Delving into Audiovisual performance, it’s easy to get overwhelming. Mashing up commercials, music videos, sampled footage and more can quickly lead to eyeball meltdown.

Here, then - Mike Winkelmann (as Beeple) takes simple and distinct typographic elements, synced to a minimal lo-fi tech soundtrack to create AV that is masterfully compelling and straightforward.

Beeple - Century Gothic from momo_the_monster on Vimeo.

Mr. Winkelmann continues to produce and release as Beeple - he’s created new more fanciful works since his first appearance on CDM. See his whole library at Beeple.com.

Also, he’s got screenings of IV.7(annoyingly small mix) coming up at Ann Arbor Film Festival (March 25-30), as well as the Wisconsin Film Festival (April 3-6th).

Beeple contains a suite of intricately animated, synaesthetic IDM styled music videos. Lofi, crunchy beats, good times from Mike Winkelmann.

Check out IV.4 or Century Gothic for a taste. If they’re to your liking grab the 20 minute IV.2 or have a look at DoneBestDone for more Winkelmann collaborations.

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VJ Fader, creator of Max/MSP/Jitter-powered Neuromixer (an excellent
video mixer with lots of support for controllers), now introduces a
first: VDrum is a step sequencer not only for audio, but video, too. The first version was released today with the following features:

• Sequence AV clips using on/off switches, via numeric pad or MIDI input
• Record video and audio to hard drive
• Multiple resolution support (as in Jitter)
• Audio and video effects
• Midi support

VJ Fader is looking for sample content to include, so contact him if you're interested.

Windows XP only for now, but the other software is cross-platform so this may be, too, very soon.