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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.
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.
Live buffering with feedback
Posted on August 1st, 2007 by dan.
Categories: video, connections, live visuals.
This video is me at Share playing around with a new piece of my performance patch: a live video buffer (on the graphics card) with feedback, which Eclectic Method has inspired me to add some rhythm controls to. The music is by “Hand Clap” by Girl Talk.
;performing; visuals with Lance Blisters tonight
Posted on April 14th, 2007 by dan.
Categories: politics, connections, performing, nyc, war, music, live visuals.
I forgot to mention that I’m doing visuals with Lance Blisters tonight at the after-party for the 1st annual Anarchist Book Fair. 
LANCE BLISTERS: LIVE Jungle, Breakcore, Punk, and Noise performed with MIDI Guitar and Microphone, using custom software to create cutup political anthems. LIVE synchronized visual transcriptions of the songs’ subjects. LANCE BLISTERS was initiated in 2003 to SMASH THE STATE with a show which will ROCK YOUR FACE OFF! LANCE BLISTERS is a live multimedia band currently comprising Lance Blisters (music) and Ilan Katin (visuals), with special guest visual performer Dan Winckler for this show.
This Saturday, 14 April 07, LANCE BLISTERS will perform at the Anarchist Bookfair Afterparty with bands VIC THRILL and SATURN MISSILE, MOURNING GLORIES, ZEMI 17, and DJ’s CX KIDTRONIK, PETER GUNN, SHAKEY, AMOK, EMMIT BROWN, JASON BK playing a mixed bag of breaks, hip hop, d and b, techno, rare grooves, dubstep, breakcore, and…
Expect LANCE to play at 10:30pm
9pm-4am, Saturday, 14 Apr 2007
The Creek in The Cave, 10-93 Jackson Ave. (Long Island City, QueenS)
7 to Vernon/Jackson -or- G to 21 St/Van Alst.
$3-6 w/ ID
Google subway map from onnyturf.com