'vE-"jA new VJ BOOK

Great news my visuals are being featured in the new VJ book that Xarene Eskandar has been working on. Its due out for release this August so keep an eye out.
info below....

'vE-"jA 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 60+ movies and VJ clips included on an accompanying DVD.

Essay by Marius Watz brings forth the role of synchronicity of audio and video technology in cinematic performances; Barry Munstertieger, lead producer of Apple video software, focuses on the role of art in the evolution of technology; Grant Davis [VJ Culture] provides supportive information on VJ specific hardware and software; and essays by contributing artists cover local cultural aspects influencing VJ scenes globally.

http://www.vjbook.com/

AV SET at ROBOTSPEAK

I just performed my first solo audio visual set at the infamous robotspeak sessions. What a cool venue and group of people. If you don't know already RobotSpeak is a super sick underground electronic music instrument store in San Francisco. They sell everything from totally tricked out monophonic earth shakers to circuit bent teletubies. Basically its a major hub for all the producers in town.

The set I performed involved a delicate balance of visual forms being triggered in arkaos by midi notes and samples coming from live. All running on one laptop. I also edited a couple of av samples that I was triggering from a dvd player. All in all it worked very well and the crowd enjoyed the show. Of course there is room for improvement. I'm trying to move slowly towards a more narrative approach. Incorporating child like story lines that will hopefully jump start the playground mechanics of our ancient child minds.

Its so damn exciing to be involved in av performance these days. I feel like the technology and know how is finally hitting a tipping point. Allowing artists to truly create captivating realtime performances that are both meaningful and thought provoking.

here is a quick edit of the performance
AV SET at ROBOTSPEAK

www.robotspeak.com