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Leon Trimble is a Photographer, Videographer & Visualist. Vjing as Chromatouch locally & internationally in clubs, at concert venues & music festivals he has gained a consistent reputation for exciting images and stage screen layouts. He is developing artistic ideas using emergent technologies. These include Fulldome 360° venues; HDR imaging; body movement capture; stitching video; MIDI control; immersive environments; recreating movement from stills and sequencing narrative. Throughout Leon’s varied career his core video skills continue to lead him into new areas and exciting collaborations.

Leon Trimble was born, raised and is resident in Birmingham. Using skills and knowledge gained from college and the professional world Leon built up his business ‘Chromatouch Visuals’ where he specialises in live visuals, filmmaking and videography. Along with local underground Djs he started Jigsawmusic which was nominated ‘Club of the Year 2005’ on Radio 1’s Gilles Peterson Show. National work includes Vjing at the ‘Big Chill’ music festival, which is held annually in Herefordshire, coordinating Visuals at the Shambala, Bloom and Drop Beats not Bombs music festivals and visual performances at events like the ‘Fierce Festival’ and ‘Artsfest’ held in the West Midlands. In 2005 Leon was co-organiser of the international `Avit` V.J. Festival where he was curator of the video installation gallery. He has played with many and varied DJs and Live acts of International renown, from Lydia Lunch to Zero 7.

Since 2004 he has made the short installation film ‘Beginning, Middle, End’ with Vivid. He participated in ‘The 18th Storey; The Haddon Tower Project’ as a member of Behind Closed Doors in an empty flat in a vacated tower block in Birmingham City Centre. Two years running has been visually responsible for the 6 hour show that Project X put on where all subsequent musical artists play with the last – seamlessly across three stages, using live cameras, performance artists, and pre-rendered narrative sequences to glue the whole thing together. He has exhibited photographs in the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Central Library, St Paul’s Gallery, Midlands Architectural Centre, Claire Galleries, at Artsfest and for Rhubarb Rhubarb. He has devised an Audio Visual live set called Soundtracks which he has used for the Film Birmingham launch parties in St. Martin’s Church in the Bullring. Collaborating closely with dancers and choreographers, he has mixed live footage as theatre backdrop and experimented with silhouetted dancers on visuals screens most recently for the New Vibes festival at The Birmingham Hippodrome’s Patrick Centre and the Peace Not War coalition. He’s provided content and edited footage for the Birmingham Science Museum (Thinktank) for use in its exhibits.

Most recently he has undertaken a major project partnering with the Thinktank Planetarium and Fracture screen dance initiative. Working in collaboration with Stoke choreographer Lisa Wetton, he devised and built a camera array capable of filming 360°x180° for the fully immersive Fulldome format. Combined with fisheyed still images and HD footage in conjunction with the Fulldome plugin he created a piece that conveyed the instinctive and unconcious movement of the dancers relative to maps of energy in and around the body. The piece Written on The Body was critically received as a fundamentally new choreography of both dancer of camera.

Leon is currently building his own geodesic AV dome to tour the music festivals in 2008. He will also be entering into academic research into the filming of dance for immersive environments…