Ive been experimenting with Live Audio and Video Mixing using Resolume Avenue. Ive been thinking a lot about what an AV performance could be… Its not music and its not cinema either, it can afford to be something entirely different that draws from both practices. Below you will find some of my live experiments mixed from various full length videos.
8th May 2009
Community Street Projection back in Perth for 2009! After along rest I finally organised my first collaborative community event in Perth for 2009. As usually the facebook flashmob Street Projections Perth was mobilised onto the streets to decorate the architecture with light. Painting with my Tablet PC we gave Perth’s General Post office in Forrest Place some new paint schemes. We even had a surprise visit from Kat and Jasper who appeared above us projecting their VJ clips on the same building.
more photos…
All in all a good night, a good mixture of regulars such as Aaron Mark (see image below by Yukikio Tan) whose friends drew him a nice bikini… hahaha nice work. See Yukiko’s Blog here
There was also plenty of new artists coming out of the wood work including the group of local Police officers who took a break from duties by defacing the side of a landmark city building. Hopefully getting more photos of that soon.
4th May 2009
Last week I was in Adelaide Projector bombing… Over a year since my last trip to Adelaide where I met James and Evan from Graffiti Research Lab New York, and helped form the australian branch of GRL australia. Adelaide is still standing as a great city to projector bomb lots of white stone buildings just waiting for some art. And Whilst your there the Rundle lantern is pritty cool too.
Last week I headed to Merredin for a community arts residency, supported by the shire council I spent 6 days collaborating with the people of Merredin to create some awesome temporary artworks over their buildings. Using my projector, laptops and portable power we digitally repainted the buildings with light. Although I was only there for a short time, we still managed to create some great transformations, literally turning the town into a open air digital art gallery. It was great to see locals reacting and thinking differently about there surroundings! By being on the street we where able to reach people that community art usually bypasses, there was plenty of questions and lots of people having a go. The Merredin Police even had a go at laser tag
Merredin is a regional centre approximately 260km east of perth, Its situated in the central wheatbelt, a large wheat farming area in Western Australia. The town has lots of great historic buildings from the goldrush days including the beautiful heritage listed Cummins Theatre built in 1897 and rebuilt in Merredin in 1928. Big thanks to Jane Bandurski for organising the residency and for her creative input into the project.
Below is an old video Dan recently dug up. Its a Video mapping experiment from around a year ago, Daniel mapped his car and I mapped over my motorbike (mazda mx5 & Kawasaki zx12r)
It was great getting Dan involved because he used his 3d modeling skills on his car to get some great effects. This video was shot on a mobile phone, which explains the poor quality… better stuff next time
I recently teamed up with the guys running Reface to transform Perth for the Perth International Arts Festival. Over a series of nights Perth was subject to the brightest Projector Bombing to date. With eight Projectors bombarding numerous walls at once. Projected were a huge library of physical street art photos as well as interactive street art (tablet and infrared painting as well as GRL’s laser tag).
The Reface Project is the brain child of Perth Street arts group Ololo and production company WBMC. The Project website has brought together street art images from all over to be appreciated online and now also represented back in the street as Projected art.
Interactive Street art systems where operated by Steve Berrick and Myself. Many people had fun painting and drawing on the side of the very posh Duxton hotel, and Steve’s new virtual spray can (IR wiimote style) was a huge success.
2nd - 3rd January 2009
The Southbound festival is a two day music festival that always seems to sell out. Organisers providing not only awesome amenities for campers that stay overnight but also bring in some amazing international acts.
As part of this festival I was in charge of providing visuals for the performers in the Big Top. With my small crew (Daniel Moller and Brett Cullen) we mixed, filtered and composed striking visuals from multiple camera feeds and motion graphics.
Musical acts unlike other music festivals were quite broad, everything from acoustic and Folk to Electronica and Hip Hop. They were…
above: Bliss n Eso
Above: transporting the audience with C.W. Stoneking
Above: Moller and VJ Lynch
29th December 2008
Another fun night of street projections, this time visible from William Street in Northbridge. As usual we drew live and unsolicited art with my projector. This was our 7th official Street Projection night and the last for 2008. Lots more install for 2009.
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Also on the 1st December 08, The super kitch cosmic smily face shone down on us all here in Australia. This cant be anything but awesomely good.
Photo op! my housemate moller and I, smile with the sky.
The three brightest celestial bodies (i think) re-arranged themselves so Jupiter and Venus were the eyes and a crescent moon the mouth. Sucked to be in New york on this night because instead of a happy face they got a upside down frown. lol
From the depths of my evil computer lab I bring you a B&W Elvis video clips, remastered or should I say reverse engineered, as some psychodelic waste land…
ABOVE: this my mutated version
BELOW: The original version which I haven’t touched, don’t be afraid to play both simultaneously
…just experiementing with whats possible in resolume 3 at the moment. And Elvis seemed like a nice kitch figure to play with.
