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Live A/V with Das Witness @ Bleecker St. Theatre, 08/15/09
This was a completely unplanned ad hoc performance with local electronic du Das Witness. Live A/V at the Bleecker St. Theatre as part of the 2009 HOWL Festival. Thanks to Debra Anderson from Culture Shock for putting this together.
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Bad Boy Bill, Tour Media
In support of long time Chicago house DJ Bad Boy Bill's latest album release, we were commissioned to create cutting edge tour visuals for all of Bill's latest tracks. Using traditional tools as well as our own custom 3D software, we created a unified visual analogue to the headbanging dance party of the future.
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Firecracker & Hammerstein Ballroom, NYC 07/03/09
Huge party by Live Nation in NYC with great acts, including Tiefschwarz, Hercules & Love Affair & Victor Caldrone. We played live in a collab stage show with Brooklyn performance crew the Fantastic Nobodies.
The visuals were full HD, projecting on a 30' screen, with an additional live mix to the LED facade around an elevated DJ booth. The Fantastic Nobodies set up in a realtime green screen room and fed a live stream of insane antics which we keyed into the show. Check out the video!!
Faune+Faust, Collaborative Projection Mural
Mural and projection mapped video installation done in collaboration with street muralist “Faust”. This video work is projection mapped to pyramid sculpture using a simplified version of our real time 3D software “LO-RYDER”.
LO-RYDER Montage Posted!
| Montage of real-time 3D animation produced with custom built software LO-RYDER. It's open source and free, so for more information check out the LO-RYDER page here. |
Flavorpill, One Step Beyond w/ Switch 06/08
| FlavorPill's popular monthly brings great talent to an awesome event location: the Museum of Natural History Planetarium Center. On the decks was the UK Producer/DJ Switch and Van Scott. Joining us on the video decks was our intern Phil, who in his other life forms a part of the Austrian VJ Collective Montage Sauvage |
Roger Taylor @ Webster Hall 12/08
| This event was a unique opportunity to collaborate w/ Duran Duran's long standing drummer Roger Taylor. As augmentation to his hard-hitting DJ set we remixed Duran Duran's videos to mesh with our signature C-TRL style. |
Live @ MonkeyTown, 05/08n
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Live A/V performance with our good friend Stephane Leonard, from Berlin. This was also trial run for our new real time 3D software “gl Lo-Ryder”, developed in Max/MSP/Jitter. Always good food, wine, music and visuals, at MonkeyTown in Williamsburg! |
Shantell Martin Remix on LRV Compilation "Notations 2"
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Check out the gl LO-RYDER generated remix of NY video artist and illustrator Shantell Martin. Her work and the remix will appear on the Lightrhythm Visuals Compilation, "Notations 2". |
‘vE-"ja book
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Here's a great book put out by a good friend of ours, Xarene Iskandar. besides being included as artists we also aided in the overall design & layout of the book. Here's an excerpt: ”‘vE-”jA: Art + Technology of Live Audio-Video is a global snapshot of an exploding genre of tech-art performance: VJing and live audio-video. The book covers 40 international artists with 400+ colour images and 50+ movies and clips on an accompanying DVD and web downloads.A stellar book covering a comprehensive range of VJ's and experimental video artists. ” |
VJ Cuts 2007, With Audio by Kotchy
Blipfest '06
| It really doesn't get any more nerd-tastic than this: 4 Days of chiptune, circuit bending workshops and lo-bit visuals. Put on by 8-bit Peoples and The Tank in Lower Manhatten, we were privileged to be on the lineup for the Blip Festival's first annual event. |
Le Name Fest, Lille FR, 09/06
| Le Name Fest Lille was the most grueling but fun performances we've had in a long time. This seven hour set was the put our inventiveness to the test, and was the first successfull trial run of our realtime 3D software gl-Trouble, the precursor to LO-RYDER. |
Design Mai / Liquid Video, Live w/ Apparat Berlin DE, 05/06
| in 2006 we participated in the Liquid Video series, a part of the renowned annual Design Mai festival in Berlin. 5 Days of performances and panels showcased innovative artists from around the world. |
D-Fuse VJ Book
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We've been included in the D-Fuse VJ Book, a comprehensive survey for performers: “This book is an in-depth look at the artists at the forefront of this amazing audio-visual experience. The book combines how-to, showcase and reference elements, opening with a series of articles on contextual and historical issues. The central section showcases the work of a wide selection of international VJs, and the last chapter covers equipment and typical stage set-ups, along with supplementary guidelines and tips on how to master a performance. ”
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Thievery Corporation, Tour Visuals 2005
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In collaboration with Blasthaus (SF), we developed a complete 2 hour set of visuals for Thievery Corporations 2005 “The Cosmic Game” Tour. Here are some pieces of our design process. |
