Visuals for Music Performance

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I’M_FINE: Real Time Performance

I'M_FINE: Real Time Performance from Anna Ren on Vimeo.

“I’M FINE” is an immersive real-time performance that delves into the exploration of personal identity. In this piece, the performer sits before a monitor that mirrors every movement they make. While the performer outwardly maintains a facade of being "fine," the monitor reveals a deeper narrative, showcasing an inner self that has already experienced a series of breakdowns and deconstructions. This visual progression mirrors the tumultuous journey of everyone's inner ego.

The backdrop features projection mapping technology, enhancing the performance with a curtain that serves both as a fluid and evocative element, aligning with the introspective nature of the show. As the VJ of the performance, Anna actively manipulated the visuals in real-time using a set of triggers in Unreal Engine and TouchDesigner, using a variety of shaders and post-processing effects to vividly bring out the chaos and fragmentation of the inner self.

Audience participation is integral to "I’M FINE." Spectators are provided with the prompt, "In your gaze, her existence," which they are encouraged to contemplate throughout the performance. This transforms them into active observers, whose role is to maintain their character by engaging deeply with the unfolding narrative.

Artist: Anna Ren, Erika Xiang, Yizhen Xiang.

Um-par

Um-par from Arm on Vimeo.

Meeting, Union, Synthesis and Fusion.

In Um-par the simultaneous composition of the audible and the visible – and their occurrence in unity–, ensures that there is no precedence or hierarchy between sound and visuals. Like in life, which happens (a)cyclically – from circadian to atomic cycles –, two masses of sound and light are placed in (a)cyclic and (a)symmetric movements. An original computational system controls the additive – simultaneous – synthesis of color and sound.

Morphex - LPM Münster 2023

Morphex - LPM Münster 2023 from Mahir Duman on Vimeo.

MORPHEX is an audio-visual performance created by the artists Lola Lustosa and Mahir Duman. The work refers to the old tradition of the dance of masks, a shamanistic ritual to thank the gods and drive out evil spirits. The dance of love and its dangerous emotional positions. Yin & Yang / Light and shadow. universal big bangs/explosions/ electric. The old and the new merged into psychedelic video projections, dance performances, and electronic music.

Morphex was chosen by International Live performance Meeting 2023 in Münster and selected to be part of 48 hours Neukölln 2023.

Watch Trailer:
https://vimeo.com/popkins/morphex-long

Links:
https://liveperformersmeeting.net/editions/2023-muenster/program/detail/morphex/



About Collective:

LICHTNOMADEN is a collective formed by 3 contemporary artists: Lola Lustosa, Mahir Duman, De-Feo. Merging video projection, dance and Live music the collective is offering performances in open airs and public.

MAHIR DUMAN is a visual artist and VJ based in Berlin, presenting live performances, interactive installations, and projection mapping in various European countries, especially for concerts, music- and art festivals, clubs, and art galleries.

He was born in Ordu, Turkey, and lived in Istanbul for many years. In 2011 he moved to Berlin and expanded his life and work as an artist.
Duman studied Industrial Engineering at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul, Turkey, and Digital Film & Visual Effects at the SAE Institute in Berlin, Germany.

He produces videos, short films, music clips, and lots of other media sets, mixed and synchronized with sound and the rhythm of action. He describes his imagery as unrealistic and surreal, that question human perception and the interplay between subjects.

Mahir Duman defines music as the scenario of a visual show and aims to create a new perspective, a relationship between humanity and the universe, to reach the human subconscious and feelings by playing light, color, and images.

He believes that art enables us to find and lose ourselves simultaneously and inspires people’s awareness of unconscious and conscious states of life.

https://popkinsart.com
LOLA LUSTOSA is an independent Brazilian artist, dancer/performer, and filmmaker based in Berlin. She uses alchemy, rituals, crafts, transforms them into multimedia art-works where the public can visit her particular perception and connection with time and space. The artist develops dialogues into social memories crossing from Brazilian Tropicalismo, natives, old mythology, and underground western Crafts.
The artist has being part of several important venues as: Morni Hills Art Performance Biennale (IND), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg(GER), ICI - CNN Montpellier(FR), CTM Festival(GER), Novas Frequências Festival(BR), and Rote Fabrik(CH).
As co_founder of Musterzimmer since 2012, she had the opportunity to work on the montage and curation of several venues in Berlin. The artist collaborates as a producer and performer for Plataforma Berlin Iberoamerican Festival since 2011.
The ongoing virtual Performance “Ego Open Forever”, Mentioned at Wall Street International Magazine, gave the artist the position of the first Artist to question social media, defining Facebook as the biggest ego manager in history. The performance is the starting point to rise works where she questions our social Identity and awareness about the future.
She has worked with Arto Lindsay, Alexandra Pirici, Barbara Berti, Christoph Wirth, Eemil Karila, Jarkko Räsänen, Jean Marie Dubrul, Laura Leiner, Mari Stocker, Martha Hincapié Charry, Peter Goss, Serge Ivanov, Simon Rose, Tero Puha, among others.
www.lolalustosa.com


DE FEO, born in 1995 in Naples is an Italian Dj, sound designer and visual artist based in Berlin. With experience with soundtracks, events and media communication in cities like Amsterdam, London, Belgrade, Barcelona, Berlin and many more, he is part of a generation of artists who work intensively in the transitional area between music, art and science.

His knowledge of communication mixes with skills in new media art to perfectly meet his need to convey to his listeners not only the right sound, but a unique collective experience, transporting them to different places with the use of samples created or recorded on his long journeys.

In his work he seeks to overcome the separation of the sensory perceptions of man made sound and light frequencies, or the difference between the various anthropological communication system. Creating scientific, artistic and sociological phenomenons perceivable for both eyes and ears in a multisensory and unexpected environment is his main goal.

His music is regularly supported by names such as: Richie Hawtin, Paco Osuna, Ilario Alicante, Young Male, Florian Meindl, and many more! For DE FEO, making music is not simply about producing sound,
but about transporting people into a boundless experience.

https://defeodj.com

Koreografi på Lærred

Koreografi på Lærred from OuScholPo on Vimeo.

'Koreografi på Lærred' er en sanselig udforskning mellem krop og teknologi.

Værket, som denne film er en dokumentation af, er en demonstration af en arbejdsform gennem film, bevægelse og VJ'ing.

Værket er skabt af performance og filmkunstner Marie Hallager Andersen i samspil med elever fra 8. klasse og gymnasiet i Horsens

Visningen er afslutningen på et huskunstner forløb i 2022 mellem Marie, platform K og Billedskolen.

Projektet er støttet af Statens Kunstfonds huskunstnerprojekt 2022.

JPF_Voltage2_03.mp4

JPF_Voltage2_03.mp4 from Jana Pavla Francová on Vimeo.

VOLTAGE 2.0 je audiovizuální performance ve spolupráci hudebnicí a audiovizuální umělkyní Lenkou Kočišovou VJ Janou Francovu a tanečnicemi a choreografkami Marlene Kahl, Canay Sevgim, Markétou Kuttnerovou, Magdalenou Junkovou a Jolanou Šturmovou. Performance byla uvedena na jaře 2022 v Berlíně (Vierte Welt) a v Praze (Ngo Dei).
Experimentální video je založeno na paralelách mezi stavem vědomí v mikro a makro měřítku, které mohou poskytnout nehumánní perspektivu. Umělkyně Jana P Francová používá skutečné vědecké zdroje z mikroskopu z astrofyzikálních studií. Změnou úhlu pohledu se pozorovatel může pokusit interpretovat existenci v širším smyslu. Akkamiau (Lenka Kočišová) pracuje s lidskými zvuky emocí a modifikuje je pomocí neurálních sítí – sebe učící se umělou inteligencí. Materiál z mikroskopu laskavě poskytnul Pavel Payne z výzkumného centra CEITEC.


Voltage 2.0 is a collaboration of Berlin-based musician, audiovisual artist and art director Lenka Kocisova, visual artist and educator Jana Francova and dancers and choreographers Marlene Kahl, Canay Sevgim, from collective collapsetofraction and Marketa Kuttnerova, Magdalena Junkova and Jolana Sturmova, from Czech republic. This video was recorded at the premiere at Berlin’s gallery Vierte Welt in March 2022. In April we repeated performance in gallery NGO DEI in Prague.
Experimental video is focusing on the parallels between micro and macro state of mind in order to create a nonhuman perspective. Artist Jana Francova chooses visuals from actual scientific resources of natural science (microscope) and astrophysics research. By switching the points of view, the viewer can learn to interpret our existence in broader perspective. Akkamiau (Lenka Kočišová), who works with human emotional sounds, makes sound and their interpretation generated by deep neural networks - an artificial intelligence self learning technology. The visuals arekindly provided by scientist Pavel Payne from CEITEC.

Eguo - Nesting (Audiovisual Live Performance Rehearsal)

Eguo - Nesting (Audiovisual Live Performance Rehearsal) from Eguo a.k.a. Video Bouillon on Vimeo.

All music and video by Eguo.

Eguo:
東京出身のAudiovisual Art / Electronic Music制作者。
これまでにVideo Bouillon(ヴィデオブイヨン)名義で自作のエレクトロニック・ミュージックと映像を融合させたビデオ作品を数々発表。2017年、オーディオビジュアルライブパフォーマンスの活動を開始。恵比寿リキッドルームや音楽動画メディアBoiler Roomなどでオーディオビジュアルパフォーマンスを行う。2018年から自宅配信を軸とするライブ配信連動のDJパーティー〈HOMEPARTY〉を主催。2019年、自身初の音楽アルバム『Digital Maze』と4本のミュージックビデオをデジタルリリースする。その他VJやフライヤー／ポスターなどのアートワーク、YouTube番組ニートtokyoに所属するなど多岐に渡って活動中。10代の頃はラップをしていた。

[YouTube]
https://www.youtube.com/c/videobouillon

[Instagram]
https://www.instagram.com/eguo_videobouillon/

[Twitter]
https://twitter.com/videobouillon

[HP]
https://www.videobouillon.com/

Langlee - Pixel-Aged

Langlee - Pixel-Aged from Lee Davitt on Vimeo.

Based on the deconstruction of video games in the 1970’s and their rise to popularity in the 1980’s, Pixel-Aged is a sociological paradigm of how the rise of home computing and video gaming came into fruition in this decade. This live performance aims to bring the viewer on a journey through time, starting with the most basic singular pixelated graphics and 1-bit sonic samples, and gradually move toward a more technologically advanced and digital age. This is done through the progressive introduction of visual movement and colour opacity, synthesizers and drum machines, fluxional graphics, colour mixing, and polyphonic voicing.

Corpi Cellulari

Corpi Cellulari from Simona Verrusio on Vimeo.

Corpi Cellulari: Video per la performance interattiva per spett'attori, Vj Janus e i cellulari.

Argumented Vjing AR-VJ

Argumented Vjing AR-VJ from Martins Dabolins on Vimeo.

Vestards Šimkus un Mārtiņš Dāboliņš "Mana pirmā skatuve"
Full Video: https://vimeo.com/363789345

NEXT VJ content creation technique.
VJ-ing is changing!
Augmented reality audiovisual performance.

This performance was part of a donation campaign, organized to raise awareness for music school renovation.

As artists, we wanted to inspire people to be fearless and experiment with talents, to bring peoples' thoughts to another realm, where magic can happen right in front of your eyes. Let the sound lead you through space! We believe this is how sounds today.

Classical VJ-ing is transforming into new fully interactive visuals, where the performer and all his surroundings (floor, walls, etc.) are captured in 3D. Now spatial capture is possible with the stereo and depth cameras like a (ZED, Kinect, Realsense, etc.) This generative nature makes visuals unique.
With the help of this data, we can now play with physics, for example, where objects are colliding with the environment and we can detect the direction of the light to match it with the digital lights and to compose a more realistic image.

Of course, the most important part is the graphical engine. Unreal Engine makes all this possible having all the needed features built into it (UE4).

AV_Stream_VJ-Jam_Short

AV_Stream_VJ-Jam_Short from MXZEHN on Vimeo.

Snipet of the VJ Performance AV-Stream100

WETIKO_Intervención performática colectiva en Manzana de las Luces_15-12-18

WETIKO_Intervención performática colectiva en Manzana de las Luces_15-12-18 from Corporalidad Expandida on Vimeo.

Danza Aérea - Videomapping - Música Experimental

Artistas: Alquimia Efímera en Colaboración con VJ Choque - Expresión Mole - Nico Artale

De/Re-construction “dictators”

De/Re-construction "dictators" from Triii on Vimeo.

Installation/performance « De/Re-construction »

Expérience visuelle et sonore conçue par LN Guilbert, Charly Desoubry, Géraldine Kwik et Emmanuel Kowandy. Des musiciens improviseront avec le collectif afin de dé-construire puis de re-construire la matière sonore et visuelle durant la prestation.

Première représentation : LES NUITS DES BASSINS à Arras (France), le 20 et 21 septembre 2019, de 21 heures à minuit.

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Visual and sound experience designed by LN Guilbert, Charly Desoubry, Geraldine Kwik and Emmanuel Kowandy. Musicians will improvise with the collective to de-construct and then re-build the sound and visual material during the performance.

First performance: LES NUITS DES BASSINS in Arras (France), September 20 and 21, 2019, from 9 pm to midnight.

#triii #lesnuitsdesbassins #arras #performance #immervive #immersif #digitalart #artnumerique #artinstallation #sonification #mapping #videomapping #art #projectionmapping #hautsdefrance #madmapper #resolume #millumin #festival #digitalartist #deconstruction #reconstruction #emmanuelkowandy #lnguilbert #charlydesoubry #geraldinekwik #maeldesoubry #vj #vjing #valdescarpe #scarpe #citenature #lesateliersdelahalle

HOLY BEAMS [LIVE A/V LASER DRAWING PERFORMANCE]

HOLY BEAMS [LIVE A/V LASER DRAWING PERFORMANCE] from Opificio Sonico on Vimeo.

Hi everyone, this video is about my laser-drawing live performance named " Holy beams "
It consist of a live electronics set where part of synthetic sounds are drawn by the laser beam over the wall aka vector synthesis.
The footage comes from a premiére live exibition at N-Grave Festival 2019 the 23th August in Puglia (IT)
enjoy & share it! 〰️

Credits:
Music, Art work & video by Giuseppe Acito
Filmed in August 2019
Prod: Opifico Sonico® Creations

Contact: info@opificiosonico.com

\\\ Thank you for watching and don't forget to subscribe my channel ///

#laser #avperformance #electronicmusic

Cómo te lo digo

Cómo te lo digo from Palomitaa González H on Vimeo.

Instalación Performática con pintura corporal
Paloma González H.
2017. Montevideo, Uruguay,
Centro Cultural de España.

*Representación visual de poesía ganadora en Movida Joven 2016 “Cómo te lo digo”

Performer_ Mel Libé
Pintura corporal_ Gabriela Cheirasco y Paloma González H
Instalación_ Paloma González H
Mapping_ VJ Luz Mala
Montaje y Edición_ Federico Ferreira

Cuadro 4_



Poema:
Cómo te lo digo.

Eso. Mis huesos delgados de nácar
crujen al tempo
del rocío de mis senos
de néctar sobre mis labios.
¡Cómo te lo digo!
Rivadavia rompe en mi pecho,
cruje en mis sabanas de paz
sobre mi espalda, misericordia dormida.

Transito un parque, mi vida.
Telar de versos sin puntada
camuflaje de otoños en tu mar
puñal de tiempo en mis sienes
poesía monstruosa, ardiente.
Psicología vulgar! Culpable
infecciosa, feminista, suave
de segunda mano,
llave
que abre.

Atmosphere

Atmosphere from Maria Wiener on Vimeo.

“AtmoSphere” by Acronym - Maria Wiener

“Is it possible for a Live Performer to dance with a Virtual Partner? The reply to this question is explicitly shown in “AtmoSphere”, in which New Technologies are submitted to the commands of Creative Imagination” (Eleftherotypia, 4/12/2003).

AtmoSphere, an innovative cutting edge work, combines Contemporary Dance with New Technologies. It is a 30 minute-dance performance presenting an improvisational dialogue of a Live Performer with Virtual Partners. These partners are 3D animated figures derived from the technique of Motion Capture, generating their movements in real time from pre-recorded data of the live performer.

In AtmoSphere the live performer improvises with a series of 3D animation figures derived from his own movement, which in one sense constitute abstracted and humanized images of himself. Each Virtual Partner is a different version of the live Performer, a different challenge and inspiration for him, aiming to dance and improvise with him.

Behind the projected virtual figures are two VJs, who through project specific software, are enabled to manipulate the virtual characters and respond to the live performer’s movement, or rather co-dance with the live performer, thereby creating a 3 way improvisational performance.

The dialogue between the live performer and his virtual partners, however, progresses to a 5-way improvisation; As it travels through the four elements: Earth, Water, Fire and Air, it dynamically develops with the sounds and music from a DJ and the lighting states from a Lighting Designer into a ‘jamming symphony’.

While this is happening the DJ and Lighting Designer are equally free to adjust their improvisation to the rhythm of any of the other improvisers and to choose to alter the ‘atmosphere’ at any point during the performance.

Within this ‘unsafe’ environment the synergy of dance, sound, music, lights and new technology leads in “AtmoSphere” to unpredictable and unrepeatable results. The aim is to continually stimulate the audience’s attention by keeping it on the edge. Each performance of “AtmoSphere” is an impulsive trip, testing the intuition of the performing team and offering to the audience a unique experience.

In AtmoSphere the Motion Capture hardware and software is Motion Analysis by Motion Analysis Inc.

Acronym

Committed to the aim of transforming audience experiences Acronym’s passion is to generate projects that can offer ambitious paths and new challenges in the perception, action and interaction of live performance.

Artistic Director, Digital Choreographer and VJ: Maria Wiener (UK)
Live Performer: Jamie Dryburgh (UK)
Software Designer: Tolis Paschalidis (Greece)
Web Design, Interface Design and VJ: Sophia Apostolia (Greece)
3D model Designer: Ghassan Zabaneh (Canada)
Sound Supervisor and DJ: Cleopatra Fyntanidou (Greece)
Lighting Designer and Console Percussionist: Dimitris Koukas (Greece)
Stage and Costume Designer: Lenia Oikonomou (Greece)
Technical Supervisor: James Trend (UK)

Acronym was created by Maria Wiener in 2000. AtmoSphere 1, the latest project of Acronym, exposed new avenues in the presentation of a joined choreography between live and virtual performers through a project specific VJ software. The idea was that the projections were not fulfilling a decorative role within the performance but were active co-performers in the live choreography.

XTRAVAGANZA (Excerpt, 2000)

XTRAVAGANZA (Excerpt, 2000) from The Builders Association on Vimeo.

XTRAVAGANZA draws on the history of multi-media entertainment, ranging from the film exhibitions of the 1910s to the Busby Berkeley dance numbers of the 1930's. XTRAVAGANZA mixes these early forms with current spectacular musical entertainment, including trip-hop music and video. XTRAVAGANZA samples fragments of the theatrical past through the language of contemporary DJ and VJ culture.

Direction and text compilation by Marianne Weems

Dramaturgy by Norman Frisch
Sound Design by Dan Dobson
Video Design by Peter Norrman
Set Design by John Cleater
Lighting by Jennifer Tipton

Performers:
Moe Angelos
Aimee Guillot
Peter Jacobs
Bravo LaFortune
Heaven Phillips
Jeff Webster

Choreography by David Neumann and Shelley Lasica
Costumes by Wren Crosley
Video Associate, Jeff Morey
Sound Associate, Robert McLean
Lighting Associates, Erik Bruce, Allen Hahn
Production Manager, Joseph Silovsky
Assistant Directors, Shelley Lasica and Amantha May

Produced by Renata Petroni and The Builders Association

In October-November 2000, XTRAVAGANZA was presented at Kaaitheater, Brussels; the Rotterdam Schouwburg; Le Maillon, Strasbourg; Mousonturm, Frankfurt; Le Volcan, Le Havre.

In 2001, it was shown at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and was presented by Performing Arts Chicago at the Athenaeum Theater, Chicago. In Spring 2002, XTRAVAGANZA had a three-week run at St. Ann's Warehouse.

U-Machine - Elevation

U-Machine - Elevation from U-Machine on Vimeo.

!i - Henri Hütt & Tencu

!i - Henri Hütt & Tencu from tencu on Vimeo.

Henri Hütt and Tencu residency at Kanuti Gildi SAAL titled "!i".
Showing 29.04.2019
Experiments with projectors, strobe lights, fog machines and noise.
https://saal.ee/en/resident/5843