Exogenesis by Wavesitter [web]
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presented at Sundown 2013
Credits
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Code - Gasman <http://matt.west.co.tt/>
Music - Hoopshank <http://www.paulturrell.com/>
Instructions:
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Unpack on a Raspberry Pi with a standard Raspbian system installed, and run:
./exogenesis.py
You can also run the demo on any other system with Python, Pygame and
rtmidi-python <https://github.com/superquadratic/rtmidi-python> installed.
(If you do that, you'll probably want to remove the RasPi-specific
rtmidi_python.so file from the path. Alternatively, see the Github project at
https://github.com/gasman/exogenesis, which includes scripts for building and
running the demo within a Vagrant virtual machine.)
Wavesitter?
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Wavesitter is a new demoscene project formed by Matt "Gasman" Westcott, all
about creating visuals for existing music tracks by musicians both inside and
outside the scene. Alternatively, you can think of it as a demo group with
Gasman as the only permanent member, and an ever-changing roster of guest
musicians.
I've been fortunate enough to meet and be inspired by musicians of all kinds,
and occasionally turned their work into a demo, starting in 2008 with
'Antisocial' in association with ZX Spectrum Orchestra. It's something I want
to do more of, and so should you. (The demoscene shouldn't be a walled garden -
there is great music everywhere, waiting for us to bring it to life visually,
and in return we get outside influences making the scene so much richer.)
When I make those demos, it seems a bit unfair to have them labelled as a
'Gasman' production. And that's where this new name comes in. There are a few
reasons behind the name:
* it is, I believe, the direct translation of the German word for budgerigar,
'Wellensittich'. If you don't understand what's so great about that, then
there's no hope for you.
* it describes what the project is about, in a way: adopting or 'babysitting'
soundtracks (waveforms) and making something new out of them.
* it sounds sort of catchy, like Squarepusher or Cloudkicker.
http://wavesitter.com/ (might have some content soon)
gasman 2013-09-08
Budleigh Salterton, UK
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