Drum Smashing Badassery

Posted on April 16th, 2008 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, output, SWARM.

Swarm photos by Glenna TurnbullDan Lunn and Bill Wallace

Swarm photos by Glenna TurnbullBill Wallace in the air,Curtis Mathewson in front

Swarm photos by Glenna TurnbullThe whole lot of us

Swarm photos by Glenna TurnbullBill Wallace and Dan Lunn on longstrings, that’s me on the drums

Swarm photos by Glenna TurnbullDharma Plated Vehicle

Looks like fun, doesn’t it.

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Swarm in Kelowna

Posted on April 15th, 2008 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, images, output, SWARM.

This weekend Swarm played the Mary Irwin theatre in Kelowna to an enthusiastic audience. We had a great time.

The video we used included some appropriated images that should be credited.

video for Spinfectious included a clip from the film Bodysong

video for 7of9 included a clip from At Land

video for Anung Un Rama contained a clip from Meditation on Violence

short clips from a plethora of public domain movies were used throughout, thanks mainly to publicdomaintorrents

More images and video clips to come in the next few days.

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darkstyle dubstep video

Posted on April 6th, 2008 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, music, output, web.

Fresh 20 minute video demo posted. The audio is from the ‘world’s heaviest dubstep’ compilation - provenance unknown but the mix of ‘wayfaring stranger’ that kicks it off is brilliant. It’s a live video recording and best viewed fullscreen.

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New Video, New Happenings

Posted on December 5th, 2007 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, music, output, SWARM.

The Burn Bc event at the Waldorf was a lot of fun - video projected large style on a white wall and drums and fire.

Also a flyer has gone out for the upcoming 12 Minutes Max event at the Firehall arts centre in Vancouver. Swarm will be premiering KounterKlockWerk - a new kinetic drum piece with banging and spinning and bungee throws. Much fun. (click flyer image for a larger version)

12 minutes Max flyer

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confirmed for dubforms[6]

Posted on November 6th, 2007 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, music, output.

another heavy session will be thrown down on Nov. 24.

at the hands of the lighta! crew

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live performance recording

Posted on October 11th, 2007 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, images, words, output, science.

I’ve made recordings of the A440hz show at Open Studios available online.

A remixable audio file is up for grabs at CCmixter and a video record of the performance can be viewed below.

The oratory was extemporaneous (with notes) based on the guiding principles of the A440hz electromagnetic explorations project.

The video background was responsive to the environmental audio and is built of photographs (taken by me) of the [human hearing] portion of the A440hz installation.

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dubforms 5

Posted on October 11th, 2007 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, output.

I’m very stoked to be playing at the upcoming dubforms5 event.

lightasound dubforms5
Truly it will be the sickness.

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updates

Posted on September 15th, 2007 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, output.

I’ve been doing some tidying on the site and there have been a number of updates.

There are fresh photographs of recent events (on Flickr) and a vicious new video mashed with the stylistics of local Max Ulis (vs Meesha)

viddy this:

(Audio: max ulis vs meesha - lighta! sound)

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Unceasing forward motion

Posted on September 5th, 2007 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, words, output.

These are busy and exciting times.

Shambhala was an amazing and intense experience.

SWARM has been consistently playing successful shows.

But a review will have to wait because off all the upcoming business.

I am all over the New Forms Festival this year, playing at 3 nights -

the A440hz grand opening on Thursday the 6th

The Dubforms4 event on Saturday the 8th

Plus the A440hz gallery opening on the 15th AND the Newforms Manglification event that same night.

Holy crap.

Plus the school season kicks off this week with SWARM.

We work harder indeed.

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Shambhala 2007

Posted on July 29th, 2007 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, output.

Yes - it’s a little last minute, but oh so cool.
Eightprime is confirmed to contribute visuals to the beach stage at Shambhala number 10.
Word is that there will be mad dome screens and huge floating balloon projection screens also.
This is most pleasing.

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meditation on Violence

Posted on May 9th, 2007 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, music, output.

I’ve put a 90 second extract of some of my experimentation with Maya Deren’s Mediation on Violence. Hosting is at the excellent Fullscreenmusic.com, a resource for vj’s and motion graphics nerds.

Click the image below to see the video. It’s best watched full screen.

the audio portion is by local Van-city soundsystem killers sub-osc.

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fresh output - wave lotus video

Posted on January 16th, 2007 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, video, CreativeCommons, output, web.

I’m trying Revver for video hosting. The video quality is higher than I’m getting with google video. There is, however, an ad at the end.

This is a 3d environment crafted and animated in Pilgrim R2. It looks okay all tiny, but is much more impressive at huge sizes with brilliant resolution.

There are high-quality stills in this gallery

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