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finally, an update on here, its been far too long...
Here's some pictures of Chris Tripledot's new software he's been developing:

And in this one you can see Chris contolling the software with a joystick!

Here are 2 shots showing how we're building Synaesthesia into our analogue show; by projecting it through a tank of water and adding inks etc. to the water. this is then captured by live camera as with our 8mm and oscilloscope stuff...

We will have all new videos up soon.....

Posted by Alex at 06:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

well, we've been quiet on here for a while, but we've been busy!
will have some pictures of the summer's festivals up soon hopefully, but here's some upcoming parties we'll be doing...

We're vjing for Simian Sounds on the 14th september @ Waterman's, falmouth

We'll be vjing at an end of fresher's party at Q-bar as the launch of our new regular night there controlling the music and the visuals! special surprise guests and good times for all!

And most importantly we're vjing alongside some of the uk's best visual artists at Kernow Klash's first forray in the Stannary:

and then on november 10th we're providing visuals for the Wrong Music room at Drop Beats not Bombs @ the custard factory, birmingham

We'll get some new material up on the site soon, hopefully....

Posted by Alex at 07:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

god, haven't posted on here in ages, just recovering and removing the last bits of mud from Glade, which was bloody mental. gearing up for the Big Chill now, we will be playing with Gaudi on the Sanctuary stage on Friday night at 23.40, so if your at the festival get yourselves down there and give us some support!

for anyone without any plans for the weekend after BC, thats the 10th-12th august, i strongly suggest you get over to the Bloom Festival, its gonna be wicked and they've just been granted a 24hr license which is nice!
check out www.bloomfestival.com for more info!
we'll be closing the festival alongside Aim on the mainstage and its gonna be a fucking brilliant weekend, miss out at your peril.

Posted by Alex at 06:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

a little late, but here's some pictures from the Beach Breaks Live Festival in Polzeath, it went pretty well and a good time was had by all.
Big thanks to everyone who helped out with the visuals, namely Mourish and 1000 Errors, their sets looked awesome, but also everyone else who helped out with carrying stuff and rigging and de-rigging, your help is much appreciated!
Oh, and Jon Johnson from AVT, couldn't have done it without you, you're a star!
It was a big shame that Magenta couldn't make it, but im sure there will be plenty of opportunity to see her perform in the future!

right here's a few pictures, hopefully i'll find some more good ones of the screens but these'll do for now...

(r-l) Paddy and Giles from Mourish visualising it up while Olly 1000 Errors prepares his set for later.

click more for more pictures!

Continue reading "Beach Breaks Live" »

Posted by Alex at 11:56 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Good news, finally, after months of waiting and the website being down and then re-launched etc.. blah blah, we now have our first video release! woo. Its a live 8mm mix to Tripledot's Das Boot which is an awesome tune.
Head on over to www.net-lab.co.uk and go to the video section and then watch our video, its easy and fun, give it a try.

On a seperate note Lungefist #3 went off with a bang, big thanks to Hinnom and Jonny3snares for making it what it was, as well as the the other guys that played, Tripledot, FadFad, Ben, etc. Theres a few pictures up on our myspace www.myspace.com/synchomplicity and there'll be a video posted asap, so stay tuned for that.

Posted by Alex at 12:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I can now confirm that we will be playing at the following UK festivals this summer!
Beach Breaks Live 11th-13th june
The Big Chill 3rd-5th August
Bloom 10th - 12th August

We cant wait, come and say hello if you're at any of the above!

Posted by Alex at 08:01 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)

LungeFist is moving to The Cutty Sark in falmouth for its next installment on the 26th May

check out www.mypsace.com/j0nny35nare5
and www.myspace.com/hinnomuk
to hear some of their music

Posted by Alex at 10:32 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

We've just got back from Drop Beats not Bombs in Birmingham and it was bloody awesome, thanks so much to everyone who made the weekend so brilliant, especially Tom, Mat, Ravindra and Barry, you're all stars!
Here's some pictures of us playing on the main stage on the sunday night...

click more for more pictures

Continue reading "drop beats not bombs" »

Posted by Alex at 03:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

oooo, where to start...loads been going round these parts....
once we'd recovered from the Bloc weekend we've started some experiments with Miranda from Rephlex which will hopefully result in some beautiful AV performances later this summer involving lots of fish tanks on stage...

We've also been busy preparing a brand new digital set for Drop Beats not Bombs this bank holiday weekend in Birmingham, check out http://www.dropbeatsnotbombs.co.uk/ for more info.

We've now got a myspace page in some kind of convoluted way, so if you'd like to add us please do at www.myspace.com/synchomplicity

On top of that we've just been asked to provide the visuals for the Beach Breaks Live festival in june, go have a look at their awesome lineup on http://www.beachbreaklive.co.uk/ and maybe even buy some tickets?!? we'll be visualing away the whole 3 days alongside some other great VJs who'll be announced soon. so come say hello.

and last but maybe most.....LungeFist #3 is alive!
It will be at The Cutty Sark pub (falmouth) since the poor old Watersports Centre lost its license, featuring a fine blend of horrible metal and lovely glitchybreakcore.
Namely: Jonny3Snares providing the electronic noises
and Hinnom providing the guitars and shouting

its gonna be awesome!!!

Posted by Alex at 07:18 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

LungeFist #2 was a huge success, Ebola and Judith Priest took no prisoners with what must have been the heaviest msuci that the watersports centre has ever known!
we'll have some pictures up soon but for now here's a video on you tube from the night:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkBa5f4np6g

and don't forget, we're playing Simian Sounds at Waterman's tomorrow night, so come down and get your groove on!

Posted by Alex at 11:41 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

its been a busy week, LungeFist#1 was awesome, despite the low turnout Bunglegushcore got the dancefloor moving with his brilliant absurd gabba and a good time was had by all. Last night was yet another packed Simian Sounds, it just keeps getting better and better!

and this is the best bit:
LungeFist #2 - Fri 2nd March - Falmouth Watersports Centre
we've got EBOLA and JUDITH PRIEST both of wrongmusic to come tear it up
and in support we've got tirpledot performing a special live analog dubstep set which'll be amazing
and a special presentation of god vs. satan from Scottnoskills
oooh i can't wait

Posted by Alex at 02:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Finally, our first wrong music night is upon us!

LungeFist #1 @ Falmouth Watersports Centre, Monday the 19th Feb

featuring:
Bunglegushcore
of Wrong Music
The Jones Machine
falmouth's finest mashup merchant
Gerrard
a glitch/idm set from cheltnam raised laptop jockey

plus our own live visuals
all for only £2
be there at 8 to get a free cd!

Posted by Alex at 01:03 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Simian Sounds have invited some friends over for this weeks simian friday, the singin/mcin/djin/saxin craziness that is Darft Phunk! we've had em before now they're back with their full lineup, it'll be awesome.
So come down to Watermans on friday the 9th for some phunky fun.

Posted by Alex at 01:34 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

YCN (Young Creatives Network) are running a feature on our friend Michael Robinson who designed our website, hes brilliant, go read the feature at: http://www.ycnonline.com/featured_view.php?&FeatureID=346 as our website is one of his featured projects!

On a seperate note i can confirm that Ebola and Judith Priest will be coming to the Watersports centre on the 2nd march, and we'll be doing some kind of wrong warmup a couple of weeks before that, get yer ravin shoes all greased up!

Posted by Alex at 02:09 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

last night was WHOT at woodlane and it went off with a bang, not the loudest bassiest bang ever, but an awesome night was had by all.
here's a couple of pictures, we'll put some better ones up when we get them off iRES. we'll also have some pictures up at some point from the Cuisine in Bristol, but for now you can check out the ones at:
http://www.vjforums.com/showthread.php?t=19239

heres some shots of magenta's visuals at WHOT:

Simian Sounds tonight the 26th! woop, new speakers, very excited

Posted by Alex at 03:42 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Well bristol was awesome, thanks so much to joanie (crustea) and everyone else at cuisine, it was a great 2 days.
we should have some pictures to put up soon.

this week we're busy in falmouth, on thursday theres the VJ Theory day at woodlane campus, with talks/workshops in the day and music and visuals in woodlane bar. theres gonna be screens everywhere, woodlane bar like you've never seen it before!
check out http://ires.falmouth.ac.uk/events/whot/ for more info

and then after that on friday we've got the next simian sounds which, after last time, im sure is gonna go off with a considerable bang, see you there.

Posted by Alex at 12:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Heres the links to what we're doing in Bristol next week:

http://www.thevjschool.com/

http://www.cuising.com Although, i dont think that ones actually been updated with the new event yet

also a little later on this month we've got the WHOT VJ Theory day, more info here: http://ires.falmouth.ac.uk/events/whot/

plus, fingers crossed, Kernow Klash should be putting on a Wrong Music night in feb/march if it all goes to plan, which it will...

Posted by Alex at 12:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

We won!
well, ok, not in a beat everybody else sense, it wasnt that kind of competition, but we did win 'The Edirol Prize' which is a Motion dive tokyo, so thanks edirol, cant wait to start playing around with that.
we had a great time meeting everyone there and playing to a near-empty club till 4 in the morning!
it was a great day, thanks to Jason of 5th dimension for putting it all on. and i hope theres more similar events in the future, especially since AVITuk seems to have trailed off.
hello to everyone we met, and hope to see you all again soon, and thanks for all the generous compliments and encouragement.
congrats to martin (ASMd) who won the Vjamm prize.
and to matt and crustea (sorry i didnt get your real name) it was awesome meeting you and i really hope we can do some stuff together in the future.

will put some pictures up when im back from america...
merry christmas an all that in the meantime

Posted by Alex at 10:58 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

We've now made our first youtube appearance!
theres a little extract from the night we did with Brothers Bud at Simian Sounds, so go have a look, its at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h91SonvjjU

and hopefully we should have some nice new shiney clips to replace the crappy phone ones on our own videos page, so keep checking back...

Posted by Alex at 11:26 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)

been a bit slow on the old updating, bin busy preparing a video mix that will hopefully eb released on the planet01 video podcast. And working with tripldot on a AV piece for a release on net-lab.co.uk.
Our good friends Simian Sounds also had some guest DJs come down and play at our regular night, so here's a pic from the 27th of October when we had Buba King come join us at Waterman's:
we had 3 projectors for their 4deck/3mixer/effects setup:

Last week Brothers Bud from Finger Lickin came down for a spin and ripped it up, we should have a little video of the end of the set up on youtube soon...

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