Chelsea Music Festival: Cardume premiere – Live Visual for Cardume
Role: Art Director, Visual Artist, Programmer, 2024
Live visual for The CARDUME trio, featuring world-class percussionists Rogério Boccato (Orquestra Jazz Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo), Keita Ogawa (Snarky Puppy), & Cleber Almeida from Brazil, will celebrate the official release of their new record. Show at the Chelsea Music Festival.
The new collaboration between Cardume and visual artist and technologist Nitcha Tothong is inspired by the fluidity, collectiveness, and liveliness of Cardume's music. For this performance, live visual coding transforms real-time improvisation into dynamic graphic experiences by algorithmically blending generative patterns with hand-drawn elements that respond to live inputs.
Artists manipulate code and trigger parameters on the fly, creating visual compositions where every keystroke and audio cue leads to immediate changes in color, form, and movement across the screen. The hand-drawn components add organic texture and a human touch, while algorithmic processes generate complex patterns and procedural animations that evolve. This hybrid approach captures the spontaneity of improvisation through reactive systems, transforming code into a visual instrument that produces ephemeral digital compositions unique to each performance, reflecting Cardume's improvisational style.
Photo by Ryan Muir
Photo by Ryan Muir
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