toby*spark @tobyz.net · 21/09/20268038 x 5798 via NDI, you say? <furious typing> tobyz.net/diary/2026/0... #lpm #avnodetobyz.net*spark stage » immersiveFor artists, the entire system appears as one single canvas measuring 8038 × 5798 pixels. There is no need to manage individual projectors, nor to handle warping, edge blending, or synchronization. Ar... 210
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 14/04/2026Finally, a title, blurb and teaser video – tobyz.net/diary/2026/0... 000
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 02/04/2026How is Fabric useful to me? Check this, hot off the digital anvil – tobyz.net/diary/2026/0...tobyz.net*spark stage » scenes + demowhy *spark stage, then? you can use it as a basic projection mapping tool, fed from other apps via syphon. but the articulating idea in the app is managing a 3D stage. and it’s an idea, i think, with ... 021
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 02/04/2026If you remember Quartz Composer fondly, check out fabric.graphics – an open-source, modern reimagining. Early days, but for me at least today’s release has crossed a threshold of usefulness. github.com/Fabric-Proje...github.comRelease Releases/Alpha-13 · Fabric-Project/FabricWhats new: Fabric Swift Package Fabric's core engine is now a Swift Package, making embedding Fabric into custom Swift apps possible. This is a major milestone that mirrors a core use case from Qua... 010
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 25/06/2025beautifully simple concept, neatly executed tobyz.net/diary/2025/0...tobyz.netmasha rozhnovathe talk that blew me away i did not see coming. its blurb launches with with “instrument”, in my experience a signifier not of expressivity, but of how far we are from it. but! masha had a beautifull... 000
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 25/06/2025amongst other things, another syphon pint tobyz.net/diary/2025/0...tobyz.nettouch designer londonin past times, i’d made pilgrimages to check out the state of the art and be inspired by people pushing at it. time to do so again; i have questions about what makes sense for “visual systems” in 2025... 000
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 23/05/2025tobyz.net/diary/2025/0...tobyz.netinsieme / spacepopegarry spacepope, cardinal of tomorrow. need i say more? 000
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 23/05/2025tobyz.net/diary/2025/0...tobyz.netinsieme / szolnokdoing visuals at insieme has been a shared endeavour. henry rolls took care of friday, with saturday for “szolnok and *spark”. this is new! i’ve been collaborating with local friend and talent zsolt, ... 000
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 23/05/2025tobyz.net/diary/2025/0...tobyz.netinsieme / fueldid the fuel piece. nice memory of the crowd locked in to tipper’s ‘tug of war’, the fuel records 12” catalogue animating along, and in that moment connecting back to when i record-shopped one of them... 000
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 23/05/2025tobyz.net/diary/2025/0...tobyz.netinsieme / terrainsaturday night: time to get to work. early evening, three hours: terrain take over the festival. insieme had commissioned a skinny gud illustration for the poster, and it came out great. happily, the ... 000
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 23/05/2025tobyz.net/diary/2025/0...tobyz.netinsieme / to the barnfriday night: some old friends, a new scene, the night yet young 000
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 23/05/2025Having been holed up writing an academic chapter on live visuals (and interaction), getting out and reconnecting with nature, visuals and the night was most welcome… tobyz.net/diary/2025/0...tobyz.netinsieme / whitewashed cubemy interest was piqued when i found out a neighbour runs a micro-festival. i was sold when i saw a photo of the late-night barn: thick sound-absorbing stone walls, whitewashed and begging for visuals ... 000
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 03/04/2025Cinema screening of the stage adaptation of my favourite film. #mediatisation, but I’m here for it, figuratively and literally. 000
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 26/08/2024massive attack and uva – still unique, hell of a show. tobyz.net/diary/2024/0...tobyz.netmassive attackone-off, climate-change framed home-town gig for massive attack. 020
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 18/04/2024diary post – crux » fuel / three-d tobyz.net/diary/2024/0...tobyz.netcrux » fuel / three-dagain thanks to mike for the photo. this is from later on, a story-telling part where the ability to be in a 3D engine and build-up abstracted but understandable scenes comes into its own. 000
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 18/04/2024diary post – crux » fuel / two-d tobyz.net/diary/2024/0...tobyz.netcrux » fuel / two-dfinish talk, straight into performance. quite the shift, happily it was a smooth transition. 000
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 18/04/2024diary post – crux » four good ideas and an iffy one tobyz.net/diary/2024/0...tobyz.netcrux » four good ideas and an iffy onei’d imagined the 45 minutes as a masterclass, but at some point realised the greater good would be promoting some of the ideas volta is built upon. so i made a deck full of videos showing volta in act... 110
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 18/04/2024diary post – crux » four good ideas... tobyz.net/diary/2024/0...tobyz.netcrux » four good ideas...to crux festival, a two-day event that has come out of an ongoing series of audio-visual-ish nights in london – “a meeting space to experiment, collaborate and be entertained”. 000
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 12/04/2024London talk + gig alert: four good ideas and one iffy one for live performers and their tools. Featuring a demo of Volta, a performance of my Fuel Records piece. My favourite slide – festival.crux-events.org/programme-20... 000
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 21/02/2024Bristol gig alert: a test performance of my Fuel piece at We All Play Synth. Thursday 22nd, Dareshack. aka tomorrow! www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/dar...headfirstbristol.co.ukWe All Play Synth - Electronic Music Open Mic at DareshackWe All Play Synth™ is back in 2024 at the wonderful Dareshack! Drag yourself out of the bedroom studio and into the warm, friendly atmosphere (and INCREDIBLE SOUND SYSTEM!) of Dareshack, for another i... 010
toby*spark @tobyz.net · 21/02/2024Idiocy to imagine this might be any different? Federated discussions aside, being able to use my domain as my handle augurs well, at least. 020