tagged: glastonbury

my experiments with cameras and cross-reality stage sets used in-development ‘xr cam’ features we’re prototyping. important, hard stuff, that really sells the artist presence premise i think is central to hybrid events and ideas around performing-to-the-internet. it’s unclear whether an iOS app to take advantage of lidar depth imaging is mass-market enough at present, and this shot doesn’t help as that flat orange is showing no depth… but it certainly sells what it was like to be there.

diary | 25 jun 2022 | tagged: volta · glastonbury

…no longer in the front-of-house booth, now on-stage with them.

diary | 25 jun 2022 | tagged: volta · glastonbury

next night: fumez for me. we’d had problems with the feeds from the on-stage cameras, so i plugged them in directly… (con’t)

diary | 25 jun 2022 | tagged: volta · glastonbury

grove rocked. i loved their music, their energy, their whole thing. icing on the cake: got a shout-out for the ‘amazing visuals’. alas, those visuals are lost to time, and wouldn’t translate to the non-360° here.

the above stills aren’t that, then. more interesting though, as a clearer distillation of a possible future. of hybrid events, either experienced remotely, or feeding the event back to itself, intensified. that’s why I was “experimenting with cameras and AR stage sets”; visuals yes, but trying to make the live act live-er, seeing how xr might pump the performer–audience feedback loop. and having made the test the stills are drawn from, that isn’t just lofty ideal: it’s the moments when the real audience flash into the virtual venue that really stand out to me, that make me feel rather than just see the performance.

diary | 24 jun 2022 | tagged: volta · glastonbury

shangri-la’s gas tower stage before the onslaught – we as volta had ⁦six slots over three days, with founder alex kane vj’ing it up in 3D and me experimenting with cameras and cross-reality stage sets for the live acts.

…arcadia got there first for a warm-up gig. and that grass ain’t going to look like that for long.

diary | 22 jun 2022 | tagged: volta · glastonbury

with daytime responsibilities absolved, each day the chance to climb up to sunset vistas across the whole site, and quietly read a book. after six months of having a newborn around, the calm of this was bliss. minutes after taking this panorama, the group in front burst into song: a choir rehearsing. perfect moment.

as for glastonbury by night… well, that’s a little blurred.

diary | 25 jun 2014 | tagged: glastonbury

to glastonbury to exhibit small global: extreme energy. greenpeace asked d-fuse to feature their work on fracking with the school of advanced study, university of london as the centrepiece of their ‘clIMAX’ dome. happy to oblige, on all fronts.

diary | 25 jun 2014 | tagged: glastonbury · dfuse

…should always be epic, with snoop in the sun, or stevie at sunset. and people stretching to infinity.

for a proper photo review of glastonbury, check the amazing big picture site

diary | 27 jun 2010 | tagged: adventures · glastonbury

…should always be made to this standard, drum’n’bass crystal clear with a funktion-one rig in the surround, or there should be twenty other people in a tiny tent busting moves and playing the fool.

diary | 26 jun 2010 | tagged: adventures · glastonbury

…should always have funktion one sound systems, or failing that, be a boat on wheels with a battered piano on the back and a whirring propeller above, complete with suitably rough-hewn crew.

diary | 26 jun 2010 | tagged: adventures · glastonbury

…should always be this glorious. the crew camping should always have a perfect space by mat, pictured, shaded under a great oak. the rota should always have your vj shifts grouped together on the same night, and not that first night. there should be friends, new and old…

diary | 25 jun 2010 | tagged: adventures · glastonbury