Beta Release of the GMS this September

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GMS IconI have decided to release beta version binaries of the GMS for both Mac and Windows sometime next month. There a few bugs I have yet to solve, like the application freezing if you choose the video device more than once. I’ll be including a readme that lists the known issues along with the application files.

One of the reasons for doing this is to get some feedback on the tool, and find out if anyone is interested in continuing development on the project as Open Source. There are some pretty tricky issues with Processing and video that perhaps a more advanced developer than me might be able to optimize easily enough. I am interested in moving on to some other projects, and am fairly satisfied with how the GMS works for my own purposes at the moment.

If anyone is interested in experimenting with this tool (I know of a few interested parties so far), let me know in a comment and I’ll gauge my efforts on getting a beta out soon or over a more extended time period based on your feedback.

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About John CS Keston

John CS Keston is an award winning transdisciplinary artist reimagining how music, video art, and computer science intersect. His work both questions and embraces his backgrounds in music technology, software development, and improvisation leading him toward unconventional compositions that convey a spirit of discovery and exploration through the use of graphic scores, chance and generative techniques, analog and digital synthesis, experimental sound design, signal processing, and acoustic piano. Performers are empowered to use their phonomnesis, or sonic imaginations, while contributing to his collaborative work. Originally from the United Kingdom, John currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he is a professor of Digital Media Arts at the University of St Thomas. He founded the sound design resource, AudioCookbook.org, where you will find articles and documentation about his projects and research. John has spoken, performed, or exhibited original work at New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2022), the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2022), the International Digital Media Arts Conference (iDMAa 2022), International Sound in Science Technology and the Arts (ISSTA 2017-2019), Northern Spark (2011-2017), the Weisman Art Museum, the Montreal Jazz Festival, the Walker Art Center, the Minnesota Institute of Art, the Eyeo Festival, INST-INT, Echofluxx (Prague), and Moogfest. He produced and performed in the piece Instant Cinema: Teleportation Platform X, a featured project at Northern Spark 2013. He composed and performed the music for In Habit: Life in Patterns (2012) and Words to Dead Lips (2011) in collaboration with the dance company Aniccha Arts. In 2017 he was commissioned by the Walker Art Center to compose music for former Merce Cunningham dancers during the Common Time performance series. His music appears in The Jeffrey Dahmer Files (2012) and he composed the music for the short Familiar Pavement (2015). He has appeared on more than a dozen albums including two solo albums on UnearthedMusic.com.

7 thoughts on “Beta Release of the GMS this September”

  1. i’d be very interested in testing this out, also releasing this as open source would be super awesome

  2. I’d be very interested in experimenting with this. Open source I think would be great too if you are willing to do that.

  4. Being a musician in an experimental folktronica duo of sorts, this tool would be very interesting to experiment with and I think releasing it open source would be an added bonus.

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