visuals

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/

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!

Sync Eater: Retro Beige Edition

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Added some photos to the Sync Eater page of a style I’m trying out. Planning on making a few like this.

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 -

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!

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)

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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.gleix.net

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

http://www.ulisespal.com/

New release: GULL x Gleix - Prepared Breaks (Music Video & Single)

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Bandcamp • Spotify • Youtube • Lagom Audio/Visual

GULL on Bandcamp

Via this article in Brooklyn Vegan:

“Gull is a masked one-man band that we once compared to Lightning Bolt and Battles, and Gleix is an electronic musician from Brooklyn who specializes in IDM, ambient, breakcore, and drill 'n' bass, and they've now collaborated on the new single "Prepared Breaks." As the title implies, it's a combination of prepared piano and breakcore, "though that's probably obvious and not the most.. creative title," Gleix says.

More background, via press release: "The project was spearheaded by fellow artist and collaborator Cy Fi, who shot initial footage and encouraged it to be built upon. From there, Gleix began manually cutting & warping the original footage to fit a consistent tempo. After building the audio and video in late 2017, it sat dormant for a few years. Once the idea of releasing it came back up, he was able to take some of the knowledge gained working in visuals, and add a system of real-time effects on top of it all."

Gleix also had this to say about the song, "I think it's easy to end up inadvertently working through issues while focusing on detailed or tedious tasks. You get into a sort of trance. In the more rhythmically complex pieces I've put together I might be listening to the same bar over and over for half an hour before moving on, trying to weigh what sounds best in the moment with what works best contextually. The process feels analogous to thinking about problems that exist in the present moment; thinking about what to do about them now, what decisions make the most sense given what's already happened, and how to make the transition into whatever comes next as smooth as possible. Slowly piecing together breaks is a very zen process and a sort of therapy for me I guess, despite how chaotic the end result can be."

If you're familiar with both prepared piano and breakbeats, you probably have an idea of what to expect, and this song delivers. It's equal parts gorgeous and dizzying. Check out the video below...”

Sync Eater // An analog glitch effects processor

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Via gleix.net/synceater

The Sync Eater is an analog video effects processor with a focus on glitches and visual experimentation. This personal prototype, built into an abomination of an enclosure, was made using the first round of prototype boards. The finished version will feature PCB mounted controls, a standardized front panel, CV implementation, and maybe a few other features. Will be released sometime soon-ish.

More info on this devices page. More to come!

Music video released: "Dividing Space" by Murcof

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Very excited about the release of this project today, a music video produced for Murcof.

Visual system sequenced and composited from a collection of brief moments in the choreographic work Contre-Mondes by Guilherme Botelho's Alias dance company. The final video was processed using a custom built piece of analog visual effects gear, the Sync Eater. More info on that soon.

Big thank you to Murcof for involving me in this project.

Ambient music & visual performance, "Aurora (Migration)"

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Putting this online has been on my to-do list. Via the youtube description:

'“One of two pieces originally premiered at Lightbox in NYC as part of the Creative Code Art festival last November. "Aurora (Migration)" is an extra wide real-time render that was performed utilizing a controllable particle system with a collection of processing effects chains. It's also a variation on previous performances with a similar system.

The music in this piece is "Pretend You're Not," a track curated from a collection of live ambient rehearsal recordings made in the run up to a live performance at Avant Gardner in February, 2020.

Thank you to the space, organizers, and all involved in the Creative Code Festival:

Lightbox: https://lightbox.io/​

Creative Code Art: https://www.instagram.com/creativecod...​

New Media Art: https://www.instagram.com/new_media_art/​

Never Knows Better: https://www.instagram.com/neverknowsb...​

Ix Shells: https://www.instagram.com/ix.shells/​

Erin Wajufos: https://www.instagram.com/erin_wajufos/​

Extended Reality Ensemble: https://www.instagram.com/xrensemble/”

Visuals with an in-progress video glitch circuit

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Simple reaction diffusion system in Touchdesigner being processed by a glitch circuit I'm working on. The circuit started out as the Archer Video Enhancer circuit and has been slowly growing over the past few days. That original circuit was traced and kindly provided by Psyingo here: https://electro-music.com/forum/topic... Music is Shrine by Miel off of the album "Tourist Season" which I highly suggest checking out.