Tim Thompson's Videos (The Visual Music Village) - The Visual Music Village

Loop Salad - live visual music performance

2009-01-19T05:53:23.000Z

A live music and graphics performance by Tim Thompson for the Music by the Eyeful series at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco, January 15, 2009. Everything was performed and generated live by playing on a MIDI keyboard, producing looped music and directly generating the graphics shown on the left side. Those graphics were then video-looped and post-processed by a second computer, the results of that being shown on the right side. All the musical and visual looping and processing was done with custom software, primarily using KeyKit and FreeFrame plugins.

There are three pieces in the 30 minutes - here's a list of the best times if you want to sample it:

Piece A - 5:00, 7:30, 9:30.

Piece B - 13:50, 15:20, 16:20 (best), 18:30.

Piece C - 21:15, 22:00, 22:50 (pans down to show equipment), 24:30, 26:30.

The recording is out-of-focus, sorry about that, but it's good enough to give a good feeling for what it looked and sounded like. Make sure you view the high quality version, at least.

Galaxy - live solo performance of visuals & music, example 2

2008-11-17T21:52:45.000Z

A live solo performance using the latest incarnation of my custom software. Both music and visuals are generated in realtime from the notes I play on a MIDI keyboard and controller. My software processes and loops the notes, sending MIDI notes to soft synths to make the sound, and sending OSC to graphics software to make the visuals. The MIDI parts were written using KeyKit, and the visual parts use Python and Freeframe plugins.

Galaxy - live solo performance of visuals & music, example 1

2008-11-17T21:50:20.000Z

2 Hours in 2 Minutes from Different Skies 2007

2008-09-16T05:53:24.000Z

This is a highly time-compressed version of the video performance I did at Different Skies 2007 (see http://differentskies.com ). It was performed in realtime to accompany the music, using custom software and a controller with three multitouch pads, seen here: http://nosuch.com/tjt/faire2007/igesture_pads.jpg .