Ableton Live Performance with 8-Bit & Voxel Visuals: EboSuite, Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Magicavoxel
103Hey all! I'm super excited to announce the launch of my new book "Performing Electronic Music Live", which is now available for pre-order from Routledge.
This tutorial video accompanies chapter 11 of the book, which is about stage design and visual parameters. In this video, I demonstrate how you can perform live with custom visuals in the Ableton Live session view by using the third party plugin EboSuite. The visuals are created in Magicavoxel, Photoshop and Premiere Pro, to achieve a pixely retro games look.
** Video content
00:00 Introduction
01:38 Performance Sneak Peek and Overview
03:50 Making 3D Scenes in Magicavoxel
10:45 Animation in Premiere Pro
12:47 Additional Processing in Cinema 4D
14:18 Pixel Art in Photoshop
16:34 Final Exports
17:08 EboSuite in Ableton
21:14 Full Performance Demo
** About chapter 11 "Stage Design and Visual Parameters":
Visual parameters can turn music performances into holistic, multisensory experiences. They can reinforce the emotion and energy flow of the music, through abstract representations of the music in colour and shape, or by providing an additional narrative context. The song concept and artist brand can be communicated more clearly through a combination of visuals and sound, rather than sound alone. We can create performance personas that resemble who we are in real life, or are entirely fictional. Live visuals can also be used to amplify what is happening on stage.
This chapter summarizes the existing tools for creating visual interest, including moving visuals, lighting, dancing and acting, fashion and stage design, offering insight into how they can be used to support the overall creative vision.
** Find out more about the book on the companion website:
https://www.performingelectronicmusic.live
** Order the book here:
https://routledge.pub/PerformingElectronicMusicLive
** More about the book:
Performing Electronic Music Live
This comprehensive book lays out the conceptual approaches, tools and techniques for performing electronic music, from DJing, DAWs, MIDI controllers, traditional instruments, live sound design, hardware setups, custom software and hardware to live visuals, venue acoustics and live show promotion. Via the companion website, performingelectronicmusic.live, readers can expand on their knowledge with hands-on video tutorials for each chapter.
Live music is exhilarating – it creates life-changing experiences and powerful emotions. Technology can make us feel empowered, enable us to overcome limiting beliefs and allow us to achieve a high level of creative expression, no matter our background or skillset. The options are virtually endless, ranging from laptop setups to new instruments built from scratch. Through case studies and contrasting tutorials by successful artists, Kirsten Hermes guides us through many different ways in which you can create memorable experiences on stage. This is backed up with historic and scientific facts ranging from psychology to marketing. The book also features interviews with highly accomplished musicians and practitioners, including superstar trance DJ Alex M.O.R.P.H., BBC Audio R&D and live show designer Laura Escudé, who has worked with Kanye West, Missy Elliot and Herby Hancock.
The book is not a dogmatic to-do list, but rather, it explores many contrasting examples of successful approaches, to help you turn overwhelm into inspiration. Whether you are a student, hobby producer or a more advanced performer, this book gives you a comprehensive overview over your options. Students of music production courses, particularly at postgraduate level, but also researchers in the field of creative-focused performance technology will find this to be a useful, all-encompassing resource, with many starting points and resources for a deeper creative exploration.
"Performing Electronic Music Live" is part of the "Audio Engineering Society Presents" series.
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