In August, I performed live visuals for two shows in the Hudson
Valley. The first one was on August 21 at
The Avalon Lounge
in Catskill, NY, where my video projections augmented the music
of two electroacoustic duos:
Lunar Slopes
(Snark & Jeff Rieger), who are local to the Hudson Valley,
and
Matthew Ryals
and
Stephan Haluska, who were on tour together and who hail from NYC and
Cleveland, respectively. It was great to return to this lovely
and welcoming venue, and to get the opportunity to collaborate
with friends, old and new. Here are few scraps of video footage
from this show:
The second show, which I helped organize, was held at a private
space in Kingston, NY. I performed visuals for sets by
Snark
(who also helped organize the show),
The Spookfish, and
headfullofhammers. Bungey Colle, another co-organizer, was sadly unable to make
it to perform.
On Tuesday, June 18, I gathered with a few friends in an outdoor
space behind a small gray barn which I helped renovate over the
spring. As part of a party taking place that night, we set up a
projector screen and a PA and brought out some music and video
gear for a jam session that lasted well into the night. I pulled
the excerpt below from our session, which features
Snark
on saxophone and electronics,
ShmOoOo
on synths and samplers, and
Ben Kujawski
on guitar, as well as myself on visuals. It was a memorable
evening, and I look forward to my next opportunity to perform
video synthesis outdoors.
On Saturday, May 4, Andrei and I returned to
The Psychic Garden
in Rochester, NY to perform live video and sound as REALITY ORP!
Our friend
Anna Oxygen
(Ithaca) also performed a bumping synthwave set. Unfortunately
Dr. Hamburger
was unable to perform, but fellow Rochester locals Shonen Book
were able to hop on at the last moment with a fever dream of
feedback-laden visuals mixed with Donkey Kong. It was a
memorable night. Many thanks to
Taimur
for holding down the Psychic Garden fort as well!
Zine Club is the culmination of some ideas I've had
brewing for a while. I wanted to start making more physical
objects and mailing them to people, and I also wanted to start
something like a Patreon but without actually using that
platform. After fleshing out the details and creating a new page
on my site, it's now ready for launch! If you're interested in
receiving mysterious virtual or physical objects at regular
intervals throughout the year, and supporting my ability to
spend more time making weird art, check it out at the link
below...
On Sunday, March 3, my art collective,
Phase Shift, led an Intro to Live Visuals workshop at
The Psychic Garden
in Rochester, NY. Rochester has a strong DIY community, and many
local folks found their way to the event, as well as a few from
Buffalo and Alfred. We had a full house, but luckily we also had
a few extra helping hands from
Evan
and
Max.
The Psychic Garden is located inside a row of unmarked warehouse
spaces near the Genessee River. There were a number of video
installations in the space, so it was an inspiring environment
for people to learn about video art, since they could see some
cool applications of the medium at the same time. After the
event, we visited the space of
Rathaus Press, a risograph print studio run by Evan in an adjacent building.
We are already planning our next visit to Rochester and looking
forward to getting involved with more of the cool things that
are happening there. Thanks to
Cameron, Evan, and The Psychic Garden for having us.
