Give Peace A Dance

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Give Peace A Dance is a live DJ/VJ set recorded at the Earthdance dance party held at Fed-Sqaure Melbourne c2003. DJ Visitor (Andrew Till) provided a rhythm of ambiance and progressive sounds to VJ too. The visual component was created as an ongoing experimentation with using the Unreal game engine as a live VJ tool. It was used because of its versatile visual capabilities as a realtime visual (3D) engine. The imagery is all 3D, though it looks 'pseudo 2D' giving it a 3D>2D approach, rather than a more common 2D>3D. The game level (map) titled [VJ]-iSOtpe144, created by VJ Mandala (Adem Jaffers), was made using Photoshop for in game textures and 3dsMax to create geometry to import into the Unreal Editor to construct, code and mod 3D level. Map was then played (VJ'd) using custom scripting via the Unreal Tournament game on a PC. Camera footage of crowd was captured by C31 Public TV members using an OB setup. Live footage is loosely mixed with Game vision. I also heavily sampled images relating to Tibet off the web for intro/outros. Earthdance Logo was an animated version based on the flyer design. VJ mixed vision was displayed onto the massive LED outdoor screen at Fed-SQ, which punched a hole in peoples retinas it was so vibrant. The LED screen was also used to do feedback on a large scale.

TITLE: Give Peace A Dance
TAKEN FROM: Earthdance - Dance Party
RECORDED AT: Fed-Sqaure - Melbourne c.2003
APPROX DUR: 01:59:00
VJ MIX: VJ Mandala > Adem Jaffers
aka Nuero 1990 & Tekno Mandala 1991-95
mandala@humanoid.net vjmandala.com
VISION TYPE: Realtime VJ Machinema - using game engine
H/S-WARE: Unreal Tournament (Game Engine) using [VJ]-iSOtpe144 game level, PC, MX-10
CAMERA: Channel 31 crew
AUDIO: DJ Visitor > Andrew Till