projection mapping is this thing that's
sort of in vogue everybody wants
projection mapping but
just because you have a really
incredible capability
doesn't mean that you necessarily have
something to say with it so instead of
that we have a generative thing that's
built around the essence of the backdrop
what we have is a piece that's designed
to be behind the band and
my job is to
project the video to fit the contours of
the geometry of the wall
the visuals are comprised of three
different
components and the first component
is the
graphics that yoshi put together which
are
beautiful
analog
multi-layered kinds of things so yoshi's
stuff will be
sort of periodically spaced throughout
but then
the other thing that we have is
custom written
software that was put together by casey
reese
when bands go on tour the shows evolve
over the course of the tour and so i
think the the visuals need to have a
similar
performance performability to them
there's a person behind it and you're
getting the nuance kind of the way that
they move their hands the same way that
you get the nuance of the sound when
someone's performing an instrument as
well
the equipment that i'm using
is basic stuff really that you could go
buy a guitar center for the most part it
all runs on midi basically this is a
controller
that was designed for use with ableton
live so it's meant for people who are
making music but what we're doing is
reappropriating it
as a control surface for our
software and the same is true for this
thing here which is a behringer
controller with
knobs and faders so we have control over
all this nice stuff like size
we have different effects modules that
we can
build so we have one here that's just
triangles i can also trigger effects
that can run
in time the music or you can
invert the color basic stuff
to pitch down okay
now chill down
the system is designed to be a modular
thing you're not playing back movies
you're able to transform it into what it
needs to be and so the challenge is to
come up with sort of a skeleton that is
going to be the same sort of bones every
night in terms of the arc of it
and then within that frame there'll be
differences every night
it's designed to be improved upon every
time
ultimately the job is to do service to
the music by increasing its intensity
and giving it more an arc
story
i want to grab that guy who's 10 rows
back
talking to his buddy during the eighth
song
and i want to grab him by the shirt
collar and smack him across the face and
say hey
look we changed it completely and now
it's a whole nother thing
thank you
thanks y'all
thank you
you