Flow Arts Friday: Travis Liddell
Have you ever met somebody and thought to yourself, “this person is dope. I feel like we’re gonna be best friends.” That’s how I felt when I met Chicago native, Travis Liddell at Summer Set Music Festival in 2014. Almost five years later, we’ve both grown as humans, friends and flow artists. He’s a master mesmerizer with glowing finger lights and he’s our #flowartsfriday feature of the week.
Here’s our Q&A with the passionate flow artists, himself!
Q: How long have you been gloving?
A: I have been gloving for about five years. I started in late October of 2013.
Q: What made you want to start?
A: Around 2012, I was introduced to electronic music for the first time, and being a musician since I was ten years old, anything that had a rhythm and emotion was always good music in my book. So, you put that with gloves that light up and bend to your will – I felt like a music conductor in a way. So I had to try it for myself.
Q: What’s your preferred color of lights?
A: Bubblegum is a nice color that sends a fun loving energy to the receiver. The colors just have to consist of some variants of pink and light colors.
Q: What’s your favorite trick? Is that what it’s called? Like when you make a cool shape or animal with your fingers?
A: It’s funny because I haven’t named any of the moves i’ve created over the past five years. My favorite move I’d have to say is the endless finger-roll, which is a very nice, basic, fundamental move that helped me figure out how to switch directions smoothly, and now it’s one of my most entertaining skills.
Liddell at Lost Lands 2017:
Q: Who do you get your gloves from?
A: Emazing lights.
Q: Have you ever thought of collaborating with a hooper or other flow artist?
A. I have actually. There were a couple of times I have done random collabs with glovers but we were just messing around with concepts and ideas. Although, thinking outside the box is also a fun time as well.
Q: What do you like better: gloving with a few friends or gloving in the middle of a crowd?
A: A few friends. If you’re really deep in the crowd, you are there for a whole different reason. I’d rather kick it and glove with some homies on the side or in the back parts of the venue.
Q: Obviously you’d bring your gloves, but what are the other 2 things you’d have with you on a desert island?
A:One big pack of 1620 batteries and a phone with all my spotify songs downloaded.
Q: What type of music do you like to flow to?
A:Recently, I dived into post-hardcore, just to try it out, and got amazing results actually.
Q: What’s one piece of advice you’d like to offer new flowmies?
A:To have fun and not let people take that flow away from you. If you like gloving on your way home from work, or hooping at 2 a.m. because you can, or you wanna juggle or spin on your way somewhere, do it. The flow is in all of us, so don’t keep it caged up.
IG: ttliddell
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