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Wüstenarchitekten 

is the live video project of Markus Heckmann. He is a developer at Toronto's Derivative where he works on Touch, a tangible interface for mixing video.

Wüstenarchitekten explores the spatial qualities of music. Markus Heckmann describes his working methodology: "Working live on a procedural basis the visuals tend to develop structure, patterns and aesthetics in close relationship to the music. Where music is ethereal and architecture is fixed, real time interaction with graphics give us the possibility to ever changing experimental forms, shapes and ultimately spaces."

 

Source: Serial Consign

 

 

Wuestenarchitekten is working in 3D motion design and live visuals.

He is working for Toronto based Derivative whose TouchDesigner is his favorite tool to create stunning and interactive video experiences for corporate, music and art events.

This occupation has recently taken him to world wide Festivals like Transmediale, OFFF and Mutek were he had the chance to present work developed for and with artists on the German raster-noton label such as alva noto, snd, Vladislav Delay and Kangding Ray to name a few.

Using solely live generated content, Wuestenarchitekten works on the junction of media and space trying to create a unique artistic experience.

 

Source: initlive.com

 

 

Wüstenarchitekten, touch, architecture, design

Reading

‘vE-”jA: Art + Technology of Live Audio-Video (2006) by Xarene Eskander is a global snapshot of an exploding genre of tech-art performance: VJing and live audio-video. The book covers 40 international artists with 400+ colour images and 50+ movies and clips on an accompanying DVD and web downloads. (VJ Book)

VJ: Audio-Visual Art + VJ Culture (2006) edited by D-Fuse. A major change has taken place at dance clubs worldwide: the advent of the VJ. Once the term denoted the presenter who introduced music videos on MTV, but now it defines an artist who creates and mixes video, live and in sync to music, whether at dance clubs and raves or art galleries and festivals. This book is an in-depth look at the artists at the forefront of this dynamic audio-visual experience. (Laurence King Publishing)

VJing (2010) is a reproduction of the Wikipedia article VJing, based upon the revision of July 25th 2010 and was produced as a physical outcome of the wiki-sprint, a collaborative writing workshop that was held 2010 in the frame of Mapping Festival, Geneva. (Greyscale Press)

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D-Fuse are a collective of London based artists who explore a wide range of creative media. Their explorations of live audiovisual performance, mobile media, web print, art and architecture, TV and film, have beend shown internationally. (D-Fuse)

Edwin van der Heide (1970) is a Dutch artist and researcher in the field of sound, space and interaction. He extends the terms composition and musical language into spatial, interactive and interdisciplinary directions. His work comprises installations, performances and environments. The audience is placed in the middle of the work and challenged to actively explore, interact and relate themselves to the work. (Edwin van der Heide)

Scanner: Light Turned Down (2001) by London-based D-Fuse is a performance focusing on the rhythmic relationship between light and sound as well as a live interchange between artists charting a conversational movement of colour, musical fragments, texture and image. (D-Fuse on Vimeo)

Yannick Jacquet (*1980) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Originally trained as a graphic artist, he now devotes his time to developing a personal language using video and a wealth of projection techniques. Yannick Jacquet's work is characterised by a desire to break out of the traditional formats of video-projection and finding ways to integrate video into the performance space. These ideas are developed and performed in the form of audiovisual performances, installations and scenography. (Yannick Jacquet)

Audio Kinematics (2007) is an audio/video installation by Jost Muxfeldt. Audio Kinematics works with the phenomenology of sound and space, and how a listener is manifest in that space. Formally, it plays with the idea of kinematic relations on the level of sound: a virtual audio sculpture. It utilizes the spatial relations and proportions of a mechanical structure to determine various parameters of a sound composition, and creates a kind of virtual kinetic sound sculpture. (Jost Muxfeldt)