Electrovision 9 March 2009

by pixelpusher on Saturday 7 March 2009
[Past Performances, Performances]

What:
Electrovision, London’s most inventive visuals event

When:
7:30 – 11:30pm
9th March 2009

Where:
Cafe 1001
1 Dray Walk, 91 Brick Lane
London E1

*Free Entry*

Special guest SATBack provides a glimpse into the future of VJing. His
multi-touch-screen VJ system VPlay is a new paradigm of VJ interaction. Designed for collaboration, it gets the VJ out from behind the laptop, and allows the audience to get involved. Clips, effects, mixers and more can be dragged and linked on-screen to create dynamic visual flows. Direct from the lab, this pioneering prototype showcases the dramatic possibilities of surface computing.

This month’s Electrovision also features Pixelpusher, whose kaleidescopic
moving montages are accompanied by Cheju’s new album Broken Waves, for which he recently created 2 music videos.

Motion graphic designer Paul Mumford [Labmeta] gets out his microscope, to present an experimental DJ/VJ set on life at the nano-scale, featuring the secret life of particles.

Relaxed live cinema from Bassik+Pz blurs the boundaries between film and
VJing, with The_Brandy_Alexander_Project set to electronic dub.

Finally Oli Sorenson [VJ Anyone] provides a DVJ grand finale, which includes
the very latest AV single from his label Ne1co.

Glitchnight and Immersion Recap

by pixelpusher on Friday 13 February 2009
[Blog]

Uploaded by dr.mo on 13 Feb 09, 12.16AM GMT.

Dr. Mo has some great photos of yesterday’s Immersion.  I have a few too. Lukas Vojir has some video of his and Dialog’s set as well.

Glitchnight added some photos of Glitchnight at Vibe Bar.

Thanks to all who attended both!  The performances were all top notch.  I love how people are going out of their way to create short, experimental pieces for Immersion nights.  To get up on my soapbox, I think its important that there are nights like this in London, where the emphasis is less on getting your face off into the wee hours at some loud club, or on producing a piece of absolute visual perfection on a massive stage, and more on producing some short but ambitious performances in front of an audience who is very willing to appreciate them, in a venue like The Flea Pit where you can enjoy some good ales and not freeze your bottom quarters off in a dodgy squat party while trying to dodge projectile projectors dropping from the ceilings above because the duct tape holding them up has come unstuck.

Not that I don’t love a good squat party, or that I haven’t played my share, but at some point in this business you want to feel a bit more physically safe and dry while performing with electronics, and also appreciated as an artist doing something legitimate and interesting.  The chance to do something risky, visually and technically, in a safe space lets you fail gracefully and, most importantly, interestingly.

Thanks to all who have been a big part of our great successes and graceful failures over the past few years!

Immersion 2008 4 December

by pixelpusher on Saturday 29 November 2008
[Past Performances, Performances]

Experimental electronics, noise, tones/drones and pulses/rhythms, partnered by cutting edge projected art visuals – all processed live. At The Flea Pit, Columbia Rd, Hackney, London, E2 7RG.

Artists featured:

Sound:
ABKomm // Alnagak // Infinite Scale // Removal Company // Suero // Zainetica
(details at http://www.immersion.100freemb.com/immersionclub/event.html)

Visuals:

Dr. Mo
Veteran VJ and master of visual atmosphere.
http://www.morishuz.com/

Mowgli
Using 100% self generated content Mowgli combines CGI animation with
filmed clips, sound reactive and generative visuals creating an eclectic
tapestry of visual delights.
http://mowgli.tv

VJ Neon
Intense cut-and-paste visuals.
http://neon.visuals.pl

Rob Munro
Rob Munro is an audiovisual artist working visuals with PD and processing for 4 years. Creating textural mashups of any video content he can get his hands on. He uses all open source software in his work.
http://www.robmunro.net

Fat Butcher
International performer Fat Butcher uses non-narrative storytelling and and ambient digital collages to create colourful, figurative, optical stimulation.
http://fatbutcher.wordpress.com/

I’ll be playing a video short called Traffictimeblotcher:

Traffic Timeblotcher is an experimental art project exploring the rhythms and patterns of city life over time. Traffic is a little bit of an obsession in my family, where finding the shortest route from point A to point B in the greater metropolitan area is a competitive sport. So I was intrigued by the New York City’s MTA (Metropolitan Transit Authority) and DOT (Department of Transportation) webcams broadcasting live images of traffic conditions throughout New York City every day. I decided to explore other ways of experiencing this incredibly dense stream of imagery and data.

Immersion Wrap-up 7 Aug 2008

by pixelpusher on Monday 15 September 2008
[Visuals, images, video]

Thanks to all who packed in The Flea Pit to hear and see the last Immersion night.  Alias had his Immersion pixelist debut during Dr. No’s and Straight’s rather laid-back sets.  I rolled out my new Jellotail live drawing software during Michael Santos’s richly textured tones and got so immersed in the performance that I forgot to change visuals.  Special gues VJ and VJ Loops impresario Kyle Lyons was in from Spain to provide some visual cover to the machine gun synths of Jamka, while Dr. Mo accompanied the very danceable beats of Manchester’s MOQ.  Somehow, though, it was slub who brought the house down at the end with their autonomous-robot-drum-machine-livecoding-textual-based-computer-sound-madness culminating in crashing (or at least shutting down in a not-so-safe manner) all their laptops at the apex of their sonic madness.

Thanks to all who came, and those who performed! Definitely one of my favorite Immersion nights.

Immersion 7 Aug 2008

by pixelpusher on Friday 1 August 2008
[Past Performances, Performances]

It’s that time again – your favourite bi-monthly audio/visual even returns! Starting around 7:30pm and lasting until 11:30pm, on Thurs 7 June 2008 Spencer Mash (SS_R) & PixelPusher present a night of soundscapes, experimental music, and visuals as part of the ever-popular, on-going Immersion series at The Flea-Pit, London E2. [schedule]

Immersion is a free-entry experimental music/sound-art event featuring a soundtrack of electronic atmospheres, noisescapes, pulses/rhythms and tones/drones.