Original Cultures ‘From Inner Space’ – The Documentary
Share Finally after a year’s wait the documentary of Original Cultures’ 2010 production, From Inner Space, is ready. Filmed and directed by Undervilla Productions, this documentary tells the story of From Inner Space through interviews with the artists – Katzuma, Nico Menci, Blanda, Danilo Mineo and Opificio Ciclope – and footage of the whole week, [...]
Original Cultures showcase at Eurocultured Festival
Share We’re very happy to announce that Original Cultures has been invited to showcase at this year’s Eurocultured festival in Manchester, bringing to town Katzuma and The Expanding Disco Machine – the band which was put together in Bologna for our ‘From Inner Space’ event last July. Katzuma and his band will be performing their [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 ‘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 [...]
Opificio Ciclope
Share OPIFICIO CICLOPE is a production company founded in 1995. Techno-artisans pursuing quality, they represent one of the few Italian brands born in the 90s to have survived the millennium. They are talented directors, playing skillfully with docu-drama and the manipulation of plausible outcomes using visual and mixed-media in new ways. Opificio Ciclope will produce [...]
Deda aka Katzuma
Share Who is Katzuma? There is nothing about it until 2005. Some people maintain that behind the name is a producer, maybe even a group of producers and DJs, funk/disco from the late 70s and early 80s. There is nothing to confirm these rumours other than the sound of Katzuma which is definitely funk/disco. Others [...]
The Expanding Disco Machine
Share The Expanding Disco Machine is a band put together by Katzuma and Original Cultures for the 2010 production From Inner Space. Assembled from local session musicians from Bologna, the band debuted in July 2010 at the From Inner Space live show – the culmination of a month’s preparation and a week’s rehearsals. The band [...]
