R6 Connect via Facebook: Racket – Sound, Art, Experiments.

For anyone is Melbourne who is familair with live experimental music and holds appreciation for live visuals, Racket night would be an essential night to experience as it attracts great deal of live electronica artists & new media manipulators on a monthly basic. With 6 months of events in its history, the future looks bright for Racket collective. Running every first Thursday of every month @ Miss Libertines, next installement is scheduled for Thursday 6th of January 2011 with a splendid line up of electronic artists and live visualists (7pm-Midnight). The event is aimed to support Melbourne live media scene for performers and pundits alike, all while keeping entry prices to the event most affordable. $5! Bargain! Support those events that support you and soak up great selection of live music and visuals!

As for the venue itself, recently I had inspected Miss Libertines in person, I can say that the venue is a comfortable place to enjoy your night out, with great and tasty food, student friendly beer prices and overall cosy atmosphere. Located at 34 Franklin Street (Melbourne City), its an easy place to find and in close to trains and trams.

Racket@Miss Libertines: Thursday 6th Jan: Melbourne

Line up:

Live Electronica:
Spherix (Live)
Dan Beck
Nasty Genius (Live)
Xenosine (Live)
Simon Hampson (Live)

Visuals:
Netzair
vdmo Kstati

* in Alphabetical order

VJ Asterix (Darwin)
http://www.imagineer.net.au/australian_vj/
http://www.vimeo.com/vjasterix

Asterix works with an array of real time audio visualisers pre-rendered eye candy to take you on a magical visual journey. For VJ `Asterix; Sine, Cosine and audio are essential ingredients in modular realtime visual software he uses for creating mesmerizing kaleidoscopes, audio driven 3d worlds and realtime video mixing. VJing is the ultimate escape from his life in commercial graphics, and an opportunity for boundless creativity ‘live’ and in the moment. With music as his guide he takes you on a journey into his world of fantasy and spirituality.

VJ Blindoff (France)
http://www.myspace.com/blindoff

Formerly in charge of mission in ecology, specialising in Insects, Blindoff is from the alternative art scene of Lille (France). Blindoff has performed Belgium in France, Germany and Spain and in various Major Electronic festivals (AVIT Visual Berlin, Dour festival, Electromind, VAD Gérone, Tilt festival), playing alongside world renowned Dj’s and international live acts such as Carl Cox, Jeff Mills, Popof, Phill Kearan, Boy Noizes, MAD PROFFESSOR, Zion train, KRS one…And many more mostly from the electonic minimal style. Blindoff multiplies artistic experiments & visual imaging during his performance & he will remix live visuals whilst integrating his masked character.

Crystalotustar (Kuranda/Cairns)
http://www.crystalotuscreations.com

Crystalotustar is the creative expression of spirit coming through the mind, body and soul of FNQ local Bonny Cooper. Based in the tropical paradise of Kuranda she is inspired to reflect the magnificence of mother earth and creator spirit. Using organic imagery of the earth, inputting sound through the ears, blending it with the fingers and taking it on a journey through technological circuits to be absorbed by the eyes… an organic spiritual psychedelic journey…

VJ Juladi (Germany)
http://www.youtube.com/user/VJjuladi
http://www.myspace.com/juladi

Visions, emotions, optical impressions VJ Juladi creates new pictures and makes sounds visible. Before every projection begins the search for out of the ordinary pictures, a unexplored perspective, a hidden treasure. With every performance, the video artist gets into the atmosphere, the visual lights, music and audience with her mix of local pictures, movements, artistic talent… as well as available optical snippets. The senses are invited to journey through the beautiful composition of picture and sound. VJ Juladi studied at the Stuttgart Media University. The media design and electroacoustics composition courses at the Bauhaus University in Weimar developed her feeling for music and pictures. In 2004, she broadcasted a weekly live programme with two friends which was devoted to psytrance and which was broadcasted in the Stuttgart area through UKW and worldwide over the internet. VJ Juladi is Elke from Nuertingen near Stuttgart (Germany), who likes to present pictures, but also doesn’t want to show too much. A good example are the clouds in the sky. Everyone discovers something different and every observer has their own imagination of the pictures.

Matty Moon (Perth)
http://www.myspace.com/matty_moon

Matty’s second VJ performance @ Winter Solstice. And you can also catch him playing DJ set as well at this years event.

Morph (Sydney)
http://www.morphvisual.com/

MoRpH (aka Grant Muir) has been a predominant figure on the Australian (and international) VJ scene for over 10 years. His visuals never fail too prove innovative and creative with his blending of old and new technologies, stunning graphics and amazing live footage. His unique performance video style has seen him working with a HUGE list of international Djs of all genres (Luke Slater, Eric Morillo, Carl Cox, LTJ Bukem, DJ craze, Sasha & Digweed and many, many more) and at festivals all over Australia & the world. Unlike other VJs, MoRpH has an energetic stage presence that is reflected in his mixing, blending performance with creation in a flurry of motion.

Phosphorus (Cairns/ Townsville)
http://www.myspace.com/phosphorusvj

Phosphorus has been creating and manipulating live digital visuals for events in FNQ for over 8years. Born and bread in the rainforests of Kuranda, where which his style and subject matter which have been inspired from. Expect a hypnotic convergence of nature and technology, a journey into the self and to the divine cosmos. As above and so below.

Plankton (Cairns)
http://www.myspace.com/sid_pixel
sid has always been fascinated by visuals, and has adapted his digital art skills to create animated loops using photographs, 3d models and anything that pops into his mind. Based on a tropical island off cairns, he is
totally surrounded by the elements, and this will reflect through his visual creations.

Tim Parish (verb) (Melbourne)
http://undergrowth.org/user/verb
** will be VJing with Editor (Melbourne) and AV set @ CHILL on Sunday

Tim Parish is the art director and co-editor of Undergrowth.org, which he founded with Rak Razam in 2004. He is a cross media artist, working in video art, painting, illustration, writing, and graphic design. His films have been screened in festivals around the planet, as well as widely distributed freely through Indymedia channels and the internet. He regularly exhibits his paintings and prints his writing through the Undergrowth books and magazines, and has a regular blog on Nomadology, a collective portal for gypsy tales and literary ruminations on the nature of travel. He has also worked as a film curator for many festivals and conferences. He is writing about himself in the third person right now, and it feels really wierd. In his own words:

I like to play with words, colours, molecules, and pixels.

vdmo Kstati (Cairns)
Seems to be Right Now
http://www.vdmokstati.com

Likes long walks on the beach, creating visuals, coordinating video elements for outdoor and indoor events & festivals ( Winter Sosltice, Earth Freq, etc). Local to North Queensland (Cairns) and regular on a scene throughout FNQ, Central and SE QLD, NWS, Sydney, Victoria and Melbourne. Likes to stay in a moment.

Related show

• Artist: vdmo Kstati
• Date: Friday, June 18th 2010 - Monday, June 21st 2010
• Time: 9:00pm
• City: vdmo Kstati in Sugarbag Station
• Venue: Sugarbag Station
• Country: Australia
• Notes: > 18th – Freeform Stage VJing, 19th> Opening Ceremony with Pyrodynamics, Freeform Stage VJing, 20th/21 Freeform Stage VJing.
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About Mother
A library & host by Ilias Bergstrom for the programming environment processing.org, with contributions by Krzysztof Goliński and Alice Lottini. Last update, 06-Oct-2009.

From the colour organs of past centuries, to todays VJing and new media art performances, artists and scientists have shown perpetual interest in the live performance of visual imagery.

The limited aesthetic flexibility permitted by existing tools however has meant that artists striving to differentiate their work have most often been the inventors and creators of the tools they use.

To address this obstacle, we have developed a set of tools, that make use of and extend the popular Processing open-source multimedia programming environment.

Together they will enable artists without the skills of computer programming to significantly influence the content of their visual performance, while also keeping the programming of new graphics algorithms accessible to those seeking greater creative freedom.

Installation

Unzip “Mother 0.5 for Processing 1.0.7 – Windows.zip” or “Mother 0.5 for Processing 1.0.7 – OSX.zip” archive, depending on your platform.

In the folder “Foetus library” you will find Foetus.zip; extract this and put the extracted Foetus folder into the libraries folder of your processing sketches. Reference and examples are included in the Foetus folder.

For instructions on using Mother, read included “GETTING STARTED.TXT” file.

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iPod nano now has a built-in video camera that lets you record fun as it happens. Then share it with friends on the Internet. It’s the video camera that’s small enough to take with you everywhere. Source

Introduction of video capturing technology through very light and compact iNano which may interest some video artists for size and portability. Quickly looking through the Technical Specs on the unit I find that it can capture H.264 VGA video at 640 by 480 pixels with up to 30 frames per second with AAC audio. Not bad, especially for the size.

If you prefer to capture some footage with effects, you can, and they include: Sepia, Black and White(Contrast the adjustment layers in Quicktime Pro and use Clips as Masks), X-Ray, Film Grain, Thermal, Security Cam, Cyborg, Bulge, Kaleido, Motion Blur, Mirror, Light Tunnel, Dent, Stretch and Twirl. Ha! Imagine running around the party few hours before your set collecting dozens of Tunnel vision clips onto that little 8 or 16 GB hard drive. Be honest, those can come in handy. Of course some might argue that PAL or high definition is the way to go for everything these days, but still,- special moments that captured at fairly decent size can add that little extra to the show.

You can check the quality of the clips on the iNano Video Page.

I’ll be ordering one shortly.

From very brief observation it looks like an awesome VJ related and Art portal which will only grow and already has a great potential. Its also nice to read about VJ scene in Russia which I have so much interest about. Worth a look if you can read and understand Russian VJRussia.ru but don’t despair, with having extra help from Google Translation Service, website can be translated to english to understandable English VJRussia.com/en/

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.

Quite a busy week-end ahead on the live visual front for me. Its great! This week-end is a start of an amazing festival up in North Queensland called – Land Crabs – Outdoor Cancerial Celbration.  Im performing on the 17th of July which is Friday night as – vdmo Kstati and following night you can see vj plankton covering over Saturday night.

Great line up of artists featuring:

INTERPULSE – RICHIE MANTRIX (Live – Open Records – Melb)

Interpulse is Richard Hinkson. Residing in Melbourne, Richie has a 20 year association with the Australian music scene.

Best known as one half of legendary live tribal trance act Mantrix, one of Australia’s longest running and most successful acts, over the years Richie has played at nearly every major Australian outdoor festival including Rainbow Serpent, Earthcore, Tribeadelic, Earth Freq and many more. Together with his studio partner Ben, they produced 6 albums on various labels before the completion of their partnership in 2007 – paving the way for Richie’s solo project Interpulse to take formation at the beginning 2008. The fresh sound is focused cutting edge deep progressive music, combining sweeping trance FX, driving techno basslines and layered tribal percussions – all wound together with a distinct Australian outdoor festival vibe and strong dancefloor focus. http://www.myspace.com/interpulse

ONES & ZEROS – PAKI PAKI (Live – Binary Beats – Hunab Ku Creations – Melb)

Ones and Zeros is Simon Field, based in Melb he enjoys the good things in life like cold beers and good vibes.
With a release on the “Polynated” C.D from Hunab Ku Creations, Simon’s sound is a rich tapestry of warm, floating melodies and stuctures driven by intelligent dub rhythm’s and basslines.
He’s currently working on several projects from Dub to Trance to Chill to Experimental Techno.

“Ones and Zeros”….
http://www.myspace.com/sqigls

“Goodnite Irie”…
http://www.myspace.com/goodniteirie

“PakiPaki”…
http://www.myspace.com/pakipakimusic

SPLIFFUN (Live – Fowl Play – Bio Sine Rec. – NNSW)

Spillun is Dhillon Tiffin, born January the 29, 1986. After growing up in tasmania for most of his child life he moved to the beautiful area of byron bay . After finishing school Tiffin moved in with good mates Luke Gill (aka Strange Planet) and Jerome Canabou (aka Short Circut) were he started to listen to PSYCHEDELIC TRANCE. After going to a few trance parties Dhillon started collecting music and learning to mix and before long he started playing gig’s and his mates began showing him all they knew about music production.

As time went by Tiffin began a project with Dream Weaver and Stange Planet called Polka. Eventually they went there seperate ways and Spliffun was born. Since then he has played at major festivals like SPLENDER IN THE GRASS, SOTOPIA FESTIVAL, EXODUS,WINTER SOLSTICE NNSW and CAIRNS, SUPER FREAK and EARTHFREQ as well as countless other small parties. The Spliffun sound is phat, melodic with strong dancefloor pull and is perfect for an epic sunrise session…. http://www.myspace.com/spliffun

GROUCH (Live – Zenon – NZ)

Grouch is 24yr old Oscar, Creating from Wellington, New Zealand. over the past 8 years he has been Producing a variety of styles, from dubstep and chill through the minimal, progressive, breaks and into psy.
with releases on A-List, Cosmic Conspiracy, Native Harmonic, Zenon Records and an album coming soon with Up records as well as upcoming releases on several other labels..

Grouch’s music consists of a blend of minimalist,experimental, sygressivenessis malisticationala delicisminga liciousness tech -step dub and chunk, combining a mix of smooth and swamp-crunch into a user friendly dance floor sound leaving punters questing for their long lost biscuit He has developed a fast growing following, who readily get on the dance floor and stomp to their hearts content to squelchy, deep, root connecting basslines.. http://www.myspace.com/otgrouch

Lysergic (Live/ DJ – Sundance Rec- NNSW)
One Tastey Morsel (Lively – Zenon)
Filthy Tomo (Open Rec. NZ)
Duncan (Live – Plusquam rec)
Stampetey (Freeform – NNSW)
Suspekt (Open Rec)
Bent Intent ( Live/ Dj – Hunab Ku Creations – Bio Sine Rec.)
Woodsman (Open Rec)
Solatek (Freeform – Open Rec)
Bush Pilot (Lively)
Backwards Man (Lively – Little Rascal Rec)
Psymon (Up Records)
Jaramundi (Lively)
Drewan (Open Rec.)
Bush Mech (Lively)
Ear Wigg
Funk Form (Open Rec.)
Adam Giardina
Milika (Live Acooustic)
Twiggy (Live – Acoustic)
Eegor (Open Rec.)
Bush Mech (Lively)
Mony
Geko
aDusk
Luna Tik Vs. Kali
Waltek
Shaka

http://www.landcrabsfestival.com.au/

Directions to Landcrabs

From Cairns, Drive to Mareeba and Take the inland road to Cooktown.Once you hit Mt Carbine it is another 83km after that on your right.Turn down here and follow the signs to the gate. Passes are available here.

If you see the Palmer River Roadhouse you have gone TOO FAR. Please travel safely and we’ll see you at the party!!!