Segue

Two things mark this week out as interesting. One being the beginnings of our run with the street press and dance music media, and the other being me finally going to see a medical professional about a torn something-or-other in my shoulder by way of one too many slips on New Zealand mountains a while back. What has this got to do with anything? Gigs. With gigs comes lugging flightcases, and with gigs come some common questions from the media and even promoters. Namely, about what your sound is. So what is the sound of Segue these days? Let’s find out in this informative movie.

I finally got around to doing a proof of concept test of a timelapse animation over the weekend. Hooking a Canon 450D DSLR digital still camera up to a Macbook, and setting the remote capture software to grab a frame every 10 seconds, I had the intention of roughly capturing a recording session. Instead I just quickly tidied up the studio, watched some Underworld videos on Youtube, posted on Twitter, and for the breifest of moments actually worked on a track in Ableton. Dumping the photos into Vegas, I knocked up this rough timelapse video. This is my first time testing this out, though our VJ collaborator Jaymis has done quite a few interesting timelapses over the years. I can’t wait to try this out in Hong Kong in a couple of weeks.

The track snippet in this video is a rough mix for a remix I did for Vitreous. The track is called “Pine”, and will be revisited for a fresh mixdown before being signed off and released shortly. More on that soon. Not in the “will tell you when we can” mysterious sense, but in the “we don’t actually know” realistic sense.

One of the interesting characters that has shared in the Segue adventure has been long-time collaborator and geeky creative friend Jaymis. A veteran VJ and video geek, he has done a bunch of our live visuals, lugged gear through airports with us and even filmed and edited our Big Day Out video. You might have spotted him in our Big Day Out photos, which were shot by his equally talented partner, Rach, or my quick behind the scenes video. Drawing upon his experience shooting and editing live event footage, and his frustrations editing other people’s less than interesting live event footage, Jaymis has written a great article on Create Digital Motion with an accompanying rough video comparing the raw and edited footage for the duration of our set closing track, “Reset”. Check it out.

Link: Shooting Video For Gigs: Take That Camera Close and Make It Look Like Stuff Happened

Late one night in the studio, we received an email from a friend overseas citing some difficulty in downloading our Chemical Brothers remix from the site. Taking a cue from the many clips on YouTube acting more as a streaming audio link than a film clip, we grabbed the beleaguered DV camera that films each gig and threw together a quick edit or two. As such we present a quick vid mock up for Chemical Brothers – EBW9 (Segue Remix).

Catch the video on your flavour of Vimeo or YouTube. Also you can still download the track from the original post on the site here.

On the 20th of January 2008 the Segue crew hit the stage to drop some progressive house and acid tech on the Boiler Room stage. Band video editor and VJ collaborator Jaymis was there with HD cameras in tow and captured the epic finale in all its acid house goodness. Having watched the likes of Chemical Brothers grace the very same stage only years before, this remains to date a definite highlight for the crew and the video says it all.

Segue – Reset (Live at BDO) from Jaymis on Vimeo.

Part 17 of the Segue video diary. Filmed but minutes after Segue walked off the Big Day Out’s Boiler Room stage to the applause of many thousands of, we hope, particularly enthused people. Another glimpse into the behind-the-scenes of this collective of geeks and rockers. This is as fine a time as any to hint about the high definition footage being edited of the Boiler Room gig and a sneak preview of the tiniest hint of a new track being worked on at present. Special mention to Ryan who saved a collapsing sampler in the drum rig, Kris who rocked his first gig with us and Jaymis and Rach for being their usual professional video and photography selves.

Segue Video Diary: 017 Backstage at Big Day Out from Segue on Vimeo.