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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.
Friday August 28, 2009 9pm at Kava Lounge 2812 Kettner Blvd San Diego, CA 92101 $8 at the door DUB TRAFFIK CONTROL PRESENTS: ¡GEMATRIA! SAN DIEGO MONTHLY DEBUT FEATURING:
[ English ] It's not very often I post my own work here, but I think this one might be interesting to other visualists. A little homage to 10 music artists that inspire me while I'm doing design work, the project shows 10 portraits of music artists and a personal record suggestion for when you want creative inspiration. All portraits are designed in square format, reminiscent of record covers, which I believe to be the strongest link between music and visual arts (maybe the true origins of Vjing?). This still covers including Modul8. in the production process.
[ English ] No muy seguido pongo mis trabajos, pero pense que esto podria interesarle a otros visualistas. Se trata de un pequeno homenaje a 10 artistas que me inspiran mientras trabajo en proyectos de diseno grafico. El proyecto muestra 10 retratos de artistas y una sugerencia personal a un album del artista. Todos los retratos fueron disenados en formato cuadrado, como el de las tapas de los discos, lo cual creo que es la coneccion mas fuerte entre musica y grafica, quizas hasta el verdadero origen del Vjing? Utilize Modul8 en el proceso de creacion, pueden ver el set completo aca.
[ SATURDAY, April 25th 2009 ] KID KOALA @ BRICK BY BRICK
................................................................................................... [ $20 ] BRICK BY BRICK 1130 Buenos Ave San Diego, CA 92110
................................................................................................... Music by: KID KOALA Canada / NINJA TUNE
DJ ARTISTIC No Sucker DJs/ Deep Rooted ................................................................................................... FRIK N FRAK RE:UP/ Brokenbeat/ Dub Traffik Control ................................................................................................... ONE MAN JAZZ CSL/ Boombox/ L.A. ................................................................................................... Live Visuals by: MIGUEX Brokenbeat/ Modul8/ Dub Traffik Control/ LA-VA
[ 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.
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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.
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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
[ English ] Some great photos form the last gig at Kava lounge with Dub Traffik Control, I will soon upload more photos, these were taken by Michael Klayman
Also, don't miss the show this Tuesday Dec 30th at Belly Up
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 is a quick edit I made for a fashion show by Neighbourhood Boutique here in San Diego, hosted at Cream Coffee Bar, where I did visuals. The challenge was to transform the space with very little budget, from a coffee shop atmosphere to as close as we could get to a nightclub feel, so I decided to ask help from Gage at Merge Events, and he was kind enough to bring lights and the most important thing, the runway.
I decided to make a time lapse of the transformation phase in order to be able to show it to future clients, I think its a good idea, slowly I'm discovering that I can't really have other people imagine my vision of things just by telling them, but if you show them something similar, chances are that they will say: I want that!
[ Castellano ] Aquin un rapido edit que hice, para un fashion show en organizado por Neighbourhood Boutique , aqui en San Diego, en Cream Coffee Bar donde hice visuales. La meta era transformar el espacio cpn un presupuesto bajo, de un Cafe a lo mas cercano posible a un nightclub, Para esto llame a mi amigo Gage de Merge Events y el fue de mucha ayuda trayendo una pasarela y luces.
Decidi realizar un time-lapse sobre la transformacion, para poder mostrar a futuros clientes el antes y el despues. Creo que es una buena idea, de a poco voy descubriendo que a veces no puedo transmitir mis ideas a otras mis clientes, con solo palabras, pero que si le muestro algo concreto, lo mas probable es que digan: Lo quiero!
Created with Admarket'sflickrSLiDR. [ English ] Here some photos from a gig I did last week, considering I improvised the projections set up in 1hr and 30 min, I think it came out pretty good. 3 projectors in a small gallery, for me and my dots. I'm still getting used to my new fishy lens, (Tokina 10-17mm) photos either come sharp or with noise most of the time, but sometimes I get to find the balance between both, overall I think photos came out pretty nice. The reason I shoot it myself is because most event photographers ignore screens and shoot with a flash, the light bounces on the projections and it ends up washing them out, so I decided to shoot from the VJ perspective, you may not see the Dj's face, but you will see the visuals :)
[ Castellano ] Aca algunas fotos que tome en un evento la semana pasada, teniendo en cuenta que tuve que improvisar todo en 1hr 30min, creo que quedo bastante bien. 3 proyectores en un local pequeno para mi y mis puntitos. Todavia me estoy acostumbrando a mi nuevo lente fishy, (Tokina 10mm-17mm) las fotos salen en foco o con ruido, pero a veces le agarro la mano y encuentro el balance. La razon por la que tomo las fotos es por que la mayoria de los fotografos de eventos, ignoran las pantallas y toman fotos con flash, la luz rebota en las projecciones y las lava, entonces comence a tomar fotos desde el punto de vista del VJ, quizas no salen las caras de los Djs, pero se van a ver las pantallas :)
[ English ] If you are in or near San Francisco, come check us out, we will be doing a bit of A/V with Dub Traffik Control Live at the Elbo Room 647 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA Tickets: Jambatickets | Ticketweb
DTC is a project we've been working on for a while now, on the visual part includes %90 original "movie style" footage.
[ Castellano ] Si estas en o cerca de San Francisco, CA. Ven a Dub Traffik Control en vivo en el Elbo Room 647 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA
[ 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.
[ English ] I found this little video covering a bit of the Freewaves event in L.A. last year, unfortunately you can't see all of the Vjs that particpated on the event, but maybe they will upload more video soon. You can see Vj Fill, Momo the monster and myself on the interviews, and I think the organizer of the event at the end.
[ Castellano ] Aca un fragmento de lo que fue el evento Freewaves el ano pasado en Los Angeles, solo se pueden ver 3 de los mas de 10 Vjs que participaron, espero que pronto suban mas video del evento.
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.
