Video of my last gig doing visuals for Carl Craig at Decibel Festival 2010! I shot almost all of the footage for this show during this last summer and as recently as the day before the show.
You can see one of the flaws in the video on the Canon T2i. When there are bright flashes of light in these video clips, you get a horizontal banding. I actually think it has to do with the frequency of the lights vs the camera. It’s rare that I have seen this, as I mostly shoot outdoor, unlit footage.
I will be doing visuals again for Seattle’s Decibel Festival! There are a lot of great artists this year, and I think I am the most excited I’ve been yet! Still a bit of time before the festival, so take the time to check out the artists that will be coming and take in a show.
I’ll be performing in two showcases, Lo Dubs at The Baltic Room on Thursday the 23rd, and D25 at Neumos on Saturday the 25th.
I did visuals for a couple acts this past weekend for Seattle’s 2009 Decibel Festival. There were some great artists playing, though I was a bit of a non-goer. I was working on my visuals software right up until the Nosaj Thing show. Ended up going back to a software setup from about three years ago and took about five hours changing some things around to make my software a bit more friendly. As usual, I was editing the software during the shows as well. Thankfully, I didn’t cause any weird errors or crashes while doing this. That is definitely a danger.
Decibel Festival 2009: V8 Media visuals for Nosaj Thing at Neumos
I’ve been doing quite a bit of messing around with Max/MSP/Jitter and have most everything figured out. There are a couple main things (and I’m sure some small ones I’ll run into) that have been stopping me from using Max/MSP for my gigs. Main one is that the way I end up using my current/previous visuals software, Troikatronix Isadora is that I set up a MIDI dial controller for all of my main mixing, levels, hues, saturation, contrast, and set up a couple (or sometimes three) bin pickers, where I can look through my various folders of video. The way Jitter is mostly used is with drop down text lists. I don’t even know what most of my clips are named, since I just choose them visually.
All the methods in which I’ve tried to programmatically fill in icons and make them clickable have thus far failed. Because I really wanted to use Max/MSP this time, I started manually creating these things. I got about a third of the way through and Max/MSP crashed upon loading my file. I also tend to use some forms of feedback, by looping video back into parts of the software that I’ve already gone by, or by looping sections with specific filters. I’ve had a hard time getting this going in Max/MSP as I did a bunch of work to get the effects to be processed on the video card. The recursion I want to do looks like it might almost have to be outside of the video card, which might mean that the video card setup might not work. You can tell I’m still working on it. Hopefully by next time I’ll have some pretty crazy things happening.
I am doing visuals for a show up the hill at Easy Street Records. I’m still working on recreating my software and interaction for doing this, so we’ll see if I do it the old school way, or the new school way.
Samples of the music are in the links below.
See you there?
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music provided by:
Specs One (ABDUCTION, SOULTHEFT, FOURTHCITY, 206 VINTAGE)
nth + ronin (FOURTHCITY, EXPONENTIAL MEDIA) CD release event
with LoFreq (FOURTHCITY, SUBAUDIBLE LOVE SOUNDS, BEDroom HEADZ)
visuals provided by:
Ian Page-Echols (V8 Media)
I am doing visuals again for Decibel Festival in Seattle! I’ll be holding down the fort in the Baltic Room and doing visuals for a few specific acts, including:
Welder at the Baltic Room
weldersounds.com, myspace.com/weldersounds
Friday 9/26 at 10:15
and
Fax at Neumos
faxmusik.com, myspace.com/faxmusik
Sunday 9/28 at 9:30
STOP BITING: DON’T LOOK AT THE MONSTERS
With DJs Hideki, Kamui, Sage Nomad, and guests. Lo_Fi Performance Gallery, 429 Eastlake Ave E, lofiseattle.org, 9 pm.
MAIN ROOM: HIDDEN HABITATS
(BUMBLE BEE, HIDEKI, KAMUI ,SAGE NOMAD,)
w/ INTROCUT ABSOLUTE MADMAN, & REI
Come watch and listen at Chop Suey. Yuba Foxfire and myself will be providing visual embellishment for the bands at this venue who come without visuals of their own. The dbFestival schedule is being finalized as this is written.
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