Here’s me and Louise Terry having our earliest “Electric Dreams”…
(thanks to bec stegh for the photo)
All posts tagged audiovisual
Spoole Flyers
In addition to the Glitch Western series Spoole did a bunch of other shows around the traps… here’s some of our old dates n flyers..
FABRIQUE.12
presented by Brisbane Powerhouse in association with ::ROOM40:: and SOOB
Straight Out of Brisbane 2004
A mix of electronics, abstract beats, experimental music and improvisation – fun for all the family, even the kids!
Featuring performances from:
Frost (launching Steelwound)
Spoole & Future Eater (live AV set)
Joel Stern & Anthony Guerra (from Sydney, London)
Fenella Kernebone (Triple J’s Sound Lab)
+ other guests
Electrofringe Panel Discussion and Performance
Title: PoliticKunstVideo
Description: How artists use video in different ways to reveal the political sublime.
Feat: Spoole : Live Popglitch humour
EmileZile-(Video munch)
Angelica mesiti :Serial
7′s-The Kings Pins.
Scratch Cinema – fri nite / Jul 11th – Loop
With pixels as easily sampled & mutated as sound, an emerging breed of audiovisualists
are busy carving up the territories that lay between cinematic storytelling and the dancefloor bootylicious.
Using loops, layers, live processing, FX and editing, tonight showcases some of the approaches possible for ‘Improvised cinema’.
Spoole – aka Spanna (Anna) & Poole (Jean ) – live AV mash-up
Future Eater – live soundtrack 2 Schwarzenegger
Cicada (video) vs AI Yamamoto & QUOCKENZOCKER (audio)
Slimy (Tas) – downtempo glitchery with homemade VCR-Turntable~!!
@ LOOP
23 Meyers Place, melbourne city
WHATS UP KUNT???
MELB: Sun 20 April @ Rob Roy Hotel, Fitzroy
+ Antideluvian Rockinghorse, Barrage, the Go’s, Future Eater, Sol, SelfHelp, Spoole (live AV set) & Casionova
dLux Dataterra Interalia Closing Party
9pm till late, Sat 7th Dec 2002 $5.
The Chocolate Factory
Level 2, 144 Cleveland St, Chippendale
accelerate into osmotic overdrive – a maze of image, sound and text resonating for one night as an oscillating narrative
InterAlia [definition: among other things]
is dLux media arts research laboratory of experimental media art collaborations and live audio / visual data processing. InterAlia is the last event of the futurescreen02 : data terra program and will metamorphose into our Closing PartyŠ
InterAlia:: media lab for the construction of experimental situations, rendering as an audio/visual/performative environment whereby an oscillating narrative of image, sound and text will be hacked, patched and re/screened for live contexts. Audience and party goers alike are invited to embrace an accelerating drive of content and concern mediated digitally.
InterAlia situates itself within our information saturated reality and focuses on artists’ creative manipulation and subversion of data using new technologies and their own specially modified digital tools.
A stellar line-up of Sydney AV + performance artists have been invited to engage with the fs02::data terra thematic. Lalila, Cicada, Ciindi, Jason Gee, Spanna, Wade Marynowskj, Alex Davies, Ian Andrews, Peggy Wallach and Veren Grigorev will compose discreet sets of audio / visual or performative / textual material with following timeframes; / 1 x 5 min / 1 x 10 min /1 x 20 min.
These sets will be mixed live resulting in a site-specific choreography…
enter the INTERALIA mist…
and then – party on with the ‘DIFFERENCE ENGINE’
VIDEOBLITZ
Straight Out Of Brisbane 2002
Time: 08.00 PM till 12.00 AM
Date: 23.11.2002
Cost: $12
Venue: ArtCom warehouse New Farm (corner Commercial Rd and Arthur Tce)
Our massive Saturday night party fresh from a gorgeous warehouse
space, SOOB brings you the audio/visual extravaganza of VIDEO BLITZ.
An audio/visual extravaganza! Beat benders and visualisers unite to
create wide-screen, surround sound sensory treats. Way too many
projectors!
Featuring:
DeF 1 (strudel – sydney), KID KAY FERRIS (nine09 records), JAMIE
WHITESIDE (Love & Roxy), PONYLOAF, J ORCHESTRA, DVOID, TEAM
PLASTIQUE, SPANKY, SPOOLE – ANNA SPANNA +JEAN POOLE, PLUM V’S PAUL ABAD, PIXEL SLUT
9000, KITTYMECHS (HARD GARBAGE + AISU KURIMU + MITOCHONDRION),
SIMULCAST, RYE BARRY, GEOMETRICK, PULSE SUGGESTION
De-mystifying the technical aura of vjamming
Time: 04.00 PM till 06.00 PM
Date: 24.11.2002
Cost: $0
Venue: Secuumb Space, 5 Wynn St the Valley
De-mystifying the technical aura of vjamming – an exploration of
different approaches, software and hardware for creating live
audiovisual vjamming techniques. This inludes mac and PC software, as
well as max/nato and director applications.
Featuring:
Jean Poole, Anna Spanna and Spanky
PirateTV AV Tour
Still from Mostar Trek
Mostar Trek (10mins, 2001) is an experimental/documentary of the PirateTV CAN-DU tour of the former Yugoslavia in 2001, produced for the Mixmasters series (Addictive TV) screened on ITV and internationally.
Mostar Trek features editing and footage from myself, Camilla Tornøe and Mark Scarratt from Headspace / Brighton ART. Music is by Matt Black of Coldcut. Perhaps because of this, or due to inheriting an editing style from freeform party vj-ing, it’s a bit of a mish-mash, but serves as documentation for our amazing 6-week trip.
We toured around with two trucks, a coach and an airstream caravan, bringing with us our own custom designed PA (check the rocket-style bass bins!), a big waterproof stage and 6 projection screens – along with the greatest number of video-mixers, laptops, cameras and other AV/VJ devices I have ever seen in one set-up.
During our tour we played at a basketball court in Lljubliana, a beach in Pula, a white marble palace in Dubrovnik, a cave in Mostar, a fortress in Belgrade, another basketball court in Banja Luca, a squat somewhere I have forgotten, and a university in Zagreb, and visited all kinds of amazing radio stations and art spaces. When I get a chance I’ll write more about our journey.
Glitch Western
Glitch Western (2min 9 sec, 2003) is a snippet from a performance by Spoole (Anna Helme aka Spanna, Sean Healy aka Jean Poole, Andrew Sargent aka FutureEater) at Electrofringe 2003.
Spoole was an AV performance outfit performing between 2002 and 2004. We performed at various events from our first show at dLux’s Dataterra show to gigs at pubs, clubs, festivals and events like Electrofringe, Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Straight Out of Brisbane etc. At one point Spoole ended up on radio to advocate to the kids on JJJ that “VJing is fun!” (in chorus!) though as a matter of fact we weren’t VJs so much as AV performers working on an ever-evolving show around various themes (we narrowly avoided being turfed out of the ABC that day due to certain members of the band writing down their names at the security desk as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Johnny Cash… “you had Grandmaster Flash in here yesterday, do you think that’s his real name??”).
The most cohesive theme we worked around was the Glitch Western series of shows, which were sample-heavy but included lots of material we produced ourselves also – either animations or live action video or samples that had been through various visual effects processes so many times they were pretty much unrecognisable. The Glitch Western show was like a remix of the cinematic motifs and techniques of the Western, but also an examination of man and nature, and the impact of the pioneering (colonising) spirit on the environment – in the wild west, but also here in Australia. Images and sounds such as monkeys operating movie cameras, huge dust storms blowing over Melbourne, man-made deserts in outback Australia, duelling drummers have a drum-out in an industrial landscape and samples from TV cowboys’n'injuns were mashed together in a staccato remix which was partly a live AV essay about film itself, and the themes of the Western in particular and partly about putting on an entertaining and interesting show.
JP used Arkaos on a Mac and I used VjammPro on a PC at the time. We were later joined by FutureEater who used Audio Mulch on his PC to post-process and mix audio from both our AV signals. I would pass my video signal to JP for remixing as a live feed at times – we’d tend to alternate playing during the show, with a bit of jamming between us as we passed it over to the other person. The video mixing was all done using software, as we didn’t use a video mixer (just had a little video switcher, an audio mixer and a helluva lot of cables). We moved towards using midi keyboards or other devices to plug in and control clips and effects.
Spoole was a fun time, usually starting with excitable brainstorm sessions interspersed with long studio hours sampling, remixing, animating and producing, ending in a show running up to an hour. There was plenty of room for experimenting with new techniques, and a indulging in a fascinating process of what was for me like video editing – but live, a great way to learn about timing and cuts, and trying juxtapositions that you might not in a normal video production. There was also the opportunity to throw in whatever great footage (or interesting concept or idea) you’d found that week and work that in, or play more with the musical/rhythmic side of remixing AV material, and gauge the impact of what you were doing with a live audience.
Electric Dreams – Act 1
promo shot for Electric Dreams
Electric Dreams – Act 1 (1 min 40 sec, 2004) is a clip from the Artesian AV Arkestra’s performance of “Electric Dreams” for Nextwave 2004. The Artesian AV Arkestra was Anna Helme, Louise Terry, Paul Bourke and Michael Prior. “Electric Dreams” was a colourful genre-hopping hybrid theatre / audiovisual performance piece commissioned for the Nextwave festival. We also performed a version of this show at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival art spin-off festival Teknikunst in 2005.
