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This Saturday: Episco-Disco @ Grace Cathedral
Some of my new video works (sort of in progress stuff) will be shown as part of this bizarrely radical cathedral cocktail dance party.
Wha? EPISCODiiiSCO
When? Saturday, June 20th
What Time? 7PM to 9PM
Where? GRACE CATHEDRAL
Is This For Real? This is on the Realest of ALL of the Real Tips.
The echoings of DJ NAKO (popscene/shutter) and DJ RAPIDFIRE (stay gold)
Featuring new digital work by the Sublime and Stirring Bay Area Artist Andrew Benson
Art Installation curated by the Otherworldly and Illustrious Jean Cooney
Divine Drinks and Tinctures by the Lovely and Talented Mixologist Anna Marie
Hosted by Rev. BERTIE P (yes, he is a priest)
Come join us for Cocktails, Big Jams and Righteous Shenanigans.
M.I.A. @Coachella 2009
In the run-up to M.I.A.’s performance this year at Coachella’s mainstage, I was contacted by her people to do some live video work, with only 10 days to prepare, fly down there, rehearse for 2 days and go. I said yes, of course, and put together a performance-ready Jitter patch for processing a live camera feed and mixing prerecorded videos with different video effects. They were particularly interested in getting a look like “live datamoshing” which I had accidentally figured out how to do pretty well. The 4 songs I ended up performing on were 20 Dollars, Galang, Bird Flu, and Paper Planes. For 20 Dollars, I cut together a sequence of Liberian Civil War footage and did the live mosh on it. For Galang, the first half was straight playback of the Obscura video with the second half going into a flashy “computer failure” section that was generated live. Paper Planes was the uItimate showstopper for me, doing live mosh on the house camera feed, which had just the right amount of noise in the signal for good color feedback effects to blossom. The whole project was really rad fun. The video turned out looking really fantastic, but unfortunately my documentation of it is pretty spotty:
There is a more detailed write-up of my experience here on CreateDigitalMotion.
