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Interactive visuals for Michal Urbaniak's Band - Urbaniak All Stars during the BMW Jazz Club concert line on the day of 26.10.2011 in Teatr Wielki, Warsaw. Live camera streaming and openGL 3D space was controlled by the sound of individual instruments played live by the band.

Live visuals and software prepared for the single concert of Tomasz Stansko. The video was controlled by the sound of the band's respective instruments. The concert took place in November 2010 in Lodz, Poland during Nordland Art Festival.

Music project - contemporary music composed and synchronised with the movie by Robert Wiene, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari 1920.

Writing of the software and creating a LAN communication system for interactive touch panel, controlling video and sound of the multimedia 360' installation called Miejsca Miłosza, presented during Festiwal Miłosza in May 2010, Cracow, Poland.

The installation is controlled by the movement of a person, and influences sound, light and video.

Production and direction os a short social advertisement for the Synapsis Foundation - an organisation helping people with authism. The ad is supposed to show the sensory problms of the authistic people as well as the desorganisation of social life connected with it.

The interactive map of Katowice was prepared in public, during the period of application of Katowice for the European Cutural Capital of Poland in 2010. The map shows the directions of the most characteristic points in Katowice with light arrows.

Open air interactive installation presented in Kielce, Poland, Kadzielnia Amphitheatre. The people crossing laser light are controlling sound and light directed on the monument.

LIVE INTERACTIVE VISUALS DEMO, CONTROLLED BY SOUND OF INSTRUMENTS OF MUSICIANS ON STAGE, PREPARED FOR SOLIDARITY OF ARTS FESTIVAL, MOŻDŻER + CONCERT IN GDAŃSK, 21.08.2010. THE SYSTEM, DESIGNED SPECIALLY FOR THE PROJECT INCLUDES LIVE HD BROADCAST, TRANSFORMATION OF OPENGL 3D WORLD ELEMENTS AS WELL AS LIVE HD CAMERA INPUT.

THIS INSTALLATION ALLOWS FOR THE AUDIENCE IN ANY AGE TO CONTROL MUSIC AND VISUALS BY USING THE MECHANISM OF HANDWHEEL, A PART OF THE OLD "FRANIA" LAUNDRY MACHINE. THE CONTRAST BETWEEN SYMBOLISM OF BARREL ORGAN (HURDY GURDY), THE MODERN TECHNOLOGY AND SIMULTANEOUS IMPACT OF SOUND AND IMAGE, ALLOW FOR EVERY USER TO SURPTISE THEMSELVES WITH THEIR OWN REACTION TO THIS MODERN FORM OF POETRY.

VIDEO OR SOUND INSTALLATION CONTROLLED BY THE MOVEMENT AND GESTURES OF AUDIENCE.

PEOPLE VISITING THE INSTALLATION CAN ANIMATE THE VIDEO, PLAY SOUNDS OR MUSIC. IF THERE IS NO ONE IN THE INSTALLATION AREA IT DOESN'T REACT.

DEPENDING ON THE EXHIBITION AREA THE INSTALLATION IS INDIVIDUALLY CUSTOMISED TO THE VENUE (EX. IT CAN BE PROJECTED ON A FLOOR, WALL OR ANY OTHER OBJECT, ONE OR MORE VIDEO BEAMERS CAN BE USED; THE CONTENT OF VIDEO AND SOUND MATERIAL CAN BE CUSTOMISED TOA GIVEN PROJECT).. THE SYSTEM CAN ALSO BE CONNECTED WITH INTERACTIVE STAGE OR ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING.

Silent film, produced in 1923, with electronic music performed live, composed and produced in 2009 – the combination creates an unusual mixture of enchanting masterpiece of silent filmmaking with modern beat.

Thanks to contemporary soundtrack, all of the emotions presented within the film become even more intense: a child's anger, grief after loss of a mother, joy of wedding guests, delightful beauty of alpine landscape – all of this is reflected in music. One can therefore hear touching, choral nocturn, highlander's singing or spanish rythms heralding the vendetta.
Solemn spirit and complicated dramaturgy of the film is inlayed with humoristic motives which make the 110 minute long projection very dynamic and colorful.

VISUALS ARE SYNCHRONISED TO LIVE CONCERT PERFECTLY THANKS TO AUTHOR'S SYSTEM OF CONTROLLING 3D ANIMATION LIVE THROUGH SOUND PLAYED BY THE MUSICIANS ON STAGE. THE POSSIBILITIES OF CONTROLLING OF THE IMAGE ARE THUS ENDLESS AND THE VIDEO PLAYS WITH MUSICIANS AS ONE ORGANISM BY INTRODUCING RYTHM AND PULSE TO THE IMAGE WHICH IS AN INDESPENSIBLE PART OF AUDIENCE'S PERCEPTION ON EVERY CONCERT. THE SYSTEM ALSO USES LIVE CAMERA INPUT. PROJECT MADE FOR JAZZ JAMBOREE FOUNDATION IN 2009, FOR THE OCCASION OF MICHAEL URBANIAK'S CONCERT - "MILES OF BLUE".

VISUALS GENERATED BY OWN AUTHOR'S SOFTWARE WORKING IN THE 3D WORLD OF OPEN GL, FULLY CONTROLLED LIVE, FEATURING:

- MOTION CAPTURE TECHNOLOGY (MOVEMENT OF PERFORMERS ON STAGE ANIMATES THE PICTURE)

- SOUND CONTROL (EACH INDIVIDUAL MUSIC INSTRUMENT CAN CONTROL AND ANIMATE A PART OF VIDEO, MODIFY ITS SHAPE AND MOVEMENT).

- LIVE CAPTURE TECHNOLOGY (A HD STEADYCAM PLACED ON STAGE AMONG MUSICIANS SENDS THE PICTURE TO THE VISUALISATION SYSTEM LIVE. THE PICTURE CAN THEN BE TRANSFORMED, IT CAN CONTROL OTHER ELEMENTS OF ANIMATION OR IT CAN BE MIXED WITH IT IN A 3D WORLD).

INTERACTIVE LIGHT INSTALLATION BASED ON STAGE AND ARCHITECTURAL LIGHTING. STATIC OR MOVING LIGHTS (ALSO MOVING HEADS OR SCANNERS) ARE CONTROLLED INTERACTIVELY BY:

- THE AUDIENCE PASSING BY OR GESTURING (EX. A BEAM OF LIGHT FOLLOWS THE PEDESTRIAN)

- SOUND (EX. MUSIC STAGE SOUND)

- OTHER LIGHT SOURCE (EX. A PERSON WHO CASTS A SHADOW ON SOME STATUE TURNS OFF SOME LIGHTS ON A BUILDING).

- SENSORS (EX. PROXIMITY SENSORS ON A THEATRE STAGE - AS ACTOR CAN CONTROL THE LIGHTS ON STAGE ONLY WITH HIS MOVEMENT OR GESTURES).