VJ AX-11: Mission (en)

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The perfect set: A permanently consistent but surprising performance creating visual patterns as a simultaneous translation of the corresponding musical sequences, which is instantly understood, accepted and positively answered by all participants.

This might sound  abstract, but how do you verbally explain a completely nonverbal conversation about the universe that exists within each sequence of four, eight or sixteen beats? Not to mention that the participants could be perfect strangers with no common language but music. Not so easy without the use of another medium just as effective transporting "immaterial" information as music. Like visual arts - supposed visuals could be generated by some sort of musical instrument. Linking a MIDI controller to imaging hardware instead of tone generators does a part of the trick. Beat counters, stop-motion like video frame triggering and real-time audio analyzers do another part. The factor that does the rest is rather hard to describe without the use of new-age buzzwords like "synaesthesia". Some people use the word "virtuosity" for what seems to be the very same thing to me. Musicians usually prefer the word "practice".

According to this, any attempt to present a VJ's work in a decent way on "dead" or static media as paper, written words or even videoclips, appears to be an idle thing: Performance -which I consider the only relevant form of output for a VJ- is alway live, existing in it's original form just for an instant, a flick of the lid or for a frame's duration. Static, pre- or postproduced content can only be seen as an imitation the real, live thing.

 

Excerpt from Electronic Washroom (Insektorama)

 

Just plain words, nevertheless, would be even less adequate than reproducing or exposing the static content. So please consider the videos on this site as an momentary collection of clips, comparable rather to doodles or pre-studies than to a finished piece of arts. Be assured that these clips wera uploaded without a thought on "marketing " or any other "serious" issues- they are as the were in the whim of a nightly cutting spree, as intended or unexpected club take - possibly incidentially found on YouTube- raw cuts in any state between freshly collected footage or half-cut which seemed representative, funny or interesting to me for any reason. Nothing here is thoughtfully selected in some sort of PR strategy or even produced for presentation as such "slow media" might be perfectly ok for advertising people, traditional CG professionals or editors. Not so for a VJ as his products life cycle, i.e. the time span between the first imagination of form, color and motion to the creative process where these very immaterial elements are translated into a set of vectors with the help of MIDI controllers or similar interfaces and the final presentation when these sets of numerical values return to their initial and intended state of a matterless, volatile but now publicly visible -and for a short time shared- vision lasts exacty as long as the interval between two beats of the kick drum.

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Artist: Fon +49 30 42018932 - Fax: +4930.33090480 Mail: veejay AT ax11 DOT de (Notice: might change more or less frequently, due to public exposure)