http://alexismorin.com/demos/jailtext/

What I want to do for DB 4 is an extension of my Jailtext (DB 3.3) response. As like any art form, the creative process is the one thing that has the potential to never stop. This is why I wish to continue on a project that had me drooling everywhere. The previous project’s code will not be used. I am rewriting the entire music to animation code, as well as the code to retrieve the ID3 data tage associated to the music files.

DB 3 has inspired me to a point where associating text, animation and music together has become an addiction. This new piece will focus on the complete metadata contained within a music file, might include an interface through which users will be able to upload their own music.

Different animation presents will be mixed together in order to create a completely text-based music visualisation engine. Blurring, scaling, masking, moving, bouncing will be some of the effects that will be achieved word by word and letter by letter within my animation engine.

The animations will run off different parameters such as the actual waveform of the music, the genre of the music will trigger different animation presets.

The way it goes

Processing is great. Does pretty things. Java is sooo high-level and unoptimized, that the NextText engine slows down FAST. That’s why I’m not per-se tranlating NextText to ActionScript 3. I’m inspiring myself from the algorithmic structure of NextText in order to make something that can actually run, be efficient and not have the designer wondering when his piece is going to slow down.

Important to note that this is the first time I will be making a complete application in AS3. I have never touched this language other that skimming the surface on blogs and tutorial videos.