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crux » fuel / three-d

again thanks to mike for the photo. this is from later on, a story-telling part where the ability to be in a 3D engine and quickly build-up abstracted but understandable scenes comes into its own.

on the right you can see live transcription. to think they had to cope with the words falling out of my mouth, eeek. unquestionably progress, though!

diary | 13 apr 2024 | tagged: volta · fuel records · crux

crux » fuel / two-d

finish talk, straight into performance. quite the shift, happily it was a smooth transition.

thanks to mike for the photo. this early part of the piece is a revival of my “video fused motion graphics” from back in the early noughties, a faithful recreation of the sound-off tour visuals i was making at the time. and with its big fuel logo, hard not to be the poster image for the whole piece, even if represents the old-school to now. ahem, sorry, fuel was “nu-skool” at the time =]

diary | 13 apr 2024 | tagged: volta · fuel records · crux

crux » four good ideas and an iffy one

i’d imagined the 45 minutes as a masterclass, but at some point realised the greater good would be promoting some of the ideas volta is built upon. so i made a deck full of videos showing volta in action, structured around –

  • be 3D-first
  • embrace remote
  • embrace audience interaction
  • embrace yourself

why? because if you put these all together, you get

  • XR artists sustained by their fans

the iffy idea, after the volta part, was my thinking around ‘why go see live a/v’. what are the formats that might be both entertaining and fast to make? as the production behind things like rbn_esc is, nowadays, simply prohibitive.

and so: the fuel records piece

  • a classic rock album documentary for the rave generation
  • friday night on BBC4, with a club PA
  • ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

diary | 13 apr 2024 | tagged: volta · fuel records · crux

crux » four good ideas...

to crux festival, a two-day event that has come out of an ongoing series of audio-visual-ish nights in london – “a meeting space to experiment, collaborate and be entertained”.

i’d approached them looking for a scratch-space to trial my fuel performance. they said, hang on, this would suit our festival next year. so i waited, there was some confusion about whether it was a talk or a performance (understandable, it’s not a format i’ve seen around), and finally: i’m here, splitting the difference between day-time workshop and night-time performance.

Join toby*spark for a masterclass in Volta leading to an a/v performance using it – the story of Fuel Records. It’s a fun show, and will definitely put the PA through its paces.

Volta is a visual creation engine and interaction platform, the product of a London-based startup backed by Deadmau5 and Richie Hawtin among others. You’ll learn how to quickly set up 3D visuals, bring AR live cameras in, and then let the audience control it.

photo credit: guy smallman

diary | 13 apr 2024 | tagged: volta · fuel records · crux