Deprogram

The music is written. Rehearsals start soon. Looking forward to performing this new work at the PACT Theatre on September 26 and 27.

Posted in Performance, Video

We will be performing and presenting an installation in Chippendale’s Beams laneway festival on one magical night – Saturday the 20th of September. It’s been a while since our last street party in Coogee many years ago, so we’re really looking forward to this one. The public art installation and performance, Vendôme, invites the flâneurs of Chippendale’s laneways to play an audiovisual instrument, explore their own movement potential. In line with the festival’s utopian theme, the work pursues the utopian ideal of finding perfection in patterns of human movement.

VIVID – Video art by J D Young

Posted in Movement, Performance, Video, Visuals

It was lots of fun demoing the Gestate system we developed for performance at the NIME (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) 2014 conference poster session today. Thanks for the insightful feedback! Definitely plenty of food for thought. Here is a demo I promised.

Demo video

Posted in Movement, Performance

We’ll be taking part in the Bring Your Own Beamer group projections event at Walsh Bay for the Vivid Festival. See our latest visual creations in an immersive and interactive warehouse environment of projection, screen and game art from local and international producers.

Walsh Bay, Sydney, Pier 2/3.

5-10pm Saturday May 31 & Sunday June 1.

Posted in Video

I’m in the process of editing together some video highlights of people interacting with the Velocimixer installation at the MCA. Here’s what I’ve got so far:

Play.

Posted in Movement
Tags: audiovisual, Installation, interactive, MCA, Smokescreen

A video of the Electrofringe TINA 2013 Showcase and Closing Party were recently released on Vimeo. It’s offers a great rundown of all the performances, installations and workshops that took place. Big thanks to the event’s Co-producers, Roslyn Helper and Peter Fitzgibbon for putting it all together.

Play.

Posted in Performance, Video, Visuals
Tags: Electrofringe, video

A remix of the Deprogram track, Beam, inspired by improvisations with the Velocimixer installation, is up on Bandcamp now. You can download a full-quality wave file here.

Posted in Recording
Tags: Bandcamp, Music, releases

We will be setting up an interactive space on Friday 28 February at MCA Art Bar. Groups of visitors can collectively control a virtual audio mixer with the speed of their movements.

The event brings together artists, technicians, composers and performers around the theme of self-made instruments. Tickets and more information are available on the MCA site here.

Posted in Movement, Visuals

I’ve been recording some of my gestural effects manipulations. It’s challenging to control the ‘liveness’ of the effects and keep a consistent volume, but some interesting results have been coming out.

Here’s an experiment in cross-rhythms inspired by  spontaneous  body impulses. I decided to work with a stripped down version of Concentric Motion. Using an audio file rather than vocal or instrumental input allowed me to focus on what could come out of the movements rather than on improvising as well. The image is the product of a video collaboration with J D Young.

http://soundcloud.com/deprogram/concentric-motion-experiment

Posted in Movement, Recording, Visuals

Diffuse Concert: Spring 2013

Thursday October 24 – 6:30 pm

Bon Marche Studio 755 Harris Street, Ultimo, University of Technology, Sydney

Posted in Movement, Performance, Visuals