This Machine Throws Pixels - Ongoing performance practice

Since I was a student I've gone through stages of performing as a visualist alongside musicians for concerts, raves and club events.

Starting when Pendulum came to our university in 2007, and I (unprompted) threw together a bunch of pre-rendered footage into Resolume and jammed it out, I've loved the experience of playing with images live, responding to the music as it comes.

Since then it's been a nice offshoot of my regular practice, which often involves making some kind of real-time system for visuals anyway.

VJ-ing

In the beginning of 2023 it's received a bit of a boost with a bunch of underground, DIY-ish shows in Reykjavík, and I've developed a TouchDesigner-based system to be able to show up and perform pretty much anywhere, including live control over any lights in the venue, multiple projectors, that kind of thing.

Often things I learn from doing this makes its way back into my 'professional' work, little visual tricks, or some weird combination of effects that you end up coming up with in the moment.