Performance Images from the NEWFUTURENOW / FRANZ FERDINAND Drum responsive visuals.
Incorporating physical triggers onto the Franz Ferdinand Kick Drum, which with each beat syncopate
visuals of up and close eyeballs. NFN Utilising ISADORA physical performance software to make this happen.









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FRANZ RE-VISION 2009!
Visual content created by JAYGO BLOOM
for the FRANZ FERDINAND Tonight 2009 World Tour.


















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A NEWFUTURENOW exclusive!
JAYGO BLOOM has just finished work on a series of videos to accompany the FRANZ FERDINAND 2009 world tour. The videos have been specially created to be projected over a three projection array, covering an area over 70 feet wide and 20 feet high. Alongside the seriously awesome heavily graded color video montage, Jaygo created a trigger re-active visuals system for Paul Thomson’s drum kit running off ISADORA digital performance software.
PULSE FILMS duo ThirtyTwo also created part of the footage for this tour.

Video to follow, for now enjoy the screen grabs in glorious JAYGOCOLOR

Providing visuals for DEATHDISCO. Supporting Jokers of the Scene and Brodinski
Make up Anna MacKenzie. Music by SHADOW DANCER






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SOFT TOY EMERGENCY has its debut single 'I KNO U WANT IT' officially released today.
NEWFUTURENOW were in charge of all artistic direction and creation of the promo video.
Video to be launched on MTV and within the UK clothes store TOPSHOP very soon.





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JAYGO BLOOM performed an exclusive live Visual set for FRANZ FERDINAND
at the NME Awards in legendary London Night Club HEAVEN.
Grab their new album NOW!






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Providing visuals for DEATHDISCO XXX Christmas Party 2008.
Supporting The Glimmer Twins and Rex the Dog
Make up Anna MacKenzie. Music by Vicarious Bliss






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Promo Video for I KNO U WANT IT, debut single by electro pop band SOFT TOY EMERGENCY
Directed and Produced by NEWFUTURENOW



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Issue TWO: Play and Pleasure

Sexiness, colour, entertainment, rhythm, ritual, fetish, surface, flirtation, jokes, fun and games.

This is Sick! A NEW DVD commissioned by artist run Edinburgh based press FOOLSINPRINT
Order a copy now! Order direct from FOOLSINPRINT or with NEWFUTURENOW and be quick
as there is a minimum run of 500 and then go check out the JAYGO BLOOM inclusion!
Artists Include:

Beagles and Ramsay
Aline Bouvy and John Gillis
Jaygo Bloom
Luke Collins
Lucy Keany
Shelly Nadashi
Christian Newby
Ewan Sinclair

Thanks to Fancy Pants Lucy Keany,
curator of this project and FOOLSINPRINT number one, for this opportunity.

Cant wait to get a copy?
well check the online 8bit J-GO DVD included wonder here for FREE!!



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Providing visuals for Londons legendary DISSIDENT RECORDS
DEATHDISCO is six!! and NEW FUTURE NOW alongside POINTLESS CREATIONS have been
working hard at making this a one off AV experience since the beginning.
Check out the new video mix and then check out the commotion
every third saturday of each month....




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Les Grande Opening of CHE CAMILLE and an exciting collaboration between NEWFUTURENOW
and CHE & CO.
JAYGO BLOOM has taken up residency within the Che Camilles Showroom and will be creating fashion inspired content alongside Glasgow’s hottest fashion designers throughout 2009.
Next saturday marks the opening of this quality space, designed by NFN collaborate Steff Norwood, showcasing new works, high fashion, denims by Rab and a video installation inspired by still life and portrait painting, created by JAYGO


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DEATHDISCO DE FREQ MIX from NEWFUTURENOW on Vimeo.

Come check out the commotion every third saturday of each month....
DEATHDISCO! Cut-up ultrapop, quality electromash and bastardised bootlegs
for non-conformist up-for-it revellers.




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JAYGO BLOOM performing live and acting as WHACK KARAOKE compere for the CCA New Media Scotland closing party.
Presenting I-AM FIST, ABLAB, VITASCOPE AND POINTLESS DAV.









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Enter THE 7INCH VIDEOZONE!!
Yet another NEWFUTURENOW all inclusive!
Presented and performed by JAYGO BLOOM live at the RAINBOW for the
5TH birthday bash of 7INCH CINEMA
to view ENTER THE ZONE

The Online documentation for FRANZ TV is now available
A NEWFUTURENOW production created especially to accompany Glasgow Art Rockers FRANZ FERDINAND
and premiered last month during The Franz Ferdinands secret gig at The Macbeth Social Club. Hoxton Square, East London.
CLICK HERE to view NOW!!

FRANZ TV
A NEWFUTURENOW production created especially for Glasgow Rockers FRANZ FERDINAND
and premiered to some 150 lucky people that managed to cram into a tiny London venue on one of its stickiest of days, some of whom had travelled from Germany and France to witness their long awaited return.
Alongside the Franz's new sounds an equally storming performance by Nicolas Ker and his band PONI HOAX

XXMAS DEATHDISCO!!!!
The end of year xxxmas party with visuals as always provided by NEWFUTURENOW
and Introducing new star to the screen 'LADY MUNSTER' Death Disco's very own shaking, tranny christmas tree!
We actually stumbled across him late last month harranging the boys at Death Discos 5th Birthday bash and really had to do everything in our powers to get him in to the NEWFUTURENOW studios and in front of our greenscreen.








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'...DEATHDISCO! Cut-up ultrapop, quality electromash and bastardised bootlegs for non-conformist up-for-it revellers. An intimate mixed up orgy of trans-euro excess!'

Monthly visuals provided by NEWFUTURENOW
and this month I got something extra special as its their fifth birthday!!









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Check it out HERE!!.
The latest AV installment from those funloving NEWFUTURENOW creatives.



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!!WORLD EXCLUSIVE!! - The latest hot topic buzzing around the NEWFUTURENOW industries is over the recent collaboration with the DANCEHOUSE. Glasgow. After a successful series of workshops hosted by the TRAMWAY art venue and overseen by Movement specialist and Choreographer BRIAN HARTLEY . NEWFUTURENOW has successfully completed the rough cut of a brand new video artwork entitled O:.O:.O:.




We managed to catch a few minutes with JAYGO BLOOM The Project Director and Co-Ordinator

Can you tell us a little about the project Jaygo?

O:.O:.O:. reexamines the theosophical beliefs behind early modernist art in relation to dance, film and sculpture, I am interested in how the body becomes a symbol for the illusory 'artistic' reality between geometric and organic planes within the art object.



Can you explain the modernist like structure that you have imposed upon the performers?

O:.O:.O:. Has developed out of a series of choreographed scenes based around a very strict metronomic time signature and an Alexander Calder composition. For this project I have been interested in adopting a similar approach in direction as that of early modernist painting, one which is restricted by palette, by time and with formula.


What does O:.O:.O:. stand for?

O:. O:. O:. is video invocation, it involves the use of prime denominators and is expressed through a combination of technique and procedure. It manifests itself as 3 dancers, 3 art objects and 3 locations - A black rehearsal space, A white gallery space and a greenscreen video production room. The title O:.O:.O:. makes reference to the pace, the content and the connection between Art , Magick and Science that early modrnist artists often seeked solace.















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An exclusive NEWFUTURENOW audiovisual midi marraka perfromance - Live onstage and In collaboration with TROCABRAHMA. Supporting the moustachioed, brazilian superstar and post punk protester - TONI DA GATTORA

Wielding the circuit bent mayhem, a trademark of Toni's international act was nonsense maker Gruff Rhys of the SUPER FURRY ANIMALS and Nik McCarthy of FRANZ FERDINAND fame.






TROCABRAHMA - Is a cultural exchange and series of UK events showcasing Brazilian and British creative talent - August 2007



Check out the VJ edit from NEWFUTURENOW





And check out the Toni Da Gattora experience! ROCK BAHIAAAAA!!





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A new VJ set created to perform alongside the latest dirge of Glasgow Art Rock bands - Bigface, The Invisibles and Jazz Ham performed last weekend at the final year degree show party for Glasgow School of Art.
A visual re-edit, include montage and scenes by filmmakers - Jean-PierreBouyxou, ColinBarton, and DavidRimmer. reconfigured for Digital playback, extracted from source and incorporated into a new series of flat, percussive CMYK graphics.

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A recent meeting with the BBC Digital Blast co-ordinator for Scotland, Kirstie Lamont, has given rise to a really exciting opportunity to get involved with a nationwide educational / digital event.
Digital Blast is a creative forum that aims to inspire and motivate young people to develop their creative talents and showcase their work on a range of digital platforms.
Digital Blast is looking into creating a series of activities From August onwards targeting young people within Scotland and geared around new digital media and the performing arts. I have proposed to come on board and asisst with the digital performance via new Digital media tool Isadora.
The project sounds really exciting and will travel the country within the The Blast Truck, providing workshops, taster sessions, surgeries, showcase opportunities and large scale events that celebrate young people’s creativity. The truck will be equipped with state of the art technology and will profile work created by young people across BBC platforms including live web-casts on Blast local and national websites, links with BBC local radio and regional TV, BBC Big Screens, downloads to mobiles and bluetooth technology and national showcases on Blast on BBC2.
Their target is to be on the road for 15 weeks in 2006 (working with 20,000 13 – 19 year olds) and 30 weeks each following year (50,000 young people per year). Approx 150 young people a day will actively participate in truck activities on board.

Recontres Internationales want my new work TAO JOYSTICK
for inclusion into their 2006 schedule.
heres a few pictures before the new website goes online...


And part of the statement that goes along with the project -

Tao Joystick is an interactive audiovisual games enhancement. It works in unison with any games console and translates audible gameplay expressions into random sound and video composition with realtime manipulation.

Each system consists of a gaming environment / installation including two monitors, a laptop running the required software and a games console.

Tao Joystick references the playing of original 80’s arcade games and consoles -
< ATARI > < SPECTRUM > < COMMODORE 64 >
< BREAK-OUT > < PONG > < DIG DUG > etc.

The constraints of such games with their limited controls and set specific values are replaced with alternative values of < speed > < loop setting > etc.
At present this is created via < JITTER > programming.

Within the constructed games environment. The playing of Tao Joystick re-defines the archived video footage that is presented on its double screen monitor. Video has been extracted from many sources including – Inuit Song, Butoh Dance, Bangrha and Tibetan chant.
Content is chosen according to the practice of Tao Joystick as a vehicle to re-present and preserve the musical, oral and dance culture of marginalised traditions, within a new technologically mediated context.

As practitioners seek to embed new technologies within the environment and create ever increasingly, more sophisticated < ubiquitous > and transparent interfaces for us to explore. Interactivity and usability can become secondary to the mediated experience and any aspect of intended game playing is difficult to understand.
Tao Joystick seeks to reverse this need for < ubiquity > and looks first and foremost towards < playability > and
< what makes a game addictive? >.
The technology that presents Tao Joystick is central to its physical makeup. The controller and console is very evidently a games controller and games console, yet the intended outcome, mediated by these self same new technologies, create an altogether unique and memorable audiovisual experience.

I have just been successful with a proposal towards
a futuresonic festival commision, hosted by Lancaster
arts base - FOLLY.
FUTURESONIC is an annual festival of sound, and AV installation,
held in Manchester. UK. Its very high profile, and I am really
excited at being given the commision to create a new piece of work for it.

My project is called BUMP..
and basically its an online project that translates the press of a
key into an actual realtime event.

exerpts from my proposal-

< BUMP... >

A sound
A text byte
An expression used within online discussions
A precursor
An interruption

Bump...

This adjective is appropriated from the endless realms of online forums where a user awaits a reply to his message.

Bump...

Situated within public walk spaces and areas of intersection between the many futuresonic festival events and interacted with on one of the many touch screen interfaces. < bump.. > will make it possible for participants to send a variety of sonic booms in real-time to one of the chosen hotspots.

Hotspots will be monitored by the use of live video stream via webcam and presented upon the Touchscreen interface.

TOUCHSCREEN INTERFACE
The interaction and execution of a sound-byte via an online flash based games module.

< bump… > involves a button-press online creating an actual real-time event within any specified location.
This is made possible via networked sockets and a flash signal being sent to a particular IP address port. max/msp receives this signal and changes it into
Any possible real-time event, i.e. sound.

IN CONTEXT

As computer technology becomes increasingly mature, the technology itself will fade into the background of human activities, becoming far less intrusive than is the case today.

Will reinstate the presence of this technological intervention over it's environment via the quick shot, rapid-fire, 8bit sounds emanating out of its location based < FOLLY > sound modules.

Montevideo is a new media organisation situated in the Netherlands.
They have a residency program 'AIR' for artists.
This year one of the main guidlines is that the project should
utilise and be created out of Open Source Software (OSS).
This type of technology makes alot of sense. Most software has an OSS alternative,
at the moment the key problem is awareness and profile.
Within our society many people are too used to spending vast amounts of money,
certain companies and even creative individuals still suspect anything that is good can be for free!
OSS software developers are now making efforts to educate community projects
and schools, where access to this would make real sense.

For the AIR program, I have proposed my 'TAO JOYSTICK' project and reworked it to fit into the guidlines,
with a new title - 'FREE CREDIT' I will work on this project within the OPENLAB sessions at Glasgow school of Art.
A regular meeting place for artists and programmers interested in the uses of such software.
I have also proposed to use the residency as an opportunity to
rework and remix selected videoworks from the Montevideo archive library, via the FREE CREDIT
games console, this will form part performance and part interactive installation.

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