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Neon/Music video online

I’ve put online the video of my final project for this term’s performance classes. It’s a piece called Neon/Music, it analyzes the color and rhythm structure of video clips in order to generate music.

Hope you enjoy it, right-click here for a higher resolution MP4 of the file.

Cyclorama theater

The cyclorama theater had its day in the sun!

The Narrative in the Round class had been tasked with building this, on the 9th floor of Tisch, and a team lead by Caleb Carr got it set up. However, the rear projection setup meant that there was some strange distortion on the top edge […]

Psychedelia from the AV Geeks

Went to see another Darmstadt event at the Spiegeltent. This time the emphasis was more on “found footage” than live performance, though there were a couple of exceptions.

A highlight for me was the AV Geeks presentation of some very odd psychedelic films for schoolchildren, produced by Encyclopedia Britannica, and… the US Government.

The following […]

Unity Gain at the Spiegel Tent

Went to see a Unity Gain performance at the Spiegeltent, the elaborate temporary structure now living at the South Street Seaport. Unity Gain is a sort of electronic jam session of audio & video artists, mostly using computers. Great layout of the space – big vertical screen on top of a round table, all the […]

Warper party @ Delancey

Went to the Warper party at the Delancey bar.

Nice scene, with VJs, laptop musicians and an interactive installation, the Octa-masher by Moldover. It reminded me of some events at Super-Deluxe in Tokyo, lots of experimentation and interaction. The VJs had all their gear set up in the upstairs bar – two computers, video mixer, […]

Pictures and video from "Transitions" party

The Transitions party was a huge success! More than 300 people showed up at SuperDeluxe, and danced the night away until 5am, with great tunes from Yoppy, Vanessa, Tsunami Devil, DJ 7777, Ida, and Shomi. Nataku played a very high-energy live set, Crackitbaby did an extra-large sized painting and drumming performance, VJ flyflyfly and Xochipilli […]