[vj]: Broken Lens

 

WHAT IS A VJ? : A person who mixes video live as a performance, usually to accompany a musical performance. Most approach with psychodelia. I approach it with avengeance. Watch these___

_live vj mix
banging nails in the floor with your forehead
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_live vj mix
live vj mix with DJ Flack
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_live vj mix
A. Flux cartoon mashed potatos
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_live vj mix
100% nurf
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all videos are 100% live mixes

 
DVD availible NOW!

9 track DVD album

_A compilation of remixed live video performances by brokenlens - interlaced with original and found footage. the DVD album features music by: Eat Cloud, Riah, square, and Pierce Warnecke.

+ 55 min live video mix: a soundless set to watch with any music.

2006 - 90 minutes

track list

1. backwards
2. one mind's prison
3. cellar madness
4. (creation) destruction
5. life returns to earth
6. robot sex
7. big kitchen
8. master vs. slave
9. roman empire


"...The wall directly behind the music performers was designated for the spaced-out visuals of
Broken Lens. The video feed mashed up negatives layered upon chroma-color designs & edited film/video clips i.e. Star Wars, Ghost in the Shell, & Space Odyssey 2001. The pace & strobbing effects complimented the music very well."
~ Written by peace.kinetic; 5/5/06 {4twk.com} - full article

upcoming shows

past shows
_Avant Garden - Galapagos Art Space - NYC.
_6/16/06 - w/ Caps & Jones, Justin Carter, Pau lDiggs, Sound Advice

_Hello Neighbor II - Mass Art - Boston
_4/14/06 - w/Duran Duran Duran, Dev/Null, Rob from Aliens at Home, DieSlow & Rot, etc.
also feat. - Richard Devine, Mission on Mars, Matters & Dunaway, Square, junjk, Two Sheds, & more
.
read the review of this show

_T.T. The Bears - Cambridge, MA
_2/23/06 - w/ Cylob, the Flashbulb, Charlie Cooper of Telefon Tel Aviv,
and Aliens at Home vs. 2-Bit Vision.


_Bill's Bar. - 5 Lansdowne St. - Boston
_9/13.05 - w/ LTJ Bookem.
_7/19/05 - w/ Hrvatski, Dev/Null, Aliens at Home vs. 2-Bit Vision,
DMNZ, and square.

_The Modern. - 36 Lansdowne St. - Boston
_5/27/05 - w/ Goldie, MC Armanni, DJ Caezar, & Swan Beat
_5/20/05 - w/ DJ Endo, Ekko, & dev/null

_5/13/05 - w/ Mathematics vs. DJ Seoul, DJ Modi

_5/6/05 - w/ DJ Odi, Keithy Bee vs. Mathius, & Illux

_4/29/05 - w/ DB, DJ Drama, & Aliens at Home

_Enormous Room. (Monday nights) - Cambridge
_3/28/05 - w/ Disciple One
_3/14/05 - w/ Data Destruction Tour 2005 Featuring:
Covox (Stockholm), Nullsleep (NYC), Bit Shifter (NYC)

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2/28/05 - w/ DJ Sigma

_1/17/05 - w/ DJs Tess & Nuggs

_1/10/05 - w/ Wayne and Wax

_12/20/04 - w/ Aaron Spectre
_12/5/04 - w/ DJ C & DJ Flack

_4/23/05 - Boston Cyber Arts Festival - Berklee College
w/ Aliens at Home, and more


_4/18/05 - Cntl Alt Del - Zeitgeist Art Gallery - Cambridge
w/ several musicians

Hello Neighbor
- Mass Art - Boston
_2/18/05 - w/ Dev/Null, Local Fields, & square

also feat. - knifehandchop, Aliens at Home, DJ C, DJ Flack, & more
*press in the Boston Phoenix and Boston Weekly Dig

Teleprosy 1 & 2 @ Emerson College
visuals by: James & Tol
music by: our own 7 piece improv band

Phoenix Landing.- Cambridge - w/ house DJ
Copperfields.- Boston - rock music
The Squealing Pig.- Boston - w/ DJ Sigma & bassist Rob Wilson

_an audience [/the brain] bombarded with seemingly random images
will natrally draw meaning

the use of hard media (DVD + VHS) + computer based footage (ArKaos, Final Cut Pro)
that can be manipulated and effected to fit the music.

_the content is 50% self produced + 50% found footage

 

purpose:
_to make people blind and give them x-ray vision
_explore the power of montage
_the need to react to the intrusive media

_style > channel surfing

influences include Koyaanisqatsi, Russian editing experiments of the 1920s (Vertov, Eisenstein), avant garde cinema (Brakhage), stop-motion animation (Svankmajer), Craig Baldwin and the counter copywrite movement, popular films, & the mediascape_

 

 

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repitition

_an audience [/the brain] bombarded with seemingly random images
will natrally draw meaning

the use of hard media (DVD + VHS) + computer based footage (ArKaos, Final Cut Pro)
that can be manipulated and effected to fit the music.

_the content is 50% self produced + 50% found footage

 

purpose:
_to make people blind and give them x-ray vision
_explore the power of montage
_the need to react to the intrusive media

_style > channel surfing