http://grimaceworks.com/mf/twogirlsonegeek

What happens when two sexy girls come to play my instruments? Why I video them and then use Ableton Live's video manipulation capabilities to make a track out of the footage!

I guess I'm just shy...

http://grimaceworks.com/mf/in_heaven

David Lynch made Eraserhead a year before I was born, and I first saw it 15 years ago. I have wanted to lay a beat on top of it for years and now, here it is. I spliced the footage in Ableton Live. This took me about 6 hours to produce, all in all. Hope you find the song as beautiful as I always have, and I hope you like the extra stuff I've added.

Here's hoping David Lynch and his representatives let me keep this up here when they find it.

Here's the original http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-1WW67waPQ0

Don't ask me why I did this. Just felt like adding some nasty.

cookin' up a storm :)
http://myspace.com/kayakathethird

Just found this Japan clip. Loads of cute puppies and kittens in little glass boxes in the window of a pet shop. See me react..

I was working on some music and watching this video - they went together so I thought I'd throw up a video :-)

From http://scotchandpolitics.com/2008/5/16/comedy-friday-kevin-james-on-hardball

"Chris Matthews shreds right wing talker Kevin James on Hardball who can't tell him what Neville Chamberlain did wrong even though he's trying to use Chamberlain as a right wing talking point."

(I am found on http://mf.grimaceworks.com )

I discovered Quartz Composer yesterday - comes free with Mac OS X (another one of the developer tools). Here is me fiddling with it.

Music is from one of my 2007 Installation sessions (i.e. it was composed live in a pub) - it's called "Looks like riggiddy rain". More stuff at http://mf.grimaceworks.com

More experiments: http://grimaceworks.com/mf/lab

This is an interactive Java Applet. I'll put a link to it once I've managed to post the applet online.

Here's what it says, since I think it's easier to read when you're in control...

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Listen.
You are steeped in information.
You are being bombarded.
Your brain is made for a society of dozens, maybe hundreds.
A few dozen friends. The rest outsiders.
You struggle to understand a society of billions.
So your belief that times are getting darker is false.
The strong help the weak more than they ever have before.
They help because they feel ashamed.
They help to keep up appearances.
They still help. Altruism does not require pure motivation, only action.
Do not judge them so harshly.
We must all block out hysteria, control our fears,
and calmly build a better world.
Piece by piece.
Brick by brick.
Cell by cell.
Atom by atom.
Word by word.
We will not stay here forever.
We will not be this forever.
Machines and minds will merge in time,
We will expand through melted buckled borders
Even if we burn the whole sky what we are will still survive.
Even if our children turn against us they are still our children.
Our sublime capacity to adapt will transcend the difficult times ahead.
In the future my only hope, MY ONLY HOPE, is that there will still be girls.
In the future I hope there will still be girls.
MUSIC, SOFTWARE, WORDS by Michael Forrest April 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

Image © http://philip.greenspun.com

More experiments: http://grimaceworks.com/mf/lab

I am working on programming this little visual thing - I settled for this evening on this organic flickering in grey.

This is a little improvisation on arpeggiator and mouse clicks.

You can see the applet crashing at the end. Guess it still needs work...