Basement Jaxx: "Where's Your Head At" 2009 Tour Visuals (by Max Hattler) from Max Hattler on Vimeo.
Animator and audiovisualist Max Hattler has been sharing some phenomenal clips of his latest work for Basement Jaxx May 09 UK tour. The visuals here are an electric arcade of crazy kinetics. If you can’t wrap you’re brain around the clip above Max has split screen the actual show with his visuals on the bottom and the show up top. The whole experience leaves me reaaaally wanting a full video upload of just the visuals. It’s cool to see the live effect of this with a wild crowd though. I caught up with Max last week on everything else he’s juggling and he had this to share: Apart from the Basement Jaxx tour visuals, I also created some work for The Egg’s US tour. This UK group is gathering some momentum on the US jam band scene at the moment. Having supported them with live visuals at their now-legendary gig at the Disco Bisuits’ Camp Bisco Festival in New York state in the summer of 2008, I went back to the studio earlier this year and created visuals for two new tracks, together with fellow RCA grad and animation experimentalist Noriko Okaku. I’ve also been doing a new live audiovisual performance with Noriko. This is a sit-down 40min set with music by Japanese artist dubmarronics. Originally commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices, and premiered at Moves Festival in Manchester in April, we are now taking the live set to other film festivals such as Curtas Vila do Conde in July, Muuuvi Festival in a Transsylvanian castle in August, and (as a 3-screen version) to Fredrikstad Animation Festival in Norway in November. Apart from audiovisuals Max’s latest short film Aanaatt just picked up the Host Award at Videofestival Bochum and is rounding the festival circuit at Annecy, Rotterdam, Melbourne, Edinburgh, Vila do Conde and the upcoming Onedotzero world tour. Max has been traveling out to many of these between giving talks at art colleges and teaching at the University of East London. Also… the big project that’s been lurking on the horizon for a while now is his latest commissioned short film Spin. The project is shaping up and Max promises more news by fall.