MAPPING
Video mapping is a projection technique that adapts an image in real time to the exact geometry of a volume or a building. Rather than projecting onto a flat screen, the image follows the reliefs, edges and perspectives of the surface (facade, monument, architectural structure) to reveal the volume rather than hide it. The building becomes a living support: textures, lights and movements enhance its architecture instead of being laid over it.
Dour Festival 2019DARK ZONE
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VJ Rien
A VJ is like a DJ who plays video. It is a total art form, little known, which has taken me and my partner Kevin Cloarec around the world to explore the golden rules of synesthesia. You have to guess what the DJ will play, choose videos that blend well, play them on a giant screen placed behind him, and start over every minute.
A music video that edits itself
After TV listens to a track and edits the music video while it plays. The player measures the bass, mids, highs and tempo, picks out the calm, the break and the drop, then chooses loops from their tags. On stage, the same logic runs in Resolume Arena.
- loops cut and filed in my Resolume composition
- 951
- loops with a speed and a role in the track
- 915
- of the 4,811 files on my drive are in the composition
- 19 %
- ffmpeg counts the shot cuts in 105 minutes of video
- 4 min 33 s
89 NSFW loops stay off the page. 10 play only once (one-shot) and 66 serve as masks.
Each loop carries its tags
I cut each loop, then tag it on a board: speed, role in the track, mood. The boxes arrive pre-checked, inferred from the label color in Resolume and from the duration, and I correct what is wrong. Everything else is measured automatically: movement, clarity, saturation, hue, framing.
The rule, live
On a break, After TV plays a single slow loop in the style of the track. On a drop, it layers two, medium or fast, in screen mode, with a strobe. When it is calm, the current image stays. Here the draw is made among the 9 loops on the page; in After TV, among the 826.
The simulator is waiting for a part of the track.
Part of the track
Track style
Options
The strobe plays only on the drop, at two flashes per second.
