No rest for the wicked, straight after our UK adventure I headed east to tutor on wednesday, and straight after class I’m back to Amsterdam, not to eat & rest mind you, I’ll be going to the Melkweg straight from the train, to VJ at the release party of Moon Baker’s excellent ‘ABC of Romance’ album. Moon Baker (or Monique Bakker for friends) is one of the sweetest voices in our country and I’m honoured to do her visuals. Expect guest performances from Candy Dulfer and Sandra St. Victor amongst others… (Melkweg, Amsterdam May 10th, starting 20.00)

Just came back from a mad weekend in northern England with my mates V-king and the illustruous duo Pantoffeldiertjes. After we all did seperate gigs on Drop Beats Not Bombs , an anti-war industry festival in Birmingham, we drove off to Nottingham to VJ at Detonate (nice contrast) with Toby *spark…
What can I say … drop beats is a mad festival across many venues at the Custard Factory in Birmingham, with a large visual presence (thanks Syzygy for inviting us!).

Detonate in Nottingham was a mad sunday night, performing for the biggest Drum&Bass DJs in the UK, with a mad mad mad 56 kW sound system that made our vodkas appear to be boiling and our beer cans dance on the table. Never before have I seen earplugs being handed out at the entrance of a club, and every single punter wearing them… the madness continues…

Just finished a hectic 14 days of VJing at Ford’s booth at the AutoRAI. Being the fine chap that he is, Toby *spark invited Olga Mink and me to help him VJ at this incredible setup including a wall of 3 70-inch touchscreen plasma screens running a custom-made ‘Minority Report’ like interface and to select footage, photos and text that was gathered live during the event, and one screen with Ableton Live and VDMX for mixing it all together with music and premade visuals, shown on a huge LED wall for 20 minutes, twice an hour. They say VJing is not a 9 to 5 job, indeed this was more often a 10 to 10 affair. Time does fly when you are having fun, and afterwards Toby and me would find ourselves dancing, making boat trips or merely enjoying a game of Backgammon.

Thursday March 1st I’m joining some German and Dutch friends for some old fashioned VJ battle fun and perhaps some A/V surprise… Come and make some noise (Ekko, Utrecht)

Yes it’s raining VJ books, collect them all!
I haven’t got my dirty paws on this one yet, but it should be a good read. This also has a short (and more up to date) interview with me, and I wrote a little piece about the Dutch VJ scene for it. I heard rumours of a special electronic edition where the pages work as DVD remote, not sure if that is still on the table, but the book + DVD is available now.

related posts:
https://robotfunk-com.stackstaging.com/?p=52
https://robotfunk-com.stackstaging.com/?p=8

Just back from Avit Berlin, where I first saw the magnificent VJ Book by D-Fuse, and it looks great, a real who is who of international VJing. (and they even put a tiny article about me, how sweet)

related posts: https://robotfunk-com.stackstaging.com/?p=8

Off to berlin with my mates V-king and Pantoffeldiertjes to AVIT/C23 in Berlin to check out the festival, perform and do a workshop on Flowmotion. If you are going too, see you there!

After successfully testing at 2 events earlier this year, I’m busy with the finishing touches on Flowmotion 3D, which I have adapted from the normal version for Virtual Events, where you can also rent the new Philips 3d Plasma screens to use it on, or a more traditional stereo projected setup. Stay tuned for more news soon!

This weekend I’ll be using the custom 3D stereo version of Flowmotion at 5 days off at Melkweg in Amsterdam. This will be the first time someone does a VJ set on the new 3D plasma screens by Philips, that can make images leap out of the screen without needing to wear glasses.
Catch me on friday and sunday, alongside music by the likes of
2 many DJ’s, Boys Noize,Soulwax Nite Versions, Zombie Nation, Junkie XL, My Robot Friend, and many more

This saturday I will do my first ever 3D stereo VJ set at Sense at the magnificent Lichtfabriek in Haarlem, using a custom version of Flowmotion developed in cooperation with Virtual Events.
Enjoy music by
Toni Rios (cocoon)
Boris Werner & Robert Powlson
De Man Zonder Schaduw (gasten zonder grenzen)
& more

other VJ’s performing include
Pantoffeldiertjes
Magdatt
S_loop
Ma.de
Eye5