Madonna and the Production Studio
Last month the San Jose Mercury News ran a cool article about how the tech guy for Madonna's current tour, Jason Harvey, uses the Adobe Production Studio backstage to edit, manipulate, and play out all the dozens of video feeds that are shown on huge video screens throughout the show. (It's since been picked up by a bunch of papers, so you may have seen it in your own local paper). As Jason says, the whole production is more theater than concert but I think it's fun seeing this kind of video work done during an ostensibly music event. It seems like this is part of the same popularization of "VJs" doing video remixes live as their own art, just at the very high end of the production value scale. In any case, I see these collisions of video and music just happening more and more in the future.