LONDON — Simian Mobile Disco, comprised of DJ duo Jas Shaw and James Ford, are touring Europe and the U.K., performing at numerous festivals with visual support from LD David Cohen (SauceDesign), who has created bright honeycomb effects with 11 rows of four and five hexagons made from 181 Barco 340mm MiStrip LED lights.
Cohen uses ArtNet to connect his lighting console to a single HippoCritter and the Hippotizer’s embedded HippoNet network to control the HippoCritter from his MacBook Pro. All commands and signal are then sent via a Barco D320 image processing unit before reaching the MiStrip tubes. Using a MidiSport I/O box from one of the HippoCritter’s USB ports, the Hippotizer is connected to the backline.
Because the MiStrips are VideoMapped hundreds of times and divided onto individual controllers on his lighting console, Cohen is able to run content either over the entire set-up or over selected strips or areas of the structure only. In that way, he is effectively the VideoMapper feature to create DMX-controllable masks.
For the gigs, Cohen is using pre-programmed cues to run content over the hexagonal MiStrip frame. A couple of video clips have been included, but Cohen created the majority of the content using the Hippotizer’s integrated generator function and a few simple colored (test card) images.
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For a video, go to www.simianmobiledisco.co.uk
