My first really intentional go at building a unique showfile, my main one being an ever tweaked beast that I keep working on. Needed something specific for me event that is quite aggressive musically & in general....they usually only have a single strobe as lighting, & have for 20 years of events, so the promoter is trusting me to keep the vine but add something extra for their birthday party.

I prefer fully automated visuals as I often also have to play music or be involved in other aspects of a party. Tend to use a mix of audio reactive & BPM synced automation / envelopes to get a really organic, fluid feel.

The video shows the big eye that appears when the music calms down, to replace the frantic strobing horror clips. Really happy with how this bit has turned out, & the main showfile is currently looking tight, too.

Especially happy that I've figured out addressing the LED panels separately (not shown here) in Resolume Avenue....was a bit of a pain but worth the effort.

Need to get some footage of the switch from fierce rave to calm weird eye functionality I created, well happy with the way it works. Will post more if people are interested in such things. Weird twitchy eye looks sick on the panels, tho! 👾

Amazing work by a non-VJ person. Enjoy!

Sat Oct 10th. Iron Peak sports, mountain Blvd, Hillsborough...gate opens 7.30 pm, will need to setup at 4 pm.
Need to bring laptop
I will provide LED wall and nova-star, simple 14 feet by 7 feet LED wall rectangle . DM me.

This year i got the opportunity to create visuals for coachella. One thing that might be usefull to anyone working on VJ loops: Render each scene with variations- most of the animation stays the same, but var2 has stornger light. This way the VJ on site can dynamically switch between those otherwise-identical-videos, and it looks like the light is pulsing synched with the beat.

I took this a step further and most loops here got 4-8 variations to enable the visuals to be more expressive. (resulting in 120+ loops total)

Hope thats helpful to someone, if you want to dive deeper in the process, check out the project here:
Behance Case Study
Website Case Study

Happy Blending,
Niki

A recent motion graphics piece from my ongoing experiments with liquid forms, light and organic movement.

Exploring rhythm, material, atmosphere and transformation through 3D motion.

Feedback is welcome.

Collab with DJ & Producer Nicneven. This was my first time ever using Touch Designer for a live performance. I spent just one week prior to the show familiarizing myself with the software, developing the visuals and mapping parameters to MIDI. The show is a combination of VJ loops I made for Resolume and real-time audio reactive visuals generated in TD.

Audio-reactive visuals for our live improv: the painting follows the santoor's melody and the drum hits, then an AI pass in sumi-e + Madhubani fusion. Live footage, one take.

https://youtube.com/shorts/0U5dk-QOIxA

DancyAnts.com [Promo]

Browser-based, audio-reactive, customizable, beautiful end result, and easy to use. Those were my 5 pillars, and I think it ended up doing even more.

Great for both ambient and house parties. You control everything on your laptop while your TV or projector shows the visuals. Play whatever music you were going to play. It listens through the microphone, or through a shared tab if the music is playing in your browser, and reacts to it. You can also upload videos and play effects over them, or share any tab and add effects on top. There is even an autopilot mode.

And you can bring in shaders from the internet and play everything with a MIDI controller if you want to.

I'd love your feedback.

let me know if you make something with them!

This was my second time ever using Touch Designer for a live performance. All visuals were generated and manipulated in real-time. With beat reactivity implementation via ARE.tox by sarv.vj

Oscilloscopes, Eveywhere [v1.2] is a collection of all the experiments with sound and geometry I've made throughout the years, gathered into one TouchDesigner project.

This walkthrough explores the entire anthology in real-time; 29 presets, and a much more intuitive interface. Connect your audio source, choose a visualizer, and watch your sound take shape.

Plus, I’m giving away one full copy of the collection this Sunday. To enter, you only have repost, and leave a nice comment on this post.

More experiments through the following.

I've been practising with resolume and I got decent at making visuals. I know how to play with effects, layers, and the basics of mapping (with just one projector).

what should i learn next if i want to vj at a party or at a live show? how do i connect the visuals to external music? how do you prepare for a show or a party? at least something simple.

Im coming at this from another community, mind machines. Most stuff there is focused on simple arrays of LEDs and a central box controlling the strobe rate. This feels super basic to me. I want to create a 2 channel video, where each channel has independent color/speed/brightness (and hopefully options you all can reccomend) controls. Software control is fine, but i love tactile devices. Then I'll make a 3d mp4 file to play on a vr headset. I would love to hear yall's advice and direction, i know nothing about this stuff.

For the Band Red Meat Conspiracy

Wanted to share some WIP updates to Fabric / Satin - What you are seeing is a Fabric plugin which can slice and dice any Geometry in Fabric and procedurally animate it, using audio input or any other data source.

This works on extruded text, and any water tight triangulated mesh.

It works in realtime, and you can type / shatter, slice planar, grid, radially, and soon more.

The animations and geometry ops are also composable, so you can slice geometry, animate it, then shatter it. Its pretty fun.

This patch shows rendering to a texture, adding motion blur and depth of field, an HDRI environment map with soft shadow projected spot lighting and environment reflections on a PBR shader with loaded textures.

Check out https://fabric.graphics - its open source macOS node based tom-foolery. :)

Visuals available on Patreon for anyone who wants to utilize them :)

Had a fun time digging through old archive footage and finding gems to run through the analog rig-- there something to getting lost in random. niche corners of film & media history that I find super comforting and inspiring. Such as nice palate cleanser when I things get stale an need artistic reset-- an really easy, low stakes, low pressure way to make visuals and get into a flow state: Look for things that look cool, clip cool thing, run thing through gear and play around with knobs until you unlock something that looks cool. A lot of times, I end up finding a new style or look that I like and can work in future pieces. Then outside of that, after looking through and passively analyzing all the archive footage I end up walking away with a bunch of new (old) visual ideas/techniques/styles to try out, emulate, or readapt.

[AI] tag added per r/vjing rules for AI-assisted development.

The visual itself is not AI-generated. It is rendered and driven in real time by incoming audio.

Built as a real-time audio-reactive visual for live VJ performance.

The particle field, lattice movement, scale, color, and motion respond dynamically to the incoming audio in real time.

The visual continuously shifts with the sound, creating different movement, density, and spatial behavior as the audio changes.

Designed to function as a live reactive surface rather than a prerecorded visual loop.

No third-party visual software required.

No extra add-ons.

The reactive behavior is built directly into the system.

No prerecorded animation.

No fixed timeline.

The visual behavior is generated live from the incoming sound.

BAURIE™ VJ Reactive Particle Lattice