-- Lumen --

Back from the Big Chill. Much thanks to the BFI for inviting us. The performance went well, though nerves played more of a part  and the hour felt much quicker that before. I’ve done my best to edit it down to 5 minutes in the video below.

Live @ The Big Chill. Lukas, Dave Bain, Lumen & OCD from Lumen on Vimeo.

Loads of little things to see, highlights included: Little Dragon, Bass Clef, Silent disco without headphones, Caribou, Mount Kimbie, Mrs Cruff, Easy Star Allstars, Thom Yorke, Free beer and Bananas & Chilling in the VIP area ;)

Here’s a few photos courtesy of Mr Bains cheeky snapping.

           

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Live_AV_set_The_Big_Chill.zip (568 KB)

The Big Chill is approaching, we're on the British Film Institute stage, Friday night. Tonight we had a very productive practice with mr Bain and it's looking pretty cool, wethinks. Tomorrow we run through with LUKAS.

*pinched from Mr Bains blog, cos we're still working and he's done his bit *
(for tonight)       ;)

Dave is Drawing live onto a semi-translucent table-top of his own creation, the footage is captured from underneath and fed into the VJs laptops, where it will be chopped up and looped back in time with the live production of Lukas, creating a layered mixture of visuals in response to the broad theme of "Sci-Fi", which we've been given to work with.

Below are some pictures of our preparation work so far. We'll be capturing footage of the stage area, with the drawings projected onto the huge cinema screen, as the backdrop, and post it up here after the weekend.

           

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Preparing_to_Chill...zip (147 KB)

Just got back from a week in Croatia for the Soundwave festival. Beautiful country, awesome festival!

Finally got to see The Cinematic Orchestra, who played at sunset, (was pretty magical) also loved: Debruit, zero 7, Stuart Macallum, Andreya Triana and of course Brizzles own DJ Cheeba. Who headlined the mainstage Saturday with his live AV set. .. AND to my complete surprise, he dropped the tune/vid I’d just finished for Ewan Hoozami. Here’s a (terrible quality) picture.

Massive thanks to him, it was a very special moment for I.

On top of that.. got a nice little mention on UK Funk Blog Monkey Boxing, again courtesy of Mr hoozami

bigsmiles

A couple of months a go, the ‘stupendously well named’ local funk fave Ewan Hoozami put a call out for someone to have a go mashing up some videos for his tunes. I took up the challenge.

I dig a bit of digging around the internet movie archive and found these 1950s animated educational films. After a giggle at narration, it was swiftly removed and straight away, some of the content naturally seemed to fit well. Like the angry man at the start and the panning urban scenes. I also liked the abstract motifs and shapes in 'Stop Driving us Crazy' , as i find them similar to early Visual Music pieces by Oskar Fischinger and Mary Ellen brute.

So I selected, chopped, layered, keyed, coloured, resized and time stretched clips from the originals, to move and change in time with elements of the track.

Mr Hoozami must be one of Bristols hardest working music makers and an all round nice guy to boot! So i urge you to check www.ewanhoozami.com and find out more!

The track is coming out soon and will be available on Juno

The originals are available on the Internet movie archive:
Stop Driving us Crazy (1959)

A is for atom (1953)
 
man of action (1955)

Got a massively exciting voicemail from my friend and talented illustrator, Dave Bain this afternoon. Two hours later, I'm confirmed to do visuals on the BFI stage at The Big Chill Festival.
It's an exciting project, where Dave will live drawing along with DJ Lukas's set and i'll be manipulating the drawings to be projected for the crowd.

Plenty of ideas floating about already and it will be interesting to see what develops.

Not sure if i mentioned i'm excited yet, but i'm well chuffed to be asked.

Who's going to the Big Chill then?

Wicked wide angle shot by Max Mclure from the Being Human Weekend

http://www.maxmcclure.com/

Back from 6 days at Glastonbury. 5am Wednesday until 1pm Monday. Such an overwhelming experience... happy times indeed.. so much to see, do, hear, feel, smell, eat, drink, say & take in. Weather was hhhhooot! Big thanks to all the people i shared the times with & especially gaynor o'flynn for giving me the opportunity to go/play there! I'd like to live there i think..

Feeling very inspired right now.. both musically and visually.

Definite highlights that i remember, include: Joy orbison, bonobo, arcadia fire show, knaps in healing fields, the london underground, fourtet, shangrila hub stage at 6am, birdy namm namm, boiled carlsberg, the unfair ground, imogen heap, stevie wonder, cassetteboy, debruit, stone circle + vodka lemonade & lime at 7am, cube henge, thom yorke & johnny greenwood, dancing time trials around the igloo.. + the 360 degree visuals, water aid compost loos, breakestra & charlie 2na (albeit it from afar), brothers pear cider, meetups by the pineapple, lovely people with greenpeace backstage, the park, broken social scene, gooey chocoate brownies, portico quartet  ...and just about everything else about Glastonbury 2010!

Some pics from a visualist p.o.v, including a couple of my stuff in the Greenpeace Earth Dome

                                       

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Glastonbury_2010.zip (4483 KB)

Back from the Being Human Weekend with a great big smile. A truly inspiring weekend, due to so many interesting performances, discussions and people from all over. Loved it.. here’s a few pics of my involvement including the 3D mapping work with OCD..

                     

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Few_pics_from_the_Being_Human_.zip (2481 KB)

http://beinghuman.com/weekend__.html

Exciting weekend coming up…

Being Human Weekend. Live Music, Live Visuals, Debates, Film screenings and lots more.

Featuring Reverend & The Makers, Midge Ure, Afro Celt Soundsystem and Radio 1's Dj Pathaan.

Installation art from Seeper & Yeast Culture.

Celebrating the best in independent Music, Art, Film, Media and Thought

Well excited to be part of this. Doing visuals for Reverend & The Makers, Gaynor O'Flynn early on and 3D mapped visuals with OCD for Afro Celt Soundsystem and DJ Pathaan later..

Plus some work will be broadcast as part of the Slow Media Movement over the weekend.

Some tickets still available i believe
http://www.groovycart.co.uk/cart.php?c=1448&cat=Event

If you can't make it, the weekend will be broadcast here on the net:
http://beinghuman.com/the_slow_media_movement.html