Canonizing the Musical Expression with Video-jockeying!

The mystery of interweaving ocular aesthetics to the melodies of a sonic atmosphere have reached pinnacles of success through Video Jockeying over the last decade. This new genre of apogee of fine art and technology, planning and spontaneity, imaginativeness and visualization, establish its roots inch 1966 when Andy Andy Warhol hosted a ‘Happening’ in New York’s New Cinematheque. On that day, for the first time, Andy Warhol projected soundless extracts of his ain movies to dwell music played by The Velvet Underground. The tendency snowballed with improvisations by Pink Floyd and integrating of laser visible lights by Jean-Michel Jarre. Live music shows were now becoming a scintillating experience with computing machine artwork and psychedelic affects, juxtaposing frameworks from different manners of mass media (films, newspaper, docudramas and magazines). By the early-mid 1980s, every dad record album had to be accompanied with a music video to do it to the charts! MTV was born owed to the overpowering figure of music videos produced. The term ‘VJ’ was coined to label the MTV host, a metabolism from a DJ. Over the years, with the broad popularity of this transposition, VJ no longer meant the MTV announcer, but a ocular affect choreographer, remixer, manufacturer and performer!

In improver to the originative acumen of the new genre of VJs, engineering provided a host of devices/tools to popularise this ingenious word form of art. Hallucinogenic undergoes were created with the coming of digital imagery, audio-visualizer software system and analogue/digital video mixers. Other popular hardware in the VJ’s armory include the Edirol V4, Pansonic maxwell & AVE series sociables and Korg's Entrancer personal effects unit. The Edirol V4 is a 4-channel Video Sociable made for portable or fixed installing use. It is ideal for usage in nightclubs, places of worship, theatres, and other unrecorded performances. With an enhanced V-LINK characteristic coupled for the multimedia geeks, the user can trip clips, and execute real-time video personal effects and transitions. The Korg pad entrancer is a completely new type of video consequence processor with a touching panel for fingertip control over mental images and sounds. A broad new scope of intuitive ocular personal effects may be created by different movements of the finger over the pad. It can even record the motion of your finger allowing the installation to reproduce complex reliable ocular personal effects very easily. The Chromascope video synthesist makes abstract 2-dimensional machine-controlled colored forms in full buddy resolution. The Pioneer DVJ-X1 is one of the up-to-the-minute inclusions in a VJ’s kit, empowering him to synchronise digital sound and video simultaneously to make an elite musical expression. This device made its introduction in springtime 2004.

Vjamm, Motiondive, Arkaos, Touch and Smode are some of the trendiest software system tools available to make the hypnotic video affects, where the VJ’s creativeness have no limits! VJamm, the audio-visual VJ software system is a realtime sample player featuring extremely fast response times with Midi support and 16 coincident channels of Ab with unrecorded effects. Clips can be dragged real-time with the chinks of a mouse for ingenious compositions. The tool also lets creative activity of personal personal effects and is compatible with any video cards, limited lone by the graphical card’s performance. Smode Studio is another complete public presentation solution for an first-class VJ public presentation allowing real-time ocular composition with 3D objects, images and videos with exquisite detail.

With the proliferation of MTV-genre of music channels and its growing popularity, the young-generation inch Republic Of India have establish a new avenue to research their creativity. As per Aditya Dev Sood, chief executive officer CKS, a user research and interaction designing firm, “Veejaying is in fact the new embodiment of technology, music and video, a jugalbandi of disk jockey and VJ”.