Ericailcane, DEM, Will Barras – Stay Away From Light (edit 2)
Share Here is the second short edit of the exclusive animation created by the trio of visual artists we invited to Bologna in June this year. As we explained with the first video this animation was created by Ericailcane and DEM from Italy and Will Barras from the UK. The music was written by Om [...]
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Ericailcane, DEM, Will Barras – Stay Away From Light (edit 1)
Share Finally we’re very proud to bring you the first (of two) short edit of the exclusive animation created by the trio of visual artists we invited to Bologna in June this year. Together these three artists, namely Ericailcane and DEM from Italy and Will Barras from the UK, created an animation to accompany the [...]
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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 Radio – Live in Bologna 09
Share Finishing the podcasts from our first event is an exclusive mix featuring audio from the final showcase. On the evening of June 6th, 2009, Om Unit (UK), Tatsuki (JP) and Tayone (IT), together with special guest Bruno Briscik on cello bass, performed over an hour of music they’d created in the days prior to [...]
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Original Cultures Radio – Bologna 09 workshop mix 2
Share Following on from yesterday’s podcast, we have the second of our music workshops mixes from the Original Cultures Bologna pilot now available for download. This time round the mix features audio from all 3 days of the workshops, edited into a continuous mix alongside extracts from the seminars, interviews and more. All the audio [...]
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Original Cultures Radio – Bologna 09 workshop mix 1
Share Following on from our audio documentary, which can find here and here, we are podcasting the mixes from the audio documentary, which so far have been available as streams only. First up is the artists mix from the music workshop sessions. This short mix was recorded on day 3 of the music workshops, and [...]
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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 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 showcase @ LIFE, Old St, London
Share Original Cultures will be hosting the second room at the next Lostbahnhof party in London, on July 11th, with the support of the promoters and our good friends at Shook magazine. The showcase will run from 9pm untill 11pm, with live music from 2tall aka Om Unit and Tatsuki. They will both perform the [...]
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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Original Cultures – The Exhibition
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. The exhibition will be spread over two spaces inside the museum. In one [...]
Organisers’ blog Bologna ’09 – Day 4
Share Whoa. That is the most direct and natural reaction to what happened last night, on the evening on day 4 at the closing of the Original Cultures pilot. Whoa. The live showcase, the crowning of the 4 days of work for the artists and the cherry on top of the pilot if you will, [...]
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – Day 2 video
Share And again. Video edit of the day 2 music workshop proceedings during the Original Cultures pilot. Tayone, 2tall/Om Unit and Tatsuki tighten up the music for their showcase and prepare for a seminar and q&a session with the public. Edited by The Slow Breakfast. Available as a direct download in HD quality (quicktime format) [...]
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Artist blog Bologna ’09 – 2tall day 2
Share Ok, so take one dangerously introspective bedroom based music producer who debates walking 5 minutes to sainsburys instead of taking the bus for 2 stops and drop him in Bologne and let him loose with other artists to create a selection of live material to be performed 5 days later. We’ve been using our [...]
Editors’ blog Bologna ’09 – Workshops day 2
Share We are sorry but this post is not yet available in English. Da Giorgia Soncin. Da oggi cambio di location, che si sposta dallo studio di Ericailcane agli spazi del Sì in via San Vitale 67 a Bologna, luogo deputato per l’evento conclusivo di sabato sera. E’ da oggi che le idee dei tre [...]
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – Day 1 video
Share Here it is, a short video edit of what happened during the first day of the Original Cultures Pilot at the music workshop. Featuring Tayone, 2tall/Om Unit and Tatsuki. Edited by The Slow Breakfast. Available as a HD quality download (115mb) optimised for iTunes and iPod viewing. As usual it should work with all [...]
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Organisers’ blog Bologna ’09 – Day 1
Share Whoa. I barely know where to start. Fourteen hours days combined with an unhealthy amount of coffee, cigarettes and sugar have left me a bit of a shivering wreck, and it’s only the beginning of the second (official) day. I’ve been for 3 days already, preparing everything and to be honest while I am [...]
Editors’ blog Bologna ’09 – Music day 1
Share We are sorry but this post is not available in English yet. Da Alarico Mantovani. Ai nastri di partenza il più in palla è Tatsuki: durante la conferenza stampa svoltasi al Museo della Musica dichiara di essere lieto ed orgoglioso di esibirsi qui a Bologna perché Hidetoshi Nakata (ve lo ricordate?), il più celebre [...]
Original Cultures Bologna 09 – Programme
Share What? Original Cultures Bologna 09 When? June 3 to 6 Where? Bologna, Italy Final programme: • Thursday 4 June @ Sì, via San Vitale 67 Time 18,00: seminar and meeting with musicians Tayone, 2Tall/Om Unit, Tatsuki • Friday 5 June @ Libreria Modo Infoshop, via Mascarella 24/b Time 19,00: seminar and presentation of the [...]
2tall aka Om Unit – Original Cultures Radio
Share Our first show on Samurai FM is now available for download. The Original Cultures Radio shows go out monthly on Samurai FM and will be archived and podcasted right here a month or so after each goes live on Samurai. Keep up to date via our Samurai FM page or on this here site [...]
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Original Cultures Bologna 09 – Trailer 2
Share The second trailer video for the Original Cultures pilot is now live. This time we’re shining a bit more of a light on the 3 musicians who will take part in the pilot: 2tall aka Om Unit, Tatsuski and Tayone who represent the UK, Japan and Italy respectively. The Original Cultures pilot will culminate [...]
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Original Cultures radio presents 2tall / Om Unit
Share The first Original Cultures radio show is now online over at Samurai FM. Put together and mixed by Jim Coles aka 2tall / Om Unit, it’s a 40 minute ride into his current musical favourites and own productions. You can find the show on the Samurai home page as well as on the Original [...]
Original Cultures 2009-2010 – Musicians
Share Original Cultures focuses on two specific strands of modern performing arts: music and visual arts. Within these two strands Original Cultures works with both established and upcoming artists from the UK, Italy and Japan. The 3 artists chosen to represent the music strand for the first year of Original Cultures activities (2009) are: 2tall [...]
