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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
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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.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.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/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
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.
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.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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