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Bacteria Records!

Bacteria Records - Intelligent electronic music for well trained ears.

Bacteria Records duty is to bring new, smart, avant garde electronic music straight to your ears, through machine generated aural waves. Our treats include original tracks, live sessions with Third Ear Syndrome and DJ mixes engineered for the most particular listener. We give you good, well produced electronic club music that is 100% dance-floor oriented that you can bounce to wherever you are, showing you why electronic music is more about the character of the sound than the actual composition.  Check iTunes for their monthly podcast!

Web Standards 1.0!

If you’re interested in making professional and outstanding web sites than your answer is the web standards.  Here are some links to help you in your journey.

http://www.w3schools.com <——–Your first and really only stop is going to be the w3schools.

http://www.css3.info/ <——–If you’d like to see a little into the future then you’re going to want go here.

w3schools PHP section <——-After you digested all of the previos goodies.  You’re going to want to make your page act like a full blown killing machine so visit this section of the w3schools web site.  Also we have a few small basic PHP examples in our Source Page.

Safe travels to us all!

“Good design lies in the desire of the artist and developer to give sight to those who are blind.” – the beast

PHP – Hello, Snitches!

Following in the Open Source spirit. We’re going to go with a PHP script. Demonstrating a simple way to write a message using PHP server-side technologies. Now if you don’t know what exactly PHP is don’t worry, everything will and can be explained. PHP is on the Open Source side of things; meaning anyone can learn and use it. When we say it’s a “Server-Side Language”: it means that all the information is processed on the server’s side and the client doesn’t see anything until the server decides what they should and shouldn’t see. So yea…. think of of the person visiting your page is a child and you are its parent. You ge to paint their world and how they see it! YAAAYYYY! PHP!!! And best of all its free!! If you feel like you still need some clarity just google/wikipedia PHP. So yesss… lets go basic with the PHP for now… PHP files have the extension .php (much like html has .html.) With that said, go to any text editor and create a new text file. Rename the extension from .txt to .php. After this open your newly created .php file and lets start writing some code in it!

PHP files start like this:

And end like this:

Now in between these two is where your code is going to go.  So it should look something like this:

Pretty simple right?!  Lets not just write the word code and lets actually put something that is dynamic to the page.  Being that PHP is a language it has an abundance of words and functions that you can use and combine to your liking.  For now lets go with the most basic of all which is “echo.”  This function will give whatever value you’d like to the user.  Think of it as you needing to speak with a friend, lets give him the name “John Lennon.”  Now John is not exactly in direct contact with you and is extremely difficult to find and speak to.  Now your only solution is to find another friend (who we will name “Jimmy Hendrix”) that is in constant communication with John.  Now since you’re sure that Jimmy is always speaking to John all you have to do is give Jimmy the message and he’ll pass it along to John.  That’s exactly what the function “echo” does in your code.  It takes any value that you give and it displays it to the visitor.  Lets put it into PHP code.

Again your first line will always be the following:

Next your going to use the function of “echo”:

Now, notice that I put the phrase inside quotation marks.  This is always neccessary when you’re dealing with straight text.  Also, very important!  Notice at the end of the phrase there’s a semi- colon “;” this is used to imply that our code has ended for this line.  Every line of PHP code should have a “;” .  And when you’re done inserting code go ahead and use the closing tag for your PHP file.

After this you should have the following:

Go ahead and upload your file to your web server to see your work.  Now if you want you can keep going crazy by adding more “echo” functions and see if you can display your entire page using this function alone.  When you do try visiting the PHP main web site for more funstions and tutorials! Or just google PHP Tutorials.

Quartz Composer Tutorial Part 1

Hello! Quartz Composer is a free open source application that is available to anyone with a Mac OS X computer. Use it to make groundbreaking graphics using your own custom made images.

The following is a three part tutorial of Quartz Composer. Our goal is to create an interactive screen saver. The first tutorial will walk you threw on how to find Quartz Composer. The second will give you a basic idea of how to use the software. The third tutorial will give step-by-step instructions on how to create our interactive screen saver.

Part 1: Installing Quartz Composer

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Quartz Composer Tutorial Part 2

Welcome! Now that you have the free software installed in your computer, you are now ready to learn how to use it. This video is for beginners and those of you that never opened Quartz Composer before. Now if you don’t feel satisfied with this very basic basic video, remember that you always have the vast knowledge of the internet at your disposal. So yes, here we will be learning what a patch is and how we can create one to display our very own custom image! After this tutorial is complete you should know how to navigate your way around Quartz Composer. If you feel this is far too basic for you please feel free to move on to our third and final video meant for intermediate users.

Part 2: Learning the User Interface

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Quartz Composer Tutorial Part 3

Welcome! By now you should have already Quartz Composer installed in your system and also you should be quite familiar with its components. So since you have all the basics down lets move on to actually creating your own custom graphics. In our last tutorial we will be setting out to create a audio reactive screen saver using Quartz Composer and our own custom made images! Don’t worry if your screen saver doesn’t turn out exactly as it comes out in the video. This video is more of a way for you to get your feet wet in the limitless things you can do with this free development software. After you are done you should know how to connect similar properties to each other and have a numerous count of patches on our work area. Again if you’d like to learn more the best thing to do is experiment with the values given here and just go nuts with it. The more chaotic the better, because it is only then we can truly be creative.

Part 3: Creating Our File!

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