Scott K James

Installation, visual hosting and live mixing with many, many cool artists. In 2006 The Now Device designed and installed 5 screens for an immersive experience at the Decibel mainstage at Neumo’s. In recent years, I’ve been going in and mixing solo.

I actually did a couple of shows w/ Obelus in Seattle. This one featrued Andy Seaver (ndCv) on Keyboards, and was in the heart of Fremont.

The Westcott House and The Now Device produced a multi-media summer studio. I spent much of June and all of July working on this envelope-pushing project. The idea was to bring the kind of technology and art that The Now Device specializes in, put it together with young students and get them to create something new. Throw in immersion in a restored Frank Lloyd Wright house and you have something pretty cool. Check out the studio site to see lots of documentation, student work, etc.

The Now Device provided live-ness for a hand full of shows at Springfield’s Summer Arts Festival while we were out there. Like this night with Griffin House:

Played with Elan Vytal (a.k.a. DJ Scientific) and Matt Szemela (a.k.a. Matt Z, an amazing violinist) in a small club in Williamsburg. This was very intimate, but a great set up, with Matt playing in front of and reacting to the screen with my live mix on it. Meanwhile, his signal, after passing through a rack of foot pedals, was going out to Elan Vytal’s set up, where he could sample and further process it, mix it in with vinyl, or just let it be. Truly a rich, layered approach to audio/visual performance. One of the coolest pieces I’ve done in a long time – seems like there is tons of potential here.

Performed as iller aint, with Andy Seaver. I was invited to provide some live visuals and music during this private party in the aquarium. I ended up inviting Andy to join me, and we performed an iller aint set in the new large main hall at the aquarium.

The fifth of these multi-media, multi-faceted art opening, performance events that the Abberation Concensus crew (mainly DJ Kevin Callison and artist Peter Hrinko) threw out there. I managed projections on and around the big proscenium in a not-yet-restored (that’s putting it lightly) amazing antique theater. There was live painting, all sorts of improv and otherwise music and theater from the stage. I mixed mainly with music when I could.

this was a gig for The Now Device, again collaborating with Seattle Theater Group on one of their in-house productions. I provided some background, scene setting visuals for a series of pieces choreographed by Daniel Cruz. We pre-arranged the content, chose a few things that seemed to help the atmosphere of the various numbers, then I mixed it live from way up in the balcony.

Rod Hatfield and I installed screens and projection and performed at this second in the series. Mixed some of my content, live shoots of artists painting and live cameras on dancers. This was a benefit for a program called Eyes Wide Open Worldwide.

I played both with ndCv and with Hyacinth, the in-house DJ for VJ night. This is a monthly event curated by VJ scobot featuring local visualists performing, being interviewed, explaining their techniques and fielding questions about technique and technology.

I was the featured performer at the weekly share open jam. I reprised “advance to retreat”, originally performed with ndCv at the Northwest Film Forum in Seattle. ndCv was represented by a miniDV tape and the audio feed from my camcorder.

Was hired by HPX to mix video on a big LED screen backing the stage at the “dance tent” at this annual summer music fest. I can’t even remember everyone who was on that stage. I remember the freaked-out x-triping chick in a bikini who climbed up on the rail over my mixing rig, spoke briefly of being able to fly, then jumped down, onto a fellow crew-member’s back.

I was invited to play a set, opening for Randy Jones. Convinced ndCv to come play. We performed a 20 minute A/V piece I like to call ‘advance to retreat’, in the large cinema.

The Now Device was part of a collaboration with Seattle Theater Group. We did stage and production design, ran three live cameras, 5 projection surfaces and a fluid live mix to enhance and energize an evening of music by talented young musicians. Collaborated with DBR.

Went to mix with ndCv and Scientific and ended up also playing with Various because their video hookup wasn’t working. One of those unexpectedly doing tech and performing all night situations. Fun, though.

Designed, installed and performed live in the Decibel Room w/Thomas Fehlmann, Jerry Abstract, Let’s Go Outside, Kristina Childs, and Nora Posch.

Musical sets by Aukufen, Lusine and Kristina Childs.
w/ visual artists Sean Frego and Cedar Apffel. We set up a three-screen stage design and mixed all night.

Set up an AV environment for the lounge. Music by ndCv and Greg Skidmore.

Meetspace – weekly experimental visuals and music at Consolidated Works
Habibi – world beats at the Last Supper Club
Globalista – world beats at Tost and the Mirabeau Room
Voyage – weekly night of live entertainment,DJs and visual environment
Superfluid – weekly featuring SynthClub at the Mirabeau Room
Juice – ongoing world beats at the Baltic Room (just did this once)

A gig by The Now Device. Rod Hatfield and I did stage design, ran live cameras and integrated custom live visual mixing behind Belew and his band an incredible outdoor show.