There’s much more to say about what has been developed for this setup, but in the meantime here is the blurb i wrote for electrovision:ĭ-Fuse present a work-in-progress viewing of their new live performance, an experimental audio-visual triptych exploring urban conditions. it will be something between a test of the setup and a preview of the performance that will become ‘particle’, so all are welcome and beta-tester feedback appreciated! but i’m glad to announce a little preview of something i’ve been working on a while, which is transforming d-fuse live.Īs part of electrovision on saturday the 18th july at roxy bar and screen, d-fuse will be performing for the first time with their high-def laptop live setup. some of it pitching, some of it pushing along internal projects, and at the moment a massive commercial job under NDA: all things which don’t really get to this diary.
this was achieved with a combination of quartz composer sources i made, fronted by an experimental vdmx feature allowing you to build your own interface plugins, and backed by a set of quartz composer plug-ins i’m working on that scale to any canvas rather than working per-pixel in the source resolution.īeyond visible things like keane3D, lots of work has been going on in the background with d-fuse this past year or so.
the customisation of my vj tool of choice, vdmx, allowing panels dedicated to doing creative things with 4x3 and 8x3 sources within the 12x3 canvas. and within each laptop, being able to seamlessly scale from cinematic playback to ultra-noodle is so empowering as a visualist. the ability to tag-team the performance really transforms things, allowing the breathing space to check pace and prepare for the next section. the twin laptop setup enabled by the dvi crossfader i created and our solid state drives. people loved the ‘holographic’ or ‘3D’ nature this gave to the performance, and i personally love how the forward throwing projector beams the dancing lines and other abstractions of the performance throughout the venue, immersing the audience in the ‘trip’. the staging with an 8x3 ‘cinematic’ canvas behind us and a mesh screen in front, with that projector throwing forward through the mesh into the venue+audience. there is a video showing some excerpts of the performance here: there’s a lot more work to do, especially in creating an audio-visual syncronicity in collaboration with particle’s musician matthais kispert, but we rocked it and got such a positive response. Particle is also in many ways a rite of passage for me its not often you get the chance to take an HD film and transform it into the next-generation ‘we wrote the book on vjing’ d-fuse performance. While projects like Undercurrent, Latitude and Surface look at city life in its social and psychogeographical dimensions, Particle zooms in on details of the urban fabric and reveals a web of rhythms, patterns and textures. 
Particle explores urban conditions on an abstracted level. With the standard in the bank, it was onto the experiemental performance, the world premiere of ‘particle’.
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