This video was debuted as a looping video installation included in the Uncharted show at Hayes Valley Market, May 2008.

I just finished building, or rather stitching together my first complete wearable device, the Whisper audio wristband. I have researched and experimented with soft electronics, interactivity, sensor technologies, and conductive fibers for some time now, but this is the first standalone device that I have created that incorporates all of these concepts. Whisper was conceived as a simple wearable audio device that would be lightweight, comfortable, and provide an engaging and simple interface that was capable of producing interesting noises. I had recently been working on AVR code for sound synthesis for my Whispering Islands installation, and saw this as a good opportunity to try and create an interactive and wearable unit. The synthesis is done using an AVR ATTiny45 chip programmed to run a simple FM routine using a 256-point sine wave table. Carrier frequency is controlled by the brown button-knob, and the FM modulator frequency and amount are controlled by the pressure sensitive fabric pads. The tiny speaker will resonate with certain settings, creating some occasional loud squawks. Otherwise, the device creates some quiet, but subtly wonderful sounds.

I also installed a 3-minute video loop that I recently finished, and a pair of acrylic-on-paper works.

• wait~ - outputs a stored value at the end of a ramp - sort of like a really special sah~. helps to prevent clicking when randomizing or changing parameters of your sampler or granular voice
• shot~ - signal-triggered, uninterruptible ramp output. Length in milliseconds. busy output helps when trying to manage polyphonic setups.
• cshot~ - signal-triggered, uninterruptible sample counter with synchronous ramp output. Length in samples. I’ve always wanted a signal-triggered sample-counter.

Download Mac UB Objects

This small collection is still a work in progress, so any feedback or complaints are welcome.

Course Outline:::
Jitter Night School 2007
Instructor: Andrew Benson

Course Outline:::

Day 1 :: Intro to Jitter, the Matrix, and Interaction
- Intro to Jitter features
- What is a matrix?
- Using the Jitter documentation (html ref-pages, help files, etc.)
- Jitter data flow
- Matrix as data container
- Audio/Max interaction with Jitter
- Brief intro to Quicktime

Day 2 :: Focus on Video
- Quicktime in Jitter
- Playing QT movies
- Real-time editing in Jitter
- Grabbing input from external video devices
- Recording to disk
- Compression
- Compositing/Blending
- Crossfades
- Keying/Alpha-channels
- jit.op for mathematical blends (additive,subtractive,difference, etc.)
- Filtering, Blurring, and Feedback
- temporal vs. spatial filters
- creating bit maps from images
- convolution
- intro to feedback (named matrices, jit.wake, etc.)

Day 3 :: OpenGL, Slabs, and other advanced topics
- OpenGL lesson
- Deconstructing an OpenGL patch
- the OpenGL matrix format
- applying textures
- blending, layering, and depthbuffering
- Using Slabs for Optimized Video Processing
- What is a slab? What is a shader?
- Optimized transfer of video using UYVY color
- Intro to the provided shaders
- Quick look at a shader program?
- Performance and Live-video concerns
- Using a second display (projector)
- Preloading, RAM vs. Disk-access
- Basic Optimization strategies

Class Patches:::
Day 1 patches
Day 2 patches
Day 3 patches
Jitter Demo Patches

Jitter Recipes:::
Jitter Recipes-Book1
Jitter Recipes-Book2
Jitter Recipes-Book3

Third-Party CV externals:::
Jean-Marc Pelletier’s CV.JIT
David Rokeby’s SoftVNS
Wesley Smith’s Misc. Jitter Externals

Other Awesome Jitter Users:::
Anton Marini - AKA vade.
Joshua Goldberg
Randy Jones
Sue Costabile

Video Downloads:::
Video-Tracking Test Footage
Archive.org- Ephemeral Films,Open-source Video,etc.
VJ Forums Content Finding Forum- Browse the threads here for links to all sorts of short clips in every theme.

—-Not Jitter-specific, but some useful info and inspirations:—-

Traditional Authors:
Giuseppe Arcimboldo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo
Giacomo Balla: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Balla
Mikalojus Konstantinas ÄŒiurlionis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciurlionis
Theo van Doesburg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Doesburg
Marcel Duchamp: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp
Wassily Kandinsky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky
František Kupka: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/František_Kupka
Paul Klee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Klee
Étienne-Jules Marey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étienne-Jules_Marey
László Moholy-Nagy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/László_Moholy-Nagy
Piet Mondrian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian
Eadweard Muybridge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge
Georgia O’Keeffe: http://www.okeeffemuseum.org/indexflash.php
Alexander Rodchenko: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandr_Rodchenko
Arnold Schönberg: http://www.schoenberg.at/default_e.htm
Alexander Scriabin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Scriabin
Alfred Stieglitz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz
Synchromism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchromism

Classic Audiovisual Authors:
Wladimir Baranoff-Rossiné: http://www.baranoffrossine.com/museum/index.cfm?SelectLang=English
Jordan Belson: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Belson
Mary Ellen Bute: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Bute
Stan Brakhage: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/brakhagestan
Louis-Betrand Castel: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/castellouis
Larry Cuba: http://www.well.com/~cuba/index.html
Tom DeWitt: http://people.wcsu.edu/mccarneyh/fva/D/Tom_Dewitt.html
Charles Dockum: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/dockumcharles
Viking Eggeling: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/eggelingviking
Oskar Fischinger: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger
Mary Hallock-Greenewalt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hallock-Greenewalt
Hi Hirsh: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/hirshhyfolder
Len Lye: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Lye
Norman McLaren: http://www.nfb.ca/portraits/fiche.php?id=285&v=h&lg=en
Nam June Paik: http://www.paikstudios.com/
Hans Richter: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/richterhans
Alexander Wallace Rimington: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/rimingtona
Walter Ruttmann: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/ruttmannwalter
Daniel Sandin: http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vidsynth/sandin/sandin.htm
Harry Smith: http://www.harrysmitharchives.com/
Léopold Survage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léopold_Survage
Edgard Varèse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgard_Varèse
Bill Viola: http://www.billviola.com/
James Whitney: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Whitney_(filmmaker)
John Whitney Sr.: http://www.siggraph.org/artdesign/profile/whitney/nobio_intro.html
Thomas Wilfred: http://www.lumia-wilfred.org/
Iannis Xenakis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iannis_Xenakis

Contemporary Animations:
J. Walt Adamczyk: http://www.johnadamczyk.com/filmvideo.html xvid
Bill Alves: http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/
Bret Battey: http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~bbattey/
Michael Betancourt: http://www.michaelbetancourt.com/art/telemetry/
Liubo Borissov: http://www.music.columbia.edu/~liubo/bohor05/index2.html
Peter Bosch & Simone Simmons: http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/vida/paginas/v6/eaguas.html
Chris Casady: http://www.naptime.com/flash/artexercises/
Robert Darroll: http://www.iotacenter.org/visualmusic/profiles/darrollrobertfolder/statements
Jeffers Egan: http://www.jeffersegan.com/
Jim Ellis: http://emsh.calarts.edu/~jim/
Robin Fox: http://www.synrecords.com/label.html
Francesco Gaffuri: http://www.francescogaffuri.com/
Andrew Garton: http://www.toysatellite.org/agarton/2004/01/floating_point.html
André Gonçalves: http://www.ctrl.tk/
Robert Hodgin: http://www.flight404.com/blog/
Rumi Humphrey: http://refresh.vu/primera.htm
Samantha Krukowski: http://www.cm.aces.utexas.edu/faculty/skrukowski/
Stefanie Ku: http://www.dioskouroi.org
Anne-Sarah LeMeur: http://aslemeur.free.fr/
José Lopez-Montes: http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/user_page.pl?url=lopezmontes
Andrew Lyons: http://www.users.bigpond.com/tstex/
Stephanie Maxwell: http://www.rit.edu/~sampph/Works.html
Dennis Miller: http://www.dennismiller.neu.edu/
Bärbel Neubauer: http://www.spiralsmorphs.de/
Scott Nyerges: http://www.nyerges.com/
Richard Reeves: http://www.awn.com/qas/profiles/richard.htm
Joost Rekveld: http://www.lumen.nu/rekveld/wp/index.php
Aaron Ross: http://www.dr-yo.com/
Jøran Rudi: http://www.notam02.no/~joranru/wtca/index.html
Michael Scroggins: http://emsh.calarts.edu/~aka/papers/Absolute_Animation_and_Immersive_VR.html
Robert Seidel: http://www.2minds.de/
Semiconductor: http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/root/soundfilms.htm
John Stehura: http://cyberanimation.tripod.com/index.htm
David Stout: http://nfold.csf.edu/
Rob Switzer: http://www.archive.org/details/Study_One
Ying Tan: http://www.uoregon.edu/~tanying/index.html
Telcosystems: http://www.telcosystems.net/
Shawn Towne: http://web.mac.com/towne/iWeb/shawn/towne.html
Edward Zajec: http://www.dam.org/zajec/

Contemporary Installations/Performances:
Actop: http://www.actop.net/
Richard Bailey: http://www.imagesavant.com/
Benton-C Bainbridge: http://www.benton-c.com/
Steve Beck: http://www.stevebeck.tv/
Coldcut: http://www.coldcut.net/coldcut/
Dienststelle: http://www.dienststelle.de/
D-Fuse: http://www.dfuse.com/
Scott Draves: http://draves.org/
Granular Synthesis: http://www.granularsynthesis.info/
Peter Greenaway: http://petergreenaway.co.uk/
Edwin van der Heide: http://www.evdh.net/
Kurt Hentschlager: http://www.hentschlager.info/
Chika Iijima - Zach Layton: http://www.imagima.com/
Hfr-Lab: http://www.hfr-lab.com/
Speedy J: http://www.speedyj.com/newsite/index.html
Randy Jones: http://2uptech.com/
Skoltz Kolgen: http://www.skoltzkolgen.com/
Ryoichi Kurokawa: http://www.ryoichikurokawa.com/
Ulf Langheinrich: http://www.epidemic.net/geogb/art/gs/ulf/indexgb.html
Golan Levin: http://www.flong.com/
The Light Surgeons: http://www.thelightsurgeons.co.uk/
Jarryd Lowder: http://jarrydlowder.com/
Glenn McKay: http://www.glennmckay.to/
MELA Foundation: http://melafoundation.org/main.htm
Finn & Robin McNicholas: http://ultre.co.uk/
Nokami: http://www.nokami.com/htm_en/01_0.htm
Alva Noto: http://www.alvanoto.com/
otolab: http://www.otolab.net/
Jack Ox: http://www.bway.net/~jackox/
Scott Pagano: http://www.neither-field.com/index.php?page=bio
Power Graphixx: http://www.power-graphixx.com/
Reactable: http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/
Curtis Roads: http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~clang/
Ben Sheppee: http://www.eoptica.com/sheppee/
George Stadnik: http://www.photonlightguitars.com/index.html
Jennifer Steinkamp: http://jsteinkamp.com/
UVA: http://www.uva.co.uk/
The Vasulkas Inc.: http://www.vasulka.org/
Leo Villareal: http://www.villareal.net/

Resources:
Center for Visual Music: http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org/
The iotaCenter: http://www.iotacenter.org/

Other Links:
arika: http://www.arika.org.uk/
Ars Electronica: http://www.aec.at/en/index.asp
Center for Brain and Cognition: http://psy.ucsd.edu/chip/CBC2.html
Ernest Chladni: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Chladni
Experimental Television Center: http://www.experimentaltvcenter.org/
Fred Collopy: http://rhythmiclight.com/
Color organ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_organ
Richard Cytowic: http://cytowic.net/
Dissonanze: http://www.dissonanze.it/home/home.php
EMAF: http://www.emaf.de/
The Fischinger Archive: http://www.oskarfischinger.org/
International Congress Synaesthesia, Science & art: http://www.sinestesia2007.info/
Lumia manuscripts: http://mssa.library.yale.edu/madid/showthumb.php?id=mss&msrg=1375&msrgext=0&pg=1
Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Montevideo/Time Based Arts: http://www.montevideo.nl/en/index.html
The New York Digital Salon - Abstract Visual Music: http://www.nydigitalsalon.org/11/index.htm
NOT STILL ART Festival: http://www.improvart.com/nsa/
NOTV: http://www.notv.com/
Optronica: http://www.optronica.org/
Piano Optofonique: http://optophoniqueeng.heatherodonnell.info/
Prometheus Institute: http://prometheus.kai.ru/
Oliver Sacks: http://www.oliversacks.com/
Sonar: http://www.sonar.es/portal/eng/home.cfm
Sons & Lumières: http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Manifs.nsf/AllExpositions/E4B6AD56B6DA4B2FC1256DD600561C77?OpenDocument
Transmediale: http://www.transmediale.de/site/
V2-Institute for the Unstable Media: http://www.v2.nl/
Video Synthesizers: http://www.audiovisualizers.com/toolshak/vsynths.htm
Visual music: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_music
Visual Music: http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/visualmusic/
Visual Music Marathon: http://www.music.neu.edu/vmm/
What Sound Does a Color Make?: http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/exhibitions/whatsound/what_sound.htm
White Noise: http://www.acmi.net.au/wn_white_noise.jsp

Books:
Expanded Cinema, Youngblood, P. Dutton & Co., 1970, http://www.ubu.com/historical/youngblood/expanded_cinema.pdf
Experimental Animation, Russett - Starr, Da Capo Press, 1976, ISBN 0-306-80314-2
The Sound of Painting, von Maur, Prestel, 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2082-3

Sons & Lumières, von Maur - Rousseau - Cooper - Levin - Lista - Kahn - Duplaix - Kihm - Szendy, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2004, ISBN 2-84426-244-9
Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900, Brougher - Strick - Wiseman - Zilczer, Thames and Hudson, 2005, ISBN 0-500-51217-5
audio-visual art + vj culture, Faulkner/D-FUSE, Laurence King Publishing Ltd., 2006, ISBN 1-85669-490-9

I will be adding to this as time permits:

• “The Production of Space”, Henri Lefebvre.
• “Rhythmanalysis”,Henri Lefebvre.
• “Collecting Contemporary”,
• “A Thousand Plateaus”, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
• “1000 Years of Non-Linear History”, Manuel DeLanda.
• “Invisible Cities”, Italo Calvino.
• “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense”, Friedrich Nietzche
• “Hardware Hacking: Handmade Electronic Music”, Nic Collins
• “The History of Sexuality”, Michel Foucault
• “Six Memos for the Next Millenium”,Italo Calvino
• “Tractatus Logico-Philisophicus”, Ludwig Wittgensteing
• “The Question Concerning Technology”, Martin Heidegger
• “A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity”,Manuel Delanda.