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Goodboys — Live Visuals / VJ Set

A two-hour audio-reactive visual performance, composed in real time across a five-column LED stage at Atakule, Ankara.

A live visual system built for a two-hour Goodboys show on an open-air stage below Atakule, Ankara, with the city behind the screens. The stage was five LED columns of different sizes standing in a shallow arc, and the rig treated them as one canvas: a shared 3D scene rendered through five cameras, one per column, each sent out as its own NDI feed and decoded to HDMI at the wall — so a line that crosses the stage stays a line.

Audio analysis drives the whole rig: low, mid, high, onset and beat are extracted live from the desk feed and fed to scene parameters, so cuts, hue moves and flashes land on the music rather than on a timeline. An autopilot advances scenes on a beat count within a pool, with a keyboard map and a phone remote for the moments worth taking by hand.

The band's clip pack was transcoded to HAP for realtime playback and pushed through a point-cloud pipeline that moves with the music, alongside authored scenes — cymatics, liquids, type.

By
Özgür Kahraman — 3D & Immersive Artist
Year
2026
Role
VJ · System Design
Tools
  • TouchDesigner
  • Essentia
  • NDI

The night

Goodboys, after dark

The first clip is recut from the organizer's own post, dusk to dark. The rest were shot by friends in the crowd — the one angle the person running the visuals never gets.

Three panels of the rig's output: audio-reactive particle lines
From the organizer's post
Light beams over the crowd, a white cell pattern across the screens
GOODBOYS in type across the screens, the crowd lit yellow
Red beams over the duo at the decks
The duo at the booth, hands up in the crowd, the screens going white then red
GOODBOYS repeated down the screens in blue, phones up in the crowd
A red pattern across the screens over the crowd
The crowd in blue light, the screens behind them

Before dark

Soft Analog opened

Soft Analog played the sunset slot before Goodboys, with the screens already running and the city and the tower still visible behind them.

The five columns in a row at dusk, blue and white patterns across them
The stage at sunset: a red lattice across the screens, the two DJs between them, Ankara behind
The crowd seated on the grass before the red screens
The whole stage from the back of the terrace, the city fading behind it
Close on the columns: a red lattice and blue cells in the last light
The city below, the red screens and the people watching
Pink and black patterns across the screens over the two DJs
People seated on the terrace steps, the red lattice on the screens
Blue cells across a column, the crowd close
Atakule above the stage at dusk, two LED columns of white starfield below it and the crowd behind

The rig

A laptop, a keyboard and a phone

Everything ran from one RTX 30-series laptop at the side of the stage: TouchDesigner rendering the five outputs, Essentia listening to the desk through a TouchDesigner extension, a keyboard map for the moments worth taking by hand, and a phone remote served by the project itself — for walking out into the crowd while the autopilot held the show.

Stage
Five LED columns in an arc, one NDI feed each
Audio
Essentia — low, mid, high, onset, beat
Clips
41 from the band, DXV to HAP
Control
Keyboard · phone remote · autopilot
The project on screen, running to the music
The control panel, live — scenes changing on the beat
At the laptop beside the stage, TouchDesigner open, the screens in the sun
The phone remote in hand, the screens running behind it
Walking the terrace with the phone remote, the stage and the city ahead
The rig from above: the laptop, the road case, the operator
At the laptop, looking up at the screens