jun :: realeyes

We really enjoyed playing at the Denver Next Gen Flex Tour last week.  We were honored to open for Kevin Hoyt, he is one of the best speakers out there!

For those of you new to The Compilers, we’re a band of Flex developers and we allow Adobe technologies and IPhone take an active role in our set.  We are all about being lazy and making use of all the wonderful apps and API out there.  Some of the things we used in Live set Alpha 0.1 were:

• Adobe AIR
• IPhone
  
• Merapi
• BEBOT (Check out The Compiler’s own BEBOT player’s blog about this and All Your Base)
• All Your Base
• miditoflash
• FreeTTS (Shout out to Rich Tretola for getting me started)
• MMJ
• Twitterscript
• AS3 Gif Player Class 0.3

Each API was hand picked to allow us to pump up the nerdum.  The funniest part was needing to work out some kinks and coding up to 5 minutes before the set.  The show was also the first time I’ve taken both my guitar and my laptop up on stage together.

Anyway, I’d like to show you a quick montage, embedded below.

There’s three clips, here’s the technology breakdown in each one:

1. AllYourBase: The All Your Base IPhone app was used during this song, in addition, all the screenshots of Zero Wing played in AIR via the AS3 Gif Player Class.
2. TweetJam: People twittered @thecompilers which was read into AIR using twitterscript.  The the text was sent to Java using Merapi and spoken by the FreeTTS engine, this was happening realtime as we played the song.   Also, Eric had a BEBOT IPhone solo during this song.
3. DoYouReallyWantToHurtMe: This utilized the AS3 Gif Player Class to run an animated Gif I created for the WTF?? feeling during our extended jam. [NOTE: Scary, scary visuals during this part of the montage]
   

As a last little info tidbit, I used Merapi, miditoflash, and MMJ to send input from my foot controller – a Behringer FCB1010 – to the AIR app.  This is what let me change between different content types and run modes in our player while both my hands were in use on the guitar.

So, here’s the montage, and if you feel like checking out what’s new in Live Set Alpha 0.2 come check us out during intermission at Ignite Denver 4!

The Compilers @ The Adobe Next Gen Tour from Jun Heider on Vimeo.