Dark Matter tour visuals by Rob Sheridan
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I wonder if they will beat this setup into the ground the coming years. Or if it's a Dark matter tour exclusive, like the 2006 lasers."Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"0
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rob_sheridanA look at the one-off visual piece we cooked up for “Half Full” at last night’s @pearljam Barcelona show. I brought a photo to life that @officialament had taken at Gaudi’s Sagrada Família the day before, giving it surreal movement that gradually melts into abstract forms inspired by Gaudi and Dali. @kkpearl66 crafted a lighting look around my video piece, @blueleach dialed in real-time psychedelic distortions to his overlaid live camera feeds, and as my video dissolved into a haze towards the end of the song @eddievedder took over on some visuals of his own, using his guitar to reflect a beam of light out onto the crowd. It was only noon yesterday when Jeff threw out the idea of using his photo to bring some of the city’s own inspiring texture into the show, and by that evening we had created all this from it. Truly a chain of inspirations, and a very fun challenge for one of my favorite cities in the world. Muchas gracias, Barcelona!
#pearljam #robsheridan #gaudi #gaudiarchitecture #concertvisuals #barcelona
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Verrrrry cool! Thanks for sharing.0
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Great!demetrios said:
rob_sheridanA look at the one-off visual piece we cooked up for “Half Full” at last night’s @pearljam Barcelona show. I brought a photo to life that @officialament had taken at Gaudi’s Sagrada Família the day before, giving it surreal movement that gradually melts into abstract forms inspired by Gaudi and Dali. @kkpearl66 crafted a lighting look around my video piece, @blueleach dialed in real-time psychedelic distortions to his overlaid live camera feeds, and as my video dissolved into a haze towards the end of the song @eddievedder took over on some visuals of his own, using his guitar to reflect a beam of light out onto the crowd. It was only noon yesterday when Jeff threw out the idea of using his photo to bring some of the city’s own inspiring texture into the show, and by that evening we had created all this from it. Truly a chain of inspirations, and a very fun challenge for one of my favorite cities in the world. Muchas gracias, Barcelona!
#pearljam #robsheridan #gaudi #gaudiarchitecture #concertvisuals #barcelona"Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"0 -
My current desktop photo on my laptop, taken from a 2015 Europe trip. great minds think alike @officialament.Post edited by BrainofBGA onMelbourne #1 '98
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My current desktop photo on my laptop, taken from a 2015 Europe trip. great minds think alike @officialament.
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One of the greatest places I’ve ever been. And it’s not even ‘finished’.demetrios said:BrainofBGA said:
My current desktop photo on my laptop, taken from a 2015 Europe trip. great minds think alike @officialament.
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rob_sheridanA fun unplanned clip I took on my phone of @pearljam playing “Alive” a couple nights ago to a fantastic crowd in Madrid. The Mad Cool Festival’s unusually long/wide barricade trench made it easy to walk from our lighting/video desks all the way up to the stage and keep the camera rolling, so I had a bit of fun with it. Chopped up for length here, but I posted the unedited single-take video at YouTube/RobSheridanProductions as it’s much better that way and I’m sure a lot of PJ fans who were there would want to see themselves in the crowd. Filmed on iPhone 15 Pro Max, raw phone audio.
#pearljam #madcoolfestival2024 #pearljamlive #madrid
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Pearl Jam - "Alive" in Madrid 2024 - From the lighting desk to the stage / Mad Cool 24.07.11 - 4K
A fun unplanned single-shot clip I took on my phone of Pearl Jam in Madrid, where the Mad Cool Festival's long barricade trench allowed me to walk easily from our lighting/video desks all the way up to the stage, and keep the camera rolling. Filmed on iPhone 15 Pro Max, camera audio.
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Electric waves crafted with light for @pearljam’s “Got to Give” stage visuals on their current Dark Matter world tour. Light refracted off of Mylar sheets onto a projection screen, which we filmed at 1000fps while I crinkled and shook the Mylar in various ways. In ultra slow motion, the resulting textures move in a uniquely alien way, filled with rapidly twitching and shifting details that feel like something between liquid and electricity. By finding a good rhythm of shaking the Mylar with the light hitting at just the right angle, I was able to capture iridescent waves that moved slowly and elegantly while also crackling with small frenetic movements. Those two layers of motion were something I was always looking for in our experiments as I sought to create slow, gradually-evolving long-form visuals that also carried in them a palpable energy to match the intensity of #PearlJam’s live performance.
The warm glow of the electric waves came from our unique light source: incandescent light bent through the lens of a vintage overhead projector. The projector was a great find by producer @stephanie_sheridan_ at @tinkertopia here in Tacoma, and we used it for quite a few other visuals in the show, inspired by the Joshua Light Show & other pioneering analog psychedelic visuals of the 1960s/70s.
For the song’s climax, multiple layers of the electric waves overlap, filling the stage’s projection screen with a rainbow of psychedelic light, and lighting director @kkpearl66 adds another layer of real refraction patterns using three physical mirror balls that rotate at the base of the screen. The mirror ball light spills out across the entire arena, as if the light has been released from the screen, uniting the band and audience for a celebratory conclusion.
I’ll be back out on the #DarkMatter tour in a couple weeks as it continues in the US! Come check it out if you can find tix!
“Got to Give” / Electric Waves:
Director: Rob Sheridan
Producer: @stephanie_sheridan_
Editor/Post: Rob Sheridan
Camera Operator: @donovonmedia
Production Assistant: @ilanarahaman
Camera: Freefly Ember by @freeflysystems
Filmed at Rob Sheridan Productions, Tacoma, WA.
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One of my favorite moments from my work on @pearljam’s current Dark Matter world tour. The visuals for “Wreckage” are a slow burn of tension and release created from a single shot of rolling waves followed by a crashing wave, filmed off the Washington coast at 1000fps. It’s very hard to convey the way this feels as a full piece without seeing it in person, but PJ released a live video of it today filmed in Las Vegas so you can get a taste of the full song. Here are a couple clips accompanied by the raw stage visuals.
Tour visuals director/editor: Rob Sheridan
Producer: @stephanie_sheridan_
DP/Camera Op: @donovonmedia
Live camera director: @blueleach
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“Wreckage” performed live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, featuring tour visuals by Rob Sheridan. Camera direction by Blue Leach.
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A little datamoshing by @blueleach’s notch FX pedal, where he adds real-time effects to his live cameras during the @pearljam show. As the tour has progressed we’ve continued to refine bespoke looks for individual songs (which might or might not ever show up on PJ’s famously ever-changing setlists), including matching some custom camera treatments to my pre-filmed visuals. For “Life Wasted,” I filmed incandescent light refracting off the surface of liquid in a wave box at 1000fps macro, making water move like dancing flames. Blue then uses his foot pedal to “melt” the overlaid camera feed as the liquid flames pass over it. Although the organic aesthetic I created for PJ’s #DarkMatter world tour is very far away from #glitchart, the blooming melty look of datamoshing blends in perfectly here. See you on the road!
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Without coming across as the grumpy type - but am I the only one who thinks that Pearl Jam doesn't need this kind of "show" at all?We're more or less glued to screens all day. Of course I thought it was cool in Manchester for a few scenes to see Mr. Mike McCready's solos so gigantic. But you lose focus of what's happening on stage. With this gigantic thing behind the band, you are inevitably distracted. Even if you're sitting close to it and can see everything perfectly even without screens.
In really big venues it may be different, as a large part of the audience is dependent on it.0
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