2MS (Dan Tombs)

Jon Hopkins Remix > Flume - The Difference (feat. Toro y Moi) This is one of my favourite Jon Hopkins remixes, and was pleased when Jon wanted to include it in the live shows for 2023. As ever Jon had a very specific vision for how this track should be represented visually, mapping each note of the melody out precisely in a colourful and beautiful organic manner. This led me to finally collaborate with my good friend @destroythingsbeautiful who made an incredible Notch patch that tracked the MIDI notes Jon is playing and allowed us to visualise them in these soft blooms in realtime. I then took this animation from notch and layered with effects and treatments in Final Cut Pro and performed it live with VDMX as part of Jon’s 2023 shows. Fulfilling the aim to create a tightly synchronised visual representation of the remix that evolves and flows with the dynamics of the track in a hypnotic light poem. @mrjonhopkins @flume @toroymoi @destroythingsbeautiful @bwtvlondon @notchvfx @vidvox @littlebigbooking #jonhopkins #flume #toroymoi #dantombs #2ms #destroythingsbeautiful #jimwarrier #notchvfx #liveav #vdmx #psychedelicart #abstractart #videoart #visualmusic

Don’t know why I haven’t posted this sooner, but late in 2021 I continued my collaboration with Fred and tracks from Actual Life 2 were performed live for the first time here one night on the banks of the Thames. We’re now taking many of these tracks out to audiences across Europe and the United States and can’t be happier and prouder of the work. Wonderful working with a rich creative team and the boundless energy and spirit of Fred. Big love and hyped to feel crowds vibe to this powerful and joyous set 🧡 Repost from @fredagainagainagainagainagain • I went into a real trance making this one guyzzzzz. There are a LOT of treats in it I think! This is one of my fav moments mainly jus cos I love the original video of Faisal walking down the street so much! @ifacesoul Also want to see a BIG shout out to Dan, our visuals brother from day 1 at @2ms_studio He’s a 1 of 1 in both his talent and his kindness.

I’m always working on stuff behind the scenes, even if not posting too much here. Always stuff going on, one I’m very grateful to have been able to work on is for Australian celebration of Air Max Day working with @spacebetween_ @nikesportswear & @supplystore to bring 8 special dj sets to life with custom visuals to celebrate 30 years of that iconic sneaker. With an installation created across 16 screens created in store for the event. Putting myself into a different time zone and working from studio to create and edit these visuals was wild and exhilarating. Humbled to be part of an amazing team at Space Btween and thanks so much to @jana_langhorst for making the intro ☺️ Special shout out to @archives.nia as their tunes featured a lot in the sets and was a great warm up to our shows together this year. DJs:::::: @yokenfo @00crybaby00 @collegeofknowledgerecords @midnighttenderness @poli.pearl.00 @sophiapoyen @strangeinteractions :::::::::::: Concept and Graphic Design by @spacebetween_ Visuals @2ms_studio Edit @reptilebasement Set Recoding @by.goodideas Stills @jyebarclay #nike #airmax #airmaxday #spacebetween #glitchart #psychedelicart #dantombs #2ms #analoguevideo #vdmx #installation #collab #niaarchives

The next instalment of RESONANCE ARTEFACTS is live - featuring three conversations exploring live visuals, label management, and experimental music practice. Stream now on SoundCloud via the link in bio. This collection features Dan Tombs, Rosy Morris, and Rob Clouth: RESONANCE 007 - Dan Tombs RESONANCE 008 - Rosy Morris RESONANCE 009 - Rob Clouth These discussions cover the creation of visual languages to amplify music performance, the realities of running an independent label and supporting artists, and how playfulness unconstrained by lofty concepts can unlock creativity. Stream via link in bio. @llyr1101 @2ms_studio @rosyjmorris @robclouth

HAYLA - HEAL ///: creative direction Having the best time working with HAYLA and their team on producing these record sleeves and live videos, really happy with the work and grateful for an excellent group of humans to work with on all of this and more to come as we have produced a whole album campaign too… 1 - Sleeve Design and photography with Yev Kazannik, all shot in camera, no editing only grading 2 - Heal live at St Pancras Church London Directed and Edited the music video 3 & 4 Press shots for the project with Yev 5 - Social media profile picture with Yev 6 - Heal performed live at the former Decca studios, Directed and Edited the live Acoustic Session 7 - Press shot for gig announcement 8 - Promo clip for HEAL single release 9 - BTS at Decca 10 - BTS at St Pancras shooting B camera on stage (pic by Jubbi) 11 - Clapper board from Decca shoot The Star @haylasings Management @jonny_vick Music Director: @_ldn_electrik Photographer: @yev_kazannik Stylist: @lilbeaurae H&M: @saph.hmua Piano: @10dbmusic Strings: @boltstringsmusic Strings Arranging: @mikelesirge _Film Crew at St Pancras Nick Carter - Director of Photography @bittercreek.studio Nial Coffey - Camera Operator @niallcoffey Danny Strass - 1st Assistant Camera Operator @dannystrasserac Tom Wood - 2nd Assistant Camera Operator @thomasdavidwood1 Jubbi Georgia-Rose - Stills Photographer @jubbigeorgiarose _Film Crew at Decca Nick Carter - Director of Photography @bittercreek.studio Juan Minotta - 1st Assistant Camera Operator @juan_minotta Thomas D Wood - 2nd Assistant Camera Operator @thomasdavidwood1 Photography studio @flash.studios.london #creativedirector #hayla #albumart #musicvideo #dantombs

Light is used to create structure, isolate moments, and guide focus, working in close dialogue with the dancers and the evolving visual system. It reinforces changes in energy and mood, allowing the space to expand, contract, or fragment as the piece progresses. Thank you to all the amazing people who contributed and collaborated to make this project happen!! Visuals: @antidote.psd d and @2ms_studio Sound: @morelian @parallelprocessing marconeves_ @dbaudiotechnik Light: @mdr_lighl Production management: @leodawns Garments: @haderlump.berlin All the team at @hausdervisionaereberlin To the performers: @jade_albrieux @caterina_politi @itsdanozeri @renatitodeleon and the special prologue by @dafnikrazoudi

//// repost //// URGENCY Two days, Four shows, Five weeks in the making Joy to collaborate and support my pixel brother @antidote.psd vision for this show - much love my friend ! and to work with and become part of an exceptional community of amazing creative people. Thanks so much to everyone who came to see the who’s and supported us along the way. amazing crew behind this all🖤 and looking forward to what’s next Glad my fast fingers were caught on camera again too - nothing like making things wobble manually was a rush to manipulate the live cameras with live vfx at the mid point of the show Visuals: @antidote.psd and @2ms_studio Sound: @morelian @parallelprocessing @marconeves__ @dbaudiotechnik Light: @mdr_light Production management: @leodawns Garments: @haderlump.berlin All the team at @hausdervisionaereberlin To the performers: @jade_albrieux @caterina_politi @itsdanozeri @renatitodeleon and the special prologue by @dafnikrazoudi To the creators: @itsdanozeri and @renatitodeleon 🖤

Sharing some old archive material and the story behind working with Nathan Fake on his Hard Islands record sleeve to coincide with making a limited edition print available of the album cover artwork. These are for sale with immediate shipping, and the first ten copies will be signed by Nathan as well as myself too, the art work is the full 35mm negative image and not just what was cropped for the album sleeve and its the first time its been published. Link to my shop is in the bio, email [email protected] if you want to get a copy in a hurry or have any specific questions about the edition. #bordercommunity #nathanfake #hardislands #livevisuals #albumartwork #photography #design #dantombs

limited edition GOOD LUCK AND DO YOUR BEST - photo prints for sale https://2ms.studio/shop I have been friends with Gold Panda for 15 years and have worked together a lot during this time. The peak of our collaborations was his 2016 album GOOD LUCK AND DO YOUR BEST which I created the music videos and live touring visuals for in addition I also worked with Laura Lewis to design the album sleeve and packaging. Laura took the amazing cover image in Japan and it was down to me to come up with imagery for the back of the album and the inner sleeves and centre labels and the typography. I manually laid out the typography letter by letter to emulate the processes used on old records from the sixties, and the inner sleeve photography was all done with defective optical glass cubes to symbolise the AKAI MPC pads that Gold Panda uses in all his music. I set these cubes up in my studio and shone lights and images of nature through the cubes and used a macro lens to capture detailed shots. In the set of four images from the album, there is also the cover image to the companion EP to the album Kingdom, The photo was taken on our trip to Tokyo in 2016, and from a taxi window as we were late for our eventually missed flight home... but that’s another story The image was shot in camera using a delayed shutter technique to capture the glitched cityscape. These prints are 30cm x 30cm - the same size as a vinyl record and have never been published or made available before, once this edition is sold they won’t be reproduced so this is a special opportunity to get them. The first 5 are signed by Gold Panda and Dan Tombs and then the remaining prints will be signed just by Dan Tombs. Limited prints are €55 each and shipping to you is at cost Please send an email to [email protected] to place orders and discuss shipping options to where you are, all orders will be packed in strong card record mailers and happy to ship worldwide - will also include some 2MS stickers and happy to personalise the prints too for people. This is the first of a series of prints I have planned over the next months https://2ms.studio/shop

selected record sleeve designs 2008 - 2025 1. design | 3d render | typography | logo - artist - @mafromafromafro - label - Adorn 2. design | image | typography - artist - @bengoldmusic - label - @armadamusic 
 3. design | image - artist - @weareparisi - label - @warnermusic 

photographer - @yev_kazannik 4. design | image | typography - artist - @trancewax - label - @armadamusic 5. photography - artist - @nathanpaulfake - label - @bordercommunityrecordings 6. design | image | typography | layout - artist - @trancewax - label - @armadamusic 7. design | image | typography - artist - @trancewax - label - @armadamusic 8. photography - artist - @mrjonhopkinss - label - @dominorecordco 9. photography | design | layout - artist - @goldpandamusic - label - @cityslangrecords 10. image | design | layout - artist - @_williamdoyle - label - @xlrecordings photographer - @photolauralewis 11. design | image | typography - artist - @bengoldmusic - label - @armadamusic

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RESONANCE 007 is live Wednesday 13.08 📡 Join Llyr in conversation with Dan Tombs – a versatile visual artist who’s collaborated with artists including Jon Hopkins, Fred again.., and Four Tet across intimate venues to arena tours. He’s also worked with musicians and scientists on projects like Hello Moon, Can You Hear Me? – transforming space telescope data into live visuals. Dan works at the intersection of music, performance and moving image – blending vintage analogue hardware, modular video synthesis, and real-world textures like water, oil, and glass with TouchDesigner to create visuals that respond to and amplify the music. This is your chance to go behind the scenes with someone who’s shaped visual experiences at Glastonbury, Coachella, Sonar, major stadiums, and Sydney Opera House. Ask your questions live about the creative process, the tech, the touring, the collaborations – whatever you want to know about bringing sound to life visually. Wednesday 13.08 | 20:00 CEST | 19:00 BST | 14:00 ET | 11:00 PT Ready to join the Mesh creative community? It takes 30 seconds: → QR/Link in bio leads to our community space (free of algorithmic interference, ads, and totally free) → New to this? It’s easy – click to join then listen or participate as much as you like → RSVP to the RESONANCE event you find there to be reminded when it starts! Save this post so you don’t miss it 📌 #livevisuals #touchdesigner #audiovisual #creativecommunity #electronicmusic