Richie Hawtin and generative graphics software developers Derivative want you to help make the graphics for Plastikman Live 2010 – a series of live shows, launching at this year's Timewarp festival on March 27th, 2010.

Hawtin and Derivative have made available for download a complete toolset that includes four Plastikman tracks and a special version of Derivative's TouchDesigner visual synthesizer, letting you produce visuals in the same real-time generative environment as the show's.

Winning entries are to be incorporated into the live events. See derivative.ca/plastikman for details.

Check out the videos above and below for an introduction to TouchDesigner and the Plastikman toolset.

This video shows the inner workings of the Plastikman / Derivative visuals kit, which you can use to prepare visuals to 4 Plastikman tracks.

Part 4/4 has not been posted yet. watch Greg Hermanovic on Vimeo.

quelle: http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2010/02/...our/#more-21060





Richie Hawtin in collaboration with Derivative would like to announce a hugely exciting new contest inviting you to create your own animations to original Plastikman tracks using TouchDesigner, the technology that drove the visual element of the influential Mutek performance in 2004. Winning entries are for inclusion in an upcoming Plastikman live show!

The Mutek performance saw Richie at the helm orchestrating massive sound and visual compositions that could drive and define each other generatively and in real time transforming the course of how electronic music could be performed and experienced live.

Richie's artistic vision and organizational genius prompted some of the most progressive performance-software developers to produce breakthrough features in their products for the Plastikman show.

Hawtin and Derivative have now packaged and made available for download these powerful tools along with 4 Plastikman tracks to enable everyone with the same capabilities to produce their own visuals in a real-time generative environment.

WHAT YOU NEED:

Derivative's TouchDesigner only runs on PC or Boot Camp, with this configuration or better:

• Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or Windows XP SP2. On Mac hardware Boot Camp only (no emulators).
• NVIDIA Geforce 7800. No ATI or Intel graphics. TouchDesigner uses advanced features of OpenGL to maximize performance. And you need the most recent NVIDIA graphics driver.
• 512 MB Graphics Memory minimum on the graphics card
• no OSX, sorry. We wil be releasing OSX TouchDesigner this year.

WHAT YOU GET:

1. TouchDesigner FTE is free to download
2. The Plastikman Visuals Kit (PVK), also free to download, includes:
   • Complete Plastikman visuals setup environment for Slowpoke as performed at MUTEK 2004 and rebuilt in TouchDesigner 077. See how the visual was constructed and unfolds for the entire track. (For investigation and inspiration.)
   • Three original Plastikman tracks with the environments already set up and ready for you to work in and make your own visuals.
   • The live video recording of Slowpoke as performed at MUTEK 2004
3. Plastikman Visuals Forum and access to Derivative support team
4. Plastikman Visuals Tech Page includes:
   • A Video Overview of the PVK to watch and learn from.
   • specifications / guidance / documentation / instruction / background.
5. Plastikman vids available @ www.Plastikman.com

WHAT YOU DO:

1. Register >
2. Download and install TouchDesigner FTE Experimental >
3. Download and unzip the Plastikman Visuals Kit (rev 2) - It provides four different environments, one environment for each of three music track plus the Slowpoke example environment. All three tracks are set up to respond to a simulated Ableton Live set of controls and waveforms. >
4. YOUR PART is to make original generative Plastikman-based animation constructed on the live data or the environment set up for this, i.e: put in video, stills, generate 2D and 3D artistry with the infinite capabilities made possible by TouchDesigner. >
5. Send to Derivative or to our forum. Our tech support will assist. >

Deadline: March 14, 2010

VERY IMPORTANT: If you are submitting your work to the Plastikman Live 2010 Visual Contest please only post this work on the Derivative Forum until winning entries have been announced.

WHAT YOU WIN:

Winning entries are for inclusion in an upcoming PLASTIKMAN SHOW and the top THREE contest winners will each get TouchDesigner Pro licenses (value $2200 US each).

Get busy and stay tuned for more contest details and prize announcements.