Great seeing some pictures of me in my alter-ego at EMF as live visuals performer with @feralfive. Lovely to be back on stage with them! (Even if I spent most of the performance in a cold sweat 😂)
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Finally, this fantastic picture by @mdales perfectly sums up my EMF 2024 experience: answering phone calls and bombing around the site on my BMX in overalls and hi-vis.
I was pulling 19 hour days during the festival and probably frequently looked too busy to think straight, but to everyone who apologised for stopping me to ask for something, know that I treasured each moment I got to talk to you about your work. You are all what makes EMF great
More video of the Laserium. I don't think any of it can capture how magical it was in person
Highlight #10 (of 10): I cryptically posted about this before the festival but I couldn't be more pleased to have been involved in bringing the legendary James Braddell/Funki Porcini to the festival with the Laserium. This was hands-down the most exciting thing at EMF2024 for me. It was standing room only in workshop 4 on Saturday night, so especially cool to sit next to James and watch from behind the extraordinary 700 laser setup responsible for these effects
Hightlight #9: Max Hunter and @ideoforms’s Open Wave Field Synthesis in Null Sector. Behind the scenes shot here of them setting it up. The gang did such a great job of this and I'm proud of supporting the project
Highlight #8: Tim Hunkin(!) and his fabulous mechanical arcade machine, Revolution. I absolutely loved walking the site with Tim and introducing him to astonished people
Highlight #7 (I should have threaded these…): Waterflower from Latvia on stage B on Sunday night. Fierce and brilliant. I loved hanging out with you at the festival and I'm so happy that you agreed to come
Highlight #6 (and we're on to the pieces that I am proud to have had a personal hand in bringing to the festival): A huge thanks to Malcolm Clark for specially bringing this teletype and getting it playing Colossal Cave Adventure for us. It fitted so perfectly with what we were trying to do with the new arcade this year and it was great seeing people being sucked into it and then tearing off and taking their adventure home with them.
Highlight #5: APPYBIRD!!! @alphabetter once again excelled in producing an absolute delight of a mechanical arcade game, which I realise now that I completely failed to take a picture of. So I’m pointing to @rc2014's picture instead:
Highlight #4: @barnoid's David Lynch Numbers Station Phone was a delightfully odd treat that looked especially great at night
Highlight #3: @jamesdarling's absolutely mesmerising Murmuration (slowed down here for effect). Honestly, I was not trying to baby-sit you that first night, James, I just really enjoyed sitting next to it for an hour 😂
HIghlight #2: Lucas Payton’s Infinite Potato was exactly as awesome as I wanted it to be when I read the proposal.
Hightlight #1: I had nothing to do with supporting this piece at the festival, but if it was your work I want you to know that I *loved* it! Please get in touch with the Arts team for the next EMF…
