I’ve been performing live video for ages. Much of it is heavily influenced by early video artists who focused on the video signal as medium. Today, we don’t focus so much on the 60/50Hz video signal as much as we do on code. But let’s face it, it’s much faster to build an application than it is to build a piece of video hardware. And the software tends to be more modular as well. Easier to share, and carry around with you too - we’re not locked into the old paradigm of a video studio, instead I take mine with me.
Below is a selection of projects. I hope to add more, but digging back through the archives somehow always gets pushed to the bottom of the list. Ever forward, right?
PULSE
Pulse is an audio-video performance based around the framework of an electronic pulsation iterated through time. The objective sought in Pulse will not be to present a composed work, with a pre-established scenario, via a traditional arc, but to produce a series of psychological states, via pulsations of light and sound connecting to the viewer(s) to the composition by manipulating the frequencies of the pulse. The performance is entirely live, no pre-recorded video segments are utilized. The software used synthesizes the imagery using various aleatoric techniques.
read the long description…
VOLOKNO
The Volokno (Fibre) release is a joint project by rx:tx and the Riga based sound artists Evgeniy Droomoff and Rostislav Rekuta aka Sound Meccano together with Matthew Biederman aka DelRay, who currently works in Montreal and has contributed a unique visual composing tool to the project.
Released on the rx-tx label
Volokno Website
Signal_Sever! (image acquisition and deployment team-member)
Long Description
The Signal-Sever! (meaning Signal-North! in Slovenian language) performance is the continuation of the work Solar that premiered at Ars Electronia in 1998 (including Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, Olaf Bender, Marko Peljhan, Brian Springer). It is an open air event, that lasts from dusk until dawn. The basic conceptual plan of the work is to follow the events in the electromagnetic spectrum according to the daily changes in the ionosphere, and present this immateriality as an acoustic and performative experience. The Signal-Sever! Machine is the sensor array and processing unit which receives radio waves, processes and transforms them, and sends the waves back in many different directions and forms. The systems have been used and developed for Makrolab and the World-Information.org as well as SignalSever! performance events. Collaborators include: Scanner, Kodwo Eshun, Nullo, Random Logic, Jadviga, dr. Izo and dr. Ivol, Ewen Chardronnet. plus many more….
more information is here.
another video is here. (you’ll need real video to play!)
Assorted VJ, 1999-present
