timeline of past work

some analogue glitch for avalon emerson on outernet's big stupid LED wall. roland V4 mixer with feedback loop via composite colour corrector, diy karl klomp dirty mixer to output upscaler, resolume clip launching into v4, PTZ camera feed with screen-camera feedback loop. really happy with this show; shaun on lights & i felt locked in to his + avalon's vibes. did lots of very abstract textural noisy feedback stuff.

the admittedly quiet first installment of sam's new night stasis11. some really good tunes were played and it was fun to go b2b with finn for some dubstep, breaks, and 4x4.

one of the djs appeared remotely, i think from the states? as a video stream on a projector. the sound was a bit quiet and the stream cut out a couple times (there was only a wi-fi connection) but the concept was there. the night itself was also streamed on twitch.

i ended up getting real buckfast drunk and started chatting shit in the stream chat on sam's laptop. lol.

i'm really happy with how the second bitrot x stereo party turned out. i've loved gyrofield's music for ages, and while she's known for her intense neurofunk and dnb, the set she performed here tended more towards the delicate, intricate, textural techno and electro she's been exploring recently. she told me afterwards that she's tired of how the male-dominated dnb scene can be sometimes, and i empathise with that. the goal for these parties is simple: ridiculous bassy music by and for the girls, the dykes, the theys, and a couple weird guys if they're nice. the crowd was great, and a reassurance that there is a place for us here if we make it.

david's 2 hour set took the club through a whole spectrum of intensity, digging deep for some early house and electro, winding through grime, up to breaks; he totally killed it. i played a wee warm up of some ambient, mineralism, deep dubstep, and garage, and also closed with some mad dnb, dubstep, and trap.

the decorations and lighting came together so nicely - you can see the lighting layout in the image and pdf below. we built this big pixel mapped LED bar rig for basically as cheap as possible, but put that extra lil bit of effort in to make it really pop. classic throw a whole roll of black gaff tape at it type beat, the rigging dissolved into the backdrop and the bars looked crisp as fuck. we went really easy on the strobes til the end, they were gelled a nice amber til the last hour. david helped operate the lights during my set and part of gyrofield's, and he did a great job.

we also spent a bunch on black fabric to drape the whole venue, and it was so worth it. shaun came by to lend a hand and made the process of hanging it so much less stressful. daphne was also a huge help with this. the fabric gave the feeling of a much more intimate, dark, mysterious club than plain old stereo. we'll definitely be bringing this element back.

shaun was on lx design and op for this, i just helped out with the build and other general tech work.

more analogue visuals, this time with an extra twist. the artists wanted a really dark room, so conna asked if we could partially block off the projectors with some pierced foil on the back and side projectors. we did this for the back one, but it felt too static for the sides. what i ended up doing in the day or two before was designing and fabricating these rotating discs to place in front of the projectors. they're essentially gobos just on the other side of the lens. the main discs were made of cardboard painted black, mounted with 3d printed pieces to some DC motors. these motors were driven by a quick and dirty transistor circuit on a perfboard and an arduino. i dialed in the arduino to semi randomly rotate the discs with little pulses, as slowly and quietly as the motors could manage.

really rough around the edges but worked nicely considering i just threw the contraptions together in a day using things i had on hand. combined with my hazer, the organic slivers of light looked really beautiful. the folder linked below contains pictures, videos, and the arduino code.

opped a shaun murphy (lights) and tom schneider (set) designed show for two shell's album launch. put in proper grunt work shifts setting up and taking down as well as the full busk. venue was a couple of arches under a railway line, location plus code FWQX+66 London.

back working with VLURE for their headline slot at tenement trail festival's stage at BAaD. was a real belter; six led bars, 4 atomics, 4 moving spots for the floor package. coupla beams and washes on the house rig. bosh

the last ever pure bliss and first ever bitrot party <3

many more details to come soon! but it was sick...

happy hardcore thursday returns! this time on a friday... i hopped on subcity with hamish aka coy burn for the traditional thursday radio show, ahead of the party the next day.

back in the dream machine for another co:clear. analogue rig as per, was using my panasonic wj-mx10, videotech vec1070, a homemade karl klomp dirty mixer, two raspberry pis running video looper and a handful of usbs with footage on them. took a lot of video from insecam for this one, as well as some home movies from archive.org like before. was using my laptop with obs and an easycap dongle to output to the projectors, and I even managed to record the whole thing, visuals and music! sadly i didn't remember to turn off system sounds on the recording, so you get a couple of usb plugged in/unplugged noises :/

the first club night i ever had serious creative input on. i wrote about the whole thing on the subcity website here.

this was the event which i had to come up with a dj name for. jules gave me a firm but fair deadline, and eventually i settled on netgf.

my first VJ gig ever. i (ab)used OBS with video clips and camera feedback for fractals, with 4 overlapping and offset projectors. that night is where this image was taken:

subcity's 2022 freshers party and one of my first ever real DJ gigs. "venus netscape" is me; that's the name of my vaporwave show on subcity. subcity policy was to bill djs as their show name rather than dj name, but even if that weren't the case, i hadn't even come up with a stage name at this point.