Peter Kirn

Saturn Never Sleeps :: Flying Lotus :: 9/26/09 @ the Painted Bride :: Soul Superhero from Soul Superhero on Vimeo.

I played visuals live for Flying Lotus at Philadelphia’s Painted Bride Arts Center, part of the Saturn Never Sleeps series run by King Britt and Rucyl Mills. This video is just a small taste of what that looked like (actually, the most monochromatic portion of what I was doing, but it gives you a bit of a glimpse). This was really terrific fun playing this set; Flying Lotus’ performance was blazingly great, full of imaginative rhythmic changes. You really feel that as a visualist.

I was playing the set with my own Processing-based software, all thanks to the power of glgraphics, which I’m using to get high-performance access to textures. I’m still developing functionality for this, but it’s great to be able to focus on what you want the software to do live and just build that in. If anyone else out there is interested in playing with video, images, and OpenGL in Processing and is curious to play with this library, definitely get in touch and we can compare notes.

I’ll also try to post some video output from the software itself so it’s easier to see what I’ve got going on.

Details on the event series:
http://saturnneversleeps.com/