James Britt

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About James Britt
'm an artist, writer, musician, and technologist living in Scottsdale, Arizona.
You can keep up to date with my assorted activities at jamesbritt.com.
Listen to my recent songs at music.jamesbritt.com
I run Neurogami, an art+music+technology spectre.
You can contact me at james@jamesbritt.com
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Blog postA little while back I wrote an article about Holger Czukay for a small zine.
The same one that ran my Holger Czukay papertoy.
I figure I should just publish it here.
Holger Czukay Holger Czukay was born March 24, 1938 in the Free City of Danzig (what is now Gdansk), as Holger Schüring.
That family name was a fabrication (along with an invented Dutch heritage), owing to persecution of Poles by the occupying Nazis.
In 1945, the family was forced to l1 week ago Read more -
Blog postSome years a go I made a Holger Czukay papertoy for an obscure zine.
I decided that it should be available to more people so I’ve uploaded to this site.
You can read how to download, and how to build, the toy here.
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Blog postTo be fully honest, I’ve been “on” Mastodon since 2018 (so the site tells me) but honestly never got into it. But, with Twitter expected to change in unpleasant ways, I’ve taken a new interest in Mastodon.
@jamesbritt@mastodon.social
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Blog postI’ve released a new album. It’s called Loosies
It’s a collection of tracks I’ve made over the last 2 years or so, tracks that haven’t found a real home. I thought to just assemble them into an album to make them available.
It’s pay-what-you-want.
Loosies by James Britt
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Blog postI made a video of a single live take of guitar riffing over a Renoise backing track.
Grafix were done using Processing triggered by MIDI to place/size animated GIFs.
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Blog postA made a minimalist video of recent track, Quarantseen.
Quarantseen from James Britt on Vimeo.
The music is also available on Bandcamp.
Quarantseen by James Britt
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Blog postI use “Joplin:”https://joplinapp.org/ to keep track of all sorts of things. Despite some quirks it is extremely handy for managing projects. And I’ve quite a number of them.
One problem with trying to manage multiple projects is knowing where you last left off. I figured it would be handy to have away to tag stuff in a note, and then use some program to find and display all those notes. So that’s what I did.
Here’s the code:
It assumes Windows (the only desktop place I2 years ago Read more -
Blog postIt’s my birthday!
I’ve released an album electronic music.
As a birthday gift, for today, it’s pay-what-you-want. Free, if you like.
American Electronic by James Britt
3 years ago Read more
Titles By James Britt
Just the Best Parts: OSC for Artists
Apr 9, 2013
by
James Britt
$4.95
Holiday pricing until Jan 1 2016!
Written by hacker/artists/musician James Britt, Just the Best Parts: OSC for Artists is a fun, fast, informative introduction to Open Sound Control (OSC). OSC is a technology for connecting myriad devices, such as a laptops, smart phones, tablets, music and animation software, and more. Written for digital artists and musicians, OSC for Artists combines no-fluff explanations, engaging graphic art, and ready-to-run examples to give you the fundamentals of OSC.
Written by hacker/artists/musician James Britt, Just the Best Parts: OSC for Artists is a fun, fast, informative introduction to Open Sound Control (OSC). OSC is a technology for connecting myriad devices, such as a laptops, smart phones, tablets, music and animation software, and more. Written for digital artists and musicians, OSC for Artists combines no-fluff explanations, engaging graphic art, and ready-to-run examples to give you the fundamentals of OSC.