Of course I'm not the only one to think of making a musical instrument/game.

fijuu

fijuu 1 was started around the same time as Shape Sequencer by two much more competent developers, and appeared at various high-profile international digital arts/media festivals. I found out about it about half-way through my first development phase and while finding it beautiful and exciting, hoped to make something a little less stylistically imposing on the player.

ergates

I found out about ergates when it was announced on the pd list last October and still haven't got it to run. I might investigate it again, now that bugfixes have been issued and pd HID support is getting attention from various angles.

More alternatives will be added as I remember/find them.

Shape Sequencer 23rd Sept 2005 live video #1 & #2 - CAUTION: loud!

12-second and 1 minute 30 second long videos that mikal took on his camera, who was sitting behind me at last month's performance at the Showroom cinema. The player is modified from Jeroen Wijering's Flash Video Player and here's the original mpeg #1 & #2

Pictures of the The Shape Sequencer v1.2 installation at Sheffield's Showroom Cinema.

Released to coincide with the opening night at the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield comes version 1.2 of the Shape Sequencer, now with Polygonal loops!

Download ShapeSequencer-1.2.tar.bz2 (277kb)
Download SSv1.2_QuickStartGuide.pdf (22kb)

To run it you will need Pd >0.37, gem >0.90, J.Sarlo's joystick external and 1-4 dual-analogue PS2-style game-pad(s). The Shape Sequencer is free software.

poil's Shape Sequencer has recently been featured on the website of the Italian magazine Neural, neural.it

You can read the story in Italian, or try a google English translation.

A sneak preview of the Shape Sequencer v1.2. Quite a momentous feature-addition if you can imagine the implications...

Well, you don't have to! Thanks to the charming people at Digital Space it will be making it's debut at the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield, where you will be able to literally hear and see the sick new sounds and styles on the big screen, then get down with Apfrod Crew's favourite Sheffield party commanders c90 on Friday 23 September.

poil will perform with the new Shape Sequencer at 7pm followed by a DJ set from Juliun c90 with visuals from Vienna-based artists Christoph Hoeshele, Georg Novotny and Luc Gross. Entry to this event costs a mere £2.

During and after the gig the Shape Sequencer will be installed for you to play with, and it will remain at the cinema until Friday 7 October, open to the public during normal opening times. The new version will also be released here at apfrod.com. Smashing!

www.digitalspace.org.uk
www.showroom.org.uk

A new video of the Shape Sequencer is now available from the blank audio archive. Titled Pentagon Scratch, it demonstrates the live sampling capabilities of the current Shape Sequencer instrument.

The nifty animated gif above was automatically generated by archive.org from the DVD-ready mpeg2 version (398mb). There's also a smaller wmv version (16.1mb) which you can play using VLC on any platform you care to mention. The black and white thing you see is of course the blank audio winamp skin, permenantly in service here at the Apfrod fortress.

Some stills from the video footage of today's performance at Sela, Leeds.

In a slight change to the line-up, after me there was a presentation by The Reactor Party, who promise that Ghaos will rid the world of the Dark Arts, then randomNumber, on at least two laptops, followed by Miss Fuzzy Jones' set, which was all-rocking all-female-vocal funk and soul, at least up to the point where we had to leave.

I should have played for longer - I didn't even show the new sampling features of the Shape Sequencer - but all ran smoothly thanks to Lucy, Amy, Stu and Mikal. Thanks to anyone else I didn't meet, and I hope this isn't the last time we take the Apfrod tour bus to Leeds!

poil will be performing with the Shape Sequencer at Sela, 20 New Briggate, Leeds this Sunday at 19:45 for monitor's InterACT day as part of the Situation Leeds festival of art in the public realm.

InterACT will take place on 22nd May from 1pm – to 11pm and features artwork, performance, a workshop, screenings, music and DJs.