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Tribeadelic – Tsuyoshi

Tribeadelic – Tsuyoshi

The 2025 Tribeadelic gig headlining Tsuyoshi Suzuki was complicated gig in terms of planning, setup and execution. The Prince Bandroom hosted a 96×64 ENTTEC Smart PXL 60 Dots LED ceiling grid controlled by 8x Octo’s, which normally run off Enttec’s ELM s/w. I was new to using this LED tech, but the Production Manager Tye Pennington was incredibly forthcoming in allowing full access to venue tech for testing.With support of lighting tech Lachie from Eventcraft,… Read More »Tribeadelic – Tsuyoshi

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

Clathrate Gun

Clathrate Gun

After 10yrs since VJ Mandala and Zen Paradox (Steve Law) had collaborated live at the Psy 20th anniversary club event, they came together once again in a live-stream event to celebrate the 30 Sonic Years anniversary of Psy-Harmonics. See full event video and description here. One of the tracks within the Zen Paradox 1:20hr mix, a masterpiece titled ‘Clathrate Gun’, was extracted and audio restriped to be represented here as a standalone music-video piece. The… Read More »Clathrate Gun

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

30 SONIC YEARS

30 SONIC YEARS

PSY-HARMONICS 30 SONIC YEARS [ZEN PARADOX + VJ MANADALA] After 10yrs since Zen Paradox (Steve Law) and VJ Mandala (Adem Jaffers) had collaborated at the Psy-Harmonics 20th anniversary, they come together here in a live-stream event to celebrate 30 Sonic Years anniversary of Psy-Harmonics. The event was live-streamed from a studio location in Melbourne’s north. In this mix Zen Paradox live-mixed a 1:20min collection of tracks using Traktor. The resulting MP3 was taken into Abelton… Read More »30 SONIC YEARS

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)

Machine Music x Art 2.01

Machine Music x Art 2.01

In this 1920×1080 HD version of original 1080×1080 ‘Machine Music x Art 2.01’ live-stream ; and 2 years since their last lock-down remote live-stream event; and post Xavier Morel’s master class set at My Aeon the previous weekend; Xavier and Adem Jaffers (aka VJ Mandala) took this unique opportunity to once again come together for an a/v jam – this time [LiVE] from an undisclosed studio location in Melbourne. Due to catastrophic software crash at… Read More »Machine Music x Art 2.01

DARK MOJO

DARK MOJO

The DARK MOJO S[L]IDESHOW > Adem presented the impromptu & unofficial DARK MOJO S[L]IDESHOW shopfront window installation located at 293 Liverpool Street Hobart, 16-19th June 2023. During Dark Mofo, businesses and residents alike show their support for the festival by changing some of their exterior and/or interior lights red. In-line with this community spirit, and in a pirated fashion, a dual projector was set-up to cater for each shopfront window to present a curated selection… Read More »DARK MOJO

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