re: (idm) A couple of show reviews ...

From Guillaume Grenier
Sent Mon, Oct 18th 1999, 15:46

On 18/10/1999 at 10:04:19, Maximilien Lincourt said in living color:

>  First, a small one, I went to see and hear Farmer's manual last
> evening. In a short sentence, it was horribly interresting ... At
> leat there was some Visual to display on the screen ( see below )
> and even if the equipment mis-functionned at some point ( or was
> it a fake breakdown ? ) it was fun to watch and quite hypnotic.
> Does anyone know what software they used ?

I enjoyed Farmers Manual's performance a lot... Just got into their music
and I quite like it...

As for the software they use: I know that on the audio side, they heavily
rely on pd (pure data) by Miller Puckette. They probably use GEM (Graphics
Environment for Multimedia), a pd externals package that uses OpenGL, for
their visuals (among other things, of course). I also caught a glimpse of
b1257+12, which is another wacky sound app.

BTW, did you stay for the whole performance? I had to leave at 1:30 and I
wonder if I missed a lot of the sonic assault...

Guillaume Grenier