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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!
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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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
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!
Scope Trixx
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.
Device release: Sync Eater // An analog video glitch FX processor
Tommy Trash tour visuals, Sync Eater + Twin Peaks
Had the opportunity to put together a visual pack for Tommy Trash’s 2022 tour and wanted to put together a little cut with some of the clips~
Also, with the Sync Eater’s proper release on the horizon I thought I’d share some additional tinkering with it.
Live Visuals section updated with some recaps, general update
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Put up some photos from live visuals I ran visuals for @ Avant Gardner / The Brooklyn Mirage in 2021 over in the live visuals section. Only photos for now, but I hope to get some video highlights cut together sometime soon. Just a bit of a lengthy process.
Other things I’ve got going on in no particular order -
Finished version of the Sync Eater being released soon!
Put together visuals for Tommy Trash’s 2022 ‘Jaguwawa’ tour
Music video I did for Tommy Trash coming out in a week or so
Music video I did for iku x Kaixi coming out next month
New Gleix album coming in the next month or so
New Broken Alias album(s) coming in the next month or so
Alongside some upcoming live events. A lot going on, hoping to properly document & wrap some of this stuff up here soon. Hope everybody’s well!
Ablation Cutie EP & music video released today
This melodically driven EP explores a combination of jazz-inspired acoustic instrumentation, drill n' bass style breaks, and genre combinations that on paper ought to clash interweaving in organic ways.
This is a gapless release intended to be played as a single piece. It is exactly 1,000 seconds long.
Thank you to my childhood self, family & friends for putting ourselves on cassette tapes which I'm able to sample all these years later.
Touchdesigner .tox component for RGB analog-esque video feedback à la WAAAVE_POOL
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Never did share this, so I thought I’d link it here. Awhile back somebody on the Touchdesigner subreddit asked how they might go about recreating the sort of effects made by analog video feedback loops, or devices such as Andrei Jay’s WAAAVE_POOL.
I started writing out a response, but because the basic setup is quick to make in Touchdesigner I ended up building a little component, adding some easy-to-control custom parameters, and sharing it to the subreddit.
You can download the .tox file here.
Video: Gleix Live @ NKB x Ars Electronica NYC // "60Hz" (Live AV performance)
Performed live on September 9th, 2021 at Culture Lab LIC in NYC as part of a showcase put together by Never Knows Better at the Ars Electronica Festival Garden.
This performance utilizes a fully DIY modular audiovisual synthesizer, a collection of custom controllable systems built in Touchdesigner, and a CRT TV which has been modified into an pseudo-oscilloscope receiving dedicated audio & video feeds to generate colored waveforms.
Three 60Hz tones are generated by the AV modular representing the three RGB color channels, panned left, center, and right respectively. These three underlying tones, which the piece is fully built around, have harmonics which shift depending on the shape of the individual color channels in the image, with peaks of amplitude being built for each color's pixels as the image is scanned through on each refresh of the video signal. Additional waveform generators and simple oscillators are injected into the color channels and 'played' in tune with the underlying tones by dialing in exact frequencies, which at multiples of 60Hz, will also form stable scanlines in the receiving color channel.
Touchdesigner serves as a complex collection of controllable systems for handling & manipulating audio, video input, as a standalone visual system, to introduce generative elements and contained-randomness when triggering external audio elements and visual subsystems, and for general data & MIDI processing. Percussive elements, rhodes, and additional audio processing in FL Studio.
https://www.instagram.com/gleix
DIY Modular: https://www.gleix.net/modular
CRT Scope: https://www.gleix.net/crtscope
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Check out other performances from the showcase: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCILH...
Event page: https://www.xrensemble.com/ars-electr...
Thank you NKB & Ars Electronica for the opportunity.
https://www.instagram.com/neverknowsb...
https://www.instagram.com/arselectron...
Thank you Ulisespal for providing additional footage
Audiovisual performance @ Ars Electronica NYC, Thursday Sept. 9th
This Thursday Sept. 9th I'll be doing a live audiovisual performance as part of @neverknowsbetter's exhibit with @arselectronica NYC. It will take place at @culturelablic here in NYC and it will be streaming on youtube as well. Assuming I have access to the footage afterward and I don’t totally screw things up I’ll aim to share the video afterwards.
Full event info here
