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MIDIPoet is a software tool that allows the manipulation of text and image on
a computer in real-time. It has two parts: composer
and player, with which you can, respectively,
compose and play pieces of interactive text and image on the computer. These
pieces may or may not respond to external impulses, such as MIDI messages or
the computer keyboard, and generate visual manifestationes that involve the
manipulation of the different attributes of text (content, font, position, size,
etc), image (content, position, etc) and other elements and visual effects.
Conceptually, MIDIPoet is based on the notion of fields of events: a set of
potential behaviors of visual elements on the computer screen that happen or
not depending on internal conditions or external manipulations.
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Composition. This is the first step for the creation of a MIDIPoet piece. Fields
of events are created by composing; they will be performed later to produce
a visual piece. MIDIPoet composer lets you generate
these fields of events by the use of diagrams that are drawn directly on screen.
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Performance. The visual result of a MIDIPoet composition is achieved through
its performance. The MIDIPoet player reads
the fields of events of a composition and generates the visual elements (text
and/or image) involved in these fields.
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Manipulation. The concept of manipulation in MIDIPoet implies the generation
of an impulse that activates a field of events. It's the process through which
MIDIPoet pieces can acquire a multi-linear development through time. MIDIPoet
allows you to map different MIDI (or computer keyboard) messages to specific
modifications of text and/or image.
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Things to do with MIDIPoet! ---> digital poetry ---> media_trash ---> text jockey manifesto ---> pics ---> VJ23 ---> the players ---> control it with a phone!
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1999-2002 developed by Eugenio Tisselli Vélez - cubo23@motorhueso.net
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MIDIPoet is free. Source code available upon request.