Milkymist Gets Rowdy and Jazzy In Warsaw
I spent the past week in Warsaw with some friends and the M1. I arrived on Wet Monday, an Easter tradition where Polish "boys awake girls by pouring a bucket of water on their head and striking them about the legs with long thin twigs". Apparently the tradition continues out into the streets where boys splash girls they have crushes on, but I didn't see anything of the sort. Probably because it was way too cold, but also because Warsaw has a tendency to take itself way too serious. (I was told plenty of flirtatious water fights would be happening in the smaller, more "traditional" towns outside the city.) Fortunately I was able to recoup the fantasy that evening when I did some (visual) splashing of my own with the Milkymist alongside Movie Star Junkies, an impressive blues/punk band from Torino, Italy.
Full disclosure: I've never vj'd previous to this show. But this goes to show how simple the M1 is to use: I just plugged it in, aimed the live-feed video camera at the band, toggled between its preset psychedelic patches, and Boom! an epic visual performance. Everything went so well that I got invited to perform again the next night at a different venue. Despite the change in setting and sound--from underground (literally in a basement) punk show to jazz/funk fusion jam band in a swanky loungey bar--it was just as easy to adapt and compliment the music due to the M1's smorgasbord of visual options. Check out the videos, see for yourself: http://vimeo.com/fabricatorz/videos
Category: qi hardware
Tags: blues funk jazz lounge milkymist movie star junkies music poland punk warsaw
