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Coldcut are touring with a new audiovisual calle Energy Union show about intelligent energy.
Here a awesome looking HD preview. Nice. hope to catch them live. This would be something for the Boom festival.
Maybe that could become reality, as Coldcuts Matt Black was already at Boom as activist and DJ.
Where is VJ-ing going nowadays? Many seem to go out of the club and into so called augumented architecture or projections mapped to space and architecture. Here two nice videos examples of such visual projects:
First a audio visual piece by UK post-VJ crew MOTH , very nice:
MOTH ‘PLINTH’ – Del La Warr Pavillion / 2009 from M-O-T-H on Vimeo.
Another augumented facade visuals project by telenoika
Telenoika Audiovisual Mapping @ Ingravid Festival, Figueres 9/2009 [FULL] from Telenoika on Vimeo.
Nosaj Thing Visual Show Compilation Test Shoot from Adam Guzman on Vimeo.
This is a video capture of one of the nicest VJ performances I have seen yet .Very minimal and simple but very effective. A great inspiration, definetly.
What the artists say about :
“The live show for Nosaj Thing, a collaboration with Julia Tsao. Video clips are the formatted for mixing in Modul8. Each clip belongs to a certain part of a song. We triggered and manipulated each clip live with 2 midi controllers. Our performance is focused around disorientation and using the projector as a light source. The first half of the show is dedicated to slowly building a visual style. The images are black and white lines and squares. The positive/negative space is used to create rhythm that is synced with the audio. As the set progresses, the imagery becomes less abstract and focused less on light. Patterns begin to form and space begins to open as if the two dimensions exploded into a third. The relationship the graphics create with the performer is interesting. As the graphics become more spatial, the performer flattens, becoming a 2-D cutout version of himself.”
Read more at CREATE DIGITAL MOTION , the leading VJ blog , where I found out about :
Yesterday I went to see Moderat live gig at Gloria in Cologne.
This concert was a part of the c/o pop Festival which is going on till Sunday 16.8.
Moderat is electronic “super group” formed from the well known Berlin artists Modeselektor and Apparat,
with visuals and videos by Germany Nr 1 VJs Pfadfinderei.
I really enjoyed this liveset, and can say it wasprobabyl the best electronic live act I have experienced since ages.
Definetly not your standard average boring laptop live act !
Moderts music osciallted between downtempo IDM , rock and rave,
with dubstep, dancehall and minimal techno influences and live vocalsby Apparats Sascha, as well as some recorded vacals by Reggae artist Tiiman.
Its just great music and the syncronized custom visuals by Pfadfinderei greatly enhanced the music.
The crowd was up for it and the band gave everything , 2 encores until they hadno more tracks left.
Here are some photos :
Moderat live @ c/o pop
Moderat live @ c/o pop
You can find more photos on my Flickr account!
I have made some videos which I will upload when I get to it!
On another note I am glad to have met Waddada , one of my favs bass music/dub/dubstep Djs and producer from Cologne, which is also a very nice and freindly person by the way.
He mentioned that the Luxor Club in Cologne is relauched and there will be some intereseting bass music events there soon. I will keep you informed.
Before the gig I was very hungry, and was lucky to find some great japanese food at the nearby bento Box japanese restaurant.
I had Yaatori , which were delicious and some sushi which was also quite good. I can recoomend this place.
I found a great blog post( in german) which describes the gig pretty good, with some videos.
Also to get a idea about the music and visuals enjoy the video of Rusty Nails on Vimeo:
Moderat “Rusty Nails” from Pfadfinderei on Vimeo.
Filament @ Tyneside Cinema Launch – The Wall from Steve Holmes on Vimeo.
A 50 seconds sequence (1400 frames) , the showdown of the movie “Run Lola Run” is processed with Max/jitter so you can see alll 1400 frames in a grid of 1400 rectangles displayed on a giant screen , allowing one to virtually see any and all of the 1400 frames at same time.Think the freeframe video effect “split video” but in really big. This gives a quite new persepective on tghe movie and the moviel loop becomes a giant video sculpture.
Watch the video above to see what I mean.
Which is really a new perspective on a movie.
A interesting concept I’d like to see live and I like this to become a permanent installtion somewhere and used with different other movie sequences. There are a few parts of movies which would be at least as suitable as Lola Run.
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