CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
We're honored that VJ Bat (a.k.a. the electro-goth industrual pioneer Xorcist) debuted on his live Twitch show our clockwork remix of Michael Ash Sharbaugh's "Fog Rise Echo." To create his 8-bit light show overlay, VJ Bat has in the studio an Apple 2e computer with special hardware that listens to the room during the set and displays the waveform of the music on the side of the screen. In the dead center of the screen is a live feed from his Atari C-240 Color Light Organ decoding the audio signal. Surrounding that is his Radio Shack Color Computer II with a Music Kaleidoscope hardware cart also decoding the audio feed. Both the Atari and Radio Shack video feeds are combined by a Gefen video mixer. All 3 of these feeds are then sent to a separate computer that has a 4xHDMI PCIe input card and OBS where the APPLE 2e feed is layered. The whole mess is then sent to his VJ laptop, which streams as an NDI source while Bat performs.
Thanks to Michael Ash Sharbaugh, who said: "I am blessed, Gents! Thanks! It is soooooo great! You gentlemen have outdone yourselves: the video is spooky, comical at times, and well orchestrated and planned out. I am humbled, and appreciate it!" Here's the video of Neons Gone Mad's clockwork remix of "Fog Rise Echo":
