The Visual Cast

Episode 29 and we have an absolute legend and super honoring guest , Thomas Mann AKA  @pixtur  AKA the father of TOOLL.IO. For those who haven't been initiated, Tool is a powerful, FREE, node based, open source software for generating visual effects and motion graphics for installations, live performances, and VJing. It is easy to learn, yet incredibly powerful. Thomas is a world class developer & artist, finding his chops and notoriety in the Demo scene, he then became a super high in demand developer, working for such companies as Nokia among many others. Somewhere in the early 2000s Thomas Started Tooll, almost two decades later it is a fully fledged software with a striving community and handful of dedicated developers. He is also half of the Audio Visual project  @wakeaudiovisual  together with his wife Lena Kilkka, definitely check them out! For Pixtur’s SET he graciously performs an audio visual set, building it from scratch in front of our eyes. Accompanied by music from ‘the same’ , Thomas shows us the absolute power of Tooll and how intuitive, Fluid and fast it can be to create a beautiful and immersive A/V set on the fly. He then shows us into some outstanding workflows and some up and coming features. Thomas is a force of nature, extremely fascinating and an untapped faucet of inspiration, history and knowledge. I thoroughly enjoyed talking with him, and I know you will as well - and we have a new record for longest episode!!! Big Thank you to GRIG / VDMO / VJ UNION for connecting me and Thomas!! Download & Learn TOOLL now - https://tooll.io/ https://www.youtube.com/pixtur https://github.com/pixtur Check out WAKE - https://www.instagram.com/wakeaudiovisual/ https://wake-audiovisual.com/ Music by The Same - https://soundcloud.com/thesamepl https://www.facebook.com/thesamepl Grig/VDMO - https://vjun.io https://www.facebook.com/groups/vjunionglobal https://www.instagram.com/vdmokstati/ Chapters: 00:00:00 Intro 00:03:35 The team behind TOOLL.IO 00:05:24 The Future of Generative Design 00:09:44 The Role of VJs in Modern Festivals 00:18:55 Impact of East Germany's Education Policies on Technology Careers 00:28:05 Reflecting on Post-Wall Berlin 00:37:00 The Impact of Demo Scene on Careers in Tech 00:49:00 The Shift from Demo Scene to VJing 00:56:38 The Appeal of Generative, Procedural & Learning Visual Scripting 01:05:28 Challenges of Monetizing Open-Source Projects 01:15:55 The WAKE A/V Project 01:23:14 SET - A/V TOOLL.IO Set with music by The Same 01:57:04 SET - Exploring TOOLL.IO 02:09:32 SET - Time, Keyframes & Animation in TOOLL.IO 02:19:13 SET - Exploring Variations Tool 02:30:29 SET - Projection Mapping & Imapp 2024 02:42:47 SET - Mesh Points, Buffer & Mograph 02:50:54 SET - Adding Shadows & 3D set ups 02:55:44 Building TOOLL.IO as an open ended environment 03:10:04 Embracing Skepticism and Optimism 03:20:06 Future of AI and Technology: Expectations vs. Reality 03:28:34 Exploring Patterns in Nature The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, where we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", an interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a look at an amazing software called Tooll.io. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next week's guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Thomas for coming on!

Episode 28 is upon us and we have the amazing and POWERFUL  @pao_olea , a super talented and big brain developer, Tech & Visual artist and VJ. Pao has worked on some amazing projects including massive interactive installations at major museums across her home country Chile and in many other cities across the globe , blasting visuals for Richie Hawtin’s exclusive project “Prada Extends Miami" and is currently the creative director of a record label called Our Silent Canvas. Her irreverent visual style echoes what we love on this podcast, the experimentation and exploration of generative and real-time art whilst maintaining unique and authentic expression. She is also a major figure in the  @TouchDesignerOfficial  world as a dual language educator, offering her expertise in tech and visual art on her Patreon in Spanish and English, which I think is absolutely amazing. For Paos SET she graciously shows us her unique VJ set up, takes us into some of her exclusive Patreon tutorials and even pokes around some older projects off of her Instagram. Its chock full of tidbits of information and absolute GOLD. It was super awesome talking and chatting with Pao, she has so much to impart and hearing her experiences and stories was inspiring to say the least. Check out Paos amazing Patreon and awesome socials - https://www.paoolea.com/ https://www.instagram.com/pao.olea/ https://www.patreon.com/pao_olea/posts (chapters coming soon...) The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, where we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", an interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a look at an amazing workflow in TouchDesighner. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next week's guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Pao for coming on!

For Episode 27 we have the wonderful and powerful and beautiful Imri Shavit / Lumos check out Imri's work:https://www.instagram.com/lumos.visualshttps://vimeo.com/showcase/9831285https://www.facebook.com/imrishavit/ The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, where we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", an interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a look at Tools in TouchDesigner. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next week's guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Imri for coming on!

EP26 is here with the main man  @actualizevisuals1027  / David Schunemann A true staple of our scene and one of the sweetest & nicest VJs I've ever met!! From projection mapping installations at your favourite festivals to high end custom content & live Visuals for massive acts to teaching up and coming VJs, Dave does it all and has been growing and achieving his dreams and goals for quite some time! It was such a pleasure talking shop with Dave and his insights on the business of VJing and behind the scenes of the scene was truly inspiring and eye opening. For Dave's set he graciously shows us into his world of  @ResolumeVJSoftware  !!! Check out Dave's Socials and take a lesson if you want to learn VJing - https://linktr.ee/Actualize https://www.instagram.com/actualizevisuals https://www.actualizevisuals.com/ https://www.actualizevisuals.com/lessons (Chapters coming soon) The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, where we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", an interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a look at Resolume workflows. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next week's guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Dave for coming on!

For Episode 25 we have the great and powerful Dániel Molnár aka  @FunctionStore  ! For those not familiar with Daniel, he is the developer of the extremely powerful Function store tools, a collection of  @TouchDesignerOfficial  hacks and tools that help improve workflows as well as manipulate the default behavior of TD, a must have tool for any TD user. Dan is also a talented artist and musician and performs super inspiring audio/visual shows, go check out his most recent performance Sanity Check on his Youtube! In our convo, we get into Dans origins growing up in Hungary and studying Electrical Engineering , being a music nerd from a young age, getting into programing and consumer electronics, moving to Berlin during the pandemic and being introduced and engrossed in TouchDesigner , him starting to develop tools for touchdesigner and how it felt to be invited and honored with an insession invite by derivative, solving problems through supporting and developing tools , what it means to be an audiovisual artist , the nature of the universe being random, but is it random? Lastly we dive into the function master's involvement with  @ledpulse-technologies  a volumetric LED module, we also take a look at the software Daniel built for it. For Dan’s SET, we jump into his unbelievable touchdesigner projects, starting with a suite of his tools made for making mind blowing visuals, including the ComplexOP and its many use cases, The layer separator and its extremely useful exploding ability as well as the complexFractal and its fractal exploring ability. We then jump into FNS and explore the functionStore toolkit and its amazing functionality. I love Daniel and his mind is fascinating to explore. After recording this episode I was instantly a Fumctionstore Tool convert and haven't looked back since, so go download it now. *Unfortunately the first half of the podcast got a bit messed up, thankfully there was a backup, the audio and visual is still intact but the bells and whistles aren’t on display until the SET portion where things pick up! Check out Daniels channels, his Patreon, his music and all the links BELOW- https://www.patreon.com/function_store/posts https://www.youtube.com/@FunctionStore https://www.instagram.com/function.str/ https://www.functionstore.xyz/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/3S5SlH4EwJDYgMOr3i26Rf?si=pTT4TkGqTNe7RXFpurJZ8A FunctionStore Tools - https://github.com/function-store/FunctionStore_tools Sanity Check Audio/Visual Experince - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIB1Ew7who4 LEDPulse - https://www.ledpulse.com/ Chapters: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:17 - Customizing the Touch Designer Interface 00:15:42 - Origins of Musical Inspiration 00:23:39 - From Music to Code: Finding Creative Expression 00:31:14 - Discovering Touch Designer through Visuals 00:39:09 - Learning from Other Artists 00:46:47 - Reflections on Life and Growth 00:54:33 - Workshop Experience and "Greg the GOD" 01:02:16 - Frustration and Motivation for Developing Tools 01:12:30 - SET - Tools & Techniques/ComplexOP 01:22:00 - SET - Tools & Techniques/LayerSeprator 01:36:26 - SET - Tools & Techniques/Instanced Trails 1:40:10 - SET - Tools & Techniques/Fractal Generator 01:43:38 - SET - FNS/Intro to Function Store Tools 02:00:00 - SET - FNS/Making TD more Efficient 02:07:28 - SET - FNS/Searching for Operators in Tools 02:15:53 - SET - FNS/Organizing Python Code with Extensions 02:31:45 - Unique Position as a Musician and Audio Visual Artist 02:39:37 - LEDPulse 02:45:20 - LEDPulse community patch overview 02:56:34 - The Philosophy of Data Input and Expression The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, where we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", an interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a look at FunctionStore Tools and amazing TouchDesigner workflows. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next week's guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Daniel for coming on!

For Episode 24 we are back with a bang. and for our guest this week we have the stunning and powerful Jack Hurley AKA AntiAlias Jack is a well known and high level visual artist, playing for the likes of tipper & visual directing the pretty lights tour, he is really killing it, he also develops a tool called AAVJ, for those who don't know AAVJ is an extremely powerful and versatile application built in TouchDesigner for VJing and visual performance, We get into Jacks origins in fine arts and his early musical endeavors , having huge support to pursue arts from the people around him , getting integrated into the Tipper family and quitting his job to be a full time artist , getting into 3D design , diving into the validity of AI as a tool for expansion , falling, as we all do, in love with TouchDesigner and the sometimes high learning curve of the best software ever made, learning TD from tutorials and the many online mentors, why he decided to make AAVJ and release it for free , working on one of the coolest audio/visual tours around with pretty lights , educating people on NFTs and blockchain technology and the misunderstandings around it, being inspired and collaborating with other artists and how empowering it is!! For Jack's SET, we take a super deep look at AAVJ and the new features coming soon , Mr. AA also shows us a few of his signature looks and some insanely useful tidbits and workflows on how they are made. This convo with Jack was super powerful and informative, jack has such great vibes and is so sharing and open with his life and his techniques, thank you so much for coming on jack! Check out AAVJ - https://discord.gg/py5FFqQq7G https://www.anti-alias.xyz/portfolio/aavj Check out Jacks amazing channels - https://www.anti-alias.xyz/ https://www.instagram.com/anti_alias_/ https://www.facebook.com/antialiasvisuals/ https://x.com/anti_alias_ (chapters coming soon...) The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, where we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", an interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a look at AAVJ in TouchDesighner. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next week's guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Jack for coming on!

For Episode 23 we have a super exciting and honoring guest - Theron Pray , the founder of Synesthesia and a master Visual artist!!! For those not familiar, Synesthesia is an ultra-powerful VJ software, bringing the power of Shaders & GLSL to all, with tools, workflows and features that are second to none . In our chat with Theron we get into what its like creating tools that close the gap between technical and visual artists, growing up in LA & being fascinated by how the universe works, whcih lead to studying physics in Carlton college, playing music in a experimental tech band and creating custom software's out of a need to connect musicians to visuals, eventually turning it into Synesthesia and what it means to open and run a company, we get into diving down the rabbit hole of VJing, meeting and mixing in with  @Datagrama  , Theron then gives us his introduction to GLSL and we go deep into Augmented reality and his company AlphaChannel. For Theron’s SET, we take an up and close look at Synesthesia and some of its amazing features, we then check out Theron's unbelievable content from Boom festival and his killer workflow for projection mapping. Check out all things Theron and Synesthesia - https://synesthesia.live/ https://www.instagram.com/synesthesia.live/ https://www.instagram.com/theronpray/ https://www.alphachannel.io/ (chapters coming soon...) The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, where we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", an interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a look at Synesthesia and GLSL. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next week's guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Theron for coming on!

For Episode 22 we are joined by a really exciting up and coming artist Beth Salapek aka Crystal Beth!! I was introduced to Beth from her RayTKApril challenge and was instantly impressed, her sense of motion, style and grasp of generative visuals is really impressive considering how new she is to this world. Having her fresh perspective and unjaded attitude towards the industry was super welcoming and inspiring. For Beth’s SET, we dive into Touchdesighner and RayTK and see how Beth approaches creating scenes. Follow and support Beth - https://www.patreon.com/CrystalBethArt/posts https://www.instagram.com/crystalbeth.art https://www.instagram.com/night.thrpy (chapters coming soon...) The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, where we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", an interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a look at Raytk within TouchDesighner. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next week's guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Beth for coming on!

For Episode 21 we have the AI aficionado, the master of the stream, Lyell Hintz AKA  @dotsimulate  !! Besides for being an exceptional artist and creative, Lyell is a killer developer, and the brain behind the amazing Stream Diffusion integration into  @TouchDesignerOfficial  , needless to say the topics covered are vast!! We get into Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania and moving to New York, Theater & Acting , Going to Berlin for the TouchDesigner meetup, Discovering Houdini, Discovering TouchDesigner, Discovering Coding, GPT inside of TouchDesigner, the future, dangers and excitements of AI, Generative visuals, optimizing Stream Difusion and developing tools for the community For Lylles SET, we go into his amazing Stream Diffusion tool and take a look at some new features he's been working on, we also take a look at his GPT tool that is super powerful and interesting. Talking to Lyell was extremely fun and informative, I really appreciate him coming on and am excited for what he is working on next! Don't miss out on DotSimualtes amazing Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/dotsimulate/posts https://www.instagram.com/dotsimulate https://www.youtube.com/@dotsimulate https://x.com/dotsimulate Chapters: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:47 - The Intersections of Art and Software Development 00:20:38 - The Power of Theater and Film 00:31:11 - Biking in Different Cities 00:41:38 - Malleability and Proceduralism in 3D design 00:51:59 - Simulated Worlds and Harvesting Happy People 01:02:31 - Bringing AI Models into Touch Designer 01:12:59 - Learning from the Community 01:23:28 - Negative Embeddings and Lightweight Models 01:34:14 - SET - GPT inside of TouchDesigner 01:45:13 - SET - StreamDiffusion TD - Updates on the latest tools and models 02:09:09 - SET - Controlling Model Parameters for Image Generation 02:20:14 - SET - Experimenting with Image Manipulation Techniques 02:32:35 - SET - Implementing Control Net, V2V and GPU ID 02:44:00 - SET - more GPT - Live Transcription using Python Manager 02:56:19 - Exploring Tool Development and TouchDesigner 03:07:10 - AI Empowerment for Artists 03:17:46 - Exploring Different Approaches to Learning TouchDesigner 03:27:43 - Embedding Space and Visuals in Touch Designer The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, where we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", an interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a look at Stream Diffusion tools in TouchDesigner. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next week's guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Lyell for coming on!

We have a very close friend of mine on the pod for episode 20!! An out of this world human Daniel Savinski / Naavi /  @infimensions  ! Na'avi is a master visual artist, designing spatial sculptures, dance floors & stages and frequency inspired visuals all over the world, hes a master at all he does, and infuses magic, love & light intention and high level technology into everything he does. It was such a pleasure having him on! We get into Daniels origins as a photography major and his journey from activism & documentary into art visuals & sculpting , darkness fasting, decompressing from work to avoid burn out, his introduction to the psychedelic trance scene and building his first installation at Ozora 2015, to falling in love with  @TouchDesignerOfficial  and the community and ideals behind it, from downloading ideas and concepts to fabricating and executing them, taking a retrospective look at Daniels absolutely amazing projects, the importance of light frequency and intention, how it feels to spend sometimes a year on a project to only experience or use it for a week at a festival & the concept of building something big over time or utilizing many small things to build something bigger, infusing intention & technology to making the world better, and teaching by example. For Naavis SET, we go deep into rhino and the mechanicians of designing the supernova stage for the  @SpaceSafari , we then take a behind the scenes look at Daniels absolutely stunning Hyperflake project. Check out Daniel’s socials, he's got killer projects - https://naavi.vision/ https://www.infimensions.com/ https://www.instagram.com/naavi.vision https://www.facebook.com/naavi.vision https://www.instagram.com/infimensions/ https://www.instagram.com/spacesafari.be/ Chapters: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:10 - Early inspirations & Pursuing Architecture & Photography 00:20:36 - Exploring Different Dimensions 00:30:56 - Sensory Detox and Reflection on Health and Balance 00:41:01 - The Healing Power of Nature 00:51:34 - Exploring the Fourth Dimension with Photography 01:02:32 - Creating Light Installations 01:13:45 - The journey of creating visuals with TouchDesigner 01:27:14 - SET - Exploring The Supernova Stage in Rhino 01:35:28 - SET - Designing a Dance Floor 01:57:57 - SET - The Process of Creating Hyper Flake 02:20:57 - Creating a Safe Space for Dancefloor Experiences 02:31:11 - The Closing of a Festival and coming full circle 02:41:15 - The Future of Dance Floors: Infusing Technology and Psychology The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, where we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", an interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a deep dive into Rhino and the intricacy of stage design. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next week's guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Naavi for coming on!

Episode 19 is here, and we have the melty wizard Alex Tman AKA  @psybernautics5164 . Alex is a master developer, a generative magician and absolute banger of a VJ, harnessing the power of GLSL and shaders he has created some of the most iconic and wild looking scenes on the Synesthesia marketplace, he has performed with massive electronic music acts and played at massive festivals all around the US. we go into Alexs beginnings as a software engineer in the security sector, to getting blasted at bass shows and being introduced to Visuals by  @zipvisuals8713 , falling in love with GLSL and discovering synesthesia, the power of generative real-time audio reactive visuals, self acceptance and self expression, coping with depression via coding and art and getting inspired from others being inspired!! For Alex's SET we get blessed with a heated real-time, generative audio/visual set with absolutely banging music by Mirage, Alex then shows us how he makes his visuals in GLSL within the powerful and super VJ friendly Synesthesia. For those not familiar @synesthesialive is one of the most advanced and powerful VJ software's out there, a real-time generative playground harnessing the power of GLSL in an easy to use and intuitive environment. This was the longest set we've done, and seeing Alex's scenes (available to purchase on the synth marketplace) at the code level was fascinating! It was a huge pleasure having Alex on and we had such a blast together!!! Check out Alex's shop for some heaters - https://www.psybernautics.art/shop https://www.instagram.com/psybernautics.art/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnJqX-7cHcGbI0--b03ke8w https://www.facebook.com/Psybernautics.art Check out Synesthesia, They have a free version and you wont be disappointed - https://synesthesia.live/#download https://linktr.ee/synesthesia.live https://www.instagram.com/synesthesia.live/ Check out Mirages music - https://miragesound.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/brady_mirage/ Chapters: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:30 - Introduction to Interactive Design & Development 00:24:59 - Getting into Shaders and Visuals 00:37:39 - The Joy of Creating Visuals 00:49:40 - Dealing with Phishing Emails 01:02:02 - Recognizing patterns in code 01:11:10 - SET - Intro To Synesthesia 01:17:39 - AUDIO/VISUAL SET - Music by Mirage 02:21:34 - SET - Under the hood of GLSL in Synesthesia 02:28:21 - SET - more GLSL, Mixing Hexagons and Boxes 02:41:58 - SET - Different Approaches to Visual Effects 02:55:55 - The Creative Process and Perfectionism 03:02:45 - The Power of Radical Self-Expression 03:20:53 - Finding Passion in Problem Solving and Coding The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, where we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", an interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a deep dive into Synesthesia and GLSL. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next week's guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Alex for coming on!

Episode 18 is here, and we have one of my closest friends, the beautiful inside and out, Diego Maricio aka Prizma!! Diego is a true artist, ranging from motion graphics & 3D to photography to web design and even psytrance music production, in the past few years Diego has blasted onto the Visuals scene and taken up VJing and projection mapping, creating absolutely stunning visuals pulling from his native heritage, they invoke super light language and a pure authentic, healing experience. We chat about growing up in Bolivia and then moving to Sweden, his first introductions to art theater and motion graphic, living in the jungles of brazil making psytrance, meeting TAS in brazil before he was VJing, eventually going to modem and seeing him VJ, photographing and videoing events DJs and art exhibits, coming to Israel (where we met) and planting a seed that eventually bloomed into getting immersed in visuals and projection mapping, we go into zapotec and the language of these and other ancient native civilizations, studying and researching ancient peoples and bringing their art and culture into the digital realm, keeping them alive and introducing them to a broader audience. For Prizmas SET he shows us his killer Resolume set up, his powerful layering techniques with ancient patterns and how he makes them in photoshop and after effects and some 3d projection mapping content. Check out Diego’s socials for some trippy exciting content - https://prizmavisuals.com/ https://www.instagram.com/prizma_visuals/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5l4wyK7znD3DDSZrat6WwQ https://www.facebook.com/prizmavisuals Chapters: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:11 - Diego's Bolivian Origins 00:19:17 - Shifting from Music to 3D art 00:28:59 - Moving to Sweden & Discovering Design & Visuals 00:39:22 - Curiosity about VJing 00:48:25 - The Pursuit of Money is not Always Helpful 00:58:22 - Projection Mapping Course & Art as Communication 01:07:49 - Expressing yourself through art 01:13:23 - SET - Resolume set up 01:29:52 - SET - Using AI for Fast and Interesting Looks 01:43:19 - SET - Animation Techniques in After Effects and Illustrator 01:53:09 - SET - Exploring Different Art Styles and Cultures 02:03:55 - Ancient Knowledge and Advanced Technology 02:13:52 - Zapotec culture & Patterns 02:33:39 - The Nomadic Life The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, where we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", an interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a deep dive into Resolume and the process of creating visuals. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next week's guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Diego for coming on!

We are opening portals and blasting off into other dimensions for Episode 17 with The Hive Master himself - Bjorn Jelinek. Besides for being the driving force behind the best stage to projection map on ever The mighty Hive portal at the Modem Festival in Croatia, Bjorn is a top dawg of all things fabrication, he is a master carpenter, a certified CNC and Laser cutter and a official teacher of Rhino3D and Grasshopper the go to tools for CAD software. Talking with Bjorn is like being connected directly to a multidimensional futuristic prism, it was a real honor for me to have him on the podcast and I'm so grateful for him giving us the time out of his busy schedule. We go deep into Bjorn’s roots growing up in the alps, being at the peak of psytrance parties in berlin, starting out as a string artist, joining the extra dimensional space agency, creating some of the most jaw dropping stages in the world, what it means to design from an authentic expressive outer realm, downloading messages from other worlds and other beings, Modem festival and opening portals, the power of crystals, the insanity of silicon and raising kids! For The Hive Masters set he graciously shows us his insane Grasshopper and Rhino setup and workflows and we take a look at the hive stage from modem festival and look at how its designed parametrically and how Bjorn gets the files ready for laser and CNC. This was one of the more Turned on, tuned in and dropped out episodes and it was such a pleasure getting to know Bjorn deeper and seeing his unbelievable workflows. Check out Bjorn’s socials and go get your Modem Ticket - https://www.instagram.com/the_hive_master/ https://twitter.com/BjornJelinek https://modemfestival.com/ Chapters: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:04:11 - Personal Journey in Art 00:20:36 - The Origins of the ExtraDimensionalSpaceAgency Project 00:31:13 - Bjorn, The Human CNC Machine 00:41:06 - Implementing LED Lights on Stages 00:51:06 - Transitioning to Rhino and digital art. 01:00:03 - TAS the all inspiring & Humble OG 01:03:25 - SET - Controlling Parameters in Rhino 01:23:59 - SET - Exploring Grasshopper and Algorithmic Design 01:45:24 - SET - Visualization and Structural Engineering 01:54:38 - The Journey of an Independent Artist 02:04:28 - The Power of Crystals & their Use for Healing & Manifestation 02:24:45 - The Perception of Time and Space 02:34:53 - The Joys and Challenges of Fatherhood The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, were we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", a interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a look at parametric and procedural CAD design. If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next weeks guest is! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Bjorn for coming on!

This week on the cast we have a beautiful & super talented Yuval Choen aka  @_mini_uv  ! UV, is an exceptionally inspiring visual artists, his amazing  @TouchDesignerOfficial  abilities in not only simplifying but beautifying highly technical and intricate processes results in absolutely stunning and beautiful imagery. We chat about a lot of interesting conversations, growing up in the “burrows” of Tel Aviv, working in the family business of a photography store, having mandatory military service and the retrospect of that experience and time, post army travels in india, starting his real journey by studying music and sound engineering and shifting into electrical engineering, then discovering touch designer out of a need for a visual/audio environment and then starting a Patreon and passing on his inspiration to others and what being an artist or a tech artist means , spirituality, intention & nature being god. For context, this conversation was recorded in the last week of April and towards the end we get into the very contentious and extremely nonlinear, extremely complicated conversation around Israel and the Palestinians. Me and UV only have our experiences to draw from, and regardless of the fact that we both were born and raised in Israel, there is no definite answer to anything, especially from us. We try and steer into more interesting aspects of this topic such as being an Iraqi Jew ,Zionism powering anti Semitism ,Conspiracies ,propaganda on both sides ,making connections and communicating with both sides ,separating religions ideology from politics ,making art not war and what it feels like to be an Israeli post October/7th. In no way shape or form is any of what we are saying meant to hurt or offend anyone, it's 100% out of the need and want of every artist, to express themselves in the hope of making the world a better place. With that being said… For UV’s SET he dives into his amazing TouchDesigner projects (available now on Patreon) and shows us a very close up look at Physarum, rendering super high density point clouds & GLSL smoke simulations. I really loved this conversation with UV he's a real sweetheart and talented individual and for me having this reflection from someone who grew up in the same place as me was really meaningful. Check out Yuval’s Patreon & his killer tutorials, you will not regret it - https://www.patreon.com/_mini_uv/posts https://www.instagram.com/_mini_uv/ https://www.youtube.com/@_mini_uv Chapters: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:04:38 - Growing up next to Tell Aviv, Israel 00:24:34 - The Challenges of Coding 00:36:27 - The Challenge of Serving in the IDF 00:48:55 - Exploring Techniques with Touch Designer 01:01:53 - Exploring 3D Visualizations 01:14:39 - SET - Creating Textures with Feedback Loops (TouchDesighner) 01:27:51 - SET -Exploring Physarum (TouchDesighner) 01:40:50 - SET -Exploring Code and Particle Behavior (TouchDesighner) 01:57:30 - MiniUV patreon & What is Generative art 02:06:50 - The Power of Real-Time Design 02:18:50 - The Power of Community and the Act of Creation 02:31:18 - The Power of Positive Influence 02:42:56 - The Blurry Lines of Anti-Semitism and Propaganda 02:54:44 - Discussing the Reputation of Israel 03:06:38 - Separating State and Church, The Israeli Government The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, were we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", a interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case an explorative look at highly technical but easily digestible techniques. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next weeks guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Yuval for coming on!

Episode 15, is with an insanely special guest,  @Catmac  / Marcos Fernandez a true legend! CATMAC is one of the OG Loop pack creators, a old school VJ and a leading force in the visuals world. His recognizable resolume visual packs has inspired an entire generation of VJs. And he has released over 500 clips for free on vimeo! With over two decades of motion graphics and immersive media it was a real pleasure and honor to have him on the cast! For Marcos's SET he dives into his unique generative  @ResolumeVJSoftware  set up and then jumps into his he creates insanely detailed dispatched noise in  @BlenderOfficial  !!! Check out the amazing CATMAC online - https://www.catmac.art/ https://vimeo.com/user2777466 https://www.facebook.com/catmacvisuals/ https://www.instagram.com/catmac_visuals Chapters: 00:00:00 - intro 06:59:00 - From Researcher to Artist 00:14:50 - Discovering a Passion for Drawing 00:22:29 - Shifting to Digital Art 00:29:51 - Starting a Successful VJ Career 00:37:05 - Nature and Mathematics in Art 00:43:57 - Transitioning to 3D Modeling 00:51:19 - The Progression of Modeling Skills 00:58:04 - 3D & Real-Time Software 01:04:16 - SET - Generative Effects in Resolume 01:33:08 - SET - Exploring Displacement Techniques in Blender 01:43:58 - The Psychology of Being a VJ 01:51:00 - The Joy and Challenges of VJing The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, were we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", a interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a breakdown of generative visuals in Resolume. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next weeks guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Marcos for coming on!