Illumination 10 Review
Over last week-end I had the pleasure to perform visuals as part of Illumination (Cairns) – White Party which was brought by Silver Gem and it had its 10th Anniversary since the inception in 1999. The event is a brain child of Deano & Venus who had put a lot of effort and vision to make and keep making this event reality year after year. I want to thank them dearly for they efforts.
This was my first time to perform at this show, even though I nearly made into the line up for the last year, this was the time. The event itself attracts somewhat diffrent audience to what you’d normally see at outdoor bush events in North Queensland which was a nice change as it brings new crowd to electronic music and arts for people to enjoy.
I was booked to do live vj’ing work on main stage along side Blakey (vj Phrosporous) and a string of local and nation talent with amazing sound, light and lazer rigs to boot.
The line up was as follows;
Beatroot- local Cairns outfit who primarily shape they music around percussion and drums,- very lovely.
Gathuarn Gabun – Local artist, good flow of the set.
Monkey – Nice deep house into progressive set
Funkform – Local producer and Artist performing lively set full of amazing soundscapes. Among my personal favorite on the night. Was very happy with my visuals over his music.
Modify – Sydney based artist who was amazing in my opinion. Pure Live set with integration of didgeridoo and awesome production to boot. Tops!
Endorphin – For his set we took time off as Endorphin was playing Audio and Visuals by himself. His show also consisted of Dancer (video will follow up shortly) and overall it was really good. Perhaps the only concern to an overall performance as that his show hasn’t really evolved in the last 7 years that I had seen him prior. Never the less its still very inspirational and I’m happy to see it again.
Suspect - Solid set as always from local Jesse Kuch of Open Records. Absolute pleasure to lay down visuals over his material.
Duncan – Once again, another personal favourite. I have worked with those guys before, so its niot a surprise that its very natural to play with them again and again.
Daisuke - One of the headliners for the night, his sound taken people on a accelerating journey and the set was very well structured and flowd well.
Jarramundi – Lively classic Jarrad set. Top job on production and flow. Some parts I felt went over people’s heads, yet was really good set never the less.
Shaka – Finished up the night on main stage to solid up for it audience who stayed up till the end. Top night all around.
On the technical Side:
On the night we were using Edirol v-440 – video mixer which neither me or Blakey used before, yet this is such a solid piece of equipment that possibilities of incorporating High Definition Inputs is simply a breeze. Only had very limited number of effects as to what you’d get with Edirol v4, yet its was fairly managable.
Personally I used laptop and computer as my 2 sources – Primarily running combos of Resolume, Resolume Avenue, Open TZT and vvvv that I swapped and changed through the night.
Blake had 2 laptops: pc and mac which had Visual Jockey, Arkaos Grand VJ and Resolume Avenue through the night.
The event was tops overall with only few minor technical glitches and great responce from those that attended the event. Videos and Photos are coming shortly.
