This flier represents the start of overscan. To be honest, we had not even come up with the name yet. It was not until months later that Jez, the promoter, insisted we should be added to the flier...
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Live Visuals
Prepared material shaped through audio-driven systems
Tight Sequencing
Treating effects like instrumentation
Video Mapping
For rooms, stages, and surfaces
Custom Software
Custom-built software and control systems
Robotics
As an extension of the visual system
Overscan is a live visual performance practice built around rhythm, structure, and control.
The work combines prepared visual material with real-time, audio-driven processing. Sequences are carefully constructed, then shaped live through layered effects, modulation, and hands-on intervention. Some elements are fixed, others are responsive. The tension between the two is where the performance lives.
Visuals are driven directly by sound. Beats, dynamics, and energy influence how imagery behaves, not just when it appears. Effects are sequenced as deliberately as the material itself, allowing moments to build, release, and escalate with intent.
Overscan is also a continuous development project. Off-the-shelf VJ software is powerful, but it inevitably reflects someone else's idea of how visuals should behave. I prefer to own the entire pipeline. When a new idea emerges, whether it's an effect, a control method, or a sequencing approach, I can design and build it myself, then integrate it once it's ready.
The visual language draws on original material developed in the 1990s and recombines it with cutting-edge 2020s creative coding. Older forms are not treated as archive pieces, but as raw material, recontextualised and processed through modern systems to create something current and alive.
Overscan is about visuals that stay connected to the music, and feel deliberately performed in real time.
