Modul8 Workshop: fair - NIU Barcelona. 30 and 31 January

Wednesday, and with the experiences of the workshop this past Saturday still fresh in my head some more announcements of upcoming workshops, in fact a whole series of them, this time hosted by a regular on the GarageCUBE forums, gNomalab.

The first of these will take place at NIU in Barcelona and will be conducted entirely in Spanish. I am not sure exactly what qualifies as 'intermediate' but you can get a taste of what may be in store for you by checking out the workshops page on the VJ Spain website that features several videos of what has transpired in past editions of their workshops.

Here is a quick listing of the other upcoming workshops hosted by gNomalab:

- Modul8 Workshop: Intermediate level - Artenet, Madrid. 9, 10, 11 February.
- Modul8 Workshop: Advanced level - Artenet, Madrid. March. (date tbc).
- Modul8 Workshop: Intermediate level - Artenet, Barcelona. from 19 to 23 April.

I will post reminders of these as their date approaches.


As for me, the upcoming workshop will be in Gothenburg, Sweden as part of the PixelVärk festival. This is actually the first Pixelvark is hosted in this city. Previous editions were hosted in Stockholm, home base of the Swedish VJ Union, who that put all their energy into this effort.

You can follow the links for further details.

The workshops are free but you will have to register as they have a room with several iMacs. Because of this seating is limited. There will be a basic workshop hosted by Andreas Apelqvist and Dan Nordgren from Startsladd, for those that have never had any previous experience. The advanced class will be my domain. the basic workshop should fulfill the requirements for it.

I will post more detailed information right on this page by the end of the week.

Oh so pragmatic. Quick glimpses.

This past week was Bread & Butter here in Berlin , the international fashion fair. And what is a fashion fair without after parties and visuals to decorate these events where new trends are concocted and consumed simultaneously? A series of photos by Kriszta Turna provide a glimpse of a setup by David Szauder for a Custo after party at CHB in Berlin. David (aka Pixel Noizz) works a lot with Quartz Composer and Flash and was able to integrate these elements together quickly in order to have control over the atmosphere in the entire room. Color plays an important part in mood and this series of photos demonstrate Davids understanding of what is necessary in order to acheive this. David says "I was able to bring together my material quickly, QC compositions, .swf files, still images. No MIDI controller, mouse or any other external device. Amazing how quick and simple it was to put everything together. On top of that the client was really happy with the results."


I recently modified my keyboard. Look closely. I don't need to look at the keys anymore when I type, but when I am using my keyboard to control modul8 I like to have an alternate way of changing layer sets and for this I use the 1 through 8 keys. Fine for the numbered keys that control group A. But what about group B? The solution? Grab the 1 through 8 keys from my older, backup laptop and swap them out.


Our recent move gave us access to more space and finally ready is the production space for t-shirt printing and box assembly.


Installation, created by Fred from the Le Zoo crew in the Kab club for last weekends 4th edition of the Drum & Bass + Hardtek party. It was a 4 output setup with a Mac Pro. Connected the MacBook Pro in FireWire transfer mode so I could use my own system. Most charming. The tech was pretty much the last minute and setups were scrambled for at the last minute yielded the following setup:


After creating compositions with all of the layer sets using the library of foreground material at my disposal it was just a matter of re-arranging layer sets over time for variety sake.

If anyone has their own Korg NanoKontrol that they want to share please let me know. Would be fun to see what other people are doing with the same controller and I would gladly test them out and then post them here.


Finally would like to give a big thanks to Visual Berlin and fh.Meppen as well as all who attended the workshop this past Saturday. It was a small but very friendly group of people. Not only did they have a lot of good questions that kept things rolling along, they also communicated with each other giving the whole thing a sort of communal affair. There have been a few requests to do another. Likely in August. So if you are interested in a workshop, live in Berlin or happen to be coming to Berlin this summer please be sure to communicate so we can all get together.

First modul8 workshop for 2010!

The year is brand new but already there are several modul8 workshops lined up. The first of them is in Berlin within a few days, hosted by the near and dear Visual Berlin at a share studio space that I recently started to occupy called fh.Meppen.

This is an excellent chance to learn a lot of the basic operations of the software, and as usual, learn some methods about mapping midi controls and organizing your projects. I will also cover some of the new features such as the Sound Analysis and a quick run through controlling lights with DMX.

The workshop will be in English. The workshop is free for members of Visual Berlin and 20 euros for non-members. The proceeds go to Visual Berlin and fh.meppen. No need to reserve. Just show up and we'll find a seat for you.

The address: Schliemannstr. 37
Time & Date: Starts at 13h00, ends approximately at 19h00.

If you have any specific questions please do not hesitate to email me at support at garagecube dot com.

Look forward to meeting all who attend.

Modul8 Team wishes you a Happy New Year for 2010

The modul8 Team wishes you an exciting and productive new year. With it we bring several announcements.



We are pleased to announce update Modul8 2.6.1 and Modul8 2.5.10.

The following changes have been made in Modul8 2.6.1:

- Improved assignment of live video capture feeds.
- Fixed minor problem when updating images in a Movie Folder and added the ability to load an empty folder.
- Fixed a potential problem with DMX when quitting modul8.

In both Modul8 2.6.1 and Modul8 2.5.10:

- Fixed some small problems with the authorization/de-authorization process.

You can download the updates by using your serial number to access the 'yourspace' page located at the following address:

http://www.garagecube.com/modul8/yourspace/

If you experience any problems with modul8 please be sure to contact us at support - at - garagecube - dot - com.


HomeVJ loops!

As a special thank you gift to those who purchased modul8 within the last year, or upgraded to modul8 2.6, we present to you a selection of free video loops from the HomeVJ label.

You can access the yourspace page to download the loops.

The HomeVJ label specializes in a unique flavor of quality designed VJ loops.

For more information about the HomeVJ label visit their website at http://www.homevj.com.




Initially planned for January 4th the deadline has been extended to January 15th.

You can apply through the Mapping Festival website at http://www.mappingfestival.com with your proposals, be it a VJ set, AV performance, theater, dance, installation or lecture/workshop/presentation/demo.

If you want to present your products and/or activities (hardware, software, collective, agency, company, etc) in a space dedicated to VJing professionals, please contact them for more information at: pro - at - mappingfestival -dot - com


Best wishes,
The Modul8 Team