
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 [...]
04:21 PM | Categories: Artists blog, Blogs | Tags: Artists blog, London 2010, music, Om Unit, Tatsuki, Tayone | Leave A Comment »

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 [...]
04:26 PM | Categories: Blogs, Organisers blog | Tags: DEM, Ericailcane, Hiraki Sawa, London 2010, Om Unit, Organisers blog, Tatsuki, Tayone, Will Barras | Leave A Comment »

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 [...]
03:37 AM | Categories: Artists blog, Blogs | Tags: Artists blog, London 2010, music, Om Unit, Tatsuki, Tayone | Leave A Comment »

Share And so it starts again. The second original cultures event. We’ve swapped the heat of summer and the historic streets and old buildings of Bologna for the less scenic streets, though still inspiring in their own ways, of a rainy London in early spring. That’s the beauty of this project, being able to transport [...]
03:47 PM | Categories: Blogs, Organisers blog | Tags: DEM, Ericailcane, Hiraki Sawa, London 2010, Om Unit, Organisers blog, Tatsuki, Tayone, Will Barras | Leave A Comment »

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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07:32 AM | Categories: Documentaries, featured, Latest News, Podcasts, Video podcasts | Tags: Bologna 2009, DEM, Documentaries, Ericailcane, exchange, music, Om Unit, Tatsuki, Tayone, Video podcasts, visual arts, Will Barras | Leave A Comment »

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 [...]
11:01 AM | Categories: Cultural Exchange Program, Events News, Latest News | Tags: cultural exchange, DEM, Ericailcane, London 2010, music, Om Unit, Tatsuki, Tayone, visual arts, Will Barras | Leave A Comment »

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 [...]
04:48 AM | Categories: Documentaries, Latest News | Tags: audio, DEM, Ericailcane, London 2010, Om Unit, Tatsuki, Tayone, visual arts, Will Barras | Leave A Comment »

Share 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 [...]
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01:14 PM | Categories: Documentaries, Podcasts, Video podcasts | Tags: Bartleby, Bologna 2009, DEM, Ericailcane, Om Unit, Tatsuki, Tayone, Video podcasts, visual arts, Will Barras | 1 Comment »

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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06:38 AM | Categories: Podcasts, Video podcasts | Tags: 2tall, animation, Bologna, DEM, Ericailcane, Om Unit, Tatsuki, Tayone, Will Barras | 1 Comment »

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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05:31 AM | Categories: Audio podcasts, Podcasts | Tags: 2tall, Audio podcasts, live, Om Unit, Original Cultures Radio, Tatsuki, Tayone | Leave A Comment »

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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04:27 AM | Categories: Audio podcasts, Podcasts | Tags: 2tall, Audio podcasts, Om Unit, Original Cultures Radio, Tatsuki, Tayone | Leave A Comment »

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 [...]
06:14 AM | Categories: Documentaries, Latest News | Tags: 2tall, audio, Bologna 2009, Documentaries, Om Unit, Tatsuki, Tayone | Leave A Comment »

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 [...]
05:14 AM | Categories: Documentaries, Latest News | Tags: 2tall, audio, Bologna 2009, Documentaries, Om Unit, Tatsuki, Tayone | 1 Comment »

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 [...]
03:35 PM | Categories: Latest News | Tags: 2tall, Bologna 2009, DEM, Ericailcane, Exhibition, Museo Musica Bologna, Om Unit, Tatsuki, Tayone, Will Barras | Leave A Comment »

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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01:28 AM | Categories: Latest News, Podcasts, Video podcasts | Tags: 2tall, Bologna 2009, Cultural Exchange Program, DEM, Ericailcane, music, Om Unit, Tatsuki, Tayone, The Slow Breakfast, visual arts, Will Barras | Leave A Comment »

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 [...]
02:23 PM | Categories: Events News | Tags: 2tall, Bologna 2009, DEM, Ericailcane, Museo Musica Bologna, Om Unit, Tatsuki, Tayone, Will Barras | Leave A Comment »

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, [...]
02:29 AM | Categories: Blogs, Organisers blog | Tags: 2tall, Blogs, Bologna 2009, DEM, Ericailcane, Om Unit, Organisers blog, Original Cultures, Spazio Si, Tatsuki, Tayone, Teatro San Leonardo, Will Barras | 4 Comments »

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 [...]
03:35 PM | Categories: Blogs, Editors blog, Latest News | Tags: 2tall, Alarico Mantovani, Blogs, Bologna 2009, DEM, Editors blog, Ericailcane, Giorgia Soncin, music, Om Unit, Original Cultures, Tatsuki, Tayone, visual arts, Will Barras, workshops | Leave A Comment »

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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06:09 AM | Categories: Podcasts, Video podcasts | Tags: 2tall, Bologna 2009, music, Om Unit, Original Cultures, Podcasts, Tatsuki, Tayone, Video podcasts, Writers blog | Leave A Comment »

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 [...]
02:18 AM | Categories: Blogs, Editors blog, Latest News | Tags: 2tall, Alarico Mantovani, Blogs, Bologna 2009, Editors blog, music, Om Unit, Original Cultures, Tatsuki, Tayone | Leave A Comment »

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 [...]
06:54 AM | Categories: Cultural Exchange Program, Latest News | Tags: 2tall, Bologna 2009, DEM, Ericailcane, Museo Musica Bologna, music, Om Unit, Tatsuki, Tayone, visual arts, Will Barras | Leave A Comment »