![]() As they say in the video, you should be able to hear that effort in the music. I mean, it’s tough to find people who can draw as well as these guys can sketch out the set ideas, let alone build them in production-ready settings.īut because those production values go into the live performance itself and not just how it looks, this is about more than the stage effect. Lacey literally builds movie sets, making science fiction imagination more realizable. It’s the one city that can attract festival dance music culture and cross-breed it with Hollywood production values. ![]() And for all the (justified) talk lately about Berlin, this is a great example of what makes LA special. The Glitch Mob: Behind The Blade from the glitch mob on Vimeo.Īs EdiT explains, “there’s nothing off the shelf that we can buy to play our music.” So this is an all-custom rig, centering on some serious collaboration, including custom programming and Max/MSP patching by Matt Davis (who calls it a “real instrument”), live show production by Martin Phillips of Bionic League, and Gregg Lacey of Vision Scenery. Here’s a quick run-down – but if there is something of interest you’d like to know, let us know and we can talk to the band. But dig deeper, and the artists have given themselves more to do, not less, with a massive load of computational and audio hardware to back them up.ĮdiT gave CDM an advance look at the rig over the weekend. The eye candy for crowds is certainly amped up. As the sun rises over California this morning, they are unveiling a new show rig. They want to play like one, too.Īnd that means that while of course some complicated show and performance elements are sequenced in advance, the trio are playing – a lot. With their latest rig, The Glitch Mob apparently want to do more than just look like an epic rock band. And that distances them from artists that put on a big show visually but have shied away from anything risky in the set – like actually playing the parts, beyond basic scene triggering or knob twiddling. (And members like EdiT have IDM, not just EDM, credits to their name – so they were “glitching” before it was cool, in other words.) But while that circuit is in a frenzy of one-upmanship when it comes to spectacle, there’s some real playing behind this act. The Glitch Mob are one of America’s leading festival electronic acts. Press play? More like bang drums hit stuff finger warp touchpad go crazy.
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