What style do you VJ?

[yogyog]

DJ's don't tend to start by listing their equipment, but instead tell you a style of music.

Myself I came to VJing through animation, and often aim at humour. It has to be sustained weirdness humour as punchlines don't really come off when VJing. I go for filmicness more than motion graphics. I'm particlularly keen on bazare, grotesque animation.

What sort of style do you do?

[evomedia]

I came through corporate video production, creating content for AV companies and digital signage and also Graphic Design, packaging and Web design for London design agencies.

Style I reckon is same as you by the sounds of it, I've always played grotesque to funny and use mostly filmic style clips, motion graphics and animation, I play slow stuff and storylines on breakdowns and the really explosive manic stuff that switches on the beat to contrast when the DJ kick off.

Thats why boring slowly developing style VJ's that talk about Art and not about entertainment never really do anything for me. And VJ's who get so caught in one style and just never vary it for hours means I simply can't watch for any length of time.

[vdmoKstaTi]

love the humor ;) got to have it... always try to have something handy.. text especially...

graphic design/poster designs for events/ promotion/ multimedia dev background
kind of where it all started. love overlayed stuff and weird shapes.. mainly like to use video, but do some weird stuff to it before hand and whip it up once it live... a lot more random photography goes into play also.

ultimately like to create loops that can be watched on they own on a loop for a while. if they are fairly crappy, you got to know what to do with it to make it work very quick(skill)

[USE]

i come from a background of traditional drawing and print making.i started off using vjing to show my line drawings, progressed (?) into savaging cultural reference points and mashing them about, and now i care a lot about composition, form and texture in sound and video. 3d cgi juxtaposed with the more organic hand-drawn lines from my pen. plus its a fucking good laugh, beats the hell out of "gallery" exhibitions anyway.

[vj_jasper]

the style of music i VJ to is Electro, Breakbeat, Progressive House.. about72 percent orginal material with a lot of black backgrounds/ single element content, so that different layers in the mix are time synced to sixteenth or slower rhythms.. mixing it with a V4.

my actual/original style of content involves particle animations, vector/flash animations (trace-bitmap stencil look, etc).. 2.5d compositing in after effects.. hand-drawn gel pen caracters (dancers), alien flowers (beat-synched paramter change animations made with a beat track triggering the changes in after effects.. the loop is then time synced realtime using arkaos)

re-framed edited footage eg close-up slo-mo grasshopper within a variety of alien-looking presentation screens

also, animated data, text, numbers.
aiming for a cyber-tech flavour, i mix in a bit of Zoolander, Wicked City, Parliament Funkadelic, Madonna, Thunderbirds, Astro Boy, Ghost in the Machine, and a couple of content DVD's such as VisualDrug::Flower or HiddenPartition

various pre-mix dvd's of original material, each with its own theme or 'flow', each one about 10 minutes in length, to then play and re-time/re-size/re-mix live, using a pair of cheap DVD Decks and a couple of computers.

i like a rich array of elements, but non-fullscreen, i mean plenty of black background visible.. not colour everywhere. where there is a lot of black background, it makes the screen drop away, and the animations hover in space, if the lighting is good and the screen itself is not too lit-up.

[vdmoKstaTi]

jasper, you way of topic mate :) you should be posting this in "Describing your performance.." lol
hehe

[Bokonon]

I have a back ground in music, so use a lot of audio and midi reactive motion graphics elements. I use some real world footage but it all tends to be abstract. I've recently started to shoot and edit footage whilst travelling to gigs and use it my sets straight away - this gives it a freshness that you can't get from a longer production process.

[vj_jasper]

bokonon, immediacy of footage and midi reactive graphics sounds gr8 :)

jasper, you way of topic mate :) you should be posting this in "Describing your performance.." lol
hehe sorry bout that.. even if i try, i cannot define my style .. rather describing the performance instead, but that is OT. oww.

[gleam]

I got into vjing by talking to mr. Hambone when he was setting up his rig - his goal of controlling everything really got to me, so I dove in... but at the other end of the pool, as it were.

"style"? How on earth would one define a style of vjing? I think vj_jasper isn't too far off the mark when saying that performance and "style go hand in hand, really.

Would you say "in the school of.."? If so, then I'd say flight404, but a lot less algorithim-driven. I have main ways of attacking it:

1: Live generation of 2d/3d graphics. These range from simple squares to pre-arranged objects done in Blender, which are then grossly manipulated and post-processed, including a huge audio modulation matrix
2: Sprites and Live video feeds. So far relying on simple webcams to generate textures.
3: Live drawing, akin to superDraw ( http://www.intervalstudios.com/superdraw/video.html ), with feedback added..... so in other words, digital, glitchy, feedbacky, interactive.
flickr-pics here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18877453@N00/

[yogyog]

I don't thing VJ Jasper was off topic - what he did was "describe your VJ style in graphic detail" - - -

I've Just come back from VJing a small festival where my projector whas the onlylight source. This meant I was esenturely doing lighting with the images. I set up some effects that would flash when triggered by loud sounds, tryed colouring the room different colours and got a cheer whenever I used a strobe.

[Bokonon]

Examples: Here (http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v104/64/72/720175543/n720175543_189324_7812.jpg), Here and (http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v104/64/72/720175543/n720175543_189325_8157.jpg) Here (http://photos-c.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v104/64/72/720175543/n720175543_189326_8506.jpg)

[magiclantern]

psychedelic...as psychedelic as possible

[visualchemy]

3: Live drawing, akin to superDraw ( http://www.intervalstudios.com/superdraw/video.html ), with feedback added..... so in other words, digital, glitchy, feedbacky, interactive.


Amazing stuff - thought about something like this for quite a while - didn't know there was ongoing project like this.

so one guy doing live painting in corel on apple with tablet but this is soooo much better.

Is there any way to get that (or something similar) into quartz?

And my style...

It goes with the music - if its glitchy I make my video's glitchy and distorted. If its flowing and psychedelic (like IDspiral stuff) I use 3D graphs, fractaly feedback and colours and references to hallucinogens / religion.
If its fast and with anger change on beat, footage on civilisation, war destruction.

So I guess I have no style. :lurker2:

[visualchemy]

It's basically like this - when I really listen to music I can see scenes, factures, shapes. I try to capture them in my clips...

[BrainStove]

The only way/style to vj is My Style...
A dozen of tamagotchies, good lantern and of course, only only for music from "July Church"... I mean !!!Julio Iglesias music.!!! :bunny: :tinfoil:

[vj_jasper]

for realtime drawing, one technique is to put photoshop into the no menus and no borders view mode, start drawing (using mouse or wacom), and send that thru the video mixer.

for video feedback, train a video camera Directly Centre, pointing straight @ the screen and send that chroma/lumakeyed thru the second channel?

[Bokonon]

Video example of my style @ www.rednetic.com

[Gumby]

that style that makes people go "Arrrrgggh my eyes!!!....hey your pretty good at this"

[Entheogen]

I'd describe my style somewhere between videostep and clipcore.

[vj_jasper]

videostep and clipcore.
i like it already!

[6071842]

the style of music i VJ to is Electro, Breakbeat, Progressive House.. about72 percent orginal material with a lot of black backgrounds/ single element content, so that different layers in the mix are time synced to sixteenth or slower rhythms.. mixing it with a V4.

what more i can i say? :D