Comments for On Ensemble : Masato Baba, Kristofer Bergstrom, Shoji Kameda and Kelvin Underwood

Comment on Lighted batchi experiments by Paul

Paul — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:13:23 +0000

Thanks Kris! Unfortunately, I’m still a slave to the mac video stuff, but this just might help me break ‘free’! (Being from Hawaii, I can’t help buy be intrigued by something called “kdenlive”!)

Will check it out – thanks for the quick reply!

Comment on Lighted batchi experiments by kris

kris — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:22:17 +0000

Hi Paul! For the “light trace” effect, I’m using the video editing software kdenlive and the Light Graffiti plugin. Both are free software (“free, as in freedom” as they say) and run on gnu/linux and freebsd. Let me know if you need help installing it or setting up gnu/linux!

For what it’s worth, On Ensemble will be offering a workshop with this technique as we travel around the country. The first of these workshops will probably be in March and I’ll try and post more videos at OnEnsemble.org.

The author of the Light Graffiti effect (Simon Eugster, aka Granjow) has been really helpful, too. Thanks to Simon!

Comment on Lighted batchi experiments by Paul

Paul — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:23:48 +0000

Amazing! Thanks for sharing this. I’d love to setup something similar so that my group and I could also analyze our swings.

One technical question – how are you getting the light ‘trace’ effect? Is it just a really slow shutter speed, or some type of filter/effect?

Comment on Newspaper article from Gillette Wyoming by bethany

bethany — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:50:06 +0000

ur welcome and actully lisen to some to some of your guys skng on youtube thanks for coming to Gillette

Comment on DIY trailer home: Book reviews by codex box

codex box — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:17:04 +0000

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Comment on Newspaper article from Gillette Wyoming by shoji

shoji — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:52:50 +0000

Thanks for coming to the performance Bethany! We had a great time in Gillette hope to be back soon.

Comment on The Useless Machine by Kristi

Kristi — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:21:42 +0000

You mean “Ultimate Machine” ;D Awesome work

Comment on Newspaper article from Gillette Wyoming by Bethany

Bethany — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 04:33:16 +0000

I went to see you guy’s at the Gillette Camplex and you guys were amzing. i like the song Yamasong because i like the throat singing. i play a few instruments myself i play the guitar and the trombone and i also sing

Comment on Lighted batchi experiments by Kris Bergstrom

Kris Bergstrom — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:25:51 +0000

Thanks for the comments and interest, Alex. We’re experimenting with small LEDs that we can attach to different parts of the arm. Dan Porter is also working on a mathematical model of the strike so we can better understand how the different parts of the system affect the strike.

If you’re ever in LA, let me know and we’ll do more experiments!

Comment on Lighted batchi experiments by Alex

Alex — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:24:39 +0000

I would be very interested to watch the same video but with the lighted batchi held “backwards” so that I could see the tracings of the path taken by your hands. This is all extremely fascinating to me!