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. Om Unit, Tatsuki, Tayone, Ericailcane, Will Barras and DEM spent 3 days creating new works exclusively for a final showcase on day 4, at the same time taking part in workshops and seminars around the city allowing the public an insight into their creative process as well as the cultural exchange fostered by the event.
This documentary, filmed and edited by The Slow Breakfast, aims to give those who couldn’t be there an idea of what happened (and those who were there a nice little trip down memory lane) with edits of the 3 days of workshops, the final showcase and the live painting session which took place on the 5th (unofficial) day. All of this is soundtracked by music from the showcase and also includes some interviews with the musicians about their experience of the week in Bologna.
You can stream the documentary above or download it below both in HD quality. Be aware the file weights 750mb so make sure you got a fast connection.
Massive thanks to all the artists, staff and crew who made this event possible. Also big thanks to our official partners, media sponsors and supporters.
And don’t forget to check the events list for details of our Original Cultures London 2010 event which is taking place Feb 27 to March 5, 2010 at venues in the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane.
In the run-up to our Original Cultures London 2010 event we’re releasing a brand new video of our visual artists painting a building in Bologna together on the last day of our 2009 event. Footage from this session, which was organised at the last minute, has so far never been released. The only record of it were a few images on our Flickr page. For the first time you can see what these guys did in an afternoon and in an improvised setting.
The soundtrack for this video is taken from the live show that was held the previous night, and features our three musicians alongside Bruno Briscik on cello bass. Check out full audio from the show on our Soundcloud page.
The video also forms part of the video documentary of our Bologna 09 event, which if you’ve been paying attention you’ll know has been considerably delayed from our original announced release date of October 09. We’re sorry for the delay but we’re doing our best to release the Bologna video doc this month, as a way to promote the London show. We hope to have everything online in two weeks time.
You can stream or download the video below. iTunes and RSS feed subscribers should already have it. Remember the easiest way to keep up with all our video and audio is to subscribe to either RSS or iTunes and then just let them do their magic.
Stay tuned for details of Original Cultures London 2010 and in the meantime enjoy!
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 we select elements of the works created by the artists during this event and pass these onto new artists to create remixes. The new artists are chosen by both the organisers and the artists involved in the event, with each country (UK, Italy and Japan) and art strand represented by a new artist and remix.
The remixes themselves currently follow one of three formats:
- audio remixes ie. elements of audio created during an event are given to an artist to create an audio remix/track
- video remixes/soundtracking ie. video footage from the event or videos created during an event are given to an artist to remix and/or soundtrack
- visual remixes ie. elements of visual art created during an event are given to an artist to use as the basis for a new work, such as painting, fine arts, etc…
For the first remix project we have asked 6 new artists to work on audio remixes and video remixes/soundtracking. The audio remixes will include 3 tracks created from parts 2tall/Om Unit, Tatsuki and Tayone wrote during their music workshops at our Bologna event earlier this year. The video remixes will see 3 artists remix and/or soundtrack the animation Will Barras, Ericailcane and DEM created in Bologna.
The final line up for the first volume of our remix project is as follows:
- Baku, JP – Tokyo-based underground pioneer, famous for his role in shaping the current underground hip hop and turntablist scene in Tokyo, chosen by Tatsuki for an audio remix
- Slugabed, UK – Brighton-based electronic producer, part of a new generation of producers currently making waves worldwide, chosen by 2tall for an audio remix
- Deda, IT – Legendary Italian producer and arranger with a long standing reputation in the Italian hip hop scene chosen by Tayone for an audio remix
- Memory9, IT – London and Milan-based electronic producer, connecting the dots between dub, electronic music and hip hop, chosen by the organisers to soundtrack the animation
- Mistah Klevvah, UK – London-based producer, formerly part of the groundbreaking Various Production outfit and now working under a new solo name, chosen by the organisers to soundtrack the animation
- Gorgonn, JP – London-based Japanese producer behind Doqqebi Q, currently working on other projects with Japanese and European artists, chosen by the organisers to soundtrack the animation
We are planning to hold an online showcase of the remixes in early February ahead of our Original Cultures London ‘10 event. We will also feature the works during the London event. Full details to be announced shortly. Stay tuned
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 a video documentary to accompany it which will give more insight into the showcase and visual arts work done alongside the music during the week. This video documentary will be online by the end of september. You can see a full schedule below.
Original Cultures Bologna pilot: audio and video documentary schedule
26/08/09 – Audio documentary pt1 (streams)
02/09/09 – Audio documentary pt2 (streams)
03/09/09 – Audio documentary podcasts pt1
09/09/09 – Audio documentary podcasts pt2
Late september – Video documentary pts 1 and 2 (stream and podcast)
The audio and video documentaries are the second part of our online documentation, with the first part consisting of short video edits, photos and blogs of what happened during the week. You can find a round up of all these below.
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 workshops, seminars and more. The idea was simple: to create and facilitate cultural exchange between Japan and Europe through the medium of modern performing arts.
The results of all this work were showcased in a final event on the evening of the last day. Over 2 hours the 3 musicians performed the music they’d spent the previous 3 days creating while the visual artists showcased the artwork they’d created to go alongside it, a combination of animation and a modern take on chinese shadows.
Everything that was done was documented, and finally after a few months wait we’re able to start divulging more of what happened, starting with an audio documentary of the music workshops and showcase.
This audio documentary will be in two parts, and you can see a full schedule of what you will get and when below. Following this audio documentary we’ll have a video documentary to accompany it which will give more insight into the showcase and visual arts work done during the week. This video documentary will be online by the end of september.
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.
Where:Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna When: July 4-31 (all day) Contact details for museum: Tel. 051 2757711 • museomusica@comune.bologna.it Launch: Saturday 4 July at 12,00 Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 9.30 to 16.00 • Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays: 10.00 to 18.30 • closed Mondays
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 quality (quicktime format) optimised for iTunes and iPod viewing. Direct download link beneath the preview.
Look out for one more video edit of the Original Cultures pilot and then we will be working on a short documentary of the entire week which will be made available during the summer. For now though enjoy!
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 space an installation will feature music and visual works created by the pilot’s six artists: visual artists Ericailcane (IT), DEM (IT) and Will Barras (UK), and musicians Tayone (IT), 2tall/Om Unit (UK), and Tatsuki (JP). More specifically the installation will recreate all the visual and musical elements of the pilot’s showcase, including the ingenious Chinese shadows based visuals, adapted for a smaller space.
In the second room the exhibition will showcase the video and photo documentation by The Slow Breakfast and Anna Marocco respectively.
Where: Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna When: July 4-31 (all day) Contact details for museum: Tel. 051 2757711 • museomusica@comune.bologna.it Launch: Saturday 4 July at 12,00 Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday 9.30 >16.00 • Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays: 10.00 >18.30 • closed Mondays
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Da Giorgia Soncin.
“Mono no aware (物の哀れ) è un termine giapponese usato per descrivere la consapevolezza della precarietà delle cose ed il lieve senso di rammarico che comporta il loro trascorrere.”
E’ cosi che ci si sente una volta accese le luci nel momento il cui Laurent chiede gentilmente al pubblico di lasciare il teatro perché è ora di chiudere…
Il termine giapponese è un po’ forte forse, ma rende bene l’idea se lo si associa ad un senso globale di soddisfazione e pace dei sensi tipico di quando si è esattamente dove si vorrebbe essere e nel momento più opportuno.
In poche parole: it’s the place to be.
Con oggi si chiude il cerchio, nei giorni passati gi artisti hanno creato, interagito e condiviso. Quello che gli spettatori hanno potuto vedere (che comunque non è poco) è solo una parte del lavoro; dietro a cui c’è un processo di creazione lontano dalle logiche di mercato e guidato dalla volontà e dal piacere di vivere l’arte con passione senza la ricerca forzata di risultati effimeri.
In questa giornata conclusiva gli artisti sono andati avanti con i lavoro in loco.
Per chi non c’era, quella che è stata realizzata è una scenografia all’interno e all’esterno dello spazio teatrale, nel cortiletto adiacente al Sì.
All’interno gli artisti hanno ricreato uno spettacolo di ombre cinesi in movimento, utilizzando come supporto, quattro giradischi settati su diverse velocità.
Sagome tagliate interamente a mano rese ancora più suggestive dall’uso del colore, proiettate sui muri, circondavano gli spettatori trasportati in un mondo magicamente ovattato.
Sul muro frontale, contemporaneamente, veniva proiettato un video, a cui gli artisti avevano precedentemente lavorato, in cui tutti i personaggi- ombra danzavano e si muovevano interagendo con il suono in un balletto meccanico che non poteva non coinvolgere chi partecipava alla performance.
A poche ora dalla conclusione posso dire che più che un semplice spettacolo, questo può essere definito come un esperimento di gesamtkunstwerk, un ritorno alla ricerca della totalità delle arti attraverso la loro fusione.
Artisti che si impossessano e danno forma agli spazi sia interni che esterni poiché, nonostante la stanchezza e il lavoro di montaggio, cutting e installazione di video e ombre, i cortile non è stato lasciato anonimo.
ERICAILCANE, DEM e WILL BARRAS hanno infatti intagliato tre sagome e riprendendo il tema delle ombre utilizzato per la scenografia interna, e hanno pensato di proiettarle su un grande muro creando qualcosa di veramente spettacolare e inatteso
Come se non bastasse, perché l’arte è evidentemente una forma di addiction, i tre artisti si sono concessi una parentesi pittorica di live painting in orario aperitivo, in cui si sono cimentati in un trittico incrociato con scambi di posizione e interventi sovrapposti utilizzando peraltro soltanto tre colori, nella totale semplicità ma regalando allo spazio un’opera d’arte veramente originale e significativa.
Questo intervento, nello specifico, ha attratto molti spettatori, e posso dire di esserne fiera per due motivi sostanziali: uno è legato al concetto di trasparenza che Original Cultures si è riproposto fin dal primo giorno, quello cioè di documentare e rendere totalmente visibili, dall’esterno, i processi creativi e le dinamiche organizzative del progetto; sia per coinvolgere il pubblico, sia per avere un valore aggiunto rispetto agli eventi pacchetto a cui ci hanno abituati, format standardizzati in cui gli artisti spesso suonano solo perché pagati e si propongono con un approccio sterile e privo di calore in un ritorno alle dinamiche di commissione che dovrebbero essere ormai superate da tempo.
L’altro motivo è legato all’approccio che Original Cultures ha volutamente cercato di instaurare con gli artisti coinvolti e con l’intero staff.
Fin dal giorno 1 si è creata tra tutti, artisti e non, una grande complicità, una sinergia che ha reso possibile a ciascuno di compiere il proprio lavoro nel migliore dei modi, senza la pesantezza data da un senso del dovere imposto dall’alto.
E il risultato mi pare quanto mai eloquente.
In questi giorni abbiamo pensato insieme, riflettuto, riso, mangiato gelati, cercato soluzioni ottimali a problemi inaspettati e non preventivati.
Nessuno di noi sapeva quale sarebbe stato il feedback del pubblico perché nessuno realmente sapeva in cosa sarebbe sfociato questo esperimento in diretta, questo tentativo di creare qualcosa dal basso, qualcosa che mettesse in relazione artisti tanto diversi e discipline tanto diverse.
Parlando con i visual artists è venuto fuori anche da parte loro lo stupore nel vedere come musica e installazioni fossero inconsapevolmente complementari andando ben oltre le aspettative.
Credo che situazioni del genere debbano andare ripetute, soprattutto in un paese come l’Italia, in cui la cultura e la sperimentazione artistica sono continuamente vittime dell’ingerenza da parte di finalità definite erroneamente “valori”; in cui l’arte, in tutte le sue modalità espressive si trova ad essere spesso soffocata dalla ricerca compulsiva del prodotto a scapito di quelli che sono i reali processi creativi che fanno l’opera finale.
Indirettamente, il nostro è stato un tentativo di recupero, Original Culture, come ricerca di recuperare i valori originali delle arti, quali la condivisione e la creatività non saturata dal mercato e dal business.
Se è vero che ogni stop è solo un altro start ci auguriamo tutti che questo sia solo l’inizio…attendiamo con ansia luglio…
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I visual artists sono al lavoro già da un paio d’ore all’esterno, intenti a dipingere sui muri del cortile e a tramutarne l’atmosfera con magiche ombre cinesi, quando Tatsuki da il via allo show musicale all’interno del Sì. E’ un piacere constatare che l’afflusso è già notevole. In breve tempo i convenuti si assiepano intorno al palco, strategicamente allestito in mezzo al salone, circondandolo. In alto, ad ogni angolo sono sistemati profili di figurine rotanti realizzati ad hoc e le cui ombre, proiettate, danzano sui muri in un folle girotondo.
Il giapponese realizza un set solista incentrato su ritmiche assolutamente minimali, in cui ha messo in luce tutta la sua perizia nell’uso della strumentazione Korg, dal mixer Zero4 al Kaoss Pad. Una prova particolare la sua, che ha lasciato perplessi non pochi in sala ma che ha rivelato un’anima, un background ed un approccio culturale desueti, non soltanto tecnicismi.
Il testimone passa dunque a Jim 2Tall/Om Unit: i ritmi si alzano, le teste cominciano a muoversi, i beat iniziano a farsi più pesanti ed in questa ricerca tra nuova elettronica ed abstract hip hop si erge il remix di Digidesign di Joker, sicuramente uno dei pezzi del momento… comincio ad annuire, buon segno…
Il pubblico è ormai caldo quando arriva la portata principale: sul palco salgono tutti i musicisti coinvolti nel progetto. Tatsuki riprende la sua postazione, 2Tall resta al suo posto, salgono in pedana Tayone e Bruno Briscik, a tutti gli effetti il quarto membro di questa neonata formazione. Come ho già ricordato nelle precedenti cronache, il set che è stato preparato ex novo nel corso di questi giorni è assolutamente poliedrico e travalica il semplice turntablism. Ne avevo soppesato la capacità di intrattenimento e non avevo dubbi a riguardo: chi sarebbe stato presente si sarebbe divertito, se la sarebbe spassata. Così è stato, complice l’abbraccio della folla. Si passa così, come in una sorta di caleidoscopio stilistico di cui è impossibile descrivere ogni passaggio, da episodi più “dance” ai suoni più secchi e taglienti dell’electro-hop (con Jim alle keyboards a farla da padrone), da parentesi jazzy che esaltano il ruolo di Briscik sulle corde del suo violoncello elettrico e lo scratch morbido ed espressivo di Tayone (si ricompongono i Rajasful in altro contesto) sino a momenti di climax in cui i beat ed il boom bap si fanno davvero possenti e le sonorità addirittura abrasive e mi esce un “wow!” e attorno a me ragazze che approvano e fischiano come camionisti e la folla ondeggia e sembra di stare ad una festa di quartiere più che ad un classico concerto… l’empatia è reale, palpabile… Al termine è un’ovazione a sottolineare la bontà dell’operato.
La domanda che sorge spontanea è: verrà dato seguito a questa collaborazione? Lo spirito sperimentale dell’intera operazione Original Cultures non poteva lasciarmi con un punto interrogativo migliore di questo. Alla prossima.
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, the event where the public gets to see everything that we’ve all worked on for so long, was a success – and as an organiser this isn’t a boast, it really, truly was.
We had a packed house, with over 300 people, we emptied the bar, the artists got a thunderous round of applause and demands for an encore, which they obliged leaving us with people in the venue until 2am, when we’d officially announced it would end at midnight. One of the members of the city’s council, who sits on the cultural board came at midnight, on a saturday, and personally shook the hand of the artists, thanking them for the show. One of the guys who runs the company which handles the space was dancing and smiling all night, telling us at midnight that we could have another 30mins of show if we wanted – so the 4 musicians, Tayone, 2tall, Tatsuki and Bruno Briscik, went back on stage and jammed for 20 mins. By 2am Will Barras, DEM and Ericailcane were still painting – which is all the more hilarious considering what happened earlier in the evening. Let me rewind for a sec…
We got to the venue around lunch – the musicians soundchecked in the PM while the visual artists put the finishing touches to their creations and masterminded how the visuals would play out throughout the night. Things were going well, with the necessary high level of running around involved when you put together an event. And then as we approached opening time, the decision was made to cancel the live painting aperitivo due to technical issues – partly true, but also due to the fact that the visual artists actually stopped working as people entered the venue. Having been at it for 5 days non stop, there was no way we would force anyone to do something just because it was originally written in the programme.
With this in mind we opened and hoped for the best. People came looking for the live painting and decided to maybe come back when they learnt it wasn’t happening. Others came in regardless, curiously looking around the venue, trying to understand what was going to happen 4 hours later. As I stood in the courtyard next to the bar, DJing, I kept thinking to myself that maybe even without the live painting we’d still manage to bring enough people in. You see the thing is, the whole live painting is quite popular here in Bologna, and the visual artists were definitely one of the main attractions of the project for people in the area, mainly because Ericailcane and DEM are local artists who everybody knows. Losing the live painting meant we might well lose a big amount of people. As I tried to not think about it too much, considering that we knew we still had something incredible prepared but that we couldn’t really tell people without giving the game away, I got on with trying to make people drink and enjoy themselves as the evening rolled on. And then I looked up, around 8 or so and Will was walking around with a tub of paint… and that’s when it all started going crazy.
DEM, Ericailcane and Will painted from 8 till 10, as they did people flocked to the venue, by the time I finished the DJ set in the courtyard, the venue was nearly full and I could barely believe it. The show started with the first hour split between Tatsuki and 2tall/Om Unit doing solo shows of about 30mins and the second hour with Tayone, Bruno and the two of them doing the live show they’d spent the last 3 days creating. As I stood there looking at Tatsuki on the stage playing to the audience a piece he’d finished writing 2 hours before it started to hit me just how special this all was.
The stage was set in the center of the room, so that people could stand all around the musicians. On the walls projections made by the visual artists played using Chinese shadow concepts. And on one side a giant screen played elements from an animation that they also created during the week. Tatsuki for his part ditched the entire 30 mins set he’d originally prepared and instead played a beautifully atmospheric 20 or so mins using sounds he’d recorded the day before and inspired by the visuals created by DEM, Will and Ericailcane: us talking, him speaking Italian, the ticks from the clock of one of the guys who runs the venue… it was incredible to hear all these sounds which I knew were ‘ours’ coming together while people stood around trying to understand what was happening. It was the perfect way to start.
2tall/Om Unit came up next, playing 20 or so minutes of new material and bringing the vibe and energy up a level, perfectly as if we’d masterminded the whole thing from start to finish. But we hadn’t, no one had heard the others’ bits, no one apart from the artists knew what would happen…
And then the final hour started and it continued to be incredible – the three of them played as if they’d known each other all their lives. The audience went crazy, the vibe was unbelievable. 10 mins before the end we were turning people away by the tens, and wondering how the hell it had all happened. Everywhere I looked people were smiling, dancing and enjoying themselves. The visual artists were more happy than I’ve seen them all week and so were the musicians.
Fast forward two hours, and we’re all sitting around coming down from the adrenaline rush and thinking back to various elements of the night. Everyone, from the artists to the organisers, the technical crew to the film crew was on a high. And everyone was responsible for the beautiful event that took place last night – everyone worked for nothing more than the want to do this, we came together as a whole in the most organic manner.
And to me, as the person who had this idea, who brought this idea to this town nearly 1 year ago to get some advice, to see the idea turn into reality like this (pretty much one year to the day since I first came up with it) is just simply incredible – tears came to me early on in the night and by the end I was just floating on a cloud, words unable to do justice to the feeling of seeing this idea birthed into reality. To know that every single person involved also felt the same is the best reward ever.
We’ve worked on this for 6 months solid, plus 6 months before of masterminding, and one week of just working non stop – and there has never been a point in all that time where someone argued or something went truly ‘wrong’. And that’s something I can’t even begin to comprehend. It gives me incredible faith that what we are building, is something that will continue to grow organically and that will hopefully be enjoyed by more and more people in the future.
For now, the best brunch in Bologna awaits me. HD video teasers of day 3 and 4 will be online by tomorrow. And full reports from the editors and artists too. And then stay tuned as we start to roll out the documentation of the project starting this month until the end of the summer.
To everyone who came last night, thank you. To everyone who took part in this, bless you.
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 and iPod viewing. Direct download link beneath the preview.
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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 e possente, con un Briscik in piena, molto hendrixiano, e gli altri che macinano come treni… wow! Con l’aggiunta di questo tassello il set è ormai pronto: Bruno suonerà in quattro dei pezzi del trio. Il live ha ormai una sua chiara fisionomia: in sostanza copre uno spettro molto ampio, composito e multiforme, che va dall’electro al funk attraverso atmosfere talvolta dance talvolta jazzy, con l’hip hop, più o meno astratto, sempre in filigrana o fortemente presente in qualità di impalcatura ritmica. La curiosità cresce…
Intermezzo.Tayone assurge ormai a mattatore. Esilarante quando snocciola la tracklist dei pezzi su cui si sono accordati: “Paglia”, “Dog Food”, “Non capisco”, “Pistacchio” e così via… Tatsuki e Jim 2Tall se la ghignano… ed io più di loro…
All’ora dell’aperitivo appuntamento alla libreria Modo Infoshop per la presentazione di Original Cultures, con tutte le voci dei protagonisti a raccontare l’idea progettuale e lo stato dell’opera ad un pubblico non straripante ma assai attento ed interessato… Ormai l’attenzione di tutti è già rivolta alla serata conclusiva, la summa di quest’inedita esperienza… Attendiamo trepidanti…
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Da Giorgia Soncin.
Originalcultures workshop day3
Terzo giorno di work in progress per i tre artisti che in questa giornata procedono nella realizzazione di idee e aggiungono tasselli alla composizione finale.
Una parte del lavoro si svolge presso lo studio di Ericailcane per poi spostarsi al Sì, dove lo spazio, una volta montati gli strumenti dei musicisti, ha già cambiato volto, e sarà presto popolato dai personaggi nati nelle giornate precedenti. Ciascuno di essi prenderà posizione preparandosi allo spettacolo di domani sera.
A vederlo, non ci si crede che in soli tre giorni sia stato possibile tutto questo, senza attività frenetiche e senza la pressione a cui siamo abituati, quello che si nota è sicuramente la sinergia che si è creata tra i tre, ed è evidente che il risultato finale sarà tutt’altro che scontato. E’ un’esperienza di vita oltre che artistica, basata sulla condivisione di idee e competenze tecniche ma anche sull’interazione tra le cosiddette “conoscenze tacite” che fanno parte del bagaglio culturale di ciascuno degli artisti che partecipano al progetto.
Si creano connessioni, le idee prendono forma superando le barriere stilistiche e linguistiche. L’arte, in tutte le sue manifestazioni si conferma come linguaggio universale oltrepassando, si direbbe, anche la dimensione temporale.
Lasciando un velo di mistero, possiamo solo dire che saranno rievocate sia la tradizione orientale che la dimensione pre-onirica dell’infanzia; come una finestra aperta su una dimensione parallela.
E’ affascinante seguire l’evoluzione di questo progetto, volutamente partito da zero e sfociato in un’opera collettiva perfettamente sinergica con gli spazi e coesa dal punto di vista artistico, inteso in tutte le sue forme.
Eloquente più che mai, nella sua essenzialità, l’intervento di Will Barras alla presentazione di Original Cultures, quando dice che, inconsapevolmente pur non lavorando insieme, i tre musicisti hanno prodotto un lavoro che si identifica pienamente con il lavoro dei visual artists e viceversa.
Questo è Original Cultures, chi verrà domani potrà entrare a far parte di un mondo parallelo in cui si può veramente parlare di performing arts nel senso più ampio del termine, dove la musica dal vivo interagisce con le esperienze più diverse dell’ambito visivo: dal live painting al video, passando attraverso la suggestione delle ombre cinesi.
And again, sitting here in the kitchen with coffee on one side and brioches and panini on the other. It’s the morning of day 4, and even though they say all good things come to an end, I really feel like I don’t want this beautiful experiment to end. Looking back on day 3 though there’s been plenty of great moments, more lessons learnt and some great memories made.
In the morning the musicians had the last of their workshop session, using the 3 or so hours to tighten up their set as well as working with Bruno Briscik on how to bring his Cello on three of the tracks they’d already prepared. Two of them Bruno will be adding some bass, while on one of them he’ll be an integral part of the track. Bruno has a bit of a reputation round these parts for being hard to work with and bringing a certain element of jinx to shows. Seeing him connect with 2tall and Tatsuki was a real pleasure, as we all drank coffee and he reminisced about his days in New York, and seeing as he and Tayone have been working together for years the whole issue of being hard to work with never really reared its ugly head. As for the jinx though, he managed to break his wah wah pedal and blow up his amp in less than 2 hours, which didn’t surprise our resident technician Yassin who took it all with a smile, and the hope that today when it comes to the show, the same thing doesn’t happen.
By lunch time the musicians were done and we were ready to move their equipment from the workshop space to the venue (which are luckily next door to each other) and prepare for a quick soundcheck. First though was a quick lunch with a bonus chocolate ending as our local ice cream sponsor was having a chocolate day much to the pleasure of Tatsuki and 2tall who’ve been wolfing down more sugar this week than in an entire year.
Following lunch I sat down with the Slow Breakfast guys, our resident film crew, to try and figure out what was the issue with our movies not displaying properly on Vimeo. Thanks to some help from the homie Hentsix and the FAQ pages we got to the root of it and as we all sat down at Alessandro’s place to work, things started to go a little wrong – my PC overheated and refused to work, leaving with me with the only choice to cool it with a fan. At the same time the Slow Breakfast were having a nightmare figuring out how to maintain the bit rate for the videos, but after an hour or two of pulling our collective hair out it all started working again and the videos and websites were updated and working as they should have (peep the embed below)
Elsewhere in the afternoon the musicians went to do a radio interview on Citta del Capo, while the visual artists continued to work on the various elements needed for their animation and shadow based visual show. Work which even at midnight after dinner was wrapped was still ongoing (more on that in a bit). Another crucial element of the afternoon was the need for us to prepare and map out our seminar which was taking place in the evening from 7 to 9 at the Modo Infoshop, a famous bookshop in Bologna and meeting place for many of the city’s artists.
Having realised the lessons we needed to take from the seminar on the previous day we tried our best to put together a stronger approach for this seminar, deciding on precisely who would do what, when and how – give or take the unpredictable element that always comes with these things. In the end the seminar and q&a session was still a success, with a good turnout and a strong presentation of the project and feedback from the artists about their experience so far. And yet still we lapsed: we forgot to print out the questionnaires to get feedback from the public, we still didn’t quite get the translation to work as well as it could have and we also still needed to tighten up our seminar game. It’s by no means a big deal, but for me personally I now know that the biggest lesson I will take from this pilot so far is the need to really prepare and oversee the activities where the public is involved. When it comes to activities with the artists we have pretty much on lock, we’re strong in that area and we’ve only got a few small lessons to take away. When it comes to the public’s involvement though, we still have a lot to learn.
I kind of live tweeted the seminar, partly for fun and partly to further prove our point that we want to use the internet as much as possible to give people a chance to have an insight into what happens even if they’re not there.
The evening wound down with some drinks in the bar next door to Modo Infoshop, as the artists and organisers mingled with the public, friends and others. And that’s when something amazing happened. Tatsuki introduced me to a Japanese woman, Ayami, who has come all the way from London after discovering Original Cultures on the Samurai FM website. Not only that but she’d come from London with no money, and so decided to find a couch to surf on using the internet, finding herself in the house of one of the girlfriends of one of the guys who works at Modo Infoshop! They were only too happy to host her for a few days as they knew about our event. To know that someone went to that much effort to witness what we’re doing, and to know that things worked out for them as much as they’ve been working out for us, was simply incredible. She’s a big fan of all the visual artists and also Jim 2tall’s work and so we introduced her to the artists and spoke for a few hours. As Jim said afterwards, it’s not just bless, it’s a manifestation of what we’re trying to do here – bring people from different cultures and countries together under the banner of the arts, to allow them to share and experience together.
The day ended once more with an amazing dinner from Lisa, and for the first time pretty much everyone involved in the pilot was around the table: from the artists to the organisers, the film crew, the photographers, the technicians and the venue owners. To see us all there in the courtyard, drinking, eating and being merry, sharing stories and experiences, discussing the week’s event was really special for me. I know we have achieved one of our aims, especially when I think back to the fact that there hasn’t been one time this week where I haven’t bumped into one of the artists involved in the project and he hasn’t smiled at me as the first thing he did. We have brought people together and made them share something unique, through this idea of cultural exchange. We’ve allowed artists to create something they’ve never done before, to take part into an ‘experiment’ that was taking shape as it was happening, controlled by them as much as by us. And so I now know that as much as I don’t want it to end, it’s really only the beginning of something that we are all going to ensure lasts as long as possible.
I’ll leave you with some quotes and the usual links, and the knowledge that our showcase tonight will truly be something unique, never to be repeated. If you can’t be there, don’t worry we’ll have you covered in the coming weeks with videos and more. And if you can be there, then I look forward to sharing this experience with you all.
Bless.
Quotes:
It’s like Big Brother but without the bullshit and wasting time. Instead we make art on the spot.
Tayone, speaking about the documentation aspect of the Original Cultures project.
I’ve never done a collaborative project like this, it’s amazing.
Will Barras, talking about the visual arts workshops he’s been taking part in all week.
And so we continue, day 2 less coffee and cigarettes but just as much adrenaline pumping through my veins and it’s not even midday yet. I’m writing this at the start of day 3, looking back over the second day of the Original Cultures pilot, where the highs were kept and lessons were learnt.
Something ticked in my head in the morning of day 2, as I walked to the venue for more workshops. I realised that we (the organisers) had been working to ensure everything was as perfect as possible, without thinking twice about it, and yet this was still just a pilot – if things went wrong it was ok, it was ’supposed’ to happen because we were there to learn more than anything. This didn’t mean I wanted us to take it easy, but in a way it made me feel better about the possibility of things not going according to plan.
The artists meanwhile were as happy and productive as the previous day. I met up with them following their morning of workshop, where they told me that they’d managed to put together another 6 tracks in the space of 3 or so hours. Productivity is definitely the word there.
As the afternoon kicked in we continued the music workshop, and started to set up in the Spazio Si for the first open activity of the pilot, a 2h q&a/seminar session with the musicians. We fed a stream from their room into the Si, while people came in and sat down for 50 mins or so, watching and hearing what the guys were doing as they did it.
And this is when things started to deviate from the plan, and lessons started to be learnt, for me as an organiser at least. A professor of music who was supposed to come with his students could not make it at the last minute, leaving us with an audience of passers by, curious music fans and producers and DJs, I’d say about 15 people.
As I brought the musicians out to start the seminar it hit me that I should have prepared this a lot better than I did. Due to time issues, other duties and importantly my high level of tiredness I made some simple organisational mistakes when it came to moderating the panel, taking it on me to not just moderate but also translate, and within about 20 mins, my brain was so frazzled from doing it all at pretty much once that I started to slip.
In the end though the seminar was a success I think we can fairly say – the audience enjoyed it, the feedback questionnaires showing some interesting points and great reception. The artists enjoyed it and so did we, but the lesson was definitely learnt, and soon as the seminar finished I was sitting with Cristian, one of the other organizers, and discussing how to avoid these mistakes on the evening of day 3, when we do a second seminar and q&a session at the bookshop Modo Infoshop, where we will also be presenting the project to the public.
Day 2 was also the first time I got to see what the visual artists, DEM, Ericailcane and Will Barras, had been cooking up in Erica’s workshop as they set up in the Spazio Si in the evening to do some tests for the final showcase. The simple rehearsals and tests of their visual ideas left me simply speechless… and I won’t give away too much but enough to say that they’ve come up with ideas, both artistic and technical, to essentially create projections on the walls using cut out characters and a Chinese shadow technique that has been modified. And that’s just one bit of it! ù
Talking with them and seeing their ideas take shape was not just a pleasure but also essential to allow me to start understanding just how everything might fit together on Saturday. Talking to Will we agreed that ultimately regardless of preparations and aims, the visual and the musical will come together because they always do, and a narrative will come out of it, whether or not we aim for it (and by the way we’re not really). And beyond that, the beauty for me is that this narrative will most likely be different for everyone who witnesses the showcase.
The day wound down with another beautiful dinner courtesy of our splendid chef Lisa and some very deep and pleasant chats with 2tall, Will, Tatsuki and my homie Hentsix (who has joined us for the rest of the week) about art, culture and the internet. More on that later, maybe.
For now though I have to rush back to the Spazio Si and see how Bruno Briscik, the famed Italian multi instrumentalist, is getting on with the musicians. That’s right, we’ve managed to get him to join them for 3 tracks where he’ll be playing his cello alongside their more or less electronic compositions. I’ve already seen about 30 mins or rehearsals and discussions and I know it’s going to be something very special too. Bruno, a classically trained musician who loves to play in non classical situations, and 3 producers and DJs who are as far removed from classical training as you can imagine. Check our Tumblr and other sites for sneak peeks as it happens!
I’ll leave you for now. Be sure to check our other blogs too, and stay tuned for the last two reports of day 3 and 4 as well as more video and audio.
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 machines to work up something to play for Saturday’s show, not knowing how initially but gradually just allowing for it to take shape, learning each other’s capabilities and styles and pushing new ways of working so we can connect. The final product of which the reader will hear very soon.
The people here are so kind and welcoming it is overwhelming. It seems so natural for our hosts to be so kind and to keep giving so much that I find it difficult not to overthank them!
To quote Will Barras, everything here is just a level up. And it’s true, even the crisps taste better!
There are not many places i’ve seen that have such a laid back feel for a city, but also it seems that it’s been “lived in” so much that it seems that even the buildings have some kind of inherent wisdom to them, almost like they soaked up the experiences of those that lived and worked in them.
We are playing in a old theater that I believe was once a nunnery, it’s homely and even our rehearsal room is as welcoming as the people in the morning.
Anyway enough romantisising about painted plaster, I have to get some sleep, last day of tightening up the show tomorrow, where we expect Bruno Briscik and his cello to come and add some extra skill to our already colourful manifestation.
P.S: the ice cream is just incredible. not to mention the great simplicity of the wonderful home cooked food we are treated to every day by the magic “jesus feeds the five thousand”-esque talents of Lisa.
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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 artisti prendono forma e interagiscono con lo spazio dandogli nuova vita.
Dopo gli interventi dei tre musicisti, che hanno permesso al pubblico di prendere parte alla gestazione del progetto, anche per quanto riguarda ERICAILCANE, DEM e WILL BARRAS, partono ufficialmente le prove in in loco che anche in questo caso dialogano con l’ambientazione scegliendo i linguaggi figurativi più diversi.
Altri elementi si aggiungono dunque alla composizione finale: L’interazione con lo spazio e la scelta di coniugare forme di espressione artisticha legate alla tradizione, che troppo spesso nell’arte contemporanea viene sottovalutata o messa da parte, con le tecnologie del video e dello screening.
Come giustamente ha detto Tayone, uno dei tre musicisti coinvolti nel progetto: “Non aspettatevi uno show come gli altri”. Né dal punto di vista musicale, né tantomeno da quello scenografico in cui gli artisti si riapproprieranno dell’ambiente rivoluzionando con esso l’intero spazio percettivo degli spettatori.
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Da Alarico Mantovani.
Sono arrivati i sub! E si sente…! Il Teatro San Leonardo rimbomba di bassi belli pieni e potenti mentre i Nostri sono all’opera sul materiale di ieri, per raffinarlo, ampliarlo e rielaborarlo al meglio. E’ già pronto un set di almeno una dozzina di pezzi, tutti preparati con impressionante rapidità, nell’arco di appena due giorni. Oggi pomeriggio, entrando in sala, pare evidente che il dialogo artistico stia decollando. La musica del trio assume un livello di fluidità palpabile, è rotonda e scorrevole ma incalzante… a tratti rivela qualche parentela con quei Glitch Mob su cui cadrà il discorso qualche ora più tardi…
Alle 18, come previsto, inizia il workshop dedicato alla sezione musicale di Original Cultures. Il pubblico si dispone nell’adiacente sala dello spazio Sì, dove si svolgerà lo show di sabato, ed assiste ad una dimostrazione in diretta video di Tay, 2Tall e Tatsuki, un assaggio del lavoro che stanno allestendo. Il live demo viene ripreso tramite una telecamera e proiettato su un grande schermo. Al termine del set gli artisti raggiungono i convenuti ed inizia una conversazione/interazione/intervista, gestita e moderata dal sottoscritto e da Laurent Fintoni. La discussione tocca diversi argomenti: in primo luogo la differenza tra l’attività musicale che comunemente svolge un producer e la peculiarità offerta invece da Original Cultures, quella di poter interagire giorno dopo giorno, gomito a gomito, in un’atmosfera di cameratismo creativo e spirito di condivisione di un’esperienza inusuale.
Il focus si sposta poi sulle modalità operative che si sono stabilite tra gli artisti: ne emerge in sostanza una sorta di intercambiabilità, casualità ed eterogeneità dei ruoli in fase di composizione. La chiacchierata scivola quindi sul ruolo del produttore e su quelle che sono le difficoltà di mettere in scena un live davvero efficace ed esauriente al giorno d’oggi. Non potevo non chiedere infine quali sono i loro preferiti al momento e tra i nomi escono Flying Lotus, Mark Pritchard e diversi esponenti della scena dubstep. Ottime scelte direi… Le chiacchiere e gli scambi di pareri proseguono in cortile. Fine della seconda giornata.
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 media players, as long as you have the latest codecs.
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 a bit of a shivering wreck, I’m also incredibly hyper and I feel truly blessed to have witnessed what I have so far. More than that I feel blessed, as one of the organisers and the person with whom the idea for Original Cultures sort of originated, to know that our ideas, our discussions and our wishes are somehow turning to be true, and even better turning out way better than we’d expected.
I’ll keep this first blog post short as I’ve still got tons to do, but to balance the input from our team of writers and some of our artists (blogs from whom you can find here in Italian for the writers and here in Japanese for the artists) here’s an overview of the first official day, and some bits from the first few days.
The mood has been high since all the artists arrived on monday evening and tuesday morning. I think it’s fair to say that the (so far) beautiful weather, the incredible food (cooked by our resident badman chef/caterer Lisa) and the historical surroundings have a lot to do with helping to elevate the mood of all involved.
The music workshops, where Tayone (from Italy), 2tall/Om Unit (from England) and Tatsuki (from Japan) are working for 3 days creating music that will be used in the final showcase on Saturday June 6th, are taking place in the Teatro San Leonardo, a building that was first a nuns’ covent, some 400 years ago. And as we sat for dinner on the Tuesday evening in the courtyard of the Teatro it somehow felt very appropriate that we would be adding our bit of history to this beautiful place.
I’ve primarily been involved in overseeing the music workshops, as I know all 3 artists personally. They are first and foremost friends, and I am a fan of theirs as much as a friend, and so to see them come together and in the space of 8 or so hours put together an already lenghty amount of music and tracks has been incredible to say the least.
Our original thoughts, as organisers, was that on Saturday the showcase, which will last 2 hours, would be composed of roughly 4 movements, 3 x 30mins of solo (one for each artist) and one collective movement of 30mins. This went out the window by the end of the first day of workshops, with Tayone explaining that he felt much happier doing as much collectively as possible. Jim 2tall and Tatsuki both agreed, and so we decided to move forward with the first hour featuring 2tall and Tatsuki doing solos (being that they are the ‘real’ guests as Tayone lived in Bologna for years) and the second hour (or more) composed of a collective movement which the guys are creating as we speak. And truth be told, this is exactly I’d hoped for originally – the reality was that I know that asking artists to put together a 2h live show is demanding a lot, and rests on a lot of factors, especially people getting on and ‘gelling’ if you will. In the end, my hopes are turning reality it seems, as the guys are more than happy to do as much together as possible, and considering we’re about 1/3 of the way through the music workshops I’d say it’s even fair to think that we’ll have a lot more than one hour of music on our hands by the end.
And so day 2 starts. Today are more music workshops, as well as a seminar/meeting/q&a session between the musicians and music students in the late afternoon. While I sit here at home, coffee-ing it up and overseeing the content output of our event, the musicians have already started and I can’t wait to see what rested minds come up with today. Tiredness set in yesterday towards the end, and as Tayone put it “the more we do, the more we have, but also the more we come up with bits that aren’t as good”. Very true, but as 2tall countered “at the end the more we have, the more we can choose from to make sure it’s outstanding”. And that kinda sums it up for me.
I’ll leave you with a few choice quotes, as well as the amazing news that Bruno Briscik, a famed Italian multi instrumentalist with whom Tayone has collaborated on many occasions, will be joining the 3 artists for a couple of featurings on the evening of Saturday.
Oh and as for the visual art workshops, featuring the amazing talents of Ericailcane, DEM and Will Barras, well I’ve not had the time to see much yet, but you can read about it in our writers blog (Italian only for now) and know that what I have seen and spoken about with them leads me to believe that saturday will be special indeed. The 3 of them, from Italy and the UK, will essentially act as directors/choreographers for the showcase, orchestrating a full live, visual show for the music being made. And so far this show includes Chinese shadows, a black box and some very spooky figurines… Considering we’d originally hoped to have them paint walls during the day, something Ericailcane and DEM are known for, to know that they’ll now be doing something pretty much no one has ever seen them do makes me only feel even better. More pics and words soon come. Stay tuned.
From Bologna, with love (and a hell of a lot of coffee).
Laurent
PS: for those interested, so far the music is ranging from slow beats to house to jazzy hip hop and abstract instrumentals. Will post audio soon as I can.
Quotes:
You try and do an event in Italy and not make it about food!
Me, in response to Mark from Skratchworx’s tweet that Original Cultures was basically just about food.
It’s a pleasure to leave the studio, go to a new country and work with new people. The inspiration is unbelievable!
Tatsuki, at the end of the first day of workshops. With some pistaccio cookies on the side.
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Da Giorgia Soncin.
Tre poetiche, tre artisti, tre modalità lavorative che si attivano per un progetto comune: questo quello che sta succedendo nella prima giornata di workshop del progetto pilota di Original Cultures.
I tre artisti all’opera sono DEM, ERICAILCANE e WILL BARRAS. Il progetto, in continua evoluzione, verrà costantemente seguito e documentato per porre l’attenzione non solo sul risultato finale ma su quelle che sono le dinamiche creative che stanno alla base dell’intera iniziativa.
Quello che ci interessa, infatti, oltre all’evento conclusivo che si terrà sabato 6 giugno, è focalizzare l’attenzione sui processi creativi, sulla creazione di quelle sinergie artistiche che permettono ad artisti diversi di confluire in un’opera collettiva comune pur mantenendo intatta la propria individualità e la propria riconoscibilità.
Sperimentazione oltre che ricerca di sinergia poiché i tre artisti sono legati ad un background figurativo, vicino alle pratiche pittoriche piuttosto che alla costruzione scenografica in senso stretto, il work in progress di oggi e dei prossimi giorni sarà quindi un processo di ricerca fondato su più livelli: quello personale da un lato e quello artistico dall’altro ai fini di produrre non un’opera d’arte statica, ma una sorta di mondo parallelo in grado di interagire con il suono e di diventare protagonista della performance.
Lo scopo della ricerca artistica del workshop è questo: allontanarsi dalle comuni scenografie teatrali per creare una realtà in cui vengano evocati personaggi onirici in un’opera collettiva in grado di accompagnare il pubblico in un mondo immaginifico.
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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 calciatore proveniente dal Paese del Sol Levante, ha in passato vestito la casacca rossoblu. Risata generale.
Una volta giunti alla location destinata ad Original Cultures, i tre dj/producer si dispongono uno dinanzi all’altro su un ampio tavolo quadrato installato al centro del palco del teatro San Leonardo. Una sistemazione ideale per collaborare in progress e conoscersi: inizia così, dopo un lauto pranzo, la prima giornata di prove. Da questo momento cominciano ad edificare, beat dopo beat, scratch dopo scratch, il live set collettivo inedito che presenteranno sabato sera al pubblico. Tutti con i loro portatili, mixer ed i diversi controller che ciascuno ha scelto per l’evento. Tay e Tatsuki utilizzano principalmente i giradischi, con il nipponico circondato da apparecchiature della Korg, l’azienda per cui progetta ed esegue dimostrazioni di strumenti sempre più sofisticati, mentre 2Tall utilizza keyboards ed un drumkit minimale.
Si parte. Scaldano i motori, si annusano su ritmi un po’ sovraccarichi e Tay One propone di scendere su ritmiche un po’ più distese e sincopate: viene fuori una sorta di remix di “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” dei Daft Punk. I tre virano verso un abstract hip hop che poi si fa assolutamente convincente quando assume toni electro-hop su campioni di Kraftwerk e Run Dmc. Jim 2tall inserisce note eteree e traballanti che mi trasportano con la memoria alle atmosfere acquatiche dei Drexciya (Underground Resistance esclama 2tall!). L’amalgama e l’affiatamento sembra crescere sensibilmente con il passare del tempo. La jam successiva si concentra principalmente sulle percussioni, con ritmiche che si fanno piu incalzanti ed una maggior attitudine esplorativa, alla ricerca.
La confidenza tra i tre è ormai piu che buona, complice il gelato al pistacchio elogiato a gran voce da Tatsuki… Ora ci avviciniamo a forme innovative con beat possenti come alcune delle migliori produzioni degli ultimi tempi, vedi l’ultimo Dr. Who Dat?, ma al contempo cerebrali, alla Flying Lotus, con interessanti derive wonky beats, molto Harmonic 313 e Joker. Il livello di coinvolgimento empatico giunge al culmine e così anche la capacità espressiva. A questo punto Laurent Fintoni, durante una pausa, fa il punto della situazione: visti i buoni esiti che si stanno raggiungendo sembra opportuno allungare la durata del live set collettivo a scapito di quelli individuali. Su questo mi trovo perfettamente d’accordo. L’appuntamento è per la giornata successiva.
Italian ice cream makes the day, pistachio flavour rocks!
We had a press conference for the project in a music museum.
Here’s a picture I took during my speech at the press conference. I did the speech in Italian, but I told a little lie… my grandfather wasn’t really a ninja, sorry!
The museum already had a small exhibit of some of our work. There was a picture featuring my music and art from Will Barras, it made us look grande!
Here it is, my music and Will’s artwork.
Italy’s representative, Tayone.
And this is England’s 2tall. We cut it up fresh altogether!