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Psychic Harmony

Psychic Harmony

Recorded live at My Aeon 24 Oct 2025.. PSY-HARMONICS presents PSYCHIC HARMONY Join us on trip through the weird, wild & wonderful cross genre defying sounds and visuals from the past, present & future, where nothing is out of bounds and everything is possible. PAST – PRESENT – FUTURE Zen Paradox – LiveAndrew TillDominic Hogan (retro goa set)Rip Van Hippy vsAntediluvian Rocking Horse Visuals by VJ Mandala, with a guest spot by Padawan VJ Sawce.… Read More »Psychic Harmony

A-EYE

A-EYE

A humble ChatGPT session that turned into a life affirming Deepseek and Runway experience. At this point the left frame below was analysed to generate this A-EYE series in Runway. PROMPT: Subject: A large, cat-like eye with an amber-orange iris and vertical black pupil sits at the center, surrounded by white fur-like texture radiating outward. The eye appears alert and predatory with sharp detail in the iris pattern. Scene: Deep black background creates a void-like… Read More »A-EYE

Cyberdelia 2 Cyberthon

Cyberdelia 2 Cyberthon

Excerpt below taken from the “my two bob’s worth” living document, written by Adem Jaffers 2013-2025. <EXCERPT> In the wake of the Max-Q ‘Monday Night by Satellite’ music video, and during the production of Third Eye’s music videos, ‘The Real Thing’ and ‘Pray’, a period spanning c.1987-90. Director Jeff Jaffers and musician Ollie Olsen lived together at Marine Parade in St Kilda. They hosted weekly gatherings centered around emergent technologies at their home. These informal… Read More »Cyberdelia 2 Cyberthon

RAVE FANTASTIC

RAVE FANTASTIC

2024 was the first time I was invited to teach some of the practical aspects of VJ’ing and operating complex vision systems at RMIT VE. During the student assessments they got to show their production talents in this unique series of productions, titled Rave Fantastic, as a homage to 90’s Melbourne Rave culture. With the help of Richard Tropea as DJ curator, and host Mad Rod at the helm, the 6 selected influential and stalwart… Read More »RAVE FANTASTIC

The Good the Bad the Funky

The Good the Bad the Funky

Resolume + Ableton = nDVme Creating a nDVme [Non-Destructive-VJ-Mix-Edit] music video. As a child, on the occasional Saturday night I would often head to the loungeroom floor with a swath of pillows, a big bag of salt and vinegar chips and a bottle of soft drink to watch a Spaghetti Western on TV. The classic that I refer to here is The Good the Bad and the Ugly. A cult film that defined the Spaghetti… Read More »The Good the Bad the Funky

R3TROGR4D3 (REMIX)

R3TROGR4D3 (REMIX)

[rĕt′rə-grād″] adjective1. Moving or tending backward.2. Opposite to the usual order; inverted or reversed.3. Reverting to an earlier or inferior condition. Arriving some 32 years after Garry Hughes (DJ Uzi) and Adem Jaffers (VJ Tekno Mandala) had originally jammed together for the first time at Le Rox Nightclub in S.A (Aust) c1991. A more innocent time! They returned to collaborate virtually in a one-off retro a/v live-stream titled RETROGR4D3. Jamming sounds and vision from the… Read More »R3TROGR4D3 (REMIX)

The Kaiber Pass

The Kaiber Pass

The Kaiber Pass Co[n]v|d AI remix series #4 AI remixes of a series of works created during the Melbourne lockdowns. Kaiber AI was used with various prompts/seeds that are notes below. The Kaiber Pass Co[n]v|d AI remix #1Prompt = virus, in the style of 3D, octane render, 8k, ray-tracing, blender, hyper-detailed (1686102824183) The Kaiber Pass Co[n]v|d AI remix #2Prompt = virus, in the style of in the style of nature 3d cinematic hyper-real organic abstract… Read More »The Kaiber Pass

The Rum[A]i Proet Series

The Rum[A]i Proet Series

As AI has opened up the domain of the visual creation process into the mouths of the original word-smiths;The Poets + Prompters = the Proets! I have begun this first of an ongoing series of AI generated art created by using Rumi’s poetry as the prompt. Unfold Your Own Myth – by Rumi Who gets up earlyto discover the moment light begins?Who finds us here circling, bewildered, like atoms?Who comes to a spring thirstyand sees… Read More »The Rum[A]i Proet Series

THE MUZZY BROTHERS [LIVE]

THE MUZZY BROTHERS [LIVE]

WHAT AUDIO HIJINX – IFP Reunion Party > After collaborating together during several ‘This is Not a Test’ live-stream audio vj mix series throughout the harsh Melbourne lockdowns, Adem Jaffers and Sharul Ariff – aka ‘The Muzzy Brothers’ – will bring their unique online collaboration together ‘live’ for the first time at the IF Reunion party at Avalon the Bar on 26th May at 8pm.

MEDICINE DANCE – DVJ MIX

MEDICINE DANCE – DVJ MIX

Recorded live DVJ Mix > This 1:30hr VJ/DJ mix was recorded in-situ at the Medicine Dance Autumn 2023 dance event held at the Summer Healing Yoga Society in Brunswick. In this recording, DJ Mickey Space mixed up a luscious selection of rhythms that evolved across cultural and tribal boundaries both in time and space. To accompany the music, and as part of an ongoing development of visual styling for these events held over the previous… Read More »MEDICINE DANCE – DVJ MIX

Tiny Little Engines of Creation – ’98 Retrospect

Tiny Little Engines of Creation

RATIONALE: By challenging the potential of animation in this hybrid form, TLE – by unifying parts of the music and visual creative process – provides examples of a rhythmic symbiosis of stimuli that’s expressed in a dynamic formula of linking and transposing of ideas or information of two different mediums in a mathematically and compositionally appealing way. TREATMENT: TLE is an audio/visual experience realised completely using 3D animation only, with one objective being the experimentation… Read More »Tiny Little Engines of Creation