A big thanks to David Carboni for tipping me off to the cool synergy between my tunes and the hypnotic visuals from the Electric Sheep screensaver – or rather, “collaborative abstract artwork” as its creator Scott Draves describes it. In short, rather than just displaying the visuals each computer running the screensaver forms part of supercomputer and renders individual frames for these spectacular animations. Even better, the resulting visuals are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 (USA) license, meaning I am free to make this mashup with my music.

For this video, I grabbed some rendered animations from Sheep Packs 3 & 7 and dumped them into animoto.com, along with an extract from Live Online #24 – cool timing, since animoto.com has just added the video uploading feature in the last couple of weeks.

This mashup is similarly licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 (Taiwan) license and you can download the original animoto renders here:

MLO24-ELECTRICSHEEP.mp4 [high resolution - 139MB]

MLO24-ELECTRICSHEEP_DVD.iso [image for burning a DVD - 322MB]

MLO24_ELECTRICSHEEP.3g2 [320*240 cellphone version - 17MB]

Emma & Yi are from Australia and are taking part in the Taiwan Best Trip contest organized by the Taiwan Tourism Bureau. They wanted to focus their trip on music and dance around the island and I met them at a tea house in Taichung last Friday for a short interview. Unfortunately, they had some technical issues, so we re-did the interview via Skype. Want to help Em&Yi out? Vote for their Sounds of Taiwan trip at the website above.

Here’s some video evidence of me performing at the launch in Taipei.

I’ve just made a playlist of machinima(s) (what’s the plural?) of me performing in Second Life. Most recently SL resident Aiden Witrial has made a whole bunch of me at various shows. I want to thank Aiden and the other producers for taking the time to do this  – it’s been a great help in getting word out about the tunes.

I’ve uploaded 9 new music videos to YouTube to make a complete 45 minute video set. I used to use these videos in the past as my backtrack and background visuals at live performances, but I think you’ll enjoy them as is.

The tracks in the playlist are:

1. Smoke (Chill Dynasty)
2. Comfort Zone (Chill Dynasty)
3. You Bowled Me Over (Made In Taiwan)
4. Dragonbeat (Made In Taiwan)
5. Waiting for the Bus (Made In Taiwan)
6. Gentle Beauty (Chill Dynasty)
7. Kurubi (Unreleased)
8. And She Swung (Chill Dynasty
9. Soli (Chill Dynasty)
10. Djagbe (Unreleased)