colin evoy sebestyen

This video was produced in 2011 with Edison. Edison approached CSTNG-SHDWS with the intention of creating something wholly new. This marks the official release of his new track “Shadowtime”, created in tandem with a live video installation.

We approached the project to try our hands at projection mapping – but to try a few things we hadn’t seen yet- mainly, Edison’s insane finger chops controlling the mapped projections and surface. This project was built in part from Andrew Benson’s Locative Media course at SFAI.

In our talks with Edison building “Shadowtime” we came up with the loose concept of telling the story of the ways in which humans have marked and incremented time through the ages. Start in the darkness. Move to the simple cycle of the sun and the moon. Find complexity in the the pendulum and build our own take on Huygen’s clock. Finally, end in the 20th century of atomic time, the increments of which are more accurate then the rotation of the earth itself.

This video and audio track plus a remix kit with all of the source video and audio loops will be included with a renegade lights media compilation.

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Edison
Renegade Lights

CSTNG-SHDWS was invited to participate in the popular Nightlife event at the California Academy of Sciences. We knew we need to do something special, so we decided to do a custom installation on the suspended blue whale skeleton. Projecting on the flat, 20 + foot skull with a bit of custom VDMX and Quartz Composer trickery to do the masking and mapping, we built an oscillating and undulating seascape that hovered over a live performance of electronic musical maestro Moldover.

The next step – projection map the whole 96 foot skeleton.

Thanks to Cat at the CAS who flat-out rocks, and Rich at Lovetech for booking us. Music by Moldover.

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Moldover.com
CalAcademy.org
LoveTechSF.com

This is a visual demonstration of the graphics created for the Aesop Rock None Shall Pass 2007 tour. Multiple artists worked on these visual tracks- 80 minutes of original motion graphics were ultimately produced. Need a whole wrap up? Check out the blog post at movecraft.com Also full credits and promo site at: Tour Visuals

Thanks to Aes, Rob, Big Wiz, Shaun Roberts, Upper Playground, Buddy Giguerre, Alex Tarrant, and Lisa Klipsic.

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Tour Visuals
Motion Buddy
Triplewide
Alexander Tarrant
Movecraft

Live video produced in 2009 for King Loses Crown. KLC opened for industrial band Nitzer Ebb and decided to add CSTNG-SHDWS live video to the mix. We built a series of audio reactive, high contrast, graphic, and immediate punk rock motion graphics for the band, who wore all white stage outfits transforming them into a kinetic, screaming canvas.

Michael Cobra, guitar and vocals of KLC art directed.

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King Loses Crown
Cobra Creative

Micro house legend Akufen took the Mutek show on the road for Avant_Mutek at the Grey Area Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco. We were asked to provide the visual backdrop for the sonic pioneer and to display our work in an intimate gallery space. Sutekh opened the program with a tight and well honed set that bounced from static to noise and back again. We also provided video for the most excellent Stephane Beaupre.

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MUTEK
Akufen
Sutekh
GAFFTA

This performance was for LoveTechSF in San Francisco. It’s a collection of artists and musicians that also contains a major component they call LearnTech, where artists and visualists present their setups and show their methodology in a workshop setting.

For this promo video, we are syncing to prerecorded Nonagon tracks, however, the performance was all live. Nonagon has a MAX patch that sends his monome and MIDI data to control Ableton live. We tapped that data for our own visualizations and information exchange.

Nonagon (JB Kirby) is a brilliant guy, he programs AI during his days and makes soulful computer music at night. In working and discussing with him, we had a lot of creative discussions- sacred geometry, decay, math in the natural world and etc. His music was in progress for this show, and we designed visual packs that he could approve and give influence to his sonic landscapes.

There are three tracks in this promo… the live show was much longer, about 10 tracks or 45 minutes. We had a live vocalist in Angie Donkin and her violinist, Jay Golden. They had both worked with Nonagon- The violinist we could not glean any data off of, so our data inputs were Nonagon’s MIDI feed and of course, the live audio levels. The violinist, however, had effect pedals that he utilized and added a beautiful organic feel over the whole set.

There are three tracks represented in the promo, “Fixed Action Pattern”- in which we researched geometry and nonagons, specifically. We looked at nine in the natural world as much as we could. We used “9″ as our random seed in our flocking simulations and generated nonagons in dozens of configurations.

For “Mr Sniggle’s House”, we used timelapse to capture an overhead projector with various natural live detritus occluding the light beams- feeder crickets, worms, beta fish, all acquired at the local pet store (and returned to nature when their staring roles concluded) and also created a live font using address stencils.

For “Kontrol (I wish you were here)” We worked with Nonagon and Angie and created projection mapped scenes of original photography taken in Tokyo and Spain. We utilized typographic flourishes to visualize the loss, yearning, and emotion in the song.

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Nonagon
Vibrasol
LoveTechSF