Tobias Levitan, experiential visuals and art based in Las Vegas, NV you can contact me at +1-248-506-EVIL.
Pictures of my work on the That 1 Guy 2014 tour:
I'm really into Generative and Realtime Visuals using programs like Resolume Arena, Magic Music Visuals, VDMX, TouchDesigner and IMAG cameras. I built a media server with a Decklink Quad capture card running 4 SDI cameras with ultrawide lenses. Video and lights are controlled by midi and OSC (Open Sound Control) and audio analysis using fast fourier transforms. Midi and audio were sent from That 1 Guys rig and then I would send OSC messages from an iPad running TouchOSC and midi from Midi Designer. This allowed for heavy improvising every night so the visuals were different depending on which show you attended.
Here's some of work i've done with Boko Fine Art
Pinea Arbori
Contributions: Soldering, Arduino Programming, Painting, Metalwork, Telsa Coil Music Composition.
This art piece is named after the pineal. There's actuators on this piece that open up the lotus flower at the top that reveals a Tesla Coil that plays a musical composition. The song was recorded on a midi keyboard played by yours truly and recorded into Ableton. Then the midi arrangement was programmed onto an Arduino with floating-point numbers using the Arduino MIDI Library. Since we used floating-point values for the note timing, all of the human feel, timing and imperfections of the music was kept. When a button connected to the Arduino was pressed the song played to the Tesla Coil exactly as how it was recorded onto the computer.
The DRSSTC driver that generates the drive signal for the inverter only had 3 note polyphony. What sucked is you could not bend the notes like you would on a guitar or with a keyboards mouse wheel. You couldn't play a note plus or minus cents; there was no portamento. It was effectively quantized to equal temperment. I really wanted to do some microtonal music with it or even a piece with psychoacoustic beating in the vein of Alvin Lucier. This combined with the timbre of a Tesla coil (Think of it similar in timbre to a trumpet) made it a little difficult to be musical. Usually a Tesla coil sounds way better with some sort of accompaniment than on its own. If you hook up a guitar to it using pitch to midi, it's best to blend an a regular guitar amplifier with the sound of tesla coil, again since the micro-controller doesn't support pitch bending it's not that musical. Best results with guitar on the Tesla Coil are archived just by power chords (Root, 5th, Octave) or just single note musical melodies.
There is a DRSSTC that has features that would make a Tesla Coil way more musical. It uses an Arduino Mega however it's not available to the public that supports pitch bend and Open Sound Control (Giving you even more resolution than midi and not limiting to equal temperment. You can checkout more info about that by clicking here
Fuego Arbori
Contributions: Soldering, Metalwork, Painting.
This piece is interactive, people can pull chains that are rigged below the piece which makes the propane go pew pew.
Globus Herbaferrum
Contributions: Soldering, Metalwork, Painting.