A collection of time-lapse scenes that I shot while on vacation in Toronto recently, photographed using my Canon G9, with help from CHDK and an intervalometer script. I used VirtualDub to process the 3,000+ photos into actual video. The music is an untitled track that I started back in 2007, but never got around to finishing.
Here is a rad new video by my annoyingly prolific buddy Steve Mason – one half of the notorious (and delicious!) duo known as Original Recipe. The graphics are generated in realtime using Touch and driven by FFT analysis of the audio input. The audio in question is “Workin’ The Middle”, a tantalising preview from their upcoming album Nigiri, Please, due to be released this autumn… or, this fall, if you’re one of those people.
Today, I decided to experiment with some time-lapse photography using my Canon G9 camera. Even though I just quickly pointed the camera out of my (dirty) bedroom window, I really like how it turned out. I’m definitely going to have to explore this technique some more and find other interesting things to capture! This video spans approximately 40 minutes in real time.
I’ve been tweaking a few things on the site, moving some pages around, etc., so I apologise if you encountered any broken links!
Glitch has been moved into a new VST Plug-ins section. In there you will also find some smaller plug-ins that were created a while ago but never officially released, namely: Crusher, Stretch, and TapeStop. These were created mainly as proofs of concept, but a few people picked up on them and found them to be useful, so I just thought I’d make them publically available again.
Finally, due to the requests made by various people, I have added a PayPal donate button to the site. If you have enjoyed using Glitch or any of my other plug-ins, and you would like to help support their future development, a donation would be hugely appreciated!
This morning, I was surprised by a FedEx delivery guy knocking at my front door. Not expecting any packages myself, I assumed it would be something for one of my housemates, but, lo and behold, the package – a large, heavy box – was in fact addressed to me. “What could this mysterious package be?”, I wondered…
Plastic Robot, a newly-created electronic music blog/zine, interviewed me recently to talk about Glitch, my music, my workflow, and to get my thoughts on a few other topics.
Plastic Robot: One of the most inspiring aspects of the music culture to us is the creation of tools to push the interaction between user and intrument… Or perhaps just the creation of new instruments altogether! Sometimes these new tools can create a whole new world of their own. Glitch proves to be one of these instruments. We happened to catch up with Glitch creator Kieran Foster and were able to ask him a few questions about his cult VST. Without further nonsense, we are honored to present our interview with dblue.
If you like sound-mangling plug-ins, they don’t get much more creative than Kieran Foster’s Glitch. Originally developed to ease the creation of glitchy electronic beats, Glitch is a freeware, PC-only download that has evolved over several years into a comprehensive and versatile tool that can transform synths, audio tracks and loops in a host of ways, from subtle to extreme.
“Nanotube” is a wicked little flash game that my mate John put together. The game itself is fairly simple: You must rotate the outer ring of cells to catch the corresponding coloured particles which move outwards from the center of the screen. For every particle you catch your energy bar gradually turns green, while missed particles cause it to gradually turn red. Keep it in the green to score points, but go too far into the red and it’s game over.
Don’t let the simple mechanics fool you, though… this game is a tricky little bugger! It quickly goes from nice and casual to absolutely frantic, where one little mistake can lead to a huge, panicked chain reaction, shouting “oh shit! oh shit! oh shit!!”
Nanotube is released under Slakinov.com, which is a new project that John and I are working on in our spare time. We hope to build up a nice collection of games there in the future, focusing on stylish presentation, interesting gameplay mechanics and, most importantly, fun! We should have a proper site up there fairly soon-ish, so stay tuned…
Welcome to the new Illformed.org website!
As you can see, quite a lot has changed. The site will no longer be functioning as a collective creative outlet for my friends and I, since most of the people involved (myself included) have either been inactive for a very long time, or are simply focusing mainly on other websites and time-consuming projects. As a result, the amount of content being generated by Illformed as a group was barely more than a trickle. After taking all of this into consideration, plus the fact that the site was hosted on a rather expensive dedicated server which was mainly going to waste, I could simply no longer justify the site’s existence. Time to chalk it up to experience and move on to something new!
This new, smaller site will serve as a home for all of my personal interests such as music production, programming, graphics, and photography, as well as being the home for any projects that I am working on in the future. I have decided to keep the Illformed name since I have always liked it, and since it has become quite recognisable due to my rather infamous Glitch VST plug-in.
Speaking of Glitch, I am going to be dedicating a lot more of my time to audio software development from this point onwards. After 9+ years in the web development industry I am definitely ready to try a new direction in life. Ultimately I would love to be able to make a modest living creating interesting plug-ins and other tools, so you can expect to see a few new things coming in the future, including some updates to Glitch, plus a mixture of fun freebies and reasonably-priced commercial products on offer.
In the meantime, please bear with me while I get comfortable with this new site and fill it up with content.
Cheers!
My good friend Sven, aka FuX, has released a sweet dubstep mixset. Over 50 minutes of deliciously heavy beats. Grab it from the link below and start tickling those subwoofers! Byiieeeooooowww wub wub wub wub wub!
