Commissions

I Am The Mighty Jungulator as a live unit produce a seamless audio visual spectacular. Using midi bass and electric guitar mixed and manipulated by their own proprietary software, live visuals are created, synched and mixed into a complete and coherent live performance. IATMJ have recently premiered their new show at the Bath International Music Festival, have “re-imagined” Shostakovich's 6th Symphony (with the London Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy), and rocked out at the Tate Gallery, London. Winning the ‘Diesel-U-Music Award’ for left field electronics, IATMJ have been in great demand at art events, London clubs and festivals around the UK.

Installation

IATMJ self generative audiovisual engines are also used as installation artworks in their own right. They have been exhibited at Cybersonica 05, and been awarded development funding by The Arts Council of Great Britain to produce an online audio visual mix for The Watershed Media Centre (Bristol). They have also been commissioned by the BBC to produce an audiovisual mix engine of their Wildlife Archive as a permanent piece in their Broadcasting House, Bristol. IATMJ self generative engines can be also be used to produce an audio visual mix of your festival, taking both audio and video footage from participants and the audience.

Workshops

IATMJ software is a popular shareware download. It has been demonstrated at the Royal Festival Hall ‘Etherfest’ alongside Tangerine Dream, Cybersonica 2005 and the ICA. With support from Futurelab IATMJ have produced a combined audio visual prototype of our jungulation software which is currently being used by teachers and students in UK schools. The software is regularly praised for its unique ability to enable beginners to produce generative music and visuals in a fast and friendly environment, whilst remaining sophisticated enough to give the electronic music expert true creative freedom of expression. It offers a new narrative model and an exciting, fluid way of producing autonomous art work.

Running workshops in local areas IATMJ have rewritten education models for audio visual learning. Using their innovative software they have produced community portraits and engaged local youth with their fierce ‘do it yourself’ work ethic. Through the success of these workshops IATMJ have been invited to demonstrate their education models in a series of highly successful workshops at the UK Film Education Council, and cinemas and media centres around the country.

IATMJ's unique practice has seen them discussing and commenting on their work at the Royal Festival Hall, the UK Science Museum, the Arnolfini and Watershed Art and Media centres in Bristol and as artists in residence at cybersonica 2005.The band demonstrate and discuss their own working practices, software and performance in a open and friendly manner, teaching practical skills, technique and resources for anyone interested in the field of audio visual arts.

Voyage into the Unknown 1

A spectacular event featuring a unique hybrid of audio-visual and analogue-digital performance, which invited its' audience to participate in an atmospheric netherworld of mystery and surprise. Inspired by classic screen river journeys like 'Fitzcarraldo' and 'Apocalypse Now', a strong sense of the cinematic was achieved through a merger of digital technology, physical performance, improvised pyrotechnics, and the interplay of light and water.

At it's core was a mystery boat excursion, commencing Bristol city centre, towards Bath. It's early evening and the voyage begins with little out of the ordinary, just a trip through the industrial inner city and into nearby countryside. The enchantment meter jumps several notches as the boats are drawn to picturesque greenery at dusk, by a trail of floating candles. Flaming torches line the banks and a guitar-playing owl and glamourous pussy-cat are rowed through mist. The audience disembark wide-eyed and explore the site - a walled garden with many trees including a majestic willow, lit by glowing lanterns and a mirror-ball hanging inside the canopy of a large oak.

Inspired live performances quickly follow from Kid Carpet and I Am The Mighty Jungulator. Both performances showcase integrated audio-visual interplay that is both improvised and cohesively thematic. Ninety minutes later IATMJ's set ends with white smoke spiraling into the night sky, as the audience board the boats to commence a return journey along a river now solely lit by candles. The boats slow up at key points, and exciting drama unfolds along the bank and overhead from footbridges, featuring 'hit and run' pyrotechnics that are both nuanced and spectacular. For a finale, pirate-technicians board the lead boat for a dramatic return to central Bristol.

Heres some movies of the event...

journey out and performances...

return journey...