Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) of Raster Noton performs at Club Transmediale 09 in Berlin where they premiered their new rhythm_screen. Visuals were produced using Derivative’s TouchDesigner and are formed from the TouchDesigner UI. derivative.ca
We played there at the same time!
‘I describe what I do as graphic composing,’ nicolai reveals.
‘I’m always thinking in polarities, like yin and yang. I look for visualization
tools that create certain images and then build archives of images generated by sound.’
Published on November 18, 2009 7:55 pm.
Filed under: Weblog Tags: Music, Video
Liverpool on the 15th April. Was really good. Quite different to other gigs usually play was at the Blue Coat center a exhibition space, art studios and performance space. The gig itself was in an auditorium, a sit down affair with great equipment and technical guys. Very professional and friendly. The gig was full and featured a good mix of artists/musicians.
I was experimenting with my visuals playing a mixture of things i’m working in Modul8, Isadora and Quartz Composer using new and old footage and clips. I was the only person doing visuals and this worked well, the feedback was very positive and I had quite a few people come and talk to me after which was nice.
I also met a really nice girl who was filming the event and we chatted about how nice it was to see other women working in this indusry as is mostly men. She runs a smal cinema project in Liverpool and we discussed the possibilities of working together in the future.
In short it was very inspiring and very experimental, the acts were so different, Wrongbot a Leeds based duo played using modified childrens toys, Jacques Malchance played some lovely electronica and Tim Exile and Sarah Nicholls were playong a very experimental set with live loop recording with a modified piano. I came home and my mind was buzzing with ideas, in a way I think I prefer the ‘sound art’ gigs to the rave ones, there’s just so much more purity and experimentation and it all goes in, its like a synesthsic exhibition. Thumbs up.
Published on April 19, 2009 3:45 pm.
Filed under: Work
Chunky Move is one of the best modern dance company i’ve seen. From the site: “Mortal Engine is a new dance-video-music-laser performance using movement and sound responsive projections to portray an ever-shifting, shimmering world in which the limits of the human body are an illusion. Crackling light and staining shadows represent the most perfect or sinister of souls. Kinetic energy fluidly metamorphoses from the human figure into light image, into sound and back again. Choreography is focused on movement of unformed beings in an unfamiliar landscape searching to connect and evolve in a constant state of becoming. Veering between moments of exquisite cosmological perfection and grotesque evolutionary accidents of existence, we are driven forward by the reality of permanent change.” More at Fabrik Project
Published on April 19, 2009 2:41 pm.
Filed under: Weblog
VJ gig 4th May Bank Holiday weekend for a new AV night in Leeds. Run by fellow Vis Commer Jack Scott. Nice type. I’ll also be providing a 30min reel from Outdoor AV.
Published on April 7, 2009 10:59 am.
Filed under: Work Tags: gig, gigs, vj
