Thought I would mention that I just caught his show at Sonar in Barcelona on 18th of June. This also tails in with RayV’s post back in March via VJ Forums regarding the iPhone app. I was skeptical about his visuals after seeing a less then exciting performance in London at Field Day 2008.
Well 2 years later and as Plastikman he has really raised the bar. I went with my friend who demanded we go. This was my friends second, he caught Plastikman LIVE in Detroit at DEMF a few weeks ago. He mentioned the iPhone app SYNK but I didn’t pay much attention to it. It wasnt until the show started that I truely understood what was going on. We were camped right up front and had a great view of the curved LED screen that surrounded Mr. Hawtin which occasionaly highlighted him and projected his shadow on the LED screen. To me it looked like he was a mad scientist in his lab busily working away with thunderous bass and electrical strobe storms going on all around.
I was a little upset that I didn’t bring my proper Canon camera. All the videos and photos were shot with my Sony Ericson c905 mobile phone. I must admit the images and videos are not all that bad.
Richie starts his show with a nice intro that builds into well produced audio visual experience all the way to the very end and just when you think it’s over he comes out with a hammering encore that leaves you wanting more. During his show iPhone users who have the application SYNK installed can interact via Wi-FI with his performance by monitoring track information, bpm, effects and elements. But what I found cool was when Plastikman allowed users to trigger wordsamples in realtime. FTW, that’s pretty badass in my opinion. For more info visit http://www.plastikman.com/
Universal Music is in search of an aspiring filmmaker to come up with a “treatment” for a music video for their progressive classical musical act, ERA. Like the band Gorillaz, ERA is a faceless concept rather than a band or solo artist and Universal are looking for a concept video with new creative characters and plot. To participate, submit either your film/animation reel or an initial treatment of the Ameno video to be considered.
If selected, you will be asked to develop your treatment into the completed official music video, which will be premiered at a central London cinema, aired on MTV, VH1, other music channels as well as through Era’s online networks.
The selected filmmaker will receive up to $10,000 of filmmaking equipment and will have worked with the World’s largest record company. In addition, $5,000 will be distributed between the remaining submitting filmmakers according to the overall percentage of votes for their submission.
Label: Ipoly
Artist: Alec Troniq
Album: Uncrufter 2000
Track: Fauxpas
12″ Vinyl and digital
directed and edited by Devon Miles
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New video for Alecs release on Ipoly Music. over 3000 photos were processed in After Effects and Premiere. shot in february on different locations in thailand. for the Tiltshift effect a sigma tiltshift lens was used.
After grabbing second place in the last VJ Loops & VJ Vault contest we decided to follow Taras to see where his work is going. It’s no surprise he’s keeping busy creating all day and night in his homeland Russia. Check out a personal interview posted at SEEN:BY the visual blog by VJ Retina Error. Taras is the featured interviewee this week and you can see the viewpoint from a true visual artist coming out of Russia.
Thank you to everyone who participated and took the time to create, upload and share your work. Keep your eyes and ears open for the 4th contest coming soon!
We would also like to thank all of our judges and sponsors.
Live, Reviews, Videos | Kyle | 
June 29, 2010 7:51 pm | 
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