New tour visuals for Pendulum in collaboration with Immersive Design for the new Immersion world tour in 2010. 1080p motion graphics are mapped onto a giant pendulum shaped LED structure that wraps around a circular stage.

New tour visuals for Pendulum in collaboration with Immersive Design for the new Immersion world tour in 2010. 1080p motion graphics are mapped onto a giant pendulum shaped LED structure that wraps around a circular stage.

New tour visuals for Pendulum in collaboration with Immersive Design for the new Immersion world tour in 2010. 1080p motion graphics are mapped onto a giant pendulum shaped LED structure that wraps around a circular stage.

A new experimental promo for an interactive multimedia performance with producer and composer Phillip Neil Martin.

Working at Imagination as lead designer for Lincoln’s new technology centrepiece at the 2009 Detroit Motorshow Labmeta developed a 4ft multi-touch, multi-user interactive experience where the public could explore the Lincoln 2009 range.

After being involved with the DFuse production for last years IFA event in Berlin we were invited back to create an installation for the 2009 event with Labmeta and DFuse co-directing the video content. This year the event space was deep black with huge towers rising from the floor with multiple projection surfaces allowing us to send content in a complete 360 degree circle across the surfaces. To top it all this year we were to be the first creatives to work with the new sony make.believe branding. Taking this tagline we created a black void where the dot from make.beleive would give birth to an organic bacterial like ecology of thoughts ideas and content all carefully synced to a beautiful 8.1 surround sound design by Andy Visser

Boy of Girl are experimental electro pop duo Rosie Blair and Paul Mogg, based in Northern Ireland and Berlin respectively. Signed to the label, Off the Uncertain Button, they’ve been busy gigging across London and Europe and even as far as Russia this summer. This autumn they have a debut music video being directed by Jessica Lux. I got involved to master the final video and do all the colour grading. The single is out in October, so check back soon for more.

To coincide with the launch of their new website lumalive invited four designers to create sets of animated content and shoot a short promo using LED t-shirts to see what might be achieved. I hooked up with the south london bike polo teams and the ehbpc to film a game of night polo in a backstreet tennis court. Must be said it was a lot of fun, and if you haven’t witnessed bike polo on fixed wheels – i recommend it!

Ok, well this one never made it to the realisation stage but i’m kinda fond of the graphics so here are some test graphics for a 360 degree video installation i’ve been developing with Anna Boberg

This years London Ukelele festival had a big ambition and a big target set: To break the world record for the largest uke ensemble simultaneously playing together. The Old record was 401 and unbelievably it was smashed by more than 400 to set a new world record of 851! Over a thoushand people crowded into devonshire square armed with their instruments to join in the fun, food, drink and music for the afternoon. Leading up the the event I hit the streets with the Festival crew to do some promotion using lumalive LED t-shirts to draw a bit of extra attention to things. This video is a small document of the evening.

At my regular teaching spot in Soho at 01 Zero One i’ve just updated all the advance course modules, so if your interested in brushing up your after effects skills book yourself in for a session. Ravensbourne College and 01zero-one are acting as partners in the Ravensbourne Skillset Media Academy and have received funding from Skillset Film CPD fund to run the introduction and advanced course as a discounted rate for successful applicants, There are still funded places available in the last few available courses.. Courses are designed and led by Labmeta and draw upon a project from which techniques can be tested out for real. To book contact Polly at info@01zero-one.co.uk or call on 020 7025 1985.

On 2nd April 2009 Keane made history with the world’s first ever live webcast in 3D. The band recorded the live session at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios, the home of The Beatles historic first ever satellite broadcast and will feature 3d anaglyph graphics from digital artists D-Fuse. 3D glasses will be available from keanemusic.com, and all retailers with the 7′ of the new single ‘Better Than This’. Labmeta got involved with DFuse and Mike Faulkner to work on the animation and the stereoscopic production.

These designs are examples from the prototype stage of a current project. Final version expected to become public later this year.

These are some design proposals for textile printing i’ve just finished. The graphics depict the story of tea.

“Strata#2” is an audio-visual installation directed by Quayola that explores the icons of the famous Rose windows in various Paris cathedrals and churchs. Focusing on the layering of times, functions and representations a beautiful and hauting space deconstructs to create a new graphic architecture. Through sound and visual effects it concentrates on the collective imagery of particular buildings, reflecting upon the stratified historical meanings they detain in the western society through time. This work was commissioned for installation in the St Eustache Cathedral as part of the 2009 NEMO festival. Labmeta got involved with Quayola to develop the animation and compositing of the super high res imagery in different 3d formations.

Lumalive is a product and company that has developed out of Philips technology incubators at the research park in Eindhoven. A matrix of full colour LEDs have been successfully woven into fabric to allow portable, low power video display in textiles and fashion designs. While the product is still in the early stages of development the Lumalive canvases are currently available to rent for use in commercial events of trade shows. During the past year Labmeta has been working closely with Lumalive as a consultant helping them to develop content and usability for content designers. I’ve also been working across a number of industry events creating content for display on multiple models that can act as a movable multi-screen display in people orientated environments.

IFA is the world’s largest consumer electronics event. It’s a trade show where companies from all over the world show off their most exciting new electronic technologies. The highly succesful agency Fallon approached DFuse alongside Hexstatic to create eight, 2 minute, films to showcase the most exciting products Sony is launching this year. Projected in HD on two massive screens in a large Sony event space DFuse undertook four animated videos showcasing a new E-Book reader, Edgelight technology and the Bravia television. Paul got involved as an animator for the project designing and animating a two minute animtion for the Sony Ebook reader under the direction of Mike Faulkner.

Lightrhythm returns with the second release of their new audiovisual series Notations including an audiovisual single by Paul Mumford at Labmeta. Always innovative and utterly inspiring, the series shows handpicked artists from Europe, Japan and the Americas. Continuing to deliver imaginative content and hosting award winning artists “Notations 02” is aiming for release later this year. The name, inspired by the book “Notations” (compiled by John Cage) aimed to also explore the new techniques in visualization of sound in the same way that Cage inspired new forms of written music. For this reason Lightrhythm consciously sought out matured approaches to a diversity of music. The result encompasses a full spectrum of sound and light; classical compositions, electronic interpretations; each track unearthing a fresh, motivating re-approach towards visual arts and vjing. The works fill an expanse of imagination and intellect, a playful choreographed of light, shape and sound.

As part of Kylie Minogue’s 2008 World Tour UVA were approached to concieve and implement the stage design and video content. The show was divided into tracks and numerous designers were commissioned to produce animated content for a set of 40ft moving LED panels. Quayola was given the track “In Your Eyes” and i was approached to assist on the animation. The video consists of giant panels that act like a graphic equaliser, shapes, patterns and movement of graphic elements bump move and slide in time to the music.

The project “Visual Music” (2007–2008) is conceived by the media art gallery fluctuating images. Over the course of two years, the project will deal with the diverse artistic and institutional aspects of Visual Music. Cornelia and Holger from the gallery have invited scientists, artists and curators to focus their special perspectives on the topic. As a publication, Audio.Visual is divided into two sections: the first deals with the academic discussion on the subject of visual music; the second introduces contemporary paradigms of audio-visual praxis in brief presentations. Apart from being a guide in the historical sense, this new volume provides theoretical approaches to understanding and making visual music. As a part of this publication Paul Mumford has contributed both written and audiovisual pieces of work and is available on Amazon.

Event producers Balance-London booked Ne1co to produce animated graphics for Speedo’s 80th year celebrations. On the same occasion, the swimwear name also launched their latest competition bodysuit – the FASTSKIN LZR RACER. I worked in tandem with the agency to design and animate a series of animations and loops which Oli Sorenson from ne1co performed live at a London event while pre-recorded playback simulaneously launched the suit in New York, Tokyo and Sydney. Using imagery of the FASTSKIN LZR RACER in action in combination with racing, time and space travel imagery we projected alongside a 3d holographic projection system displaying teh dynamics of the suit. Later in the year the work also went on to be used at the Beijing Olympics ceremony.

As part of the Late at Tate Series of events the audiovisual collective NE1CO present a very special ambient edition of London’s #1 audiovisual event, the AV Social. Setting up camp amongst the dramatic backdrop of neo-classical sculptures and renaissance paintings at the Tate Britain you’ll find installations, performances and screenings from some of Europe’s finest VJs and audiovisual artists. Featured is a specially curated screening and presentation by the Paul Mumford and the Narrative Lab, inviting the Editors of the VJTheory book to show and tell some experimental works alongside screened material from artists all over Europe including Solu, Visual Kitchen, Girrafentoast, Ben Sheppee, Visualnaut, Oxygen, ZooZooZoo, Spark and Lucidhouse. We don’t think VJing should be like film, rather we see other VJs and AV performers using narrative structures and devices in creative and unusual ways, and we want to showcase a cross-section of performers using narrative to create a language of VJing.

The DJmag Top 100 DJs is a snapshot of a DJ’s current popularity and visibility — as voted for by the public. This year was a record-breaking year with 345,000 legitimate votes, smashing last year’s total of 217,000 – an increase of nearly 60%. For the 2007 award ceremony NE1CO were asked to produce all the graphics and i got involved as the animator and designer for the mammoth club event taking place in London’s SE1 Club with special guest Beardyman on the Mic.

VIDOS is a audiovisual book and DVD project produced in collaboration between Michale Fakesch and internationally acclaimed and highly awarded artists, filmmakers, directors, animators and designers such as zeitguised (UK), Quayola (UK), Paul Mumford (UK), Paolo Lima/MusaWorkLab (Portugal), Brian Bixby/Keep Adding (USA), Scott Pagano/Neither Field (USA), Mateuniverse/Psyop (USA), Marcelo Baldin (Brasil), Giraffentoast (Germany), Markus Wambsganss/Kaliber16 (Germany), Antonin de Bemels (Belgium), Sam Vanoverschelde/Visual Kitchen (Belgium) and many others. On about 30 pages the catalogue features artwork by all participating video artists and designers, inspired by Michael Fakesch’s music. Its exciting funky sounds, unique visuals and compelling multi-disciplinary approach make “Vidos” an eye’n’earblazing example of how music can be visualised today.

Music by Michael Fakesch and Taprikk Sweezee. Curated by Cornelia and Holger Lund (fluctuating images). Vidos as DVD-Publication with booklet will be out soon.

This project is a commissison from Onedotzero to director Quayola for the MTV Bloom competition. The work is an investigation into the icons of Rome’s renaissance architecture and the dissolution of their compactness. Through a combination of photographs and computer-generated graphics, “Rome” aims to create a series of images where the subject is de-contextualized from its historical and cultural implications. A process of metamorphosis transforms the architectural matter. Its solid three-dimensional spatiality mutates into an ephemeral two dimensional skin made of geometrical shapes and colors, obtaining a new incompact reality. The images represent these transmutations in a specific moment in time, like if an external spectator photographed them. Assuming different meanings, the represented buildings appear under a new perspective that focuses on their images rather than their historical and architectural significance.

Fluxys are an international transit company for Gas fuels based in Belgium. This short sequence was produced as a strand of their 2007 marketing campaign as a divider animation with after effects and Zaxwerks 3d.

Building on early work and collaborations with the Narrative Lab, Paul’s intentions were always to continue building graphic narrative films. This is the first of his solo attempts to create a feature length audiovisual performance. Autometa is the story of a corporation, one that we see running a sinister machine, that operates upon the people of the city, taking their dreams and hopes, harvesting them and selling them around the world in a global economy. In a politically unstable landscape what happens when the public uprise? The world of Autometa erupts, forcing a world of the hybrids and dreamy constructions to collid in impossible ways.

Produced as a motion graphic film, this work has been performed and screened at many media festivals and events across europe such as mapping, sonar and urban artforms. More recently an extract has been released as an audiovisual single on the DVD label Lightryhtymvisuals.

The Datsuns are a rock band from New Zealand newly signed to v2 records, and this is the debut single from the new album. taking inspiration from the album artwork blunt films made a city from pencil drawn architecture that would pose the setting for a rock classic of demonstrous tin robots attacking the band. Involving green screen studio shoots, live pyrotechnics and mortar cannons this project was a lot of fun.

Franz Ferdinand are probaly the biggest pop group in the uk right now, and are looking ready to complete another great year with the release of a new album. Working with Blunt Films this month we have just completed the promo for the first single – Walk Away. The video gets its UK broadcast premiere this friday night on Channel 4.

This was my first job working for South London production company Blunt Films. This is the promo for the first single of Royksopps second album ‘Only This Moment’. Taking a quirky look at memory, history and the story of a demonstration in paris infinte zooms chase magical ballons and ghostly children through the relics of time. My role was mainly rotoscoping and camera matchmoving while assisting Rob Chandler.