Building on the visual concepts in the Mood Bling, we decided to see what would happen if we made it audioreactive and use real liquid lightshow. So while a real artist would manipulate liquids and colors, a mounted camera would feed video into the system and combine with the live audio data from the sound table of 20 piece bands run through an Ableton setup. We renamed this evolution of it “Bloom” and it was one of two audioreactive visualizers the Mill created that night. I had the honor of seeing it dance to Sun Ra Arkestra and Kamasi Washington.
From the Mill website:
“Mill+ built an experimental live visual system to electrify a live performance by Kamasi Washington, Pharoah Sanders and the Sun Ra Arkestra for Red Bull Music Academy. Inspired by the psychedelic and improvisational vocabulary of Spiritual Jazz, we created two systems that blend Sacred Mathematics and 60’s-era liquid light shows with audio reactive software. The result was a performance collaboration between a band, a visual artist and software — a time machine that borrowed from the first “generative visuals” of liquid light shows and blended them with 21st century technology. Learn more in our Behind the Scenes Blog: http://j.mp/BTSRBMA “