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Welcome to our July newsletter 26. London has been rocked by the bombings last Thursday, we hope all who receive this are safe. Big apologies to all as due to excessive traffic to our website our server crashed + was off line for 1 week. We have a new server + are in the process of moving our movie files to the new host, so the Downloads page will be up + running again shortly. The next 6 months we will be in New York, Los Angeles, Serbia + China with new projects.
Watch this space.

C O N T E N T S

¬ U P C O M I N G _ P E R F O R M A N C E ¬
¬ T R A N S M I T + P R I N T ¬
¬ P R E V I O U S _ P E R F O R M A N C E + S C R E E N I N G ¬
¬ E D U C A T I O N ¬
¬ S U B S C R I B E / U N S U B S C R I B E ¬
¬ C O N T A C T ¬

U P C O M I N G _ P E R F O R M A N C E

MAY 26 - JULY 16 ¬ WHAT SOUND DOES A COLOUR MAKE? EYEBEAM. NYC. USA
A new travelling exhibition, organized + circulated by Independent Curators International [ICI], presents contemporary + historical works by an internationally diverse group of artists who manipulate sound with image + image with sound. Curated by Kathleen Forde, the exhibition features artists who likewise use technology to inspire a renewed consciousness of highly un-technological experiences — physicality, human cognition, + perception. The exhibition has been reveiwed in the New York Times. 2 x Films from the  D-Tonate DVD are featured in the exhibition also D-Fuse's Light Turned Down from D-Tonate DVD with Audio by Scanner has a stand alone screening.
www.ici-exhibitions.org
www.eyebeam.org
http://query.nytimes.com

MAY 26 - SEPTEMBER 30 ¬ BECK WORLD TOUR EUROPE, WEST COAST. USA. + FUJI ROCK. JAPAN
Following our success with the Guero DVD for Beck, D-Fuse have created a live show for the tour. Our fantastic resident D-Fuse VJ Bunzo Ono has been mixing the show using Pioneer DVJ X1 decks and v4 mixers, with added sources on hard drive + laptop. The stage was designed in conjunction with Paul Normandale of lite-alternative. We are using multiple transparent screens + 5 projector sources built into a matrix, giving Bunzo the ultimate in flexibility. Beck performs a new set every night from a pool of 70 songs, so Bunzo is kept on his toes.

"There will be dining room tables onstage," says Beck, "and meals will be had." He won't elaborate, but Beck is hinting at one of the many surprises of his summer tour. Though only a handful of West Coast dates have been confirmed, Beck will ultimately tour all the way across the U.S. He and his band (which welcomes back Ryan, the world's greatest dancer) have seventy songs under their belt, including new versions of songs like The Golden Age, from Sea Change. Beck is also stoked about the visuals. For nine months he's been working with London art collective D-Fuse on backdrop projections, which will be mixed live by a Tokyo video-DJ named Bunzo. At one point it looks like the stage is a spaceship flying into warp speed, Beck says. It's amazing.
Rolling Stone July 2005
www.beck.com
www.rollingstone.com/becktour05

T R A N S M I T + P R I N T

JULY¬ DEFUSING BECK RES ONLINE MAGAZINE. USA.
JULY¬ BECKS BUZZ MACHINE WIRED MAGAZINE. USA.
Good Feature in Res Online by Sandy Hunter. "One of the more interesting music DVDs to surface of late is the Beck Guero limited edition DVD created by D-Fuse to coincide with the release of Beck's new album of the same name. The London-based visual collective seems to have truly relished putting together the 30+ unique videos comprising the disc's content"

Whilst in June's issue of Wired magazine "For Beck - the grandson of 1960s Fluxus artist Al Hansen, who advocated intermedia collaboration - jamming with animators + videographers comes naturally. "It's an interesting time in the music business, with videogames becoming more culturally dominant than albums," he observes. "When a new game comes out, it's this coveted object, the way a Stones or a Beatles record was back in the day. Guero is a real early step in a direction with a lot of possibilities."

Beck hired artists at D-Fuse in the UK to design more than 100 videostreams for the double-disc CD/DVD-Audio version of Guero. "Beck can imagine creative processes quite far down the line, like a game of chess," says D-Fuse's Michael Faulkner. "He's thinking 100 things at once. - Steve Silberman
www.res.com/magazine
www.rollingstone.com/becktour05
www.wired.com/wired/archive
www.beck.com

JULY 08 ¬ GUERO + D-TONATE DVD SCREENING ROME. ITALY 
JUNE 05¬ MTV ASIA. SCREENING OF D-TONATE DVD
As part of the umbrella festival 'Fiesta' in Roma running all Summer, the ‘Frigo Festival’ is running screenings of international audiovisual artists work. Both Beck Guero + D-Tonate DVD Films were selected to be screened in the open air cinema. Whilst D-Tonate  was screened + reviewed on the MTV Asia show Urban Beats. 
http://frigo.fiesta.it 
www.fiesta.it/

JUNE ¬ VIDEO RINGTONES. JAPAN
D-Fuse have been releasing Video Ringtones for 3G phones in Japan for the past 10 months. Thanks to the spring flowering cherry blossom in Tokyo, our ringtone “Cherry Blossom” has been #1 on the daily 'Top 20' download ranking list for the past few weeks. This month sees the Japanese major launch of STIJL a site dedicated to ringtone animations + other visual contents for 3G phones. D-Fuse have contributed 21 clips to the collection which also includes work from other top UK talent such as Andy Martin, Run Wrake, Lost in Space, + Tomato.  To coincide with the release of Beck new album D-Fuse have also released 4 Beck video ringtones. E-Pro [version 1], E-Pro [version 2], Black Tambourine + Girl from Japan’s largest ringtone site JOYSOUND which has over 7 million subscribers. All these animations are distributed by Dmove + Xing. 
www.xing.co.jp/news
www.xing.co.jp/english/index.html
www.dmove.co.jp
www.wksound.com

MARCH ¬ RUGA® ISSUE #1 DVD MAGAZINE. SPAIN
Ruga® is the new DVD magazine from creators of Rojo®Magazine. The idea of not being able to include motion + video works in the printed magazine has taken us to create Ruga®. A new magazine in DVD format, released biannually as a limited editions of 1000 DVD units containing unusual audiovisual pieces by the most talented + surprising artists worldwide including D-Fuse movie Data_Flow with audio by Seattle based electronic artist L'usine. Ruga® is art directed by Actop, a studio, created by C?r Pesquera + Alvaro P. Posadas.
www.ruga-magazine.com
www.revista-rojo.com
http://lusineweb.com

MARCH ¬ DESIGN FLUX #2 DVD MAGAZINE. PARIS. FRANCE
This 2nd Design DVD magazine release includes interviews with Pfadfinderei, Light Surgeons, Visomat + previews of D-Fuse's DVD D-Tonate_00 + Addictive TVs Audiovisualize. Go to website for more details.
www.designflux.fr

MARCH ¬ MACHINISTA DVD. USSR/SCOTLAND
Full Screen Robovision [the world as seen by the machines] is the collection of short films selected from the moving image works amongst the 259 entries uploaded on the online gallery. DVD includes D-Fuse video track Data Flow. The DVD [550 mb] is available as free download [via bittorrent + the Open Source movie archive] available at 
www.machinista.org.uk/dvd

P R E V I O U S _P E R F O R M A N C E + S C R E E N I N G S

JUNE 12 ¬ ART 3000. LE CUBE. PARIS. FRANCE.
D-Fuse were invited to an afternoon presentation on VJing , D-Fuse along with Lavomatik + Servovalve will present their work as well a short VJ performance. It was a great afternoon + thanks to Carine. We look forward to working further with Le Cube. Previous performers from other years have included Eboman, Emovie + Addictive TV.
www.lesiteducube.com

MAY 13-14 ¬. ELEKTRA FESTIVAL. MONTREAL. CANADA. LTD + PRESENTATION
Elektra is a leading-edge showcase of local, national + international digital culture. The Montreal-based festival presents artists + works that combine innovative electronic music + creative imagery derived from new technologies [animation, installations + robotics]. D-Fuse with Scanner performed live Light Turned Down is a live interchange between artists charting a conversational movement of colour, musical fragments, texture + image.   
www.elektrafestival.ca
www.scannerdot.com

APRIL 29-MAY 1st ¬ ENCOMPASS LONDON MUSIC CONFERENCE. LONDON. UK.
D-Fuse performed a short A\V set, showcasing the skills + technology involved in live AudioVisual performance + also took part in the days discussion group focusing on technology + performance. To wrap up the festival on Sunday, May 1st  D-Fuse accompanied Talvin Singh’s performance at the UMAMi party at the Rhythm Factory
www.encompass-London.com
www.UMAMi.tv
www.electronicpm.co.uk

APRIL 21-23 ¬ MAPPING FESTIVAL. USINE. GENEVA. SWITZERLAND.
The Conversion festival is a new VJing festival in Geneva. Conversion aims to provide the opportunity for International + local VJ’s to engage with their peers, participate collaboratively + promote themselves at an international level. Audiences were invited to participate in panel discussions + workshops around the new Vjing Software Modul8. The event includes many Performers + panelists incl. D-Fuse with audio by Dan Faulkner + Matthias Kispert, VJ Oxygen [Holland], C-Trl [USA] + Pixelcorps [Ireland].
www.modul8.ch
www.mappingfestival.com
www.lezoo.ch
www.wksound.com

MARCH 08 ¬ SCANNER SCANS SCIARRINO. TEATRO JOSE TAMAYO. GRANADA. SPAIN.
MARCH 09 ¬ SCANNER SCANS SCIARRINO. TEATRO CENTRAL. SEVILLA. SPAIN.
.D-Fuse's video performance is the result of Alter Ego's conviction that wide-ranging collaborations in the language of contemporary music. Scanner remixed performances by Italian Contemporary classical orchestra Alter Ego, in this mini tour of southern Spain. The Alter Ego ensemble also works closely with many of the major composers of our time, including Alvin Curran, Philip Glass Giya Kancheli, Louis Andriessen, David Lang, Frederic Rzewski + Kaija Saariaho.
www.alteregogroup.it

E D U C A T I O N

MAY 04 - JULY 29 ¬ VJ WORKSHOPS. KINGS CORNER. LONDON. UK.
In collaboration with LSO Discovery, D-Fuse held VJ workshops with students from the Kings Corner Project. Participants have met weekly to learn hands on skills + techniques used in live performance VJing. The short course accumulated with a performance by workshop participants on Saturday, July 09 at LSO St. Lukes.
www.lso.co.uk/lsodiscovery

JAN 05 - SEPT 05 ¬ MA DIGITAL ARTS. CAMBERWELL COLLEGE OF ARTS. LONDON. UK
Andy Stiff, from D-Fuse is the course leader for MA Digital Arts and its sister course, MA Digital Arts Online. Mike + Axel from D-Fuse have both taught extensively on the course. These two courses are accepting applications for the next academic year 2005/06. July 6th-9th sees the degree show to be held at Camberwell College of Arts.
www.madigitalarts.co.uk
www.camberwell.arts.ac.uk

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