It’s been just under a week since returning back from Antwerp, Belgium — having performed during the last night at the 2024 festival edition of Waveteef was an amazing time, with incredible live acts and DJs, along with the opportunity to see friends from far and wide.
Along with playing a full set as Soft Riot, I was also asked by the festival organisers to create background visuals for this year’s festival to go behind the live acts and DJs, based on the strength of visual work I’ve been doing over the last who knows how long.
With video work mainly being done for music videos for artists as well as informational videos, this was the first project solely relying on club visuals. Paying close attention to the colours, graphics and styles established in their festival graphics, promotional materials and apparel for their 2024 edition, the goal was to create a long enough series of graphics using their established colours and style (mainly relying on retro vector graphics) to create a set of visuals that complimented the festival atmosphere, without being too bright or distracting. The approach to assembling the visuals used digital tools but with an old school approach, sourcing out video clips from the deepest internet archives, as well as an accumulated library at my disposal — a complex layering of clips that were distorted, tinted and colourised for an authentic Waveteef experience!