Digital Dystopia

[Leon Trimble]

In our last event Digital Dystopia, we showcased a strand of work coordinated by Leon Trimble aka VJ Chromatouch and featuring the combined talents of Leon himself with the music and piano playing of Rich Batsford and choreography from Lisa Natasha Wetton.

Hope you enjoy this lovely video:


The piece featured two dancers - Julia Griffin and Paris Thomas-Wade performing a very touching and tender routine inspired by a scene in George Lucas seminal debut feature film, THX1138.

The dancers motion was tracked via infra-red cameras and the visuals were projected directly onto their bodies. The colours for the visuals were created using a scheme devised by Leon to match the colour spectrum with the aural spectrum with the input coming via a midi connection from Rich’s digital piano.

It was a beautiful moment quite late on in the evening and Leon is currently working on another incarnation of the collaboration to perform at the Upstairs at the Cross venue at our new event, Xhibition on May 9th in Moseley.