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Monday, November 16, 2009
Brokenbeat Dec | 2009
[ English ] Here is the promo for Brokenbeat Night, A free monthly event that promotes live electronic music & live video performance. The promo was a collaboration work between Swiss based video artist Lenny Herzog and myself.
[ Castellano ] Aca los promos para Brokenbeat Night, un evento mensual gratuito que promueve musica electronica y visuales en vivo. La promo animada fue una colaboracion mia con el artista generativo Suizo Lenny Herzog.
[ English ] Here is a late-recap from the March Brokenbeat Night here in San Diego, with amazing performances by the locals Leif (Kolt)/ Dr Nickel & amazing "self coded" visuals by Vj Ubergeek
[ Castellano ] Aca un pequeno repaso de lo que fue la noche Brokenbeat del mes de Marzo con actuaciones increibles de los locales Leif (Kolt)/ Dr Nickely las visuales de Vj Ubergeek
[ SATURDAY, March 7th 2009 ] BROKENBEAT NIGHT @ KADAN
................................................................................................... BROKENBEAT ................................................................................................... [ FREE | NEVER A COVER ] KADAN in North Park, San Diego, CA 4696 30th street, (Corner of 30th & Adams Ave.) | 21 + 9PM - 2 AM
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[ English ] Here are some of the photos and video from the last Brokenbeat Night this time, with live visuals by Xarene Eskandar and Naute, where they experimented with a new project, called Andiamo that Andres (Naute) is developing in Processing, to incorporate live drawing, realtime video tracking, and is performed in "team mode" with Modul8. For those interested on the technical side of his project, you can learn more about it here.
[ Castellano ] Aca algunas de las fotos y video de lo que fue el ultimo Brokenbeat Night, esta vez con las visuales en vivo de Xarene Eskandar y Naute, quienes experimentaron con un nuevo proyecto llamado Andiamo, que Andres (Naute) esta construyendo en Processing, y que utiliza dibujo y tracking de video en timpo real y es actuado en "modo equipo" con Modul8. Para aquellos interesados en sabes mas sobre la parte tecnica de este proyecto, pueden ver mas aca.
You can download Tom Burbank's live set from the night here, (link will expire in 1 week).
Following a solid first release "Famous First Words" (preview on iTunes) on Planet-Mu, our boy Tom Burbank has made some noise in the music world. Now he returns back to his BrokenBeat family for a belated birthday crunk-tacular celebration … for tru headz only
DJ PNUTZ SUN DIALECT/ EARTHBOUND RADIO/ SOUL PROVINCE/ SDTTI
Opening for names like DEL the Funky Homosapien, Haiku D ' Etat feat.Aceyalone, Young M.C., Ab Rude & Mikah 9, Zion I, CMA, Typical Cats, The Grouch, and numerous others. In 2004 she joined Sun Dialect one Southern California's hottest up and coming underground labels, and currently has residencies with Thrusters, The Downbeat, Soul Glo, and Earthbound Radio. In the fall of 2006 PNutz also joined forces with Soul Province headed by members of Jeshno, the Twelvez collective and Earthbound Radio.
THE MESSENGER BAT COUNTRY/ TRUFFLE RECORDS/ BROKENBEAT
The Messenger delivers dirty glitchy electro to keep you dancing straight to the after party at the Brown Lounge. The Messenger has rocked domes both literally and figuratively from Burningman to SD.
Hiel Leslie Van Campen III is your main man for all your early-evening Aphex Twin requests. Churning myriad style together for your eclectic electronic smoothie.
[ Live Visuals By: ] ...................................................................................................
With a diverse background ranging from fashion & automotive design to architecture and event production. She has given talks internationally on her book, 'vE-"jA, which captures a global snapshot of the international VJ scene.
Xárene's recent works look towards media in defining temporary habitats in invisible urban infrastructures. She holds an MFA from UCLA's Design/Media Arts, and is currently working towards her PhD at UCLA Arch. & Urban Design. She recently completed a VJ tour with Hennessy Artistry and has some short films in the making.
NAUTE MOLDEO INTERACTIVE/ TRIPTYCH MIRROR/ ARGENTINA
Nauté is Andres, Colubri, a visual performing artist, hacker, researcher and open knowledge advocate. Originally from Argentina, he has spent a number of years in the U.S. navigating between diverse areas of scientific and artistic practice, from bioinformatics to media arts and interactivity.
Now based in L.A. , he is exploring the languages of live cinema and VJ'ing while developing his own custom software tools for visual performance, in collaboration with artist Xárene Eskándar from Lumens.
Visual artist Miguel Vega, Originally from Argentina, has been doing visuals for various live performances and installations since 2002.
................................................................................................... BROKENBEAT ................................................................................................... [ FREE | NEVER A COVER ] KADAN in North Park, San Diego, CA 4696 30th street, (Corner of 30th & Adams Ave.) | 21 + 9PM - 2 AM
[ English ] A little late, but here are some photos from the last Brokenbeat and first one of the year, featuring L.A. based Cyber Patrol Unit (Bryant Place) on the visuals.
Probably one of the best nights I've seen so far, the dancefloor was still packed with people wanting more when the lights went on, it was very inspiring to me. Bryant visuals were hypnotic and while I was checking them out, they inspired me to create a motion piece for the next Brokenbeat night, I asked him to help me out and I think its coming along nice, this could be a new way to promote the night, were I can collaborate with different Vjs, locals as well as from abroad.
[ Castellano ] Un poco tarde pero aca pongo algunas fotos del ultimo Brokenbeat, primero del ano, con la participacion del Angelino Cyber Patrol Unit (Bryant Place) en las visuales.
For over a decade, Irwins Conspiracy has been doing Live Electronic performances consisting of elements of breakbeat, ambient, noise and some live mash ups. His unique performances are made up of live electronic drumming, along with sounds looped live and triggered via modules/computer and controlled using a theremin.
Irwin takes a break from his weekly LA gig at Air Conditioned Lounge to take the drive south to perform at BrokenBeat Night. You may have seen his DVD, now see the real thing live at Kadan.
BrokenBeats own Breakah Breakah 1-9 warms things up at Kadan for his performance next month at the Source festival in Maui. Pure filthy, nasty glitchy-ness closing out the night right… we will be moppin' off the dance-floor once this thing is over….
Dirty Dr Nickels has been makin some headz talk lately bout his newfound nasty sounds. Taking a break from his Wednesday night elevate hustling we are happy to have Dr Nickels drop bombs for BB Night.
Hiel Leslie Van Campen III is your main man for all your early-evening Aphex Twin requests. Churning myriad style together for your eclectic electronic smoothie.
[ Live Visuals By: ] ...................................................................................................
Briant Place, has been designing professional audio/video interfaces for the Jazz Mutant Lemur controllers for quite sometime now. Currently experimenting with one of the most controversial video performance softwares of 2008 Thrill
Visual artist Miguel Vega, Originally from Argentina, has been doing visuals for various live performances and installations since 2002.
................................................................................................... BROKENBEAT ................................................................................................... [ FREE | NEVER A COVER ] KADAN in North Park, San Diego, CA 4696 30th street, (Corner of 30th & Adams Ave.) | 21 + 9PM - 2 AM
Brokenbeat was voted "San Diego's best Intelligent Dance Music Night" by weekly paper San Diego City Beat, you can read a little interview we did with here.
[ English ] Here are some photos from our last Brokenbeat here in San Diego, where we had another LA-VA member: Vj MK Ultra, A.K.A. Eric Medine drove down from L.A. to bring some of his visuals. Very nice work, the night was pretty good, nice crowd, and I noticed several people commenting on how great the visuals look, some wanted to say hello and meet the VJ, and Eric is super nice, you can tell he loves what he does.
[ Castellano ] Aca algunas fotos de lo que fue el ultimo Brokenbeat aca en San Diego, donde recibimos a otro miembro de LA-VA, VJ MK Ultra, A.K.A. Eric Medine, viajo desde Los Angeles para venir a pintar las paredes del evento. Muy bueno su trabajo, la noche fue mas que interesante, buen grupo de gente, y pude notar que varios se acercaban a saludar a Eric y felicitarlo por sus visuales y Eric es un buen tipo, se nota que ama lo que hace.
Formed in '97, producer Eduard Glukhov evisioned a single cell orchestra, creating off of hardware original basslines and drum patterns. With sounds ranging from trip-hop to jazz to ambient to jungle.
Fronted by songstress Kristen Muirhead, their sound is extremely haunting with hypnotically dark rhythms
Justin Stephenson aka Puppy Kicker*. Will cause you to have hearing loss. Children scream and women swoon when he drops filthy, disgusting, beats dripping of primordial ooze that take away your breath & melt your face.
Working primarily in multimedia & video art. Eric Medine has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago & Masters from The Otis School of Art and Design in L.A. where he now resides.
He has curated & contributed multiple exhibitions and his work was shown all over L.A. aswell as countries like France, Bulgaria, Netherlands and more.
SHIKAKU BROKENBEAT/ LA-VA/ D.T.C. Visual artist Miguel Vega, Originally from Argentina, has been doing visuals for various live performances and installations since 2002.
................................................................................................... BROKENBEAT ................................................................................................... [ FREE | NEVER A COVER ] KADAN in North Park, San Diego, CA 4696 30th street, (Corner of 30th & Adams Ave.) | 21 + 9PM - 2 AM
Created with Admarket'sflickrSLiDR. [ English ] Here are some photos from last month's Brokenbeat Night, here in San Diego, California. The guest Vj for the night was Charley Ten showing some very nice works, Charley is also a House DJ, if you get a chance, download some of his mixes on his website, great music!.
On the Musical side we had a special night featuring live electronic music with Secuencia virtual, DJ The Messenger, Rise of the Speedmen, and Breakah.
[ Castellano ] Aca algunas fotos de lo que fue el ultimo Brokenbeat Night, aca en San Diego, California. El Vj invitado de la noche fue Charley Ten mostrando muy buenos trabajo, Charley es tambien un DJ, si les gusta el House, bajen algunos de sus sets en su pagina, muy bueno.
En la parte musical tuvimos musica electronica en vivo con Secuencia Virtual, DJ The Messenger, Rise of the Speedmen y Breakah.
[ English ] Here are some photos of last saturday's Brokenbeat night. This was the first time we had 3 Vjs in the same night, unfortunately we couldn't jam all 3 at the same time, but we'll do it soon I'm sure. Creator of NeuroMixer, Vj Faderwas kind enough to join us from LA. I got the chance to see how neuromixer works, and I have to say, it's really user friendly, if you get a chance, try it out. He even has a free version that it's great for beginners.
Also performing was Ciber Patrol Unit also from Los Angeles, but he performed as part of Turbo Scum, a trio conformed by CPU on the visuals and D.C. Dj duo Party On Marz. I was blown away, by the act. Turbo Scum uses 3 laptops, a Micro Korg controller and 2 Lemur/ Jazz Mutant controllers. Peep the video above.
[ Castellano ] Aca algunas fotos de lo que fue el ultimo Brokenbeat. Esta fue la primera vez que hubo 3 Vjs en una noche, lamentablemente no pudimos hacer un trio jam simultaneamente, pero lo dejaremos para la proxima. El creador de NeuroMixer, Vj Fader vino desde L.A. y tube la chance de ver como Neuromixer trabaja, debo mencionar que es muy amigable a primera vista, y como fader tiene una version gratuita en su pagina, lo hace ideal para aquel que quiera empezar a hacer visuales.
Tambien participando estuvo Ciber Patrol Unit tambien de Los Angeles, pero como parte de Turbo Scum, un trio conformado por el DJ duo de D.C. Party On Marz muy pero muy buena la presentacion, Turbo Scum usa 3 laptops, un controlador Micro Korg y 2 controladores multi touchLemur/ Jazz Mutant. un fragmento en video arriba.
English Just wanted to share a few pictures I took from some of the VJs that had performed the past year at Brokenbeat, The goal is to have at least 1 different Vj every night, I've met so many incredible artists thanks to this event, each one with their own style and set up, and since the nature of the VJ is to hang out in the dark, away from the spotlight, you can't really recognize their faces like it would happen with a Dj or a musician, so I thought it would be nice to put a face to the name. Thanks to everyone that was kind enough to support a FREE event, I hope we can have more new faces doing visuals soon!
Castellano Solo queria compartir algunas de las fotos que fui tomando de diferentes VJs que han participado en Brokenbeat en los ultimos meses, la meta seria traer al menos 1 Vj diferente cada noche, gracias a esto he podido conocer a varios artistas increibles, cada uno con su estilo, y su set up y como usualmente la naturaleza del VJ es estar en la oscuridad, nunca se les ven las caras, como pasaria con musicos y Djs. Pense que seria bueno poner algunas caras con los nombres. Gracias a todos los que han participado en un evento completamente GRATUITO, Ojala podamos seguir viendo caras nuevas haciendo visuales muy pronto!
[ English ] Here a few photos from the last Brokenbeat night, once again L.A. based, Vj Fill was our guest Vj for the night, and every time he is around I hear compliments from people I know and complete strangers, Fill has this thing with security cameras, that he spreads around the venue, and uses to do realtime scratching(scrubbing?), and I think a lot of people noticed that when he started using it on the dancing crowd, as they wondered "how is he doing that?"
On the music side we had the heavy sounds of dubstep with Osal8 and Breakah and on the jazzy side Cuttyman and Dj Collagey
Also a little video flyer I made for the event, consistent with the print flyers, same type, colors etc.
[ Castellano ] Aqui algunas fotos del ultimo Brokenbeat night, una vez mas Vj Fill de Los Angeles fue el Vj Invitado a participar a mi lado, cada vez que anda por aca recibo elogios de conocidos y gente que no conosco, Fill tiene esta mania con camaras de seguridad, que utiliza en su rig distribuyendolas por el local y que utiliza en sus visuales haciendo scratch (scrub?) en tiempo real. y creo que la audiencia lo nota, sobretodo cuando los incluye en las pantallas, mientras ellos se preguntan: "como hace eso?"
En el lado musical tuvimos los sonidos pesados del dubstep de la mano de Osal8 y Breakah y del lado jazzy a Cuttyman y Dj Collagey
Tambien pueden ver un pequeno video flyer que hice para el evento, manteniendo consistencia con los flyers impresos.
[ English ] A few weeks ago, the AIGA Y-13 Conference was held here in San Diego. I was commissioned to do all the motion work to brand the conference and later I got the chance to organize the entertainment for the after party. The conference targeted graphic designers and discussed their possibilities to develop sustainable solutions (and questions) on their work. The first part was the opening montage (for each day). The entire work was done in After Effects and Illustrator. That, took most of my time, considering that I'm still new to AE, but I think overall it came out clean.
For the after party I decided to team up with the Djs Beau (Re:Up Magazine) and Walker (Brokenbeat) for the music, and for the visuals I wanted to keep the branding used for the conference, So I did a bit of a remix of the original opening montage, and added a few elements, the faces you see, are from the conference speakers, the type work gives 15 easy to accomplish eco-friendly tips to apply on their work, a short stop motion animation showing the conference's badge, and through the entire Vj set I aimed to keep in tune with all the visual elements used on the conference, colors, type family, etc.
During the opening montage, a series of quotes, from different people were used, from John Lennon to Stephen Hawken, I suggested that those same quotes were mixed with the music as well. Not to mention all 3 of us where dressed with black turtle necks and black framed glasses (designer stereotype). fun night!
[ Castellano ] Algunas semanas atras, la conferencia AIGA Y-13 Conference fue llevada acabo aqui en San Diego, La conferencia iba dirigida a disenadores y discutia las posibilidades de generar preguntas y respuestas con animos de crear un trabajo mas en tono con el medio ambiente. A mi cargo estaban las animaciones para el branding del evento, incluyendo el after party. Los montajes de apertura (uno para cada dia) fueron realizados en After effects e Illustrator, que fue lo que mas tiempo me llevo, considerando que aun soy un poco novato con AE, pero dentro de todo creo que salio bastante limpio.
Para el After Party decidi agruparme con los Djs Beau (revista Re:Up) y Walker (Brokenbeat) para la musica y para las visuales queria mantener la tematica del evento, por lo que remixe el montaje de apertura, las caras que se ven son de los presentadores de la conferencia, Los loops de tipografia describen 15 pasos simples para incorporar en el trabajo del disneador a fines de crear opciones eco-amigables. Manteniendo los colores e incorporando la marca de la conferencia dentro de las visuales. Durante los montajes de apertura se pueden oir frases sobre la sustentabilidad que van desde John Lennon hasta Stephen Hawken, esas mismas frases fueron mezcladas con la musica durante la fiesta. Para rematar los tres nos vestimos con polera negra y anteojos de cuadro negros (estereotipo de disenador) Muy divertido.
[ SATURDAY, April 5th 2008 ] BROKENBEAT NIGHT @ KADAN
[ Live Music By: ] ................................................................................................... GEARS G25 PRODUCTIONS/ IMPUTOR?/ BIKEKING
A veteran producer/ performer of hardware based electronic music. He has performed alongside 8fm, Mu-ziq, DMX Krew, Random Number, and others. Recently featured at the 2007 Electro-music Conference in Philly.
Expect a raw and rugged sonic experience that takes you thru a myriad of electronic music genres. He can be found holding down Friends Chill at Whistlestop on Tuesdays.
Her sets consist of a fusion of dope underground tracks mixed with her own original creations using a KP3 sampler, a laptop and a microphone adding vocals to obtain an ethereal vibe.
You can catch her internet radio show every wed (7-9pm PST) on HipStepRadio Her journey thru music began while living below Kid Koala in 1998 and has progressed from Montreal to New York City, to her most recent home of Phoenix AZ where she currently runs several nights and has performed at almost every venue.
................................................................................................... THE MESSENGER BATCOUNTRY/ TRUFFLE RECORDS/ BM
An old school SD tru head, delivering dirty glitchy electro to keep you dancing straight to the after party at the Brown Lounge.
The Messenger has rocked domes both literally and figuratively from Burningman to SD. His most recent mix 'I challenge you' has been getting much praise as it has been passed through the magical tubes of the internet.
................................................................................................... DJ KWALA// BrokenBeat
Kwala takes a break from her PHD program, dusts off some vinyl and shows why she's one of SDs true hidden female talents.
[ Live Visuals By: ] ................................................................................................... Vj SAL ARTCORE/ STATIC DISCOS/ ABOLIPOP
In the audiovisual circuit since 1997. One of the true pioneers in the Mexican VJ movement, working with the NorTec Collective till the year 2002, since then he collaborated with other musical projects like Terrestre - Murcof, Jacks Son, Smokey and others. Sal has performed in many festivals and electronic music events in countries like Germany, France, USA and Mexico.
................................................................................................... SHIKAKU // Brokenbeat// LA-VA// Accentfeed Visual artist Miguel Vega, Originally from Argentina, has been doing visuals for various live performances and installations since 2002.
................................................................................................... BROKENBEAT ................................................................................................... [ FREE | NEVER A COVER ] KADAN in North Park, Sand Diego, CA 4696 30th street, (Corner of 30th & Adams Ave.) | 21 + 9PM - 2 AM
Created with Admarket'sflickrSLiDR. [ English ] Some photos of the last Brokenbeat night with special guest Vj Cozer Music Performances by Koala, Breakah, Disruptor, Memeshift and Fwdthought. check the videos below.
[ Castellano ] Algunas fotos del ultimo Brokenbeat con invitado especial Vj Cozer Musica por: Koala, Breakah, Disruptor, Memeshift y Fwdthought. Videos abajo.
[ English ] Here are some photos from the last Brokenbeat night, the venue was packed! So many people and the music was great. I can't wait for the next one.
[ Castellano ] Aca algunas fotos del pasado Brokenbeat, el bar estaba lleno de gente Mucha gente y la musica estuvo increible. No aguanto hasta la proxima.
[ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2nd 2008 ] BROKENBEAT NIGHT @ KADAN
[ Live Music By: ] ................................................................................................... FRIK N FRAK // Brokenbeat// Re:Up
The dynamic duo return as dj Jon Baker comes back from the Bay Area to team up w Kid Nasty to rock yer mommas earlobes, showin no mercy to the dancefloor w some Breaks-Bhangra-Electro-Glitch and Dubstep. Nothing but fun, buckle yer seatbelts and put onyer dancing shoes!
................................................................................................... OSAL8 // Brokenbeat// Missing Link/ Integrated Entertainment
San Diego electronic musics rookie-of-the-year OSaL8 has been makin waves rockin some impressive glitchy-breaks Ableton Live sets. Hes got a special one in store for tonight to close things out and keep ya dancin till 2am or later if they let us …
................................................................................................... HER MAJESTY // BrokenBeat
Its Queen Ts B–Day and she s gonna play whatevah she likes ! Adversity in Hebrew on an eggplant, don't front !.
................................................................................................... DJ KWALA// BrokenBeat
This aint no amateur! Kwala takes a break from her PHD program, dusts off some vinyl and shows why she's one of SDs tru hidden female talents.
[ Live Visuals By: ] ................................................................................................... Vj Mezi // Brokenbeat Vj MEZI ready to amplify your visual experience for the night projecting dirty grimey visuals for your dirty grimy night. ................................................................................................... SHIKAKU // Brokenbeat// LA-VA// Accentfeed Visual artist Miguel Vega, Originally from Argentina, has been doing visuals for various live performances and installations since 2002.
................................................................................................... BROKENBEAT ................................................................................................... [ FREE | NEVER A COVER ] KADAN in North Park, Sand Diego, CA 4696 30th street, (Corner of 30th & Adams Ave.) | 21 + 9PM - 2 AM
[ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1st 2007 ] BROKENBEAT NIGHT @ KADAN
[ Live Music By: ] ................................................................................................... GEARS // G25 Productions// Imputor?// BikeKing
gEars is a veteran producer/ performer of hardware based electronic music. He has performed alongside 8fm,Mu-ziq, DMX Krew, Random Number, etc.. and was featured at the 2007 Electro-music Conference in Philly. Expect a raw and rugged sonic experience that takes you thru a myriad of electronic music genres. He can be found holding down Friends Chill at Whistlestop on Tuesdays
................................................................................................... OSAL8 // Automat Records
OSaL8 has been brewin up some incredible original tracks in his OB studio and has just recently starting performing live. He has most recenty impressed us at Three tha HardWays Zombie Party and Brick by Brick. We are glad to have him at BrokenBeat night...
................................................................................................... DJ HVC3 // BrokenBeat
Hiel is your main man for all your early-evening Aphex Twin requests. Churning myriad style together for your eclectic electronic smoothie.
................................................................................................... DJ TUFFER// BrokenBeat
Drum n bass / breaks by BrokenBeats Tuffer, keepin things tough through the night !.
[ Live Visuals By: ] ................................................................................................... Vj Fill // LA-VA (Los Angeles)
Special guest vj making the drive down I-5 from LA. VJ Fill brings a style all his own while he mixes up an clips live to match any type of music
................................................................................................... SHIKAKU Visual artist Miguel Vega, Originally from Argentina, has been doing visuals for various live performances and installations since 2002.
................................................................................................... BROKENBEAT ................................................................................................... [ FREE | NEVER A COVER ] KADAN in North Park, Sand Diego, CA 4696 30th street, (Corner of 30th & Adams Ave.) | 21 + 9PM - 2 AM
