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The Glitch Mob @ Club Nokia, Los Angeles

todd — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:31:22 -0700

Turned out at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles with live video to support the Glitch Mob. Was able to pull off a decent show despite a 30 minute load in and sound check. Boreta, edIT, Ooah and Kraddy rocked the hometown crowd and got them whipped up for headliners, Pendulum.

aerostatic

todd — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:06:57 -0800

The website for Terry Golob and Michele Darling's Aerostatic project was revitalized from a Flash site that had fallen into disuse.

The new website was build in Drupal 6 with a custom designed theme based on Zen. Extra customization allowed for a random recent MP3 to load in a player on the front page. An evolving playlist was built programatically via custom MySQL queries.

Refiner Studios

todd — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:06:47 -0700

Relaunched Refiner Studios from a static Flash site. Keeping the look of the old site was at the top of the brief.

The new site was built with Drupal 5 and a theme layer based on Zen. Jeroen Wijering's Flash Player was customized to allow the client to easily upload video samples and have them automatically added to a playlist. A file exchange area based on Relay rounded out the site.

We Are Hacks

todd — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:07:50 -0700

(Photo by Duygu Abak)

An audiovisual event hosted by Create Digital Media within the HOPE conference at Hotel Pennsylvania.

"8-bit and robots and odd Max and Reaktor patches and custom visual software and visualizations of data packets and sound made from plants and mutant trumpets and gloves for DJing and laptop music..."

Synesthete performed an audiovisual set using two houseplants wired up with electrodes. Input from the plants was acquired with an Arduino based electronics project that sonified the signal as well as transfering it to the computer where it was converted to MIDI.

Live Audio (Excerpt)

Also performing were: Ben Neill, Michael Una, Joshue Ott (superDraw), Ezekiel Honig, Paris Treantafeles, Don Miller (No Carrier), Joey Mariano (AnimalStyle), Anton Marini (vade), Mary Ann Benedetto, Peter Kirn, Bill Jones, and Roger Tsai.

Mind Meld

todd — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:01:06 -0700

A reference site for the Mind Meld activities that have been happening around the studio of Duncan Laurie.

The site was built with Drupal 6

Beat Research

todd — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:09:35 -0700

The last hurray for Mind Meld III. Synesthete, Nalepa, Robotkid, Peter Kirn and Brian Kane played at Beat Research in Boston. Peter opened up the evening with a Kore driven set and Nalepa brought it home with monstrous dub step. Robotkid and Synesthete shared the screens while Brian Kane provided a DVJ interlude.

We'll Do It Live

todd — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:41:52 -0700

with Peter Kirn (Photo by ArrowOne)

The audio and video artists assembled at Duncan Laurie's studio for the 3rd installment of Mind Meld, descended en masse on the Pell-Chafee Center in Providence, RI for We'll Do It Live.

Performances by: Aerostatic, Brian Kane, David Lublin, Duncan Laurie, Jeswa, Nalepa, Ooah, Peter Kirn, Richard Devine, RNDM & Robotkid, Synesthete and Unkle Thirsty.

Do Lab ARTIST NETWORK

todd — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:02:58 -0800

The Do Lab ARTIST NETWORK Winter 2008 edition featured 2 music videos by Todd Thille (VJ Synesthete).


Real-time 3D was used for an amped up glitch-out by Boreta entitled "Bubblin in the Cut."		The video to a haunting remix of Nalepa's "Lullaby" by Kraddy was mixed live in Vidvox's VDMX 5

Gece Servisi

todd — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:15:50 -0800

A site in Turkçe for the weekly radio show Gece Servisi.

The site, built with Drupal 5, features MP3 episodes of the show and an accompanying podcast. There is also a blog and a section for things that the DJs "love'.

Sonata from 4 Fittonia

todd — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:53:45 -0800

Installed at Contemporary Istanbul,
Lutfi Kırdar, Istanbul, Turkey
November 29 - December 2, 2007

Dimensions variable

Potted Fittonia ( Fittonia verschaffeltii ), wire, CUI board, custom software, Mac Mini, Apple Cinema Display and speakers.

Based on the idea of a "Nature Intelligence," whereby all the things around us in nature, be they animal, mineral or vegetable, exhibit intelligence that can be perceived, 4 Fittonia ( Fittonia verschaffeltii ) are connected to monitoring equipment and their signals given "voice" through the use of custom software running on a Apple Mac Mini. The software translates the incoming signal from the Fittonia into MIDI which is then applied to instruments inside Ableton Live and amplified.

Further precedent for this project is based on the work of Cleve Backster, who's groundbreaking work with plants was mentioned prominently in The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. Also of note is the work of Duncan Laurie and Gordon Salisbury, who's studies in sonifying nature intelligence directly influenced the piece presented here.

Jimmy Edgar and others at Friendly Integration

todd — Sat, 05 May 2007 06:10:21 -0700

Synesthete joined Bijan Rezvani and Joe Caputo to provide visuals for a Droid Behavior + Friendly Integration event featuring Jimmy Edgar, Derek Michael, Baseck, Daedalus, and Ian Hind. All of the visual artists were using hand-rolled Max patches. Joe, a modified version of Randy Jones' sudden rabbit guest patch and Bijan, a built-from-scratch video mixer.

SKYY90 Crosswired at the A+D Museum, Los Angeles

todd — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:30:18 -0700

Synesthete performed alongside Trace Element and Laura Escudé at the second of SKYY90 DESIGN COLLECTIVE's Crosswired series at the A+D Museum.

Generative visuals for Irving's "Jen, Nothing Matters To Me"

todd — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 16:37:00 -0800

Generative Flash animations were made to project onto the members of the LA Indie-pop band Irving for the video of their song, "Jen, Nothing Matters To Me". The video was aired exclusively on MTV the weekend beginning November 3rd. You can watch the video here or here.

Directed by Sharp-Ford.

Mind Meld I

todd — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 03:55:44 -0700

Two days of discovery at Duncan Laurie's studio in Jamestown, RI. A hand-picked collection of audio and video artists were invited to interpret electrical signals from plants and rocks. The weekend culminated with a free-form 4 hour jam by Steve Nalepa, Synesthete, David Lublin, David Last, Michelle Darling and Terry Golob of Aerostatic, Robotkid. Benton-C Bainbridge relaxed the weekend away on the Purr Generator.

More info about this and subsequent gatherings are at Mind Meld.

Pre:Fix II

todd — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:22:36 -0700

Another Burning Man warm-up with elm | pax | designed disorder.

Synesthete and Nalepa on visuals. Audio by [a]pendics.shuffle (adjunct / planet mu), andrew kelly (dirty lancing), deru (m3rck), r.d. (dD/ e.l.m.), t.l. smith (e.l.m.)

Native Instruments LAB: KORE, San Francisco

todd — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 03:03:01 -0700

Synesthete performed at the Native Instruments launch event for KORE in San Francisco. Audio by John von Seggern, Richard Devine and Dan the Automator.

Live Cinema Nights - ISEA, San Jose

todd — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:43:26 -0700

Digital graffiti artist VJ Synesthete + electronic musician Steve Nalepa present Kure Kure, built on custom OpenGL software and pastoral ambient glitch. They foreground the nexi of a networked globe, informed by Synesthete’s nighttime digitally projected raids on urban advertising space monopolized by the corporate sector. Similarly irreverent composer Steve Nalepa has collaborated with Bill Laswell, George Clinton and Pharoah Sanders.

Part of the 3 night live cinema program curated by Michael Lew at ISEA 2006 + 01 San Jose.

Also performing: Sue Costabile and Laetitia Sonami, Jarryd Lowder, Cenk Ergün + Group A, Ran Slavin, solu, meta, Joshua Kit Clayton, Scott Arford, RyBN / EOL, Tim Jaeger + Alex Dragulescu, O Samuli A, Guillermo Galindo + Gustavo Vazquez, Brian Ziffer, Lustre + Uchronia, VJ Pata de Perro, and VJ Nuutti Koskinen.

Purple Circle (re)Opening Party

todd — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:37:10 -0700

Purple Circle Salon (go visit Liz) re-opening party in Los Feliz. Lots of high contrast material to go with the omnipresent glowing night sky in LA.

Pre:Fix

todd — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:12:43 -0700

( a summer time warm-up ) with pax *e.l.m* echolocation* designeddisorder ...hence the fire-brand hairdo from Liz at Purple Circle Salon.

Rocked the hot summer night away at the Grand Star in Chinatown, LA with Nalepa on visuals. The audio line-up included ANON (dD/echolocation), edIT (alphapup /planet mu), TRICHOME (e.l.m/ sub-artifact), RD vs TL SMITH (e.l.m/ dD), WILLIS.

Synesthete victorious at Maker Faire VJ Battle in San Mateo, CA

todd — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 05:26:19 -0700

Synesthete took first place in the VJ Battle at the Maker Faire put on by Make Magazine. VJ Synesthete contended against Nate Taylor and Carlo de Jesus / VJ Full Stealth (NYC), Emmett Feldman / Suryummy, and CaroLuna / VJ Luna.

A big thank you to the other contenders for such great performances, all were top notch. An extra big thank you to Surya of Lava, for filming the be-octopussed Synesthete hamming it up around the Faire.