2 of my tracks are featured on October’s excellent mix CD ‘Recession vol.1’ , already getting nice reviews (DJ magazine below)

Last year I was approached by Jurriaan van Dam with an idea for an interactive audio installation that would record the sounds made by visitors walking through a hallway and play them back a few seconds later a few meters further, so that you would keep hearing the sounds you were making as you walked along the hallway. I programmed a prototype version of his idea using cps but Jurriaan died before we could test it. His friends at LoFar decided to finish the installation in his memory, and contacted 11, who generously co-funded the project and let us build it there. You can try it out for yourself every day before 10pm, until saturday, after which 11 will be closed and demolished.

more info:
mediamatic
DJBroadcast

Music in Motion flyer

As some of you know, I have been coaching an interesting project at the Film Academy the last 6 months. It is a cooperation between Film Academy and Music Academy (Conservatorium) students where they make an audiovisual piece together where the music reacts on the visuals and the visuals on the music. Some pieces are linear/narrative but there is also a soundreactive city and in one piece the conductor uses a wiimote instead of a baton, painting an abstract landscape while conducting the orchestra. This sunday the Max Tak film orchestra will perform it at the WesterUnie in Amsterdam.

Op zondag 13 april 2008 zal in de WesterUnie in Amsterdam de eindpresentatie van MUSIC IN MOTION plaatsvinden!

MUSIC IN MOTION zet de interactie tussen beeld en geluid een avond lang centraal. Van een performance van het innovatieve KeyJay (hammond, drums, vocals in combinatie met visuals) tot de klassieke animaties Father and Daughter en The Monk and The Fish van Oscar winnaar Michael Dudok de Wit. Klap op de vuurpijl: vijf nieuwe korte films met live uitgevoerde soundtrack van studenten van de Nederlandse Film- en Televisieacademie en het Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Om in stijl af te sluiten met de soulfull house van DJ Diephuis en winnaar van Visual Sensations 2007 VJ Neef.

MUSIC IN MOTION is een initiatief van het van oorsprong filmorkest MaxTak. Orkest MaxTak heeft elf studenten gevraagd om hun visie te geven op de geluidloze film. Niet door te werken op de traditionele manier: eerst de film, dan de muziek. Maar door echt samen aan de slag te gaan. Onder leiding van dirigent Micha Hamel presenteert Orkest MaxTak in MUSIC IN MOTION het resultaat.

On April 4th I will give a workshop on VJing with Flowmotion at the School of Audio Engineering in Amsterdam
It will start at 19.00

Continuing my recent affair with Dutch language singers, I just returned from a VJ gig at the AZ football stadium, to VJ for Gordon, Frans Bauer amongst others… Oh dear..

Thursday October 18th I’ll do a one hour audiovisual live set at Audio Illustrated‘s launch party at the Odeon between 23.30 and 0.30. In the same room also audiovisual performances by Pantoffeldiertjes and E202

The weirdest gigs are happening to me at his moment. The Pantoffeldiertjes asked me to assist on the set of Jan Smit’s new video clip shooting (and as it later turned out, also 3 commercials for C&A fashion).

Using 2 16.000 lumen Christie projectors provided by our friends at Virtual Events, we provided background visuals for the shooting of ‘Dan volg je haar benen’, by Jan Smit, who is a repeat offender at taking #1 in the Dutch charts.

Just when you think you’ve seen everything, you get invited to a mad festival in Ukraine, which in retrospect may just be the biggest dance festival in the world. Where else do you have hundreds of thousands of visitors, over 300 DJs (such as Timo Maas, Dr. Motte, Armin, Grooverider, Robert Babicz, Teichmann Brothers, Playlove, and many more) and who knows how many live acts, 15 stages (and I do not mean tents but architectural feats like geodesic domes, Roman style arenas, some built on land, some in the middle of the sea, some only accessible via a 5m high monorail), and lasting over 5 weeks non-stop?

V-King and me were lucky enough to be invited to VJ there, we stayed for 10 days, VJing 4 nights amongst which one of the highlights of the festival doing the mainstage (which was open only on some crowded saturdays) for Timo Maas amongst others. We even managed to do some DJing on 2 occasions.

With some of the best music you ever heard, gorgeous women wherever you look, this has been more than we hoped for and 10 days were over before we knew it. If you have never heard of it, Kazantip is like combining all the cool clubs on Ibiza on one huge terrain by the Crim sea and fusing it with some Burning Man creativity, that’s as close as I get to describing it.

I just found this video on Youtube describing the interactive VJ installation ‘video-matic’ which I developed in 2005, commissioned by Olga Mink.

related:
video-matic online!

The fabulous people from Fabchannel just put online some footage from the Moon Baker CD release party at the Melkweg in May thi s year. Go to their site to view the full concert.