Edirol VJ Challenge: European VJ Competition to Win a V-8 and P-10 -

Edirol are having a competition at the London International Music Show:

EDIROL are throwing down the gauntlet to the continent’s best VJs and challenging them to perform a live set at this year’s London International Music Show (LIMS) between 12th and 15th June. As well as the honour of winning the first EDIROL VJ Challenge the best VJ will also win two incredible prizes in the form of the new V-8 mixer and the new P-10 visual presenter (worth a combined £1899 RRP).

VJs from Europe are welcome to enter and Edirol Europe will select nine finalists to play live at the show. Each of the finalists will receive a free pass to the whole of LIMS and then compete for the title and prizes. EDIROL will also provide all the equipment the VJs need to perform, including the V-8 Video Mixer and the P-10 Visual Presenter. Three finalists will appear on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday at LIMS with the best winning the gear, simple as that! For online registration and more information go to www.ediroleurope.com

Resolume 3 Breaking News: Mac Compatible, Freeframe OpenGL, More -

We will have more extensive coverage of this coming very soon as Toby*Spark brings us a write-up of the Node08, Mapping and Vision’R festivals.

However, for those who like their news to be the breakingest: Le Collagiste has some stills and video of Resolume 3 at Vision’R, running natively in OS X on a Macbook Pro! [Ed.: In case you're not clear why that's big news, this version goes cross-platform after a formerly Windows-only existence.] The next version of Resolume also includes audio playback and other tasty treats. No word yet on a release schedule, but this looks like an upgrade worth waiting for. (Thanks Jasper).

Ed.: Here’s a teaser video of Resolume 3 from our friends at Le Collagiste, with some fleeting glimpses of the new UI, as part of their French-language write-up of the presentation.

Resolume Avenue 3 from LeCollagiste on Vimeo.

vvvv Festival on Now: Node 08 in Frankfurt -

Continuing our current vvvv love-in. Aforementioned generative AV project “Va” will be performaing at the Node08 festival in Frankfurt, which started on the 5th and continues until the 12th. Lots of exciting workshops and lectures happening, and concluding with “vvvvinisage”, featuring visualists from around the world.

Still Time to Enter for a 3L Beta Giveaway -

Hi, everybody — well, it seems quite a lot of you have MacBook Pros, as we’ve got a huge response to our 3L giveaway. WordPress is aggressively moderating comments, so I just wanted to say, please don’t fret if your comment doesn’t appear immediately. We’ll get them, and anything that gets in before the giveaway expires counts (they’re all time-stamped). You should see it within 12 hours at the most (if both Jaymis and I happen to be out, etc.) There’s still time if you want to post. Reply on the original story, por favor:

3L Beta Giveaway: artificialeyes’ Generative Performance Tool Nearing Release

Jaymis Travelling to India Next Week: CDMo Readers in Delhi or Mumbai? -

I’m going to be in India for a large chunk of February (13th-28th). This is ostensibly as a holiday, but I never really take my visualist hat off, so if there are any readers, artists, performances, clubs or scenes in India who are doing great things and would like some CDM love, please leave a comment or email jaymis at createdigitalmedia dot net.

OpenTZT Call Out for Coders -

Open-source darling of the PC VJ world, OpenTZT is calling out for developers.

Our plea is going out to any Coders out there that would be interested on working on the OTZT codebase, or if anyone knows of anyone that might. I’m hoping to be able to reward anyone that takes the challenge on both financially and respectfully on a per task basis (yes thats right I’m offering money per function added or update made). Things that need doing range from basic (adding level sliders/values to each p/layer) though to difficult (adding native flash support, switching the code from DX7 to DX8/9).

(from MoRpH on VJForums).

I haven’t used it personally, but saw some great OpenTZT-powered sets at ByteMe festival’s PlugNPlay night, this is definitely a good cause. (Thanks Grigori)