Performance

Grenztänzer is a privately initiated dance theater production involving 124 students from various schools in Weimar, the German National Theater and the Staatskapelle Weimar.

+++ PRESS KIT: PLASTIKMAN LIVE 2010 TOUR and CONTEST+++ +++ PRODUCED in COLLABORATION with MINUS and DERIVATIVE+++ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: PLASTIKMAN & DERIVATIVE TEAM UP for 2010 TOUR Derivative is pleased to announce the next-gen of their collaboration with techno-futurist Richie Hawtin who i

Bryant Place (also known as the visual artist/creative technologist CPU) was recently in residence at Derivative HQ to beef up his TouchDesigner skills, show us the ropes with the Jazzmutant Lemur, and be the first to try out Ableton's Max for Live to TouchDesigner via OSC - and all this in 2 weeks!

Sept.07.09 | RASTER-NOTON deploys DERIVATIVE'S TOUCHDESIGNER at ARS ELECTRONICA In 2008 raster-noton and Derivative joined forces for a unique collaborative project which focused on the realization of the label artists' visual presentation during their audio-visual live shows on the basis of Derivat

MUTEK 10 in Montreal last month provided a forum for Derivative to showcase the performative capabilities of its software tool TouchDesigner alongside some of (and in the case of Alva Noto aka Carsten Nicolai - by) the international music scene's most exacting and saluted artists and labels.

The day following our arrival in Lisbon Richie Hawtin and Ali Demirel fly in from Berlin for the night to meet with Greg Hermanovic and Markus Heckmann to discuss previous and future collaborations. Lively conversation though jet-lag in effect.

Derivative recently collaborated with SND at Transmediale 09, Berlin to perform the visual aspect of their musical set composed of accumulating vertical colour strips released by the "twiddling of knobs" as Derivative's Greg Hermanovic put it, where each strip is "an 'era' of knob-turns making up th

RUSH PUTS DERIVATIVE's SECRET TOUCH ON 30th ANNIVERSARY TOUR Derivative produced custom live visuals for the Rush 30-year anniversary tour this summer. Rush played 55 shows in North America, the UK, Germany and other European cities.