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Showing posts with label visuals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label visuals. Show all posts

ANIMATED GRAPHIC SCORES: Shane McKenna this Monday

Saturday, June 19, 2010 • , , • 0 comments

Graphic score composer, experimentalist and bassist in 90's cover sensation big band Attention Bebe, Shane McKenna will be running the latest installment of his graphic musical notation experiment this Monday 21st June in the Centre for Creative Practices in Dublin.


Pulsing Colours Shapes-CRACC ensemble from Shane Mc Kenna on Vimeo.
From the CfCP website:

"An evening of collaborative music making for all, with a diverse mix of jazz, classical, electronic and noise musicians present to lead the music making. The event will use animated graphic notation to encourage this collaborative process with everyone encouraged to bring an instrument or noise-making device along and join in.
Animated graphic scores consist of moving shapes and symbols, which may be interpreted and performed as sounds. This event in the Centre for Creative Practices looks to explore the collaborative nature of graphic score performance with a large gathering of professional and amateur musicians creating a unique musical experience through interpretation, listening and performing.
Two animated graphic scores will be projected on opposite walls. An acoustic/pitched instrument ensemble will perform one score with the electronic/noise ensemble performing the other. The scores will be played five times, separately at first and gradually overlapping until they are played simultaneously the fifth time. Between each performance is an opportunity to consult with fellow performers as to how the piece should be successfully performed, building up to the final synchronized performance."
Among the performers will be Fionn Wallace, Niamh de Barra, Amanda Feery, Ed Devane, and some very capable jazz musicians.

http://www.cfcp.ie/events/shane2106.html

New AntiVJ Video

Wednesday, March 24, 2010 • , • 0 comments


AntiVJ - MUTEK 2009 from AntiVJ / Joanie on Vimeo.

Not quite as satisfying as some of their other stuff but still pretty amazin.

VVVV Video

Friday, November 20, 2009 • , • 0 comments

NIN "10 Ghosts II" from dottore on Vimeo.

Certain folk around SSTN towers are saying they're gonna learn VVVV (a software toolkit for real time video synthesis). If they do then we might be bringing this type of generative visual style to SSTN events in the future, here's hoping...

Alva Noto Live

Thursday, November 19, 2009 • , • 0 comments

Was reminded of Alva Noto by a recent post on Design Boom. Wasn't aware that his live shows looked so amazing.
'I describe what I do as graphic composing,' nicolai reveals. 'I’m always thinking in polarities, like yin and yang. I look for visualization tools that create certain images and then build archives of images generated by sound.'








More info and examples here.

One Minute Soundsculpture

Saturday, November 07, 2009 • • 0 comments

One Minute Soundsculpture from Daniel Franke on Vimeo.

Epic Projection Mapping: Theatre Facade Augmentation

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 • , • 0 comments

Telenoika Audiovisual Mapping @ Ingravid Festival, Figueres 9/2009 [FULL] from Telenoika on Vimeo.

Via Create Digital Motion

Visuals for SSTN_4

Monday, June 22, 2009 • , , • 0 comments

Huzzah, confirmed to do visuals on Sunday are:
Eoghan Kidney
Euphioprojector
Kachanski & iheartbellies
Michael Higgins & Fergal Cunningham

Below are two preliminary screen-grabs of some stuff Euphioprojector has in the works for next Sunday's gig.



Audio-visual sexy sexy

Wednesday, June 10, 2009 • , • 0 comments

Howdy, jus wanted to highlight some interesting club visuals/audio-visual installations. Might be some ideas for future Second Square events in here...

Anti VJ is a visual label that does visuals experiments, installations, architecture design & live visuals. They seek to 'step away from the usual projections screens and formats, explore projections in 3D spaces and study visual perception'. Below are three examples but check out their blog, their stuff is amazing.

AntiVJ - Nuit Blanche Bruxelles - The content is a mix of 2D / 3D visuals, with mapping and architecture related projections. The second half of the video is especially unbelievable.



AntiVJ - 3Destruct from AntiVJ on Vimeo. Audiovisual installation at Biennale d'art contemporain in Louvain, Belgium. May 2007




AntiVJ - Live Painting: Shackleton from AntiVJ on Vimeo.



Electric Moons is a performance for a matrix of 64 gas balloons, lights, and sound

From their website: "A room is filled with deep, evolving noises from a four-channel sound system. An eight-by-eight array of white, self-illuminated spheres floats in space like the atoms of a complex molecule.

Through variable positioning and illumination of each atom, a dynamic display sculpture comes into being, composed of physical objects, patterns of light, and synchronous rhythmic and textural sonic events. Change, sound, and movement converge into a larger form.

The height of the helium balloons is adjusted with a computer-controlled cable, whilst the internal illumination is accomplished using dimmable super-bright LEDs, creating a pixel in a warped 8x8 spatial matrix.

The sonic events, the patterns of light, and the movement of the balloons are manipulated in real time as a 45-60 minute-long performance."




Punto y Raya Festival 2007 - Excerpt from the dot·line dvj session by Mia Makela (SOLU) and Raúl Santos (Supercinexcene) at Punto y Raya Festival (Madrid, September 1st 2007).



Cubatron display at Burning Man 2007 - Pretty lights



Pablo Valbuena - The Augmented Sculpture Project - The ability to write the following is the reason that this piece is in galleries/museums rather then clubs...: " This project is focused on the temporary quality of space, investigating space-time not only as a three dimensional environment, but as space in transformation.

For this purpose two layers are produced that explore different aspects of the space-time reality. On the one hand the physical layer, which controls the real space and shapes the volumetric base that serves as support for the next level. The second level is a virtual projected layer that allows controlling the transformation and sequentiality of space-time.

The blending of both levels gives the impression of physical geometry suitable of being transformed. The orverlapping produces a three-dimensional space augmented by a transformable layer suitable to be controlled, resulting in the capacity through the installation of altering multiple dimensions of space-time.

These ideas come to life in an abstract and geometric envelope, enhanced with synesthetic audio elements and establishing a dialogue with the observer." It looks real nice too.



Kubik is an open air club in Barcelona. Illuminated water tanks are stacked to create the structure, creating a synaesthetic relationship between light/architectural structure and the (dubious) tunes to create what must be a fairly mind blowing club experience.