Episode 19 is here, and we have the melty wizard Alex Tman AKA  @psybernautics5164 . Alex is a master developer, a generative magician and absolute banger of a VJ, harnessing the power of GLSL and shaders he has created some of the most iconic and wild looking scenes on the Synesthesia marketplace, he has performed with massive electronic music acts and played at massive festivals all around the US. we go into Alexs beginnings as a software engineer in the security sector, to getting blasted at bass shows and being introduced to Visuals by  @zipvisuals8713 , falling in love with GLSL and discovering synesthesia, the power of generative real-time audio reactive visuals, self acceptance and self expression, coping with depression via coding and art and getting inspired from others being inspired!! For Alex's SET we get blessed with a heated real-time, generative audio/visual set with absolutely banging music by Mirage, Alex then shows us how he makes his visuals in GLSL within the powerful and super VJ friendly Synesthesia. For those not familiar @synesthesialive is one of the most advanced and powerful VJ software's out there, a real-time generative playground harnessing the power of GLSL in an easy to use and intuitive environment. This was the longest set we've done, and seeing Alex's scenes (available to purchase on the synth marketplace) at the code level was fascinating! It was a huge pleasure having Alex on and we had such a blast together!!! Check out Alex's shop for some heaters - https://www.psybernautics.art/shop https://www.instagram.com/psybernautics.art/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnJqX-7cHcGbI0--b03ke8w https://www.facebook.com/Psybernautics.art Check out Synesthesia, They have a free version and you wont be disappointed - https://synesthesia.live/#download https://linktr.ee/synesthesia.live https://www.instagram.com/synesthesia.live/ Check out Mirages music - https://miragesound.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/brady_mirage/ Chapters: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:02:30 - Introduction to Interactive Design & Development 00:24:59 - Getting into Shaders and Visuals 00:37:39 - The Joy of Creating Visuals 00:49:40 - Dealing with Phishing Emails 01:02:02 - Recognizing patterns in code 01:11:10 - SET - Intro To Synesthesia 01:17:39 - AUDIO/VISUAL SET - Music by Mirage 02:21:34 - SET - Under the hood of GLSL in Synesthesia 02:28:21 - SET - more GLSL, Mixing Hexagons and Boxes 02:41:58 - SET - Different Approaches to Visual Effects 02:55:55 - The Creative Process and Perfectionism 03:02:45 - The Power of Radical Self-Expression 03:20:53 - Finding Passion in Problem Solving and Coding The Visual Cast Podcast is a weekly, recorded live visual podcast, where we interview some of the best, most influential and most talented visual artists from around the world! We break up the interview with the "set", an interactive portion of the cast where the guest chooses what they want to share with us!! It can be anything from a live generative visuals set to a show and tell of a past project, or in this case a deep dive into Synesthesia and GLSL. Please like and subscribe & join us next week for another episode! Follow us @thevisualcast to find out who next week's guest is! If you enjoyed this podcast, please head on over to Apple Podcasts and Spotify and give us a review!! Intro/Outro music by Mantismash https://www.instagram.com/mantismash Follow the Cast https://www.instagram.com/thevisualcast https://www.facebook.com/thevisualcast Follow Alon Hammer/REM https://www.instagram.com/remvisualart https://www.facebook.com/remvisualart https://remvisuals.com Thank you so much for watching and again a massive thanks to Alex for coming on!