Visualux - Tokyo Audio Visual Interactive

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Visualux - 07.10.04 - A free social audiovisual immersive experience,
with an interactive and cinematic edge.

Visualux brings to Tokyo top audiovisual talents from around the world to perform alongside the best local Japanese talent. From refined
experimentation to a environmental installations a range of AV techniques will be explored over the course the year.

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イベント概要

This month is taking place at Seco - video link - a club with an innovative screen system developed by Lightwalker Entertainment. 6HD screens are linked by computer to give a maximum 7600×720 screen resolution. http://www.secobar.jp/

Visualux will host performances by lead audiovisual artist Scott Pagano. As filmmaker, motion designer, and spatial reconstructionist, Pagano creates moving image content utilizing shards of architecture, disfunction, and futurism. His music videos and motion art works have been screened in venues ranging from international film festivals to MTV and he has worked with a wide range of notable musicians including BT, Christopher Willits, Funkstorung, Joan Jeanrenaud, Kid606, the Kronos Quartet, Twerk, Richard Devine, and Speedy J. This will be th artists first performance in Japan.

Flapper3 - A japanese team of designers and visual artists have been solid contributors in the Tokyo visual scene for several years performing in the metropolis’s top venues and the most underground parties. Noticed for their high end 3d skills and distinctive colour and light schemes, Flapper3 are the next wave of audiovisual talent. At visualux they will premiere a set under the new alias SWAT3 - their audiovisual unit.

Concluding the performances Cha2 - resident visuals for Zero @ Womb will be showcasing a special 3screen event for the opening set of visualux and bringing dancable AV delights to the new venue.

To round off the entertainment founder of the event, Ben Sheppee will be featuring new motion graphic work on the Wondervision system - a interactive visual technology produced by Vanten. The system uses infrared cameras to detect motion and the graphics change, responding to the audiences movement. The new designs include segments from his forthcoming album “javas ball”

video
Screenings 19:30
Reline 2 (Japan Premiere Screening)

Presentation 20:30
Wondervision - Vanten (Intercative Video Install)

Performance 21:00
CHa2 - Global Audiovisual Japan http://7nine.jp/cha2/
Flapper3 - http://flapper3.com
Scott Pagano - Lightrhythm / http://neither-field.com

DJ Sets (intermitting)
DJ DATADUB - Bing bipbip booop bing bip kinda stuff
Kitchen Cynic - Electro breaks and grooves - www.thekitchencynic.com
Wondervision - By Vanten - Graphics cutomized by Ben Sheppee
http://www.vanten.com/engageme dia_01.html
http://lightrhythmvisuals.com/sheppee

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Visualux : An educational immersive environment with audiovisual performances and interactive elements. Showcasing artists who have flourished in Europe and the US , alongside top local Japanese talent. From refined experimentation to a spatial installations a range of audiovisual performance techniques will be explored over the course the year.

The August show hosts lead Japanese VJ team MMM - important players the development of the software Motiondive.

VJing since 1999, MMM have collaborated with FATBOY SLIM, Jeff Mills, Green Velvet and Bensims. Theyre involvement with GAVJ and in Digitalstage has helped support the visuals community in Tokyo and recent sponsorships from Roland led to US performances in LA. They currently hold several residencies in Tokyo including Ageha and Seco.
A multi-screen performance by the label cofounder Ben Sheppee premiering new tracks from his second album Javas ball. Last year Sheppee was voted No#13 in DJ Magazines Top 20 VJ Charts and his efforts in bringing together artists have now stretched globally with over forty artists on the Lightrhythm Label. A pioneer in the concept of visual remixing and multi screen installations. For this event Sheppee will partner with Coppe from Mango+Sweetrice and highlight works from her new album Fi-lamente.

Newly signed lightrhythm artists VJ REEL will open the night with cutting edge 3d animated visuals. REEL recently left Sony as a in-house SGIFlame artist and has much commercial and underground experience in VJing. His new release on lightrhythm “RYUKE” is a amazing overview of this artists work today.

And all through the night installations by Moving Brands (UK) and Shantell Martin will allow artists to interact and see their own input on the big screen. Shantell Martin has recently become a really popular contemporary addition to the clubspace with her style of drawing shaking the foundations of VJing as an artform. Her live sketching is responsive, flexible and has recently been recognized through efforts with Graniph and teaming up with Tokyo experimental band FDF.

Time Table
Screenings( 19:30 - )
　Lightrhythm Visuals － Notations 01
Presentation ( 20:30 - )
　Tom Stobbs / Moving Brands
Performance ( 21:30 - )
　VJ REEL / JPN - Insector Labo + Lightrhythm Visuals
Performance ( 22:00 - )
　Ben Sheppee － Lightrhythm Visuals ( UK ) feat. Coppe’
Performance ( 22:45 - )
　M.M.M / JPN - Global Audiovisual Japan + Lightrhythm Visuals
Installation ( All Night )
　Shantell Martin - Live Sketch
Moving Brands - Processing

Map to the event
-> http://www.super-deluxe.com/map/
SuperDeluxe - B1F 3.1.25 Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku,
Tokyo 106-0031, Japan - tel 03.5412.0515

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In June Visualux will be presenting a new environment with more quality performances, presenations and interactive elements. From UK Oli Sorrentino will be dropping audiovisual treasures alongside Tokyo collective UNU. There will be a screening of Ruga Magazines 2nd DVD - “Le Stille” for the first time in the country and hospitible electro-lounge beats to fill the air.

Performances - From 21:15

VJ Anyone : UK Performer and organizer of the “AV Social” event in London, VJ Anyone will be performing his AV set for the first time in Japan. Recently heading up the Optronica Festival in London and last year voted in as number three in the world - Anyones all round appeal has played a significant role in the visuals scene to date.

Known best for his abstract colour fields, beat driven light patterns and fleshy dancers mingling onscreen he delivers an experience at the crossroads between design, cinema and fashion photography. Born in L.A., Oli Sorenson AKA VJ Anyone started performing in 1997, at Tiga’s club in Montreal (Sona). Based in London since 1999, he has delivered sound reactive video performances alongside top players across the music industry (from Tiesto to Darren Emerson, Goldie to Riccardo Villalobos) all over the world (from Ibiza to Tokyo, Miami to Dubai)

http://anyone.org.uk

UNU : Known in Tokyo as a pionnering VJ crew - UNU will be playing an audiovisual set at Visualux on the 4th of June. Focusing on space design, similar to their residency at club womb, they’ll fuse a 3 screen set up, lastest 3D laser technologies, and DVJ-1000’s for an audiovisual feast.
Founded by Yoshiaki Nakaichi after working on such movies as Godzilla and Battle Royale he worked on his own VJ team 1998. UNU is currently by 4 members , Shinichiro Sugiyama, Takashi Arimura and Christophe Decouland-Cournaud.
They have played important roles at the origin of MotionDive tokyo, developing plug-ins for the Roland CG8 .

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On the 1st of May Superdeluxe opened its doors to a new immersive environment social space - “Visualux” presented by Lightrhythm Visuals and GAVJ. The event included top talent from Japan / UK and beyond, with informational presentations, interactive video installations and premiered screenings.

Shots from the Event - here
Event Background - here

Event Review

Installation : Vantens newest technology will be present at the opening event of Visualux - with custom content created by lightrhythm artist - Ben Sheppee. The interactive visual exhibit allowed members of the audience to manipulate and form the appearance of the video, play games on the screen through an infra red sensory system, and create their own imagery by physically touching the screen.

Performances :

VJ Culture vs Ian Hartley : Providing visuals for the winter olympics, recently touring with Beck, and consistently working alongside top musical acts VJ Culture - a.k.a. Grant Davis was this year voted amongst the top five visual performers in the world and will open the new visuals event based at Superdeluxe. His special set with Tokyo based Ian Hartley was a blend of

Grant was lead producer for Dimension 7 and director of Lumens Tour. Known internationally for organizing some of the biggest VJ and Audio/Visual related events AVIT, VJ Battles, Video Salon and Video Riot, Amongst many other achievements VJ Culture has to his name are; Winner of the 2002 Arkaos VJ contest VJ selection for Best of VJTV, Guys and Dolls music video, Visual support for Paul Oakenfold music video, Starry Eyed Surprise and a music video released on the promo DVD for Pioneer’s DVJ DVD player.

UK artist Ian Hartley (a.k.a yusik, saRu, diffusze) has been producing and DJing original drum’n'bass, breaks and electronica in and around tokyo for the last three years under the kikaizuki banner. He will be entertaining with his audio delicacies at the opening event on the 1st of May.

Carving a niche in the Tokyo underground scene whilst running his label, Kikaizuki recordings Ian Hartley has independently released five albums in the last three years. He recently collaborated with UK visual performer D:Fuse and produced the audio for reknowned Tokyo VJs Flapper 3

Check out his beats here

Shinji Murakoshi :

An artist who has established his work across several continents, fully integrating audio and visual components of the performance in a stimulating blend that appeals to all ages. Shinji received 2nd runner up at the 2002 MTV UK Video Comepetition and won joint first prize at the 2003 Siggraph VJ Battle. Working alongside artists such as Little Louis Vega, Carl Cox, Sandra Collins, Chris Fortier and DJ Krush, he continues his work at the forefront of the world visual arts scene through his website GAVJ

Presentations : VJ Book

The newly released “‘vE-”jA:” book is a global snapshot of an exploding genre of tech-art performance: VJing and live audio-video. The book covers 40 international artists with 400+ colour images and 50+ movies and clips on an accompanying DVD and web downloads and was seen for the first time at Visualux’s opening event.
Regionally organized, the book showcases VJing and live A/V not as an isolated art-tech phenomenon for geeks, but as a global art movement with sophisticated creators and audiences alike.

The organization of the book in this manner has lead to discoveries of the differences and similarities in the devlopment of the art including the influence of specific urban styles, political and social states, cultural influences, as well as hardware and software development and influences in specific regions.

Introductory essay by Marius Watz brings forth the role of synchronicity of audio and video technology in cinematic performances; Barry Munsterteiger, lead producer of Apple video software, focuses on the role of art in the evolution of technology; Grant Davis (VJ Culture) provides supportive information on VJ specific hardware and software.

In addition, essays by contributing artists cover local cultural aspects influencing VJ scenes globally and provide insight on the inflluences and productivity of cities such as London, Helsinki, Barcelona, Tokyo and general scenes of US, Austria, France, Netherlands and Australia.