My students at the Audio-visual Production Program, at Högskolan Dalarna University College exhibits audio-visual installations in the former Duka-spot in the Bergström Shoppingmall, in Falun Sweden. Official show opening on the 4th and 5th of november, open until 10th of november. More info: http://du.se/audiovisuell
Pic: “Squareplay” by Simon Carlgren.
Welcome to the H-A-C-K opening at Färgfabriken! If you cannot attend you can still see and listen to the performance in realtime at h-a-c-k.se, which takes place sometime after the doors open 19:00 CET+1!
H-A-C-K is a threedimensional sound- and videosculpture by electronicaproducers Andreas Tilliander and Håkan Lidbo together with audio-visual artist Joel Dittrich.
In H-A-C-K music and video is created by all sounds accompanying old analogue stereos, what we usually think of as noise. These mostly unwanted sounds are here composed in a way that makes them ring beautifully instead.
In the exhibition the viewer is struck by a dense mass of impressions. Since the sound comes from several different sets of speakers, which all have a different character of sound and are placed at various heights and depths, the impression is multidimensional. Furthermore if you move around in the room an interactive experience is created where you discover completely new sounds and soundcombinations. The sounds will be visible in a very distinct way on a number of TVs connected to the noise producing apparatuses.
A set of performances where the participating artists and invited guests play the installation is also planned during the exhibition period. H-A-C-K is exhibited in Färgfabrikens projectroom 25 aug. – 16 okt. 2011. Free entrance!
Lövholmsbrinken 1
SE 117 43 Stockholm
Subway: Liljeholmen
Tram: Trekanten
Interviews at h-a-c-k.se/interviews
joeldittrich.se
hakanlidbo.com
repeatle.com
fargfabriken.se
facebook event
Full rez photos: h-a-c-k.se/press
For the third year the festival is back! And this year even more emphasis have been put into live visuals and installations. The festival is organized by Ström i P2 in collaboration with Uppsala Konsert & Kongress. For this year I was invited to join the organizing crew as curator for live visuals. I will also perform my audiovisual project White Noise Black Noise and do live visuals back to back with Aoi Yamaguchi for Ben Klock, during his first set hour, while the second hour is taken care of by KubKub.
One of the most interesting bookings to me, is the audiovisual artist Alva Noto from Germany. Together with another one of favourites, Byetone Bender, they are the minds behind the Raster-Noton label.
“Alva Noto has possibly the world’s most eccentric and unique sound. With great courage and incredible accuracy, Alva Noto released the albums Xerrox and Unitxt on his highly respected label, Raster-Noton. A long list of critics have praised him for the innovative and captivating electronica that he creates. Standing steady in not only the world of techno, but also those of ambient, glitch and noise have placed Alva Noto in a class of his own. In concert, he combines his unique sound with an equally stunning visual show. Be prepared for an extraordinary experience when Alva Noto puts on his performance at Volt.” – The Voltfestival Crew
Visual artists: Akira Miyanaga (JP), Morrsken (SE), Lysbang (SE), KubKub (SE), Instructions (UK/SE), Christian Olofsson (SE), Martin Söderblom (SE), Joel Dittrich (SE), Aoi Yamaguchi (JP/US).
Line up: Ben Klock (DE), Alva Noto (DE), Radio Slave (UK), Darkstar (UK), Mary Anne Hobbs (UK), Motor City Drum Ensemble (DE), Little Dragon (SE), Ulf Eriksson (Kontra-Musik) (SE), SKLS (iDEAL) (SE), Mokira (Andreas Tilliander) (SE), Håkan Lidbo (SE), Nomaton (aka Erik Möller aka Unai) (SE), kliin (SE), Mats Almegård (SE), Hanna Kihlander aka Knivflickan (SE), Kymatica (SE), Lisa and Kroffe (SE), Samlingen (SE), Glasnost (SE), Hype (SE), Nicole Carter (SE).
Installations: The New Fleshnetwork, Robocygne, R.FM, Lost Bots, Olle Oljud, Drawdio, 3-step, SFX40P, Mindy.
More info: voltfestivalen.se
Cartoonist Tinet Elmgren and artist/illustrator/vj Ilan Katin (also known as the community man from Garagecube) will present TagTool at the Small Press Expo (SPX) 2011. TagTool is a DIY kit for drawing and animating live. Come and see how it works and try it out. Tinet has made an informative blog page where you can learn more about TagTool (in Swedish). We will put together an informal VJ Union gathering at SPX so watch out for upcoming blog post and Facebook event.
SPX is held at Kulturhuset, Stockholm may 6-8. TagTool will be shown on the 7th and the 8th of May in Studio 3 every hour for 15 minutes as paus entertainment. We will get back with a more specific schedule.
Small Press Expo
Liveteckning på SPX11
TagTool
Edit: Here’s the Facebook event for the VJ Union gathering: http://on.fb.me/kSZ83B
SWElectronica 2011
2nd festival of swedish electronic music feat. Goto80, Random and Raquel Meyers will take place on 30 April – 4 May 2011. Join us in Moscow, St.Petersburg and Petrozavodsk!
30th.04 – Squat Cafe, Moscow
01st.05 – Tsokol, Petersburg
02sd.05 – Porshen, Petrozavodsk
<<<< Facebook event here
Mark Ridder, a brave 3rd year Interactive/Media/Design student from the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague wrote to the Swedish VJ Union to promote his show:
“Crowd VJ is an interactive visual show where visuals are defined through movement. You only need to bring your favorite light source and the visuals are generated for you while dancing. Easy as that! No vj is involved anymore, just party.”
Ok, Mark, you had my attention there for a few minutes. I went to the web site (www.markridder.nl/installationart/crowd-vj/) to read more about the project. On the site Mark goes a bit further in his explanation:
“Together with Crowd DJ we are Crowd Control. The audience is back in charge again. They decide what the music will be, what the visuals will show. No more remote distant arrogant dj. No more psychedelic nerdy wierdo vj, which you never saw before anyway. Just a do it your self party. Back to the core, back to the people.”
So there is a camera connected to a Macbook Pro running Mark’s Crowd VJ program that he made in Max/Jitter which paints by tracking light sources and sends the image to the projector. I will assume this gets pretty boring after 15 minutes? Or how long it takes for the crowd to get tired of waving their glow sticks (glow sticks, really?!). Maybe there are different funny brushes for the audience to paint with? Maybe one that sparkles? (I hope there isn’t a person that needs to control the brushes because then you will have to call him “BJ”)
The companioning software, Crowd DJ (made by fellow genius Tom Laan), also does camera tracking by dividing the dance floor into 9 squares. Each square represents a sound and each sound stars if at least one person enters a zone and stops if no one is there. I hope for Toms sake that there will be a lot of sound loops and at least 9 people on the dancefloor co-operating all night to make an interesting soundscape or that crowd will turn on you. Tom is using Max with Max 4 Live and Ableton Live to achieve this.
I don’t know about the name “Crowd Control”. Doesn’t it imply the authorities taking control of the crowd and not the power to the people as Mark seem to imply? Crowd control to me is when the riot police uses a water canon, plays high frequency noise or sprays the trouble makers with a disgusting smell to make them go home.
But this is fine as a school project and all but sorry, I won’t make it to your school party, I’m afraid. If you happen to be around the Hauge on December 14th, you can experience Crowd Control at the KABK gallery. Be sure to bring glow sticks, ear plugs and protective clothing.
I am usually pretty quick at publishing news about the Mapping festival in Geneva. This time however, due to a heavy workload, I am extremely late but I hope the news will make some people happy. The Mapping Festival is closely tied to Garagecube, the makers of the VJ software Modul8. But you don’t have to be a Modul8 user to attend to or perform at the festival. The festival is known to be well organized and display high quality work. Read Startsladd’s report from the last festival to get an idea what they are all about.
Here’s the info from Gäelle Amoudruz at the Mapping festival:
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The open call of submissions to the Mapping Festival 2011, from May 19 to 29th in Geneva, Switzerland. If you have had any ideas now is the time to share them with us! The festival promotes the concept of mixed disciplines and will accept proposals for the following categories:
The application is available on our web site: www.mappingfestival.com.
Be mindful that the deadline for submissions is November 20th, 2010.
We are looking forward to receiving your submissions!
Mapping Team
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Here’s a video from the Opening night of the 2010 edition of the festival:
Gothenburg, Kulturnatta October 1st 10:30pm @ Världskulturmuseet
An organized Video Riot will be held for the first time in this part of Sweden. It is pulled together by PixelLab under the direction of Gorki Glaser-Müller. It’s going to be a collective VJ show with multi projection on the theme FUSION. VJ’s are given a chance to drop by and interpret the theme with their own material.
It’s an open event where everyone is welcome. Our aim is to fill the entire big wall above the stairs with projections. High and low, bright and dark, graphics and video. A mosh pit of moving images!
Video artists are finally given a huge free space in Gotheburg. This event – if successful – could lead to future collaborations with the city of Gothenburg and companys here on the west coast. So don’t miss it! Send an e-mail to Gorki over at PixelLab pixellabsweden[at]gmail[dot]com and tell him you’re in!
The Swedish techno legend, Håkan Lidbo, has teamed up Berghs School of Communication. The students were given one track each to make a visual interpretation. The most significant audio elements in the music should have a visual counterpart and they should synch together. The project has been collected on a DVD that you can buy from Håkan’s web site. A release party will be held tomorrow night (Wednesday june 16) at the notorious 2:35.1 night club at Berns in Stockholm. Watch more examples at Håkan’s web site.
Video by Philip Cronerud & Richard Feldeus
If you find your self in New York City, I would like to recommend you to go to Share. Every sunday evening they throw an event labeled as “open stage multimedia jam”. First and foremost it is a place where you can explore different expressions in a variety of art forms. It´s all about ongoing collaborative and performative processes and cultural exchange. A place to meet, discuss and exchange ideas. You are encouraged to bring your own equipment, plug into their system and improvise on other´s signal and perform live audio and video.
It takes place in an old can factory in Brooklyn at a venue called The Issue Project Room – their mission is well described under Mission on their site: “ISSUE Project Room provides an open and versatile environment where both established and emerging artists can conduct, exhibit and perform new and site-specific work according to their respective visions. Through an evolving collaboration with curators, artists and educators, ISSUE Project Room fosters a wide-range of artistic projects that challenge and expand conventional practices in art.”
A couple of details from Share.dj:
“Audio jam: Prepared and spontaneous music from eight plus simultaneous performers. This is the time and place to perform a piece of music you’ve written and hear it on a large sound system, improvise spontaneously with other participants, get feedback on your latest project or try out that new max patch/software setup. Bring your noise maker of choice and an XLR, quarter-inch or RCA cable to join.
Video jam: multi-user live video synthesis. Generating an immersive visual environment, in the SHARE tradition, in which multiple participants are able to jointly compose the video output. Try out and learn about new VJ wetware. As with the audio, walk-in sets are encouraged. Bring your clips or camera or laptop/amiga and VGA, S-Video, or RCA cables to join.”
The idea of doing something like this in Stockholm is very appealing to me! Get in contact if you feel the same vibe!
