Brett Bolton is an audiovisual artist from Las Vegas, Nevada.
live performances / music / installations / concert visuals
Avoid - Single - Out NOW!
My first single, Avoid, is out on all the streaming services! Here’s a video of me playing with the live setup.
I’m not great at writing long descriptions, so here are some notes on what this is and why / how I made it:
This is the first track from EP1, which releases Nov 7
Each track on this EP focuses on a specific movement as I interact with the visuals behind me
I use my touchpad and drums to push around some particles that try not to be pushed… get it? Avoid
The 2D particles become 3D metallic blob versions of themselves inside a cardboard box that I had sitting in my studio
It’s fun to shift between a mixture of 2D and 3D visuals
I loop the intro movements on the touchpad so I can play the drums
The visuals inspired the music and the music inspired the visuals
Erae touchpad: pushes particles around and makes a grainy synth noise with pressure / movement
Kick: turbulence hits on the particles and triggers a high pass envelope on the particle sound
Snare: geometry extrusions from the particles, inversions between 2D and 3D world
Music software: Ableton and Sensory Percussion
Visual software: Notch
Single recording mixed by Corin Roddick and mastered by Aneek Thapar
::real-time AV purist disclaimer::
The visuals here are all rendered in real-time and triggered by what I’m playing.
For this video I layered the audio from the single in with the live audio to showcase the single release (and because it sounds better)… so this can be considered a music video rather than a 100% live audio recording. Those will come soon.
EP1 - Out November 7th, 2025
Photo by Ryan Ray