Posts By: Wouter

JavaScript desktop programs with NW.js

This is an overview and tutorial of how to create desktop programs for Linux, Mac and Windows using NW.js. NW.js is a framework for building desktop applications with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It works by combining a JavaScript app with Node.js and Google’s Chromium browser engine into a single desktop program.

Volca-Freesound

Volca-Freesound is an online app I made for the Korg Volca Sample. I downloads random sounds from the freesound.org audio database and transfers them to a Volca Sample connected to the computer with an audio cable. Please find an article about the app in the tech section of this site. The app runs in the… Read more »

Volca-Freesound

Volca-Freesound is an online app to load samples on the Korg Volca Sample. It selects random samples from the freesound.org database. So it’s not a sample manager like Vosyr or Caustic Editor. This app chooses random samples by itself. You can only control the maximum length of the samples and which Volca slots to overwrite,… Read more »

Selah magazine

Selah magazine kindly invited me to submit some paintings for their third, fall 2018 issue. The printed magazine arrived in the mail today, a great looking small-form magazine filled with poems and artworks. Selah is a new art and literary magazine from Covington, Louisiana, USA.

untitledxxi

This year I’ve joined artist network untitledxxi. They kindly invited me after we came in contact on Instagram. Untitledxxi is an international artists network that offers a digital platform by running a website and being active on various social media. It also deploys real world activities by organising exhibitions and by finding spaces for artists… Read more »

Single-line 3D text

I wrote some JavaScript to create single-line 3D text using the three.js library to render 3D on a canvas using WebGL. Three.js can already render text with its TextGeometry class, but I wanted something simpler: single-line fonts.

Spotlight at Online Galerij

Art website onlinegalerij.nl published a Spotlight article about my paintings. Online Galerij is a Dutch website for culture and visual arts that aims to widen the interest in art to a broader public. Online galerij is very active in publishing articles, so my spotlight moves down quickly in the list of recent posts. Here’s a… Read more »

A music video about the Weesperplein

During the summer the idea grew to try and combine images and sound. To see how they influence each other, and in the expectation that it might lead to new ideas for paintings. And possibly to new ideas for music as well. The idea took the form of a music video. This summer I made… Read more »