On 5th and 6th of March, an outstanding electronic music event took place at the Roundhouse in London, UK. Artists from all around the world were invited and Minivegas and Quayola were asked to do visuals. Sonar somehow managed to convince the enigmatic North American MC DOOM to headline the first day, which turned out to be his first appearance on European grounds ever. For saturday, French techno DJ Laurent Garnier took the main slot.

Beside a jaw-dropping live AV-show from Ryoichi Kurokawa on friday and a in no way inferior laser show by Edwin Van Der Heide on saturday, Minivegas provided live visuals for Matthew Herbert, John Talabot or Sonar’s “Special Surprise Act” 2 Many DJs.

As for the visual style, Minivegas and Quayola decided to split it in two different approaches. First was Quayola’s, an audio-reactive visualisation, whose constant sliding movement put the audience in kind of a trance (picture 1), and second an experimental approach by Minivegas, which used 3-dimensional animated meshes created from fluid simulations and a highly-responsive engine to make these alive (picture 2).

Altogether, the fascinating venue and the high quality audio and visual content formed a mind-blowing experience that we certainly won’t forget in a hurry.