‘The Formula’ promo trailer
Share Here is the promo trailer for Original Cultures’ 2011 show The Formula, lovingly created and put together by our good friends at Opificio Ciclope (who you might remember from our 2010 show). The Formula kicks off next week, and you can find full details of the programme and artists involved at the links below. [...]
Original Cultures ‘From Inner Space’ round up
Share From Inner Space has ended, but its cosmic journey is still going on. If you were there with us on the night thank you for your support and for being a part of it. And if you couldn’t be there, or even if you were but want to remember it, here is a summary [...]
Original Cultures ‘From Inner Space’ – the story so far
Share Original Cultures ‘From Inner Space’ is over half way through now, and as day 4 starts here’s a handy round up of everything that’s happened this week in video, photo and text to give you an idea of what to expect Friday night. Today is the last day of rehearsals before we roll out [...]
Original Cultures Radio – Kper ‘Beats and Boogie From Inner Space’ podcast
Share As announced last week the second promo mix for our ‘From Inner Space’ show comes from Kper, the alter ego of one of the organisers, taking the show’s theme and running it through a modern hip hop lens. The result is 45 minutes of beats and boogie with a strong cosmic flavour taking in [...]
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‘From Inner Space’ promo trailer
Share Opificio Ciclope made this amazing promo trailer for ‘From Inner Space’. Look out for more from them in the coming week in the run up to the show. Full details for ‘From Inner Space’ can be found here.
Original Cultures Radio – Katzuma and From Inner Space Podcast
Share Original Cultures Radio returns ahead of our ‘From Inner Space’ show with a 23 minutes promo mix by Katzuma, the man who will produce and direct the music for the new show. To give you a taste of what to expect in the show he put together a mini mix of galactic disco and [...]
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Original Cultures ‘From Inner Space’
Original Cultures comes back to town! It’s been a little more than a year since the successful start of Original Cultures with its Bologna 2009 show and only a few months since the London 2010 show. It’s now time for the third edition of Original Cultures for which we are presenting an exclusive production that explores new artistic avenues, growing from what we have achieved in the first two events.
Original Cultures Radio presents Katzuma and From Inner Space
Share Podcast for this show is now available here. Ahead of our ‘From Inner Space’ show in 3 weeks, Katzuma has put together a promo mix for our Original Cultures Radio series. Katzuma will be producing and directing the show on July 9 with a one-off band put together for the occasion, The Expanding Disco [...]
Original Cultures returns to Bologna with ‘From Inner Space’
Share Full details for the show can be found here. Original Cultures returns to Bologna one year after our debut in our Italian hometown. Thanks to support from the City of Bologna we have put together a showcase called ‘From Inner Space’ which differs from our first two major events but follows the same ethos [...]
Original Cultures Bologna ’09 – The Documentary
Share Finally it’s here: the Original Cultures Bologna ’09 documentary. 20 minutes giving an insight into what happened during one sunny week in early June ’09 at the first ever Original Cultures event. For one week we brought together six artists from the UK, Italy and Japan and the fields of visual arts and music. [...]
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‘Original Cultures – The Showcase’ at Corbet Place, March 5 2010
Share Original Cultures London 2010 will close with ‘The Showcase’. As with our first show in Bologna last year, this will feature an exclusive one-hour performance from our seven artists: the musicians Om Unit (UK), Tatsuki (JP), and Tayone (IT) alongside visual artists Ericailcane (IT), DEM (IT), Will Barras (UK) and Hiraki Sawa (JP). The [...]
‘Original Cultures – The Show’ online preview
Share In the run up to the opening of our exhibition, ‘Original Cultures – The Show’, at the Stolen Space gallery on February 11, 2010 we are giving everyone the chance to preview some of the art created exclusively for the exhibition and which will be available on sale. The exhibition forms part of Original [...]
Original Cultures Remixed vol 1 – update and full line-up
Share Following our earlier announcement about the Original Cultures Remixed volume 1 project, we can now give you a full upate on proceeding as well as a confirmed line-up. The remix project is a fairly straight forward activity which takes place following each Original Cultures event, primarily over the internet. Once an event is finished [...]
Original Cultures showcase @ Vibe Live, London
Share We return for another London showcase ahead of the Original Cultures London 2010 event. This time we take over the Vibe Live venue on Brick Lane with the help of our friends from Open Sauce. On Sunday 29 November 2009, we’ll be showcasing live music and art (painting and more) from our artists and [...]
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – Audio documentary 2
Share Following from last week, here is part 2 of the audio documentary detailing the music workshops and live showcase that took place during the first Original Cultures event in Bologna in June 2009. You can read a detailed explanation of this documentary and what it is documenting here. Following this audio documentary we’ll have [...]
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – Audio documentary 1
Share In the first week of June 2009, Original Cultures held its first even in Bologna. Over the course of the week 6 artists from the UK, Italy and Japan, and the fields of music and visual arts, were brought together under one roof (well technically many roofs) to create art, exchange and learn via [...]
Original Cultures Remixed vol 1
Share The first Original Cultures remix project is underway and after a couple months’ planning and scheming we can finally reveal some details. Titled Original Cultures remixed vol 1, the remix project is an integral part of Original Cultures’ program of activities (or CEP), more on which you can find here. The remix project is [...]
Tatsuki – Original Cultures Radio
Share Our second Original Cultures radio show is now available for download as part of our audio podcast series. Original Cultures radio is a monthly radio show hosted on Samurai FM. Every month we bring you exclusive mixes and audio from Original Cultures artists and events, which can be streamed on Samurai FM before being [...]
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Original Cultures x Museo della Musica
Share From July 4th to 31st, Original Cultures will be holding an exhibition at the Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna showcasing all the art created during the Original Cultures pilot, which was held from June 4 to 6, 2009. For full details check our detailed event post. Where: Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca [...]
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – Day 4 video
Share And here we are, a video edit of Day 4 the last day of the Original Cultures pilot. Featuring work from all the artists during our live showcase which took place on the evening of Saturday June 6 at Si, in Bologna. Edited by The Slow Breakfast. Available as a direct download in HD [...]
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Artist blog Bologna ’09 – Tatsuki Day 4
Day by day account of the Original Cultures pilot by Tatsuki. Un racconto di cos’e successo durante il Original Cultures pilot da Tatsuki. たつきの毎日ブログ。
Artist blog Bologna ’09 – Tatsuki Day 3
Day by day account of the Original Cultures pilot by Tatsuki. Un racconto di cos’e successo durante il Original Cultures pilot da Tatsuki. たつきの毎日ブログ。
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – Day 3 video
Share We return for the third time, with a video edit of what happened during day 3 of the Original Cultures pilot featuring footage of the visual arts workshop, soundcheck and the seminar at the Modo Infoshop. Edited by The Slow Breakfast. Available as a direct download in HD quality (quicktime format) optimised for iTunes [...]
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Editors’ blog Bologna ’09 – Workshops day 3
Share We are sorry but this post is not yet available in English. Da Alarico Mantovani. Nuovo ingresso in formazione stamattina: Bruno Briscik, il carismatico violoncellista che fa coppia con Tayone nei Rajasful, è già all’opera con gli altri sul palco del San Leonardo. Quando entro in sala vengo letteralmente assalito da un suono hard [...]
