Comments on: Sufjan Stevens’ Visualist: A Conversation About Live Visuals for Music

By: Tic-Tac Shut Up

Tic-Tac Shut Up — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:02:07 +0000

The last bright eyes tour had really interesting visuals. The entire stage/band was dressed in white and live visuals were made by mixing ink and other objects in water and then projecting it toward the stage (in addition to video clips). I had a hard time finding a live link, but here’s a music video featuring the idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns6YKipCfUU

Kicks in at about 3:17.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:53:08 +0000

I’m in a band called Sinch. We’ve been doing live visuals since 2000. One of the members of the band plays the Viditar which is made by Livid Instruments (he’s also the founder/owner of the company).

By: Max Cascone

Max Cascone — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:36:05 +0000

The legendary arena-jam band Phish didn’t use video or graphics but the moving/intelligent lights were a key element to their live shows. The light designer, Chris Kuroda, was considered by many to be the fifth member of the band, and had as much to do as anybody with the overall feeling and vibe of a given moment during a show. He toured with the band for twenty years, improvising the light moves and patterns along with the band every night, and his cues became an integral part of the show for people who saw them many times. On one of the band’s final tours, in Vegas, he was not able to be with them and Dave Matthews’s light guy filled in for him. He wasn’t bad technically, but he didn’t know the songs inside and out like Kuroda (and everyone else in the arena), and the long-time fans were so accustomed to his style and habits that it lent a very strange, unfamiliar feeling to the shows.

By: deb

deb — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:48:46 +0000

2 words:

raster-noton

or is that one word?
anyhoo—always amazing (and loud) and funkay.