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.

Kevin Saunderson with AudioPixel LED lighting

Monty Luke with visuals by Zachariah Walker

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.

Lo Dubs Showcase Thursday September 23rd, 2010

DISTANCE – DJ : London, United Kingdom
CLUBROOT – Live : London, United Kingdom
MONKEYTEK – DJ : Portland, United States
RYAN ORGAN – DJ : Portland, United States
JON A.D. – DJ : Portland, United States
JAGGA CULTURE – MC : Mobay, Jamaica / Portland, United States
LOWREZ – Visual : Seattle, United States
V8 MEDIA – Visual : Seattle, United States

D25 SHOWCASE Saturday September 25th, 2010

CARL CRAIG – DJ : Detroit, United States
KEVIN SAUNDERSON – DJ : Detroit, United States
MONTY LUKE – DJ : Detroit / San Francisco, United States
AUDIOPIXEL – Visual : United States
ZACHARIAH WALKER – Visual : London, United Kingdom
V8 MEDIA – Visual : Seattle, United States

2010 Decibel Artist list

180 dBs: KEXP’s Electronic Music Mix
A mix of 180 tracks that KEXP put together to get a taste of this year’s Decibel Festival.

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.

(Photos by Russ, kochs.org, and Donte. Thanks to Luara for pointing me towards the Mary Anne Hobbs photo!. Videos by RyanXristopher and altapowskier)

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)

Friday, January 23rd, 9:30pm
Easy Street Records West Seattle
4559 California Ave SW
Seattle, WA 98116
$5, 21+

myspace.com/easystreetafterhours
myspace.com/specsone
myspace.com/eswizard
myspace.com/lofreqmusic
v8media.com/
myspace.com/nth808 (various links)
soundcloud.com/nth808

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

(clicking the image above will load up a java sketch created using Processing from Processing.org)

10/31/2006

Foscil

Specs One

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.

Decibel Festival Info:
Web Page
Myspace

Current Lineup for 2006:
Speedy J (Netherlands)
Green Velvet (Chicago)
Alex Smoke (U.K.)
Bola (U.K.)
Thomas Fehlmann: Dub Set (Germany)
Murcof (Mexico)
The Dead Texan (Belgium)
Nortec Collective (Mexico)
Telefon Tel Aviv (Chicago)
Apparat (Germany)
Ryoichi Kurokawa (Japan)
Taylor Deupree (New York)
Richard Chartier (Washington D.C.)
Subtle (San Francisco)
Andreas Tilliander (Sweden)
Fax (Mexico)
Jeremy Ellis (Detroit)
Mokira (Sweden)
Claude Vonstroke (San Francisco)
Panoptica (Mexico)
[a]pendics.shuffle (Los Angeles)
Kate Simko (Chicago)
Deru (Los Angeles(
Jacob London: Debut Live Set(Seattle)
Brett Johnson (U.S.)
Latinsizer (Mexico)
Tim Xavier (New York)
Soultek (Chicago)
Plankton Man (Los Angeles)
Lusine (Seattle)
Davide Squillace (Spain)
Jerry Abstract (Seattle)
Mr. Projectile (San Francisco)
Son Of Rose (Seattle)
Camea and Insideout(New York)
Let’s Go Outside (Portland)
Jon McMillion (Seattle)
Robin Judge (Vancouver)
Mister Leisrure (Seattle)
Yann Novak (Seattle)
Senior Frio (Portland)
Randy Jones (Seattle)
Ben Nilstein (Portland)
Paul Edwards (Seattle)
SciFiSol (Seattle)
Ruoho Ruotsi (San Francisco)
Nordic Soul (Seattle)
Plan B (Seattle)
Sun Tzu Sound (Seattle)
Kinoko (Seattle)
GreenStar (Portland)
Kris Moon (Seattle)
Foscil (Seattle)
Some very nice stuff, definitely check it out!!

Fourthcity, the world-renowned think tank behind innovations like Laptop Battle, Poster Midget, StopBiting, the Keg-Stand-Mandatory Party Series & The Original Fourthcity Weekly, proudly & without reservation announce a party of the upmost priapism:

BRUSHED GOLDEN AFTER DINNER PARTY
aka FOURTHCITY CREW SHOWCASE 2006!! < -----

On June 9th, the day of our party, the world will know the reason why the Fourthcity Interns have been growing bedsores via their custom-designed lay-z-boy internet capsules!
On Friday June 9th, FOSCIL, ABSOLUTE MADMAN, VINCENT PARKER, KAMUI, HIDEKI, BUMBLEBEE, INTROCUT, REI, M’CHATEAU, KINOKO & PLAN B nourish you with new songs.

Visuals by V8 Media

We cannot tell you where our party is because you’re a snitch, but call 206 322 2209 to find out which super-secret warehouse on Capitol Hill you should roll (deep?) to.

Once again it’s on.

**Free commemorative Brushed Golden zines to the first 20 people!
**Short film debut by M. Iwata for Brushed Golden!
**This is a benefit show for New Beginnings Women’s Shelter!

Friday June Ninth
(The Day Before The Laptop Battle)
at “Club De Silencio”
$5, no guest list (it’s a benefit)
call or email privately for location

BYOB

01/06/2006

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

All of us here at the Fourthcity Studios wish you a debaucherous-yet intellectually stimulating 2006!! We offer you, for our first (non-weekly*) event of the new year:

COPY (Live, CD Release!, PDX)
GIU (aka Galactic Ionization Unit**, Live, SEA)
ABSOLUTE MADMAN (Live, SEA)
DJN (??,
SEA/CHICAGO)
FOURTHCITY DJS (aka Hidden Habitats, aka The Thripple Nipples, aka Kamui, Hideki & Bumblebee!, Live-ass DJ Set, SEA/KANSAI/HAWAII)
$5

ps- this WILL be the start of an earth-invasion by the Galactic Ionization Unit. join them before it’s too late.

Beehive
Henry Bee Noone
DJ Greg J of KEXP

Doors open at 9pm