growing community of people contributing. These developments are available through the source code repository - these should also make it into future installers and releases. Here are a few highlights from the last month:
The Multiplayer by Marlon Schumacher is a MaxMSP-based application
for general purpose multichannel file playback and ambisonic decoding,
developed as part of the OMprisma Library for IRCAM’s OpenMusic 6.1.
It is implemented as a set of modules complying with the Jamoma framework.
Multiplayer 0.1b7 is now available as part of Ircam Forum.
This is not the way Jamoma modules should look like.
For everyday work with Jamoma, I personally like the JamomaGraphite color scheme. But for a performance situation, where you want a darker background, you should check out JamomaNoir or JamomaKulerQuietCry.Demo: DOT Mapper + Jamoma from Joseph Malloch on Vimeo.