This new video by Nosaj Thing was brought to our attention by the good dudes at Steady Sounds.
This new video by Nosaj Thing was brought to our attention by the good dudes at Steady Sounds. Created as part of The Creator’s Project , a colloboration between VICE & Intel, the video is great combination of art, technology, and soundscape. You can get the full rundown HERE along with an interview with the people behind the video.
We first got the chance to ascend into Nosaj Thing‘s sonic dreamworld at our The Creators Project: New York 2011, where he performed alongside some fittingly fantastical installations like Zigelbaum + Coelho’s Six-Forty by Four-Eighty and Team Dis-Kinect‘s motion-mimicking puppet. Engaged in a subtle dance with his MPD32, Nosaj wove together a pounding, wistful set before projected visuals. As surreal as that live experience was, its visual component is nothing compared to what technology artist Daito Manabe has accomplished for Nosaj Thing’s “Eclipse/Blue.”
With support from The Creators Project, and collaborating with Perfume choreographer MIKIKO, Manabe created a dynamic virtual environment to serve as the backdrop for two dancers whose movements across the stage are amplified by the graphics behind them, making each action feel larger and more emotive.
You might know Manabe’s work from his incredible Electric Stimulus project, in which he controls sound using muscle movements, a technique he recently used in his video for Falty DL’s “Straight and Arrow.” For “Eclipse/Blue” this concept is applied to the dancers and the intricate visuals reacting to each of their movements.
The full post can be found at thecreatorsproject.com
