David Hirschfelder pretty much has what most of us would desire: great keyboard chops, a superb home studio, and an abundance of film scoring gigs that deliver the odd Academy Award nomination. Add to that an enviable history of live ...

Do you need to have a VJ in your band to have great live visuals onstage? If you’re the keyboard player, you already have a VJ in your band: you! We’ve examined VJing and live visuals in the past in Music/Picture, but here we’ll look ...

If the term “VJ” suggests to you dull, pseudo-psychedelic light shows or even worse — vacuous hosts on MTV, you’ve obviously never seen New York-based VJ star Holly Daggers. “For me, it’s like a music video,” says Holly. “What I do ...

In the not so distant past, synchronized video playback for live concerts was a form of show enhancement strictly reserved for arena-level superstars. But with multimedia technology advancing at rocket speed, live video is now well ...

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, live light shows were an everywhere. Plates of colored oil on an overhead and kaleidoscopic projectors enabled live visual performances that for whatever reason, fell out of fashion. In the late ’70s, ...