July 28, 2006
Earlier this week the folks who run www.audiomastersforum.net let me know that it’s back up and online after a brief hiatus. The Audio Masters Forum is the premiere independent community dedicated to discussing using Audition so it’s great that they were able to get the whole system up and running again. The forum also has a full archive of posts dating back to the original Syntrillium user-to-user forums so that they provide a unique value with continuity all the way back six or seven years. In any case it makes a for a great resource along with the official forms at www.adobeforums.com.
They let me know a few days ago but I wanted to give them a few days to work out the kinks on the new server before sending anyone over. Note that the URL is new (there was a little hiccup with the old one) so update your bookmarks.
Thanks, guys, and keep up the great work!
July 14, 2006
Last month the San Jose Mercury News ran a cool article about how the tech guy for Madonna’s current tour, Jason Harvey, uses the Adobe Production Studio backstage to edit, manipulate, and play out all the dozens of video feeds that are shown on huge video screens throughout the show. (It’s since been picked up by a bunch of papers, so you may have seen it in your own local paper). As Jason says, the whole production is more theater than concert but I think it’s fun seeing this kind of video work done during an ostensibly music event. It seems like this is part of the same popularization of “VJs” doing video remixes live as their own art, just at the very high end of the production value scale. In any case, I see these collisions of video and music just happening more and more in the future.
March 23, 2006
Durin, a member of the Audition testing team, send me one of the more interesting links I’ve seen in a while to this video. The basic concept is a sound sequencer that uses pieces of music videos to recreate music that you send into the system by microphone. Basically, beat box or talk into the mic and the system will grab slices of a music video to play back to recreate that sound as closely as it can. And of course the snippets of video play back, too, for the visual part of the show. Sven Konig, the creator of the system, also walks through the basics of how his system works. Recommended watching if you want to see something strange and new!
March 16, 2006
This may not be the most powerful sequencer in the world, but I’m betting it’s the only one that is powered by sheep. I found it too funny to resist mentioning it. Plus, for some reason I can’t quite place, seeing interesting uses of Flash seems particularly compelling to me lately.
(via Music Thing)
February 26, 2006
I mentioned a few posts ago that we could have a Sydney get-together for Audition folks after the seminar on Tuesday and got a few posts and emails, so we’re on! The seminar runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday so I figure I’ll be ready to head out about 4:30 after I allow for time to tie up the loose ends. We’ll have scouted out a place we can go hang out and get some drinks, and during the seminar I’ll mention where we should all congregate after the seminar (probably in the back of the room somewhere). See you tomorrow!
P.S. The posting is still on west-coast US time, even though it’s Monday for me here near Brisbane. Just to make sure it’s clear, the seminar is on Tuesday Sydney-time
