Shwizzle

Shwizzle and Crewdson perfomed in the Royal Festival Hall at the Southbank Centre, London. The event, entitled Enter The Ether: Hands On (Day Two), took place on the final day of the Ether10 festival.

In the weeks leading up to the festival, Shwizzle worked closely with musician Crewdson to develop bespoke software to drive a visual backdrop accompanying Crewdson's performance. The visuals were displayed over three large projectors.

30KB invited Shwizzle to produce this still image for their album 30,000 Leagues Under the Scene. The image was required to sit in both a Jewel CD case and a paper envelope. It's design features four sections that are so composed to allow for the addition of text.

Shwizzle worked closely with musician Crewdson in the development of bespoke software to drive a visual backdrop accompanying Crewdson's performance. Shwizzle's aim was to enhance Crewdson's already visually stimulating performance by adding improvised visuals that echoed the nature and tone of the music.

The visuals included a 3D environment with elements animated to audio frequencies in real time and a live video feed projected onto 3D geometry. Other scenes depicted lively abstract visuals that were entirely generated and animated by Crewdson's audio output where Shwizzle guided the animation on stage using midi controllers.

Shwizzle is a multidisciplinery visual artist whose focus extends from live, interactive visual performances to high end CG production to bespoke software and web development.

A HD recording of Shwizzle's live performance can be seen here set to Trapdoor by Crewdson (set youtube quality to high for best effect).

The animation is rendered in real time with some elements driven by Crewdson's audio output.

Crewdson and Shwizzle performed at the opening night of Flock at the Old Queens Head in Islington.

Shwizzle also produced interactive idents for each of the other live acts; Eska, Dimbleby and Capper, Moats and Thrones, The One Taste Choir and Box Open, which were projected as a visual backdrop to the on stage performances.