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Dec 31
by Frank Coleman in Art, Audio, Demo, Music, Music Video, Soundtrack, Surrealism, Video, Virtual Reality 0 comments tags: Demo, Fred Schreck, John Ashton, Mi5 Recordings, Music, Music Video, Satellite Paradiso, Video, Virtual Reality

2020 In Review

I actually got A LOT done this year. So, now I feel really guilty!
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Nov 05
by Frank Coleman in Art, Music, Music Video, Surrealism, Video, Virtual Reality, Virtual Reality 0 comments tags: Demo, Video, Virtual Reality

Frank Coleman – Jackson Pollock in VR (Music Video)

I took the largest print I could find of Jackson Pollock’s “Summertime 9a,” broke it out by color spectrum in Photoshop, exported the pieces as separate PNGs with transparent backgrounds, imported those into a virtual reality environment (Tilt Brush), built a “room” out of the pieces in 360 space, then did a fly-thru, in one unbroken five minute take, using Tilt Brush’s handheld virtual camera, which saves it out as standard 720p video. So it’s “shot on location” inside VR. The music came from an undeveloped song idea I wrote for Satellite Paradiso a few years ago. Everything you hear is me, multi-tracked, all from one keyboard.
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Oct 24
by Frank Coleman in Demo, Music, Music Theory, Music Video, Tutorial 0 comments tags: Demo, Drumming, Music, Music Theory, Tutorial

Frank Coleman – Introduction to Odd Meters in Music

In which I gives an examination of how to think about playing odd meters in a musical, aesthetically pleasing way. Topics include Take Five (Brubeck), America is Waiting (Byrne/Eno), Tomorrow’s World (Killing Joke), Tattooed Love Boys (Pretenders), Scatterbrain (Jeff Beck), 13/8, 5/4, 7/8, 9/8, 31/8, and nested rhythms.
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Oct 11
by Frank Coleman in Demo, Interactivity, Programming, Technology, Tutorial, Video 0 comments tags: Demo, Interactivity, Programming, Technology, Video

Frank Coleman – Lingo Library / Inspiration

A blast from the past – a guided tour through my Code Library that I built for myself using Inspiration (http://inspiration.com), a deceptively simple visual organization program that maps well to the way my mind works. The code is Lingo (Macromedia / Adobe Director), circa 1996, (!) but the real point here is the way in which it’s organized, and how I think about multimedia.
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