Report for interest & feedback & thoughts -
I'm part of an esoteric music collective (EMC - website and examples coming soon) and we recently did 2 full days of live sounds & visuals on 11th & 12th sept in Wirksworth, Derbyshire uk as part of their annual art festival.
7 hours each day of looped fretless bass, flutes, handsonic percussion, voice and vocals, sonic exploration, samples and Modul8 - sounds mostly going via Ableton for processing - all unprepared - completely wonderful.
Audio feed line-in to Modul8 on an iBook g4 with Screen Span hack, live camera feed into firewire then out Svideo to borrowed MX-10 to Epson beamer,wide angle lens + 2nd dvcamera into the mx.
Live visual artist/painters putting stuff into 1st dvcamera via graphics tablet also using their own work and mark making in front of the camera. This mada a great layer available with live movement & creation that the audience could see happening & the results.
Screen was a white 6.5m by 4m tarp, distance around 25', massive hypnotic images. It was a little shiny plus getting the creases out is a pain.
This was the first gig for any of us with visuals/Modul8. We had prepared images with Artmatic & Photoshop plus original footage from contributing artists & art students- other contributed dv footage and some downloads from Prelinger/NASA/ and the like which lost out to our own stuff .
Looking forward to seeing other vjs in action now I begin to see the potential of this form of expression.
Audience feedback was terrific. When the bass, flute and the visuals gelled with control of scale & movement on screen there were some magical times. Sounds were bouncing off the visuals and vice versa. Hearing a change in tempo or key coming and getting there just in time with great images plus giving control to the other musicians on the fly was totally exhilerating... thank you Yves and the team.
Thanks also to VJ Central Community members for helping me through the minefield of choice and possibility.
We are already planning the next event -
Questions thoughts response be magic - thanks
moonbase