VJ Residence
Since the opening of Schlachthaus Tübingen in 2014, DAS SHINING has been an integral part of the club’s visual identity. Through live-generated visuals, custom-built installations, experimental lighting systems and site-specific projections, we continuously transform the space into an audiovisual playground.
Each event offers an opportunity to experiment with new technologies, explore the interaction between sound, light and image, and create immersive experiences that go beyond conventional club visuals. The residency serves as an ongoing artistic laboratory, where new ideas are developed, tested and shared directly with the audience.
Timo’s focus lies on highly audio-reactive, generative glitch aesthetics that change from night to night. From Rutt/Etra-based video synthesis to databending GPU buffers on the fly, he has shaped the club’s look from the very beginning, while making sure to present a coherent visual narrative. In 2026, he explored not only how visuals can respond to the DJ’s audio input, but also how people’s ecstatic movements on the dance floor can be incorporated. With a depth-sensing camera that also extracts skeleton data, dancing becomes another anonymized variable that feeds into the visuals. This way, the visitors’ energy is translated directly onto the screen.
On the nights Jens is playing, the visual focus is more image-based. One or two videos run through a series of effect chains in which every parameter is driven either by the audio or by the current song’s BPM. On top of this, digital feedback effects modeled on their analog counterparts, made famous in the ’80s, are triggered with every bass hit. This interplay makes for mesmerizing nights in which people can get lost in an ocean of sensory stimuli.