visual elements

SUP PARTY PEOPLe
is ther any other heads out there who take care of the visual side of their rig. Native Beats has been goin since 01/01/01 and ive been makin the banners since the start. ive got netting, bought marqees, painted, sprayed, sratched and stenciled, hung fabic and rope from trees and sown mandalas from string and hula hoops. in the last nine months we have aquired a video projector and have been running arkaos mixed witha vision mixer to winamp auto visualisation. we call ourselves PRIMAL VISIONS, as a brother of NATIVE BEATS. we are up for helpin other rigs and gettin shared knowledge on the subject.
its been well hard motivating ourselves to do something not essential to the parties, and not always appreciated or even noticed in its, but asstounding when pulled off correctly. it would be great to hear for other artists and vjs, as at my uni in bristol, myt tutors know dick all……this is the primalvisions/native beats vj setup:

Toshiba TLP-260 Digital Projector 800×600 – 1700 lumens wide-throw lens. – £1400

Arkaos VJ software – get cracked to start with if you get into serious, buy it £200

G4 1.25ghz powerbook – £2000

Edirol PCR 30 MIDI Controller kyboard £150

Edirol V4 Video Mixer £800

Winamp AVS from audio input -free

Toshiba 1800ghz pc with win2k – £900

JVC DVL 820U DV Camera – £500

not all was full price, but still it dents your wallet and no mistake…such fun tho. the technology is constantly evolving, the medium is in such infancy, that no one has really mastered techniques.. so satisfying watchin people trippin out, or rushing up to telling how sick it looked.

the main fun feature is that arkaos controlled by a midi key board, with loads of images and effects and clips, the keyboard has loads of knobs and sliders to control the effect variables. the mixer has around thiirtyfive effects and stuff, is used to blend with the pre programmed stuff from winamp when we want abreak or a boogie..sweeeeeeeeeet.

if any one wants to display work theyre proud of, drop me an email..

we are available to help any other parties who can convince us to bother. we can travel good luck to any one starting out, any questions to

use@primalvisions.co.uk

or post on our forum…

http://www.nativebeats.co.uk

good luck 2 all the trip heads……

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