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VJ-ing is taking off in clubs around the world in the same way that DJ-ing did three decades ago. Powerful video screens are installed as standard.

But now portable computers enable film clips to be incorporated into live mixing sessions. These aren’t an addition to the music, they are an integral part of a new interactive audio-visual experience...

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• Matt Black was keen to incorporate audio-visual elements into Coldcut’s live set, but his involvement increased as he began to realise the potential to transform performances by making the visual side as ‘live’ as the music...
  
  
• The VJamm team call their mixing of sounds and vision an 'audio-visual collage', and say that it’s the first time in which the worlds of visual art and music have been truly united in one package...
  
  
• The growing popularity of VJ-ing, particularly through the Cambridge team’s new, high-quality VJamm-Pro software, means that you’re now as likely to come across a VJ event at the Glastonbury Festival or in a London club as you are a straightforward DJ set...
  
  
• The UK TV channel, Channel 4 now hosts its own Pix’n’Mix website, inviting visitors to test their VJ-ing skills. It contains the Candy Jar, a growing archive of video clips which the growing VJ community can dip into for free to use in live sets...

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