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lights on is an audio visual performance created for the Ars Electronica museum in Linz, Austria, which has a facade that contains 1085 LED controllable windows. The windows’ colors are changed in realtime with music that’s broadcasted on speakers surrounding the building.

visuals coded in openframeworks by zachary lieberman, joel gethin lewis and damian stewart (yesyesno). music by daito manabe, with support from Taeji Sawai and Kyoko Koyama. we made this in three days

Yeah I know – you probably don’t want to sit and listen to a guy you don’t know banging it out on his piano.  But come on; just take a minute and maybe try it as background music while you pay the bills or something and see if it grows on you.  I hope it brings some pleasure into your day. 

Zach Nielsen is a 33 year old music director at a church in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  He writes about this piece: “This video is an improvisation that I played today when I started practicing. These are ideas that I have messed around with before, but I had no set plan when I started playing this piece. The beginning and ending chord progressions serve as bookends that are more choral in nature. I like how they sound. The middle section is more funky and all improvisation in my right hand with a static chord structure in my left.”

If you liked that, maybe you’ll want to go on to his solo piano version of the jazz standard, Stella By Starlight.

absolutely love this

Autum Story, Lucinda Schreiber and Yanni Kronenberg

Video made with shredding machine. Every third frame of the footage was printed, shredded and shot three times, blended with adjacent frames by different stripes configuration.