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A Lost History of the Groove System

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 28, 2005 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



research: MOTION GRAPHICS

Graphical Groove: Memorium for a Visual Music System by Laurie Spiegel

Once upon a time there was a computer music system called GROOVE (Generating Realtime Operations On Voltage-controlled Equipment, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey), which outputted in the realm of sound, and was a wonderful and still-unique tool for the composition thereof.... History Here






 
Scratch TV

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 25, 2005 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



movies: AESTHETICS

Scratch TV: A discussion of a way to link DJ scratch on vinyl with VJ control system.





 
Fischinger Paintings

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 9, 2005 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



research: VISUAL MUSIC

Jack Rutberg Gallery has a new exhibit of Oskar Fischinger Paintings on view. This is clearly a tie-in to the large visual music show at the LA MOCA.




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SVHS to DVHS tape conversion

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 6, 2005 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



random how-tos

Instructions to make your SVHS tapes work properly with your DVHS recorder.






 
DVDs are coming...

story © Michael Betancourt | published March 4, 2005 | permalink | TwitThis Digg Facebook StumbleUpon  |  View Printable Version



movies: AESTHETICS

It seems like DVDs are coming out faster and faster. . . eventually we may have the DVD available for sale at a special price--with the movie ticket stub in the theater where it's still playing...