Visuals & Dubstep

rubadubdub · Post by **rubadubdub** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 5:57 am

Anyone after visuals? Been doin a bit of dubstep recently, love it!

myspace.com/rebeloverlay

info@rebeloverlay.tk

evoh_1 · Post by **evoh_1** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:11 pm

kind of goes against the original idea of it just being about the music visuals are a distraction, best arena for dubstep a dark room with huge bass response and a good bar, bunning area. basically corsica studios

dubluke · Post by **dubluke** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:09 pm

evoh_1 wrote:kind of goes against the original idea of it just being about the music visuals are a distraction, best arena for dubstep a dark room with huge bass response and a good bar, bunning area. basically corsica studios

agreed, visuals at a dubstep night piss me off, don't want a strobe flashing on my face every 2 seconds

jim · Post by **jim** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:12 pm

DMZ has it right. Leave the lasers for Tiesto.

diablo · Post by **diablo** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:48 pm

I ate mushrooms at Skream last week.

Does that count?????

pdomino · Post by **pdomino** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:52 pm

This could work well with images of a similar nature.
Doesnt include strobes etc I dont think ... more of a V.J with random small movies and images on rotation, not neccesarily in the same place as the dj.

Littlefoot · Post by **Littlefoot** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:36 pm

in moderation can create really interesting atmospheres

not everyone manages to get it as deep as they do at DMZ bare in mind!

ytee · Post by **ytee** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:47 pm

big fan of the dark room bizness as well.

joe muggs · Post by **joe muggs** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:48 pm

Would love to see some murky deep-sea filming visuals on a big wall...

thinking · Post by **thinking** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:51 pm

when we did Noir in Bristol in 2006 we had quite a good VJ, but it did feel a but distracting tbh and we knocked it on the head eventually.

I must say that I'm just as happy if not happier just standing in the dark next to a fuckoff big speaker.

polho · Post by **polho** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:57 pm

no lazor, invert the colours

drew · Post by **drew** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 7:42 pm

im a vj - yet, never have done visuals for dubstep

dubstep is about the sound - its not sensory overload

lkewis · Post by **lkewis** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:31 pm

I agree visuals can be distracting sometimes, but like with any elements of a venue, they should all combine together to compliment the night. We have a resident VJ "Midi" that usually plays at my Techno night Joy.Pad in Bradford which goes down really well, and he has also played a few times at R:evolve (the night I play dubstep at in Bradford and Leeds). As long as you project the visuals in the right place it can aid the night, such as the custom visuals that myself and Midi create which use elements of photos of the DJ's that are playing and a lot of graphic design based on style of the flyers and the night. This helps advertise the night to new comers and people that wander into the venue without knowing what the night is.

We project and display visuals in the seated area of the bar for the casual drinkers and people chilling out, but have also played around projecting onto the dancefloor. You want to make sure the visuals add to the atmosphere rather than distracting people, so ideally you should have the visuals next to or behind the DJ where everyones attention will be drawn.

A really nice technique ive seen in large venues is projecting from the back of the stage area through hanging mesh screens, combined with smoke machines it looks like the visuals have depth, almost floating mid air above the dancefloor. Example of this is at Leeds Uni, looked good when Skream and Benga played, although the visuals were really wierd (clips from some black and white film with loadsa freaky lookin people and midgets dancing on a table in a circus!! haha wtf).

Heres the vid I took, again I apologise for sound quality, the soundsytem got smashed that night.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_IYLOoQgD8

Visualising dubstep is something that ive been working on recently, creating a music video for my brothers remix of the Lloyds TSB advert tune. Its all about representing the feeling of the bass somehow, which I am going to do in the video by making the falling snow distort with the push of the soundwaves from the speakers, although the clip I have online is just a teaser made with screenshots because the video is not finished yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP4n0Z2K0GA

joe muggs · Post by **joe muggs** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:18 pm

lkewis wrote:(clips from some black and white film with loadsa freaky lookin people and midgets dancing on a table in a circus!! haha wtf).

Would that have been THIS by any chance?

lkewis · Post by **lkewis** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:13 am

HA! yeah well played, I cant imagine watching it in full, but it looked mental cut to dubstep

rubadubdub · Post by **rubadubdub** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:45 am

I understand what some of you are saying, but visuals can work so well alongside music like this. I think it'll be coming together closely in the next few yrs, A/V acts and such.

ashley · Post by **ashley** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:45 am

Im not a fan of visuals either, but Letita (forum name) does some pretty cool ones...saw the chuckle brothers a few times

joe muggs · Post by **joe muggs** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:49 am

lkewis wrote:HA! yeah well played, I cant imagine watching it in full, but it looked mental cut to dubstep

It's actually a really strong film....

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!

whineo · Post by **whineo** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:10 pm

dont think i have ever seen visuals at a Dubstep rave..
but I have seen some really creative stuff in the past.

.... but DMZ and FWD>> etc dont need it at all. it would detract from the atmosphere.

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