Tests for a music video for PJE

by pixelpusher on Thursday 21 January 2010
[Blog, Visuals, video]

I’m working on a music video for a song by PJE called The Employee and doing some tests.  The idea is to create the surrealistic daydream of a 1950’s woman on her first day on the assembly line of a dreary, machine-like typist job.  I’m doing all the visuals rendered in fluxus, cut with some excellent archival footage of office films from archive.org.  This one, a 1950’s film called “Office Etiquette” is singular for having some really nice, sweeping, tracking chots mixed with good close-ups, which work well in a music video.  The original has such a cheery attitude about mind-numbing, repetitive busywork that is practically crawling on its knees and begging to be subverted.

I will first cut the video as a straight music video, with close/wide/tracking shots and clean cuts to the beat, then add in the surrealistic, colorful 3D animations done using fluxus and bit by bit break down its sanity.  Look here for more…

Openlab Opennight 22 Oct 2009

by pixelpusher on Friday 9 October 2009
[Past Performances, Performances]

OpenlabOpennightFlyer

Originally uploaded by da mad pixelist

The Cane Toads, Johnny Stutters, Ryan Jordan, Rob Munro, and others playing at The Roebuck on 22 Oct 2009!

Pitch Control at the Takeaway Festival 19-30 May

by pixelpusher on Wednesday 6 May 2009
[Blog, video]

The Science Museum’s Dana Centre
165 Queen’s Gate
South Kensington
London
SW7 5HD

Pitch Control still image of installation

Pitch Control is a musical instrument that allows you to play a projected choir of (mostly) amateur singers.
Here’s some further information on it:

http://mlstudio.co.uk/pitch-control-photos/
http://www.takeawayfestival.com/
http://www.danacentre.org.uk/

There’s a viewing night on May 19th. If you’d like to come along, please email me as I’ve got to book spaces.

The instrument will be played by a select group of keyboard players, and then available to be played by anyone who’d like to.

Alternatively, the installation runs between May 19th – 30th, between 10am and 5pm.

Please feel free to come down and tickle the ivories.

Glitchnight 22 April 2009

by pixelpusher on Tuesday 31 March 2009
[Past Performances, Performances]

Glitchnight continues at London’s funky Vibe Bar on Brick Lane, with more amazing live electronic music…this month a special album launch party!

We’ve teamed up with UK label Boltfish Recordings to host a launch party for Mint’s new album “Cardboard Rocketships” (released on April 30th). The artist will be in attendance to play a live set including tracks from the album, and he’ll be accompanied by some special guests.

We’ll also be screening some of the videos commisioned for the album!
LIVE MUSIC:

* Mint
* Z-Arc
* Soundhacker
* Will Barnett

LIVE VISUALS:

* Pixelpusher

LONDON GLITCHNIGHT
WEDNESDAY APRIL 22nd 2009,
7.30pm – 11.30pm
The Vibe Bar, 91 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL (FREE ENTRY!)

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.