It’s cold! Blankets are warm. Wear a blanket!

This is a pretty cool little toy. It is called… Visual Acoustics.

Visuals Acoustics is a concept for interactive expression. A canvas to paint reactive music and vision as a real-time artistic performance. Brushes are painted across the screen, each consisting of an instrument and accompanying visual. The position of the mouse on the screen determines which instrumental note the brush paints onto the screen. Each brush stroke is triggered over time using a timer. The further the mouse is moved over time, the more strokes the brush paints. Layers of different brushes can be built up, resulting in a stunning performance of improvised musical vision. Each brush is variable, giving the ability to control the volume and rate at which the brush paints onto the screen.

Choose from the presets or make your own instrument combination. You can’t really do anything wrong here.

GO!

HOLY.

FREAKING.

YES.TU4HEIWDIVW:;OZSIETJFPOG;HBRU;HRGIH{OI;RJGAEGIUHRFHU;
WPTOIGJRWPO;!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

!!!!!

megapolis, the greatest thing on earth, is COMING BACK!!!!!!

and whut’s that? YES YOU HEARD RIGHT: we’re in BALTIMORE this coming year. THE WINDUP SPACE is now MEGAPOLIS nightly, THE HEXAGON SPACE is all the HQ.

BALTIMORE BALTIMORE BALTIMORE!!!!

and whut’s that? YES YOU HEARD RIGHT: it’s happening the weekend of MAY 14-16.

MAY MAY MAY!!!!!

and whut’s that? YES YOU HEARD RIGHT: we have a new DIRECTOR joining me and justin. HER NAME IS KATHERINE GORMAN!!!!

she’s from baltimore and works at WYPR and rocks hard. email her now and say ‘hi’: katherine at megapolisfestival dot org

DO IT NOW.

and MARK YOUR CALENDARS. we’ll be opening submissions for workshops, performances and other events early next week for your wonderful, creative brains. keep an eye out for that.

and SPREAD THE WERD.