Organisers’ blog Bologna ’11 – Day 4
Share As we get closer to the final day – tomorrow – things get more hectic. Yesterday, which day 4, today and tomorrow are only going to get more and more intense. As such there isn’t really a proper blog for yesterday as I only spent a few hours with the guys in the music [...]
Artists blog Bologna ’11 – Day 3
Share We continue our series of video blogs with the artists taking part in Original Cultures’ 2011 production The Formula. On the beginning of day 3 we got a few more impressions and words from the crew, and a quick chat with our special guest Architeq about Bologna, the show and good food. Remember you [...]
Organisers’ blog Bologna ’11 – Day 3
Share So I got lost on my way to pick up the musicians today, and somehow found myself on the other part of town in front of Gelatauro – the ice cream place I’ve been banging on about. Genuine mistake or subconscious desire to start the day with a tub of the city’s best ice [...]
Organisers’ blog Bologna ’11 – Day 2
Share And on to day 2 of this year’s edition of Original Cultures. Check the video above for a little additional insight into what happened. With the soundcard fixed the musicians hit the ground running with the rehearsals today, running through the tracks to tighten up arrangements and structures and giving Sam Architeq time to [...]
Artists blog Bologna ’11 – Day 1
Share We’re changing things up a little this year with the artists blog – instead of words we’re going to try and bring you a short video of impressions from the artists every day. And so we start with day 1 and some words from the musicians – namely B.Kun, the producer behind the live [...]
Organisers’ blog Bologna ’11 – Day 1
Share It’s good to be back. Having Sam Architeq with us this year is really good too. Firstly because it brings the project back to its original ideas of cultural and artistic exchange between international artists, but also because – as we can already see after only a few hours together – he’s fitting in [...]
Corporal Fluidity
Share Corporal Fluidity is a story written by Valerio Evangelisti which forms the basis for Original Cultures’ 2011 production The Formula. Based on this story both musicians and visual artists will work together over the space of a week to create a live show that is inspired by the story. The story is available – [...]
Organisers’ blog Bologna ’10 – Day 5
Share And so it ends. As always this last blog comes a few days after our show ended due to the work and relaxation needed to end such a productive and busy week. Without sounding full of ourselves I think it’s fair to say that From Inner Space has been a success, the show went [...]
Editors’ Blog Bologna ’10 – The showcase
Share The third edition of Original Culture, ‘From Inner Space’, has ended beautifully in an evening that wasn’t even too hot considering the heatwave that hit the city in the preceding days. The work of all the artists, musicians and video producers, of all the Original Cultures crew was visibly appreciated by a varied public [...]
Organiser’s blog Bologna ’10 – Day 4
Share 3.40pm Gelatauro. Granite this time. 4pm Katzuma and Blanda are going over the tricky song from yesterday, covering his entrance points, before Nico and the rest of the band arrives. Luca is showing me the photos from yesterday’s trip to the school, some amazing shots that manage to capture the surreal element of what [...]
Organiser’s blog Bologna ’10 – Day 3
Share Today’s blog has timestamps to help facilitate the flow of what I wrote during the day. 5pm Bumped into Katzuma at Gelatauro. We should so get them to be a sponsor one year considering how much business we bring them the week we’re here. I think last year we managed something like 2 or [...]
Organiser’s blog Bologna ’10 – Day 2
Share FYI these blogs are written as I go along during the day, hence the at times slightly heratic flow of ideas. We’ve got bass. But no internet. Looks like we forgot to reactivate the key. Today we’re trying to do some separate recordings of the various instruments too. And I’ve had to take codeine [...]
Editors’ blog Bologna ’10 – Visual arts workshops
Share Original Cultures returns to Bologna this year. And this time the scope of the project is to give shape to a show that creates a synergy between sound and images, uniting the works of musicians and visual artists. In this new edition alongside Katzuma and his Expanding Disco Machine providing the music, Opificio Ciclope [...]
Organiser’s blog Bologna ’10 – Day 1
Share Set ups galore and we’re back. The third event in 13 months, not bad for an idea that took shape two years ago and only started really becoming ‘real’ with the first event in early 2009. This year is hotter, with the July heat bearing down on us and making the use of fans [...]
Press OC ’10
Share Online press Original Cultures London 2010 Original Cultures mini feature – Dazed Digital (UK) Original Cultures London 2010 Exhibition review – Arrested Motion (UK) Original Cultures London 2010 mini feature – Arrested Motion (UK) Original Cultures London 2010 Exhibition news – Hooked Blog (UK) Original Cultures London 2010 news – The Arts Desk (UK) [...]
Editors’ blog LDN ’10 – The showcase
Share By Cristina Balma Tivola The show is not over. It is simply at its second edition, and – as Laurent says – ready to hit Tokyo next year. With this news he greets everybody at the end of the performance Friday night. The last two days of the week represented the public restitution of [...]
Organiser’s blog LDN ’10 – Day 5
Share This blog is a little late but the aftermath of day 5 was rather large this time round. And so Original Cultures London 2010 ends just as quick as it begun in many ways. Everyone has left and life is slowly returning to normal. The last day was a blur for me. The artists [...]
Organiser’s blog LDN ’10 – Day 4
Share It’s funny how fast time goes during these weeks – it’s as if it was only yesterday I was thinking we still had 3 days ahead of us. In reality we’re as close as it’s going to get with the show in less than 24 hours and pressure and excitement are competing and keeping [...]
Artist Blog LDN ’10 – Om Unit Day 4
Share So after having yesterday off to do something people call a job (I call it hanging out with teenagers and making beats/talking about life) we got together to round off the writing and rehearsals, after a banging Turkish breakfast at Olive’s in Hornsey which brought back memories of being 24, fancy free and probably [...]
Organiser’s blog LDN ’10 – Day 3
Share Improvisation is the name of the game, not just for the artists who start from improvised ideas and develop them into a full show in the space of a few days but also for us at the level of organisation. Even the best laid plans require a degree of flexibility and this time round [...]
Editors’ blog LDN ’10 – Visual arts workshops
Share By Cristina Balma Tivola I met Alessandro (one of the Original Cultures organisers) at Dalston Kingsland train station at noon on the second day of the London event. Laurent, the organiser with whom I have until now maintained contact via email regarding Original Cultures, will arrive later. My interest in the project comes from [...]
Artist Blog LDN ’10 – Om Unit Day 2
Share Today I re-discovered the sandwich world deli in Hornsey. Bangin. Oh and we made some more music! It’s all about the art of stitching ideas together at the moment, that and for me trying to let go of my producer perfectionist ears, I have to remember this is supposed to be fun! And it [...]
Organiser’s blog LDN ’10 – Day 2
Share The picture above sums up the day quite well in a way. Like I said yesterday I’ve realised quickly and harshly that getting ten/fifteen people travelling around London without problems isn’t really easy and doing it by public transport only makes it more of a headache. Still though it’s part of the fun and [...]
Artist Blog LDN ’10 – Om Unit Day 1
Share Photo by Charlie Whatley. So after recovering from my 30th birthday party on Saturday night, I awoke early doors this morning to head up to North London to get to the rehearsal rooms for O.C London. As it turned out the rehearsal space was really a communal space in a converted musician live/work space [...]
