MORE D4T4

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Particle systems and GLSL shaders developed in TouchDesigner for Moderat’s international More D4TA tour. Post-produced in After Effects and integrated into the touring system.

The visual idea was to blur the line between natural and digital. Particles in their simplest form, just points, arranged into patterns that behave like physical forces. gravity around cores, entropy, the quantisation of energy. Biological in feeling, computational in origin. A visual response to an album that puts hard technical sound up against the human factor.

What started with a single track expanded to cover most of the particle-based visuals across the show. Europe, USA, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, Australia.

5hours

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Marlon Hoffstadt and KI/KI, five hours on a beach in Zeebrugge. 22,000 people, 60-metre LED wall.

ungrid developed a live camera treatment system for the show. Multiple camera feeds processed in realtime into a single visual layer. The treatment shifts per artist: black and white, inverted, green and pink. A sharp image softens into smeared gradients. Faces surface and dissolve. At higher intensities the camera stops being documentation and becomes something closer to how the night is remembered.

TMPH

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Sony Music commissioned ungrid to produce two dome shows for an album release in Berlin. Around 100 invited guests per show, full creative and technical responsibility on us.

Concept and dramaturgy developed inside the collective. The visuals stayed deliberately abstract: gradients and cloud-like fields through most of the set, three tracks treated through adapted tour visuals. The image wraps the full dome. The show ran live and audio-reactive throughout.

A note: since this production, serious allegations of sexualized and intimate partner violence have surfaced against the artist. I take these allegations seriously and stand in solidarity with those affected. The work is documented here without the artist’s name. I would not take on further work with him and condemn any such actions.

Decibel Open Air

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Three years as house VJ for Decibel Open Air, one of Italy’s largest techno festivals. 50,000 visitors, main stage across two days each year. Charlotte de Witte, Marco Carola, Amelie Lens, Peggy Gou.

Audioreactive realtime visuals in TouchDesigner, prepared and played live, integrated into the festival’s production. Booked through PFA Studios each year.