Live Visuals for Nosaj Thing
August 25, 2009 // Art + Design + Music

The video above is sampling of video clips for Nosaj Things live performances. It was created in a partnership between Adam Guzman and Julie Tsao who created a ton of different visuals that go along with the live performance. In Adam’s own words:

The live show for Nosaj Thing, a collaboration with Julia Tsao. Video clips are the formatted for mixing in Modul8. Each clip belongs to a certain part of a song. We triggered and manipulated each clip live with 2 midi controllers. Our performance is focused around disorientation and using the projector as a light source. The first half of the show is dedicated to slowly building a visual style. The images are black and white lines and squares. The positive/negative space is used to create rhythm that is synced with the audio. As the set progresses, the imagery becomes less abstract and focused less on light. Patterns begin to form and space begins to open as if the two dimensions exploded into a third. The relationship the graphics create with the performer is interesting. As the graphics become more spatial, the performer flattens, becoming a 2-D cutout version of himself.

I’m absolutely enamored with this. I love the part where the light gets liquid-y, and all of the balls floating around in space. Does anyone have any idea what kind of program you would use to try and create graphics like this? I’d love to play around with something like this. It also kind of reminds me of something UVA might do.

Found through today and tomorrow

Bobby

  1. that’s awesome. more djs should have visuals like this because most of the time the visuals are clowns with their heads going around in circles or stupid shit like that

    Comment by Shawn Khan — August 25, 2009 #

  2. that show is incredible. I’m guessing that they used Max/MSP/Jitter… that suite, from Cycling ‘74, is the standard in experimental music/visuals.
    http://www.cycling74.com/

    Comment by Lukas — August 25, 2009 #

  3. after effects!

    Comment by diego chavez — August 25, 2009 #

  4. Spot on Diego. The part with the balls in space is created with the after effects plugin particular made by trapcode.

    Comment by Mette — August 26, 2009 #

  5. yep, som of that might be premade in aftereffects with trapcode. but alot might be processing or some like that, with vdmx.

    beautiful it is.

    Comment by Nilas — August 26, 2009 #

  6. Wow, really nice.

    I’d like to try out this software. I did live visuals for New Look but we were working across continents and with different software! Still live synced though but in a different manner.

    http://sam-w.com/index.php?/project/new-look/

    Be good to know what you think!

    We need to be in the same country to make a good quality film like this one though…no bad club lighting!

    Comment by Sam — August 26, 2009 #

  7. Kind of reminds me of the Etienne De Crecy visuals.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzil8S7tUeY&feature=player_embedded

    Comment by nerdski — August 26, 2009 #