Scott Keva James

Decibel Festival | 2004 – 2009, inclusive | Seattle.

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:22:39 +0000

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.

Obelus | 08.21.08 | Nectar | Seattle.

admin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:39:57 +0000

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.

Design Studio @ The Westcott House | July 2008 | The Westcott House | Springfield, OH.

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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.

Griffin House | 06.18.08 | Springfield Summer Arts Festival | Springfield, OH.

admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:25:17 +0000

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:

w/ Elan Vytal in NY | 04.20.08 | 507 Bar Lounge | Williamsburg.

admin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:08:21 +0000

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.

Seattle Green Festival Vendor Party | 04.11.08 | Seattle Aquarium | Seattle.

admin — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:11:41 +0000

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.

Abberation V | 03.22.08 | State Theater | Springfield, OH.

admin — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:16:40 +0000

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.

Club Cruz Control | 02.15.08 | The Moore Theater | Seattle.

admin — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:59:59 +0000

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.

Aberation2 – A Multi media Art Exhibition | 5.04.07 | Clark County Heritage Center | Springfield, OH

admin — Fri, 04 May 2007 23:01:58 +0000

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.

VJ Night | 4.19.07 | 911 Media Arts Center | Seattle

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:33:43 +0000

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.