Visuals

i last-minute* mocked up some background visuals for a party featuring ambient music. (i kept them running all night (12 hours) on a backlit screen near the dj booth and never really had to tune them. they were interesting enough to be entertaining while focused on, but didn’t dominate the space). i took a simple existing function from the hydra library and added a few lines for audioreactivity (color and distortion); black background was key to keep this looking more subdued and adding some forgiveness to the projected edges. ...

This echoing effect over time is one of the things I’m really drawn to regarding aerial movements (which I’m most drawn to in multicordes, where you can see in the reverberations of the cordes, and other spinning apparatuses), and I wanted to emphasize that digitally. I wanted to use a video capture of my recent multicordes performance at KAC (recorded by Lucy) to generate a trail effect of movement to explore this concept. ...

Made while I was ill and sequestering in my friends’ guest room in a cabin in New Hampshire. This is the first time I realized I could open a stream to one longer video, and access different points of the stream dynamically (I initially imported a lot of short clips, which was not workable memory-wise and reliably crashed the browser). tois is an array of “times of interest” that I preselected based on familiarity with the video. I’m playing mostly with layering and playbackRate, which I find to be an effective modulator when combined with the FFT of the audio playing. ...

Thoughts on reading from ‘Live-Coding: A User’s Manual’. The reading My favorite is the “thinking in public” definition. I like to interpret this as working through problems while the audience has transparency to what you are doing. If there isn’t the observed tackling of an issue, then it’s just the performance of a known process (which itself is also interesting… I love process videos on instagram that document cooking or carpentry – however I think these process videos aren’t live-coding if you aren’t allowing the audience to see the process in real-time). [For this reason I often like to incorporate a constraint or a challenge during my devised live-coding performances, because I want the audience to see me struggle in the process.] ...

slit scan capture #slitscan using #hydra.js on a half-time video of my best split-grip #pdayesha. would love to realtime-project this onto the dancer going out one side of the pole like this. right now speed of the trail is dictated by the amplitude of one of the fft bins for a bit of a dynamic effect — subtle in this more ambient track. ...

https://vimeo.com/1062659763?share=copy **spent 30 min tonight doing a rapid proof-of-concept for this multi-aerialist x multi-visualist hybrid performance i’ve been thinking about for awhile ty @myles_higher for being my test subject 🤍 oh and also giving me lots of real feedback on this idea in general for tonight, i set up very simple gestural control for reactivity using public #hydra.js sketches, but i want to add more cohesion soon with a mix of different sensors or controllers ...

Background and Outcome This lighting installation was a fever dream by L. that I scrutinized every step of the way. Two weeks of near-daily workshopping by L., J., N., and myself resulted in an installation that was perhaps the most synergistic we’ve ever created together. Concept: a laser projects onto objects that diffuse light down onto the dance floor. We ended up using IR LEDs inside paper lanterns as the objects, arranged in a traditional calder mobile construction to form a sculpture. On the ground we used a camera with an IR filter, MadMapper, and Resolume to provide visual output to a laser which projected onto the sculpture. ...

r. tyler and i did viz for ciel, dj ladybug, and never not romance for crip rave during the plural prototypes gray area festival. solo viz for dj ladybug i did solo viz for dj ladybug with much more prepared material than i typically do for a hydra set (thus i would call this a hybrid of a livecoding set) step 1: preprocessing materials. when i asked dj ladybug for inspo she referred me to val de omar’s PLAT, which was a 20 min film comprising a series of still photographs. the only source we had for this was 480p. first i upscaled the photos to 4k (n=110) in stablediffusion. this process took about 12 hours. ...

i think slitscan looks most compelling when drawing from regular or easily-traced temporal movement paths. this is just a simple straps spin with no special tricks, but the legs demarcate a clear double-helix (and for a beginning student, could potentially deliver information comparing one leg’s motions vs the other in a flare). ...

didn’t take a recording of this but got a substantial amount of positive engagement and feedback from attendees and friends and acquaintances that i was assured it went pretty well. (personally, i felt that maybe < 5% of the time did i feel my viz was uncontrolled and i needed to transition out of it, but that i mostly paced well and that the viz looked both appropriate and appealing.) i think my prep (several hours’ worth) and the copious visuals videos (which were themselves well-edited and also made me feel comfortable about what style and color palettes to use) that suzi sent ensured success <3 ...