Interpreting music through video.

When I get really into the music, I am completely unaware of anything but the music and group performing. Every once in a while, I’ll come out of the haze of music for a bit and look around. If I see zoned out people staring at the screen, or, my favorite, the musicians looking back at the screen repeatedly, then I’m doing my job.

I create and perform visuals for shows. I mostly use the program Isadora from Troikatronix for the live shows. I also use Quartz Composer for some of the live feeds. I often use just one laptop since they are getting to be capable of so much variety in such an easy to carry package. For some shows, I use two laptops, a video mixer, and maybe some electronic toys. I almost always carry a midi dial controller with me. This is how I accomplish much of the feel of my graphics. For composing clips to use in the shows I use any program that can import or export video or image data. This has included Final Cut Pro, Blender, Flash, Quartz Composer, broken analog video devices . . .

Some venues I have done visuals at/for:
The Alibi Room
Chop Suey

The Lower Level
M:Pulse
See Sound Lounge
Temple Billiards’ Deep Down Lounge
Tost Lounge
Some artists/groups I have done visuals for:
Beehive
Electrosect
Fourth City
Foscil
Kim Hiorthoy
Loscil
Miss Solar System
Nudge
Strategy
If you’d like me to do visuals for your group or event, want advice, or maybe want me to create some looping graphics for your foyer or create video or visuals of some sort for a project you are working on, just send me an email.