{"id":80,"date":"2011-09-07T17:15:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T17:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/misharabinovich.com\/blog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2021-04-11T12:32:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T12:32:38","slug":"video-drumming-at-empac-in-troy-ny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/misharabinovich.com\/blog\/?p=80","title":{"rendered":"Video Drumming at EMPAC in Troy, NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was almost three years to the day that the Experimental Media Performing Arts Center opened in Troy, NY. EMPAC is one of the reasons I miss living in Troy. It&#8217;s an interesting venue that brings artists, performances, and installations into Troy and ends up pulling an audience in from surrounding cities. Back then I was part of <a href=\"http:\/\/lmnopf.com\/\" title=\"LMNOPF Presents: Itself\">LMNOPF<\/a>, a multi-media performance troupe. My role was that of the video drummer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/28417857?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I banged on a drum-kit from the video game Rock Band and the MIDI events triggered a video synthesizer made by David Lublin. This was the setup we used to back JUICEBOXXX when he opened for Madlib and J.Rocc. Checkout a <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/1894635\" title=\"EMPAC Opening - Open Late with Mablib - by S\u00c3\u00a9bastien B.\">good summary video<\/a> of the night by Sebastien B. JUICEBOXXX had an 8-bit sound going for some of his backing tracks, so the video synthesizer relied on a disco color-scheme. Every hit of a pad revealed a new color bar, while the kick-drum advanced the color sequence to the next one. The amount of color bars on the screen increased as the performance went on. This straight-forward setup was perfect for JUICEBOXXX who was hot and bothered and running around on the floor with the kids. Here is a newly acquired video of a track and a half.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was almost three years to the day that the Experimental Media Performing Arts Center opened in Troy, NY. EMPAC is one of the reasons I miss living in Troy. It&#8217;s an interesting venue that brings artists, performances, and installations into Troy and ends up pulling an audience in from surrounding cities. Back then I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[28,27,24,31,25,26,29,30],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-empac","tag-j-rocc","tag-juiceboxxx","tag-live-video","tag-lmnopf","tag-madlib","tag-video-drumming","tag-vjing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/misharabinovich.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/misharabinovich.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/misharabinovich.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misharabinovich.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misharabinovich.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/misharabinovich.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/misharabinovich.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misharabinovich.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/misharabinovich.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}