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I looked at the piece on yroyto.com called espace. I see that he does a lot of thing where sound controls the images. Letting rhythm control what you see. The AV drum is really interesting. I am glad someone has found a viable use for the electronic drum.
I hadn't ever thought of anyone using vjing as a means to get their stuff out to the public. It always seemed that vjing was just mixing video the way you would sound or music. Like people did it to do it specifically, rather than using it as a platform. Plus his comment about being a painter first, like the video and music he uses are paints. Last semester when Raphael was in Florida, I caught one person in the video saying that paintings were bourgeois. I got mad at first, because I thought he was being elitist. I then realized he was talking about a single paintings representing a commodity, where a person like Yroto is creating paintings that are available to everyone.
A common theme that seems to be coming from many of these mapping festival artists and performers is that most have a traditional art background. From this, the creators have adapted to this new movement of converging arts that allows them to truly create what they wish regardless of the medium.
The way of using VJing to get stuff into the public is an idea that has been around for awhile, but is rarely seen (correct me if I'm wrong) in the States. Unfortunately we are segregated from much of what could really be considered "new media" by a deep deep ocean.
His HypereSpace project at his site really made me want to rethink a version of the poetics in time project from earlier in the class. I feel this sort of example is a good view of how rhythm can drive a piece.
Collaboration
Painter first, then a musician. It seems like most of the people who are in VJ-ing started out in some other form and found their way to it.
Festivals, do any happen in the US? or is it a European thing?
After looking at a few of his video's i noticed that he likes to have his music match up to some sort of visual on screen. I can definitely tell that he is a musician as well.
I also am wondering if work like this exsist in the US. It obviously exists in europe. But also besides VJing what types of platforms can work like this exists in?
I checked out a couple videos of Yroyto. I thought it was interesting how closely he connected his audio and visuals.. but after a few minutes I feel this could get boring because you know what to expect.
Yroyto does a great job of synchronizing audio and video. The visuals are generally simple shapes but I found the videos to be engaging and they had a hypnotic feel. I've really gotten into electronica and the repetition just seems to keep me transfixed. ESpace was especially interesting.
Again another digital artist who started with traditional painting and drawing....I touched on this in another thread.
I have the same question as chris c....where are all the american festivals like this? Is it only Europe? am I in the wrong spot for what I am trying to accomplish?.
connection of sound and video -
Im very interested in vjing and unfortunately haven't had any experience with programs like modulate (name?) and would really like to try experimenting with vjing and see what I can come up with. I wish there were a class during the regular school season here at umaine that taught vjing. We talk so much about it and learn some techniques but never really apply them and experience real life vjing. I plan to study this topic further, especially if I want to work with the visuals we create in class in the future beyond school.
Another quick and interesting lecture. Yrotyto went from being a painter to a visual artist, or at least was a painter THEN was introduced into the time based art form. When Yroyto was asked, he said he was a painter before a visual time based artist. It's interesting how you can use one art skill and combine it with another to not only gain attention but also to show people you may be working in similar ways as them. This is the same as Yroyto is doing, he's taking his painting skills and combining them with VJ-ing.
I went and looked at the "Hyper_Space" piece on Yroyto's website. I was definitely impressed with the continuous overall theme of space that stayed constant throughout the entire piece. In some parts the arrangement of the shapes and objects reminded me of playing flight simulator games with the cross hair to aim at enemies. I don't know how he set it up, but the shapes would react to the nearby noise/music. On top of that to do such a performance completely live is quite impressive.
-connect audio and video
-provides space for artists
-does workshops with artists
Its interesting how many of the artists that have been interviewed have previously worked within a different medium/background.before finding vjing or other. I wonder if there are many artists that wen initially into vjing or if they all started off studying painting or sculpture or some other form of media. Do people find these other forms of media like vjing as ways of self expression, compared to their previous work that might have seemed as if they wer creating solely for the market.
It seems like this artist enjoys making lots of neat things that exist for the purpose of looking cool. I think this sort of self-indulgence is perfectly acceptable. I don't think a work has to say anything profound to be legitimately good. THere need to be more people out there working to put more pretty colors and cool sounds in the world, preferably, for free.
Yroyta's work is fascinating. The drum set that controls the visuals really blew my mind. The concept is really cool and the visuals are setup beautifully. The symbols triggering the sides of the video was a nice touch. I also viewed some of his VJing stuff and it's really unique and visually locks in. I thought it's really kind of strange that he started off as a painter because he's so advanced in the digital forms he works in.
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