Content for Hard House, Trance night

[merseyj0ker]

Hello,I have been the opportunity to vj at a big hard house, trance party this weekend and need advice regarding the type of content shown at these types of events. Any help would be well appreciated.

merseyj0ker

[myogenic]

i would guess, that you want spinny things, bouncy things, tunnely things , oh and old skool style aciiiiiiiid faces(so that the kiddies can pretend they were there at the beginning of the 90's!):D

[wellREDman]

acid faces r for acid techno

for trance u need trance tunnels
swirlies and fractals,

and more trance tunnels :)

[naiveHQ]

Im doing my first ever(!) trance party gig in a few weeks. I've
always been into more blips n beeps kinda stuff so this is new to me. I've never done the swirlies and tunnels stuff and i
am not planning on start doing it now.

I reckon anything goes...if the crowd get something other then the usual fare thats probably only appriciated. mind you i probably will be playing more psychadelic stuff than i normaly do.
like peeps dancing and sunsets and forests and butterflies.

good luck with the gig!

[Primebase3]

hmm slick 3d animations seem to do the trick as well
never did trance before but the visuals seem to be very 3d and very slick , fits the nights nice , not my style but nice nonetheless

[unjulation]

i do a monthley trance night in leeds and though i use some right old school computer animation in there it only makes up about 10% of the whole night, most is weird and wonderful film loops mixed with the odd resolume effect mainly mirroring and quad mirror which goes down a treet run through the diferance mix efect for the colour vividness

[loboy]

pink bunnies, red balloons, and tanks.

[complexvisuals]

I find that footage of runny dog poo works well with hard house. It really portrays the feeling of the music, man.

Cian

[unjulation]

as for actual films :-

human body/biolagy-anything inside the body looks good though you dont want to gross people out, so open hart sergery might not work - the out side works as well faces/eyes etc
infer-red film work
old 50/60/70 tv sci-fi the more obsucuer the better
old tribel documentries
sciance-physics
flight/wings/angels
underwarter swimming/movement
fireworks
any form of forward motion, dosn't have to be a swerling tunell
flowers/natuer
computers/screens etc
peoples expreshions body movement-some of the older b-movies have some grate stuf way over the top acting
danceing of any kind can be used-you can make some mad mixes with balroom and outherstuf

it's actualy quite interesting ware and what clips you use because i keep finding that stuf i thought would not work with trance does, found my self useig stuf from a house night i do at cabbage the outher day and it worked a treet, a lot of it is about how you mix and what software you use

[disassembler]

Anything from Koyaanisqatsi/ Powaqqatsi. Or better yet minds eye.



:zzz:

[wellREDman]

with nights where the punters are more into phychedelics than booze i think that just about any content can work, its more about the fuckedupness of your mixing than what it is you're visually disembowellling. cos theyre also having whatever it is remixed again between their eyes and their brains anyway.
its the drinkers and colombian marching powder types who are more aware of the actual content.

[bluntfaktory]

play nothing , and tell people the absence of an image is as much the image as the image it's self ! :stoned:

[bluntfaktory]

the light saber fight from "return of the Jedi "
the mind fall from "brainscan "
the future battle from "T2"
the melting face of the T1000 from "T2'
the X-ray security scan from "total recall "
the computery stuff from "the lawn mower man" 1 and 2
screaming faces from "dragon ball Z "
the opening credits from "the ghost in the machine " manga movie
the morphing face of that bad guy from "stargate"
and don't forget nothingness

:smurf:

[spaceman]

Winamp plug-in after 3am cos by that time the chemicals have kicked in and no one is interested by anything that will remind them of "the outside". Before that, U.F.O's, nasa footage, underwater, 3d stuff are my favorites.

[Amukidi]

bluntfaktory - I hope you're being ironic!! Seriously tho - my advice would be to avoid ALL the cliches and surprise your audience.

[InsideUsAll]

yep create your own, is always my motto. To me thats what this whole thing is about. That list of film clips, although it may please the crowd :rolleyes: would not only be illegal, but it would be easy & wholly un-origonal.

I do wish people wouldn't keep insulting trance visuals. Hard house maybe does give the genre a bad name, but sub genres like psychedlic trance has some of the most cutting edge visuals I know of, and nights can consist of an attentive audience, who aren't always out of there heads.

I could say that house, d&b etc, etc have stagnant non evolving visuals, because from my experience they have, but I'm sure my experience doesn't cover the entire genre, so I try to give them the benefit of the doubt. Sure there are trance V.J's who are peddling out of date video work, but there are V.J's doing that for all genres.

A friend & working colleague of mine is currently working on a system which operates live motion capture suit controlled 3D cyborg dancers running at 60 fps 1024x768. He only does trance nights. Thats not exactly what I'd call dated.

I'd also like to think that the stuff we do is at the fore front of visuals, and mixing. and our genre of choice is psy trance. Project OZMA IMHO is pushing visuals into the club scene in a way I have seen no other night do, again psy trance. I think all you 'modern' anti trance V.J's should watch your backs if you think trance is just a bunch of muppets.

in my humble opinion of course ;)

[unjulation]

just dug out and started playing about with my old oscialscopes with an audio feed from the rig run through the live feed of resolume, mind you have to do it through a camera, scopes dont have an out, works grate with harder tunes and you can sit there and twidel nobs to change the frequancies rythems

[loboy]

have some visuals of two guys watching visuals

[disassembler]

or better yet. HOw bout you just make a LOW REZ sample of a Coors commercial and remix it. It's a ringer of a idea worthy of a green laser.