Fusing Sound and Visuals with TouchDesigner and Ableton: One...
As artists continue to seek out new, richer connections between audio and image, the marriage of Ableton Live and TouchDesigner becomes increasingly popular. Here’s a detailed look at how that...
View ArticleThe Audiovisual Synth: VJ Fader + Mandy Mozart on Combining Visuals, Sound...
VJ Fader and Mandy Mozart about A+V from LVX.TV Institute for Live-Video on Vimeo. Visuals can accompany sound, make elaborate light shows that splash color behind music, or turn music into a stunning...
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Not Just Projection Mapping: MadMapper Maps LED and Lights, Too [Updates; Beta]
You’re going to hear this a lot: “mapping” is more than just “projection mapping.” It’s the liberation of the digital image from screens and cinema-style rectangles, the ability to merge that imagery...
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Beyonce at the UN: Behind the Scenes of Epic Projection in the General...
The new world of projection is big – really big. Planet big. It’s not a dinky projector pointing at a ragged, wrinkled piece of cloth. It’s something that can stand up to one of the world’s great...
View ArticleMusic and Visuals, in More Flexible Combinations, with Max for Live and a...
Producing dazzling, elaborate visuals doesn’t have to mean ensnaring live music in pre-defined tracks. In the latest episode of this ongoing series, we look on Create Digital Music at a new show for...
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CoGe Roundup: New Features, Tutorials, Artist Work in Semi-Modular VJ Mac App
In the world of VJ apps, CoGe is an intriguing upstart – a semi-modular design, built around integrating Quartz Composer patches, lets you create customized VJ rigs on the Mac. Hungary has produced...
View ArticleThree Layers of Live Visuals: Flying Lotus + Strangeloop + Timeboy, In...
Flying Lotus ‘Layer 3′ – A Red Bull Music Academy Film from Red Bull Music Academy on Vimeo. Immersion isn’t necessarily about big stage pieces, or hiding the performer, or scale, or brightness. It...
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In Poland, an Audiovisual Festival “Lab” Helps Creativity Simmer [Gallery+Video]
Image by Carlotta Piccini, working with Omnidrive, Krakow earlier this month. All photos courtesy Patch. Sometimes it’s what’s at the margins of the event circuit that’s the most promising. Outside the...
View ArticleSharing Signals: FIBER, Why Events Matter, in Video [Mexico Meets NL]
FIBER Festival – Sharing Signals from Hotpixel on Vimeo. When you see artistic ideas spreading, practices evolving, part of the reason is that people are being exposed to those ideas. (It’s nice when...
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V-4 Video Mixer, Now HDMI: First Look at Roland’s V-4EX
For years, the Roland V-4 was the battle axe of the VJ and visual performance scene. Not owning one almost meant you weren’t serious about playing. And the ubiquity of these at community events meant...
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Resolume’s New Hardware Controller is a Joke, But Why Not Make it Real?
New Resolume Controller with Video Buttons from Resolume on Vimeo. In the world of technology, as improbable moves to real, concocting an April Fools joke is suddenly a new challenge. But maybe...
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Mapping, Further: At Mapping Festival, Artists Blend Musical and Visual Form...
Mapping: it’s kind of everything. It’s the projected image mapped to the surface. It’s pixels mapped to lights. It’s the control layout you use on your iPad and your fader box mapped to parameters in...
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Livegrabber: Crazy-Easy Sync Between Music, Visuals [Ableton Live + VDMX]
4 ways to sync VDMX and Ableton Live from Studio Rewind on Vimeo. Frequently asked question? Maybe incessantly-asked question. Live performers simply want a way to have more intimate relationships...
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oscillating continuum, Meditative Installation, and AV Work of Ryoichi Kurokawa
oscillating continuum from RYOICHI KUROKAWA on Vimeo. oscillating continuum is an audiovisual haiku, an object creating an sonic architectural object. At first, it appears stunningly minimal, but...
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Rouge: The Power of TouchDesigner, Made Ready and Reusable for Live...
The beauty of open-ended, modular environments is the ability to create exactly what you need from the ground up, each time. The problem with open-ended, modular environments is the need to create...
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ArKaos GrandVJ 2 Now in Public Beta: Video Mapping, Improved UI
Apart from XL extras, GrandVJ’s UI is easier to read and use, with features like color coding. Image courtesy ArKaos. GrandVJ remains one of the top tools for VJing and live visuals, from the firm that...
View ArticleBubbles and Light, in an Interactive Costume, Integrated with Music
Coded Environments from Jekka on Vimeo. Big EDM stage shows aside, in the realm of more intimate electronic performance, there seems tremendous untapped potential in combining wearable technology with...
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Light Art, Music, and Audiovisual Creations, Stacked Vertically in 19 Floors:...
Reaching for greater artistic heights – literally – as Today’s Art invades a 19-story building. (That’s a skyscraper if you’re Dutch.) And the results bathe us in more sound, light, and interaction....
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unrender: Celebrating Visual Expression as Something Live; Online and in...
From VITRUVIAN, a one-act interactive opera, premiering a new version in Berlin on Friday. Photo courtesy the artist. There’s not a word yet for visuals as event. We know it when we see it. And we know...
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Synthesizing Sound and Image: A Conversation with a Creative Duo from Korea...
From deep in Seoul’s underground, Maxqueen (Kloe) and Chang Park have forged an intimate audiovisual collaboration, in a rich dance of minimal, generated geometries in live music and image. Spanning...
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