connections
elsewhere on this site
Residency at ETC
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by dan.
Categories: trip, art-making, hacking, video art.
Tomorrow morning bright and early i’ll be heading off to Owego, NY, for a 5 day residency at the Experimental Television Center. I’ll get back Sunday night, probably. Wish me luck and/or productivity. 
My brother and me at SXSW
Posted on March 18th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: connections, press, performing, music, live visuals, history.
Dan and Pete labels, originally uploaded by ekornblut.
Last week Emily and I went to Austin for SXSW. I did visuals for a laptop battle (much fun), saw the premiere of Blip Festival: Reformat the Planet, a documentary I’m in about the chipmusic scene, answered some audience questions afterwards with the filmmakers, and had many delicious breakfast tacos. Pete tagged me as an uber-micro-neo-kraut with stickers from the Last.fm/moo.com/Etsy/Timbuktu party. Emily thinks it ought to be my new visualist handle. Here’s the trailer for the documentary.
BLIP FESTIVAL: REFORMAT THE PLANET trailer from 2 Player Productions on Vimeo.
Upcoming show : Visuals at AMODA
Posted on February 25th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: performing, live visuals.
I am pleased to announce that I will be playing AMODA’s Digital Showcase #43 on March 8th. The list of audio and visual performers is long and hot. If you’re going to be in town for SXSW or other reasons, I hope you can make it. I’ll be debuting fresh HD footage and running things with VDMX for the first time (and reviving my long dormant Quartz Composer skills to up the ante).
new VJ reel up
Posted on February 11th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: video, live visuals.
I’ve updated the visuals page to highlight some of my latest work. Suggestions for improvement would be welcomed. I used Jeroen Wijering’s excellent free FLV player, which I highly recommend for those who like to host your own video instead of using a commercial site like Blip.tv or Vimeo.
And to return to the previous post, well, should I use the living signs as my visualist name or stick with Dan Winckler? F2F feedback on the subject has been mostly positive with one important exception (Emily).
Video: last week’s show with DJ Olive
Posted on February 5th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: video, musician, performing, nyc, improvisation, live visuals.
The video below is a brief excerpt of my 35 minute set with DJ Olive at {R}ake last week. Olive played a beautiful ambient set. I did live visuals on all four screens, mixing together new HD footage (@800×450) shot with my new HV20, mixed in a custom application built in Jitter with the v001 system. vade graciously recorded my set and I’ve posted the whole thing to the Internet Archive.
Alternate versions and downloads
Upcoming show: visuals with DJ Olive at {R}ake
Posted on January 23rd, 2008 by dan.
Categories: performing, nyc, music, live visuals.
I am excited to announce that next week I’m doing visuals with DJ Olive, a genre-defining and -defying musician, at {R}ake, a performance series that brings together musicians and visualists in novel collaborations, in the intimate, delicious setting of Monkeytown. All the details are at rakeav.com and below. Reservations are highly recommended as {R}ake always sells out.
{R}ake at Monkeytown
Weds, Jan 30, 8 to 10:30 pm
58 North 3rd Street
(bet. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
718 384-1369
tickets $7 ($10 minimum — the food and drinks are great)
DJ Olive
listen and download tracks at
http://www.myspace.com/theaudiojanitor
-and-
http://www.theagriculture.com/store.html
Video: What I’m up to
Posted on January 14th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: video, connections, music, live visuals.
One of my current projects is making a music video for Jonny from Eclectic Method. Here’s a little trial run/draft of the work in progress for his song Compressoratorer. Jonny liked it, as well as my suggestion of adding some fun with scanned images of his face — more forthcoming.
More Brother Islands pics
Posted on January 11th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: performing, connections, nyc, music, theater, live visuals.
Happy New Year! Sorry things have been so quiet — I had a very relaxing holiday, followed by a slow return to irregular life.
Eyebeam has posted some more pictures of the Brother Islands show, taken by the great Christine Baker. The one below shows me as a ghost, walking in front of the hole I had just pounded through drywall with a five foot, forty pound wrench.
Sudden performance in Bremen
Posted on September 25th, 2007 by dan.
Categories: photos, trip, share, performing, music.
Last night Emily and I got back from three days in Bremen, Germany, where I was invited to perform at the MENSCHMEERMEDIEN (man, mirror, medium) festival at the Nordwolle fin-de-siecle wool mill. We had a wonderful time and wonderful hosts. Thanks for the invite, Martin! The whole experience went something like:
Monday: Receive invitation via Share discussion list. Accept.
Tuesday: Martin tries to book ticket.
Wednesday: ticket falls through. Dan books incredibly cheap ticket on Emirates.
Wednesday afternoon: Emily decides to come and books incredibly cheap ticket on Emirates.
Thursday: leave for Hamburg.
Friday: arrive in Bremen. Eat bratwurst and tour the city with alternate historians.
Saturday: perform at massive old Victorian factory. Eat bratwurst. Party all night with splendid Germans.
Sunday morning: conclude party with Turkish/Sri Lankan falafel.
Sunday: act like tourists. Bratwurst. Completely fail to throw up out of one’s nostrils (note: this did not happen).
Monday: return to New York. No bratwurst. 
I played with Axel Himmelmann, who makes excellent music and looks a lot like me. Emily shot some great pics and video of Axel and me performing. You can watch one of them above and the rest on the Internet Archive.
Teh new visuals
Posted on August 6th, 2007 by dan.
Categories: video, connections, performing, live visuals.
(Puts on VJ hat.) I’ve been in development mode for the past six months or so. My last two shows were the Blip Festival in December and with Lance Blisters in Budapest in April.
I’ve been programming and showing some WIP visuals at Share, as I am wont to do, and this Sunday I did some stuff that I liked so I recorded a bit. Here it is. Supply your own soundtrack.