As discussed in a previous post, I will be powering a projector from a lead acid battery during my residency at I-Park. This is a technique often referred to as 'projection bombing'.
In this post I'll describe the shopping list, and when the parts arrive I'll post some more on how well they work together.
In just over a month I will start a one-month residency at I-Park. My proposal is based around 'portable projection', and in this post I want to describe what that means and what I am planning to do onsite.
My proposal to I-Park was that I will appropriate the projection bombing technique (described below), but this time to explore a new approach to my installation work. Instead of scanning, photographing, replicating or manufacturing textures in a studio or gallery, I wanted to work with real, physical objects and textures, which have a life - and unpredictability - of their own.
Some of the keyboard combinations I was using in my TextMate / SC bundle weren't working, so on the advice of users in the forum I decided to switch to a new fork.
Today I set up openFrameworks (OF) on my new Mac, and added my first addon. I chose to add an addon which allows OF to talk to SuperCollider (SC), so that I can experiment with some of the synesthesic effects that I have described previously.
My new Mac arrived and one of the first things I wanted to do was set up SuperCollider (SC). Installing SC on a Mac is really easy - it's just a regular .dmg installer. Once it's in your Applications folder you're good to go.
But editing in the SC window isn't much fun -- you really need a decent code editor / file manager / syntax highlighter. I took Gene's advice (I've been doing that a lot recently) and installed TextMate.
The MSI laptop I've been using since 2009 came to an unfortunate end recently - it was in my backpack when I came off my bike. My (slight) injuries healed just fine, the MSI was never quite the same again.
Until now, improvements in Windows, and my use of Win-only software vvvv had been enough to stop me migrating to Mac or Linux. I was forced to buy a timely laptop upgrade by the bike accident, but why choose Mac?
In a previous post I mentioned Scott Wilson's tutorial as a really good starting point for learning SuperCollider (SC). Below I have summarised just about everything (including codeblocks) written in that tutorial, but this time all on one page!
This is so that once you have read the tutorial you have a Quick Reference to help you get started. You can navigate the material quickly using jumplinks: