With LoveFestival, Catania

1 / What it had to do

Four of us were running visuals back to back off interconnected
computers, as a jam with the Vizzz Vizzz community — and four
people sharing one screen is a definetely special experience,
because everyone pushes their own material.
On top of that the stage had two LED walls: one behind the DJ
and one in front, facing the crowd directly. Those are not
the same surface and they cannot carry the same thing all the time.

2 / The idea

Play it like a band rather than four soloists. In a back-to-back
the decision that matters is what you do when it is not your turn —
hold a layer somebody else can build on, or get out of the way.
The two walls need the same kind of thinking: the one behind
the artist is a backdrop and must not compete with them,
and the one in front is the one people are close enough
to actually read.

3 / How it works

Content built in TouchDesigner and Blender rather than pulled
from a library, so the material was mine before it went
into a shared rig. The four machines were interconnected,
which is what makes it a jam rather than four people
taking turns: signal passes between computers instead
of the room getting a hard cut every time the desk changes hands.

4 / What HAPPENED

Two to three thousand people minimum, in Catania.
Played back to back with three other VJs
from the Vizzz Vizzz community of visual artists,
and covered as well Charlotte de Witte's set.