for the three people who will know what this is, it was worth the wait… mmmm, zip!
for the three people who will know what this is, it was worth the wait… mmmm, zip!
diary | 12 dec 2007 | tagged: vj · adventures · sónar
while sónar itself wasn’t exactly a revelation music-wise, many good things have come out of the time spent as the international tribes come together. first up, finally met sean of skynoise.net, which has been a long time coming. also by design, spent a week with todd synesthete rather than the normal 24 hours around some gig, which meant we could actually sit down and work on (appropriately enough) the vj network development we only get to talk about otherwise. a beautiful co-incidence was dr.mo, who (ironically enough) had booked in with my old friend elliot before i even knew he or i was going. unexpected but excellent was scott aka amoeba aka thestateovcreation, somebody on the list as one to get back in touch with harking back to his well-ahead-of-the-curve a/v set at brighton 2003. and the real wildcard was vadmin aka eps, russian vj and an organiser of the abracadabra festival, of which i have a whole pack of spanking promo dvds to take back to the uk.
diary | 19 jun 2007 | tagged: vj · sónar
and how was it done? genius: industrial liquid containers. glorified milk cartons. mass-produced, i’d bet they are a steal, and even beyond that, there’s probably some transport company somewhere you can rent them from…
diary | 18 jun 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · sónar
…and you walk in, and realise that was only the front door. as if walking into the top of an ampiteatre, lo! there was kubic below, in all its glory. and quite something, you see it and just realise evidently this is how all nightclubs should be. as a vj, i was thinking forget videoscreens, just make the whole place out of these pulsating, glowing boxes. we just didn’t get tired of it.
diary | 18 jun 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · sónar
…and so we got there, and it looked super cool but kinda small, and how is that queue going to fit in there…?
diary | 18 jun 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · sónar
travelling-art-installation-cum-night-club kubic had landed in town over the sónar weekend, and sounded like the perfect afterparty, a place you could just sit back and soak it in as much as dance. through a surreal empty expo park we went, and under a massive solar panel saw what must be kubic, a small stack of glowing boxes against the void of the nighttime sea…
diary | 18 jun 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · sónar
it wouldn’t be too far from the truth to say one reason i went to sónar was to hear cursor miner outside of a london basement and on an epic stage, dropping the kind of set that could change your career. well, he started, and pretty much instantly people’s ears perked up and the masses surged towards his stage. and i danced like a madman. it ruled.
diary | 17 jun 2007 | tagged: vj · sónar
if you have todd around, then it will be with elliot’s mycitymate.net guide downloaded on the phone in the one hand, and gps in the other.
diary | 16 jun 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · sónar
sónar by day finished on the highlight for me: planning to rock. go check if you get a chance, its crazy, fun and cool. a singer with serious vocal skills skitting around to a backing dvd of beats and her simple but well cut video. in fact, its kinda embarrassing that the best visuals featured a fair bit of kaleidoscope, but well, what can you do: the show had attitude.
diary | 16 jun 2007 | tagged: vj · sónar
in the museu d’art contemporani de barcelona bookshop, the two big vj tomes were prominently on display. which is both a super good thing for the scene, and personally pretty damn freaky to see yourself as an artist featured in such a venue.
diary | 16 jun 2007 | tagged: errata of life · *spark · vj · sónar
sónar-by-night felt kinda epic but empty… a superhuge rave in a convention centre, underground it was not. started well listening to london’s dubstep sound, but the music was largely so-so for me until simian mobile disco at the end. odd that in such a huge complex of venues, there wasn’t a breakbeat to be heard. oh, and the visuals were rubbish: not what i was expecting having footage of no-domain and suchlike from previous years.
diary | 16 jun 2007 | tagged: vj · sónar
local vj-and-more crew a3 spotted running processing patches with monster audio analysis at the last place still going in sónar by day.
diary | 15 jun 2007 | tagged: vj · sónar
sean’s mission for sónar involves getting people to pose in skating shots for digital masheruping down the line. just don’t ask what happened when he asked the handlebar moustached ‘special police’.
diary | 15 jun 2007 | tagged: vj · sónar
one of the best stalls in the record fair was from birmingham, the city i left years ago for want of a scene bigger than one venue… times really do change. chris keenan aka prime objective, a vj and film maker who participated with the avituk2005 festival, was manning the stall. check his site, worth it for the homepage alone.
diary | 15 jun 2007 | tagged: errata of life · avit-vj-network · vj · sónar
you’ve seen the prisoner when they start flashing lights at him in his sleep? or more like the ipcress file when they freak his mind in a cube of projected freak? well the opening for sónar for us was sitting in a fog filled room with strobe lights phasing against each other.
for half an hour. solid. straight.
…so thats why we signed the disclaimer. and it is bonkers, you see things that just aren’t there, it actually is all in your mind as it just fails to cope with the frequencies.
diary | 15 jun 2007 | tagged: vj · sónar
pick up sónar pro passes, lose the bikes, talk avit backoffices. long story.
diary | 14 jun 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · adventures · sónar
a town with a wealth of riches?
diary | 12 jun 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · adventures · sónar
computers packed away, and back to the coast. a swim in the sea, a walk on the rocks… putting the world to rights, one contemplation at a time.
diary | 12 jun 2007 | tagged: vj · adventures · sónar
todd showing eloi and sean artificial eye’s 3l/thrill vj app… on the veranda, aaah, life was easy.
diary | 12 jun 2007 | tagged: vj · adventures · sónar
showing eloi and sean my live cinema work and the state of play on macs, with vdmx, quartz composer and image kernels
diary | 12 jun 2007 | tagged: *spark · quartz composer · vj · vdmx · adventures · sónar
find eloi at the most cool ‘la fabrica’, a converted factory now full of dance studios and suchlike, having a beer after documenting his video feedback installation coded with open framworks. its processing for people who want c++ performance.
diary | 11 jun 2007 | tagged: vj · adventures · sónar
in barcelona rendevous with todd thille / synesthete.com and sean of skynoise.net; hire mopeds, head upcountry with the mission to find eloi of telenoika’s country retreat. most importantly, via a maximum of crinkly bits. 2km of curves? bring it on.
diary | 11 jun 2007 | tagged: errata of life · vj · adventures · sónar