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Moving to the beat: a performer creates music-driven visualizations in real time. (Cover Story).

Computer Graphics World

| November 01, 2001 | Moltenbrey, Karen | COPYRIGHT 2001 PennWell Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

No performer, past or present, has created moving music in quite the same manner as twenty-first century instrumentalist Mobius 8, whose cutting-edge sounds are being used to generate real-time interactive 3D visual effects. John Laraio, known as Mobius 8, displayed this unique music video capability during his live stage performances with pop rock band `NSync during its 2001 global tour. "The ability to translate my music into a visual display gives me the power to actually play the graphics, lights, and video for the audience," says Laraio.

Using Zuma, 3dMaxMedia's real-time graphics performance technology, Mobius 8 translates audio into visual motion as he ...

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