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Been awhile since I’ve been able to make a proper update to this place. This website was started roughly a decade ago so it’s high time for a revamp. A lot of dated material as well.
Hope everyone’s doin’ well.
Interactive A/V Installation @ Phase Space NYC (5/6/2023)
I’ll have a some interactive pieces in place at this event coming up at Phase Space NYC.
‘Out of Phase’ is the last audiovisual show happening before the space transitions into something new as Andrei and Paloma depart for new adventures.
Expect CRT scopes and interactive projections to play with, alongside the multitude of talent on the poster.
I haven’t kept up with updates the past month or so due to a busy schedule, but have kept up the creative output amidst the client work. Still continuously working through a backlog of projects, music, and hope to find the time to share some of the recent events and visual projects I’ve been lucky enough to take part in.
I don’t know if anybody reads these things, but I hope you’re doing well!
George
Gleix - Lenntrak Blue 88 (Single release through Liminal Editions)
Gleix - Lenntrak Blue 88
Lenntrak Blue 88
Single
Synthwave, Chillwave, Synth-Funk
Bandcamp • Spotify • Apple Music
Join Lenntrak Blue 88 on a synthwave voyage through space as it heads toward inter-dimensional shapeshifting monolithic enemies of the 16bit era.
Composed on the Dirtywave M8 tracker. The M8 project file for this song is included with the Bandcamp download!
Broken Alias - Commuter Focus (EP Release + Visualizer)
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Broken Alias - Commuter Focus EP
Picking up where 'FM in the B4' left off in 2020, 'Commuter Focus' is a return to form exploring melodically driven lofi synthwave sounds and FM synthesis.
In an homage to video game music stylings, 'Commuter Focus' pulls inspiration from a number of disparate genres, but blends them together into a cohesive package by utilizing a similar set of voices.
Tracks like 'Eggshells' and 'Exist 4 Cute' pull in classic chiptune-esque sounds and melodies. Meanwhile, tracks like 'Imbiber' pay respects to psychedelic dub music, and 'Frost Kill' explores Jazz, Rock, and DnB.
Music written during travels and commutes using Caustic 3 for Android.
Released through Lagom Audio/Visual
Vizualizer: youtu.be/LTtZIVC3e3g
Broken Alias - Eggshells (Single release) + music video
New single by my side project Broken Alias out today via Lagom Audio/Visual! Music video + streaming links below. Part of an EP coming out one month from now on 3/3/2023~
Eggshells
Gleix - Ruinous Empaths (Single release)
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5x belated event recaps // live generative visuals, interactive installs
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Much belated update to the 2022 event highlights blog over on the live visuals/events page. These are minimal recaps with basic information & stills, but no video edits (yet).
11/12 - Copacetic 002: Fort Romeau, Baltra (Viz, Interactive installation)
10/31 - Cityfox Halloween Festival 2022 w/ Gorgon City, Nora En Pure + More
10/01 - Cityfox Transcend Festival, w/ Victor Calderone, Giorgia Angiuli, Onyvaa & More
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All Day I Dream @ The Brooklyn Mirage (round 2!)
Still working on getting a some video together - but a post about this event from last month on September 18th, 2022 can be found here :) This was a second iteration that built upon the visual system made for the June iteration of this event at The Brooklyn Mirage, now with 100% more birds.
Electric Zoo NYC 2022 Visuals // Stage 2, 'The Landing'
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Scenes from Electric Zoo 2022, held from September 2-4 on Randall's Island in NYC, which I'm very grateful to have had the opportunity to run visuals at.
These shots are from Stage 2, 'The Landing', which featured a stage design utilizing five circular LED walls. This video shows a few moments from sets by Carl Cox, Dimension, DJ Diesel (Shaq), Loco Dice, and others. Full lineup available at https://electriczoo.com/
Custom visual content for the event provided by Sila Sveta (https://silasveta.com)
Additional VJing by Erin Wajufos (https://www.erinwajufos.digital/)
https://electriczoo.com/2022/08/25/electric-zoo-presenting-our-all-new-stages-for-3-0/
Broken Alias performance at STILLSUITE A/V Showcase in Brooklyn
Brief recap shots from a performance at STILLSUITE, an A/V showcase held at Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn.
I was asked to perform as part of the showcase and opted to focus on music this time around, and to give my chiptune focused project Broken Alias some attention, with Erin Wajufos (of Never Knows Better) providing some stellar accompanying visual projections. This 1 hour set was a sort of 'mobile music showcase' for me, utilizing unreleased material from 3 upcoming albums which were written and performed using LSDJ on the Nintendo Gameboy, the Dirtywave M8 portable tracker, and Caustic 3 - a DAW for mobile. I also decided to lug six of my CRT Scopes across town to display the music's waveforms (and, subsequently, think a lot about that exhausting choice).
Thanks so much to Erin and Anto who curated the showcase for having me, Erin for the custom live visuals, Dolphin Uppercut who shot and cut together this video (during the event!), and all those who had kind words or just stuck around 🕹🎵 Be sure to check out all the other talent that was a part of this fantastic live A/V showcase, as well as the host of the event, Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn!
Live generative visuals // All Day I Dream @ The Brooklyn Mirage
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Interactive analog visuals install + live viz for Boris Brejcha
Gleix - Anxiety Dreams (album release)
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Bandcamp • Spotify • Apple Music
Youtube stream
Composed & produced between 2017 and 2020, Anxiety Dreams is a 37 minute gapless album that attempts to contextualize an evening of nightmares, the accompanying dysphoric confusion, and the moments grasping at lucidity. A series of ambient, melodically driven reflective moments are punctuated by intense, drum-break-driven psychedelia while navigating a disorienting landscape formed by disjointed memories of waking life.
Built through granular refinement over time, and with a large focus on the density of its textures and consistency of its motion, Anxiety Dreams oscillates between stylistic explorations of IDM, Ambient, Breakcore, Classical, Drill n' Bass, Dub, and a slew of sometimes disparate experimental territories in an attempt to weave each sonic thread into a larger cohesive patchwork.
Informed heavily by early electronic songwriting habits, a collection of personal audio recordings with emotional connections dating back to childhood are broken apart in this album and arranged to form rhythmic and melodic structures. This process often forms the backbone of each piece, while a combination of hardware synthesizers, homemade machines, acoustic instrumentation, and meticulously programmed drum-breaks help guide things into place.
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This album is pay-what-you-want. If you enjoy it, please consider supporting me by sharing it with somebody you believe may enjoy it as well. A donation with your purchase of the downloadable material on Bandcamp is very much appreciated, but not expected.
As this is a gapless album, my recommendation is to download the audio through Bandcamp and listen in your gapless audio player of choice. A gapless version of this album (split into two parts due to length restrictions) is also available as part of the album download.
Many thanks to everybody who listened and provided feedback on the many, many revisions of this album that were passed along over the years.
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When I was very young my mom would sit with me before bed and pray for me to have ‘good dreams, and good thoughts of the wonderful things made in this world’. One night I asked her to change the prayer going forward, and asked that instead we pray that I have no dreams. Sometimes we just want to shut things off for a while.
Music video release // KAIXI × iku - fizzBuzz()
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Just released is the music video I did for fizzBuzz(), a collab between kaixi & iku~
This started as part of the visuals for one of iku’s sets in 2020, and grew into a properly sequenced MV spanning the full song that was *mostly* completed at the beginning of last year, but revisited and wrapped over the past month.
You can check this fun track out, and my accompanying video of strobes & spikey low-poly geometry on Youtube, and in a blog post @ the top of gleix.net
Thanks Kaixi & Cy for involving me in this project, and congrats on the release!
Check the song out on Spotify here!
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Megalovania (Undertale OST) covered on the Dirtywave M8 Tracker
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Music & app development for the M8 Tracker
First video is a the first little track I put together on the M8.
Second video is going over some simple additions I’ve added to the M8 display app for PC. Primarily for use as a keypress viewer & overlay with some extra stuff to play with.
Download here: https://github.com/Gleix/M8DisplayTouchdesigner_Viz_and_Keypress_Overlay
Sync Eater: Retro Beige Edition
Added some photos to the Sync Eater page of a style I’m trying out. Planning on making a few like this.
Music Video for 'Jaguwawa' by Tommy Trash
This was a fun one! Built in Touchdesigner, sequenced in FL Studio. Gorgeous liquid-light footage came from from the talented Miguel Gallego Ballster.