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splice » latitude

diary | 05 jun 2016 | tagged: vj · dfuse · splice festival · live cinema

splice » 1024 architecture

what might the final part of a trilogy be, when the first part was so definitive? is there anywhere else to go?

the answer, of course, is something different, something bonkers. not the mise-en-scene and future-props (neon-tube-guitars, anybody?), but a journey through a warped world. a more conventional setup, but much more mind-warp. nice moment afterwards when franz goes “narrative, yes. who was talking about that the first? you.”

good to see old friends continuing to push it. what they were doing the first time i met them, a decade back, is still something i talk about.

diary | 26 may 2017 | tagged: vj · splice festival · live cinema

splice » alba corral

the discovery of the festival for me was alba corral, whose generative graphics were captivating and didn’t tire or jar like so many do – i’ve tried a few things, but never crossed an expressive barrier which she has quite wonderfully. it was quite inspiring, and leads me back to ideas of a visualist band, with people passing around live drawing in realtime.

the performance was a pair-up with tim cowie, who is silhouetted on the left. you can just make out alba in the dark on the right.

diary | 26 may 2017 | tagged: vj · splice festival

splice » coldcut

i wasn’t going to miss the ninja tune tour when i was a student in '98, and the show did not disappoint. scratching audio-visual samples? crazy. and there’s the let us play album, which came with a cd-rom that was a year ahead of me having a computer powerful enough to actually run it.

but, sometimes, it’s hard to escape the past. their latest visual collaborator, matt sharp, had updated everything using oh-so now style transfer techniques. this was perfect: bang-on homage to coldcut’s ethos and actually stylish!

diary | 26 may 2017 | tagged: vj · splice festival

splice » live cinema panel

was part of the live cinema panel, with chris allen, sally golding and lisa brook. chris, sally, and i have talked on this before, but new and outside-of-our-scene is lisa’s live cinema org.

here’s a moment from the talk, as i recall it:

lisa – come to the sheffield doc fest, we’re curating live performances and there’s budget

chris – what! they’ve been turning down live work for years. it’s been maddening.

i mention this as it might mark the point where live cinema pieces (a wide definition per lisa, but including what i’d say and like to see) might start to be commissioned and appear in more mainstream contexts.

diary | 27 may 2017 | tagged: vj · live in live cinema · splice festival · talk · live cinema · *spark

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splice, as a punter, before waking up at the crack of dawn for a weekend of endurance cycling… yikes. wasn’t going to go before seeing eboman, a hero of mine whose audio-visual antics made computers do things that are still on the edge twenty years later.

of course, it’s always dangerous meeting your heroes, but a sense of humour and love for the craft goes a long way it seems: his set was a riot. not my taste, and just a guy and a laptop – no wearble sampling suit! – but so much fun.

diary | 11 may 2018 | tagged: vj · splice festival