As some of you know, I have been coaching an interesting project at the Film Academy the last 6 months. It is a cooperation between Film Academy and Music Academy (Conservatorium) students where they make an audiovisual piece together where the music reacts on the visuals and the visuals on the music. Some pieces are linear/narrative but there is also a soundreactive city and in one piece the conductor uses a wiimote instead of a baton, painting an abstract landscape while conducting the orchestra. This sunday the Max Tak film orchestra will perform it at the WesterUnie in Amsterdam.
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On April 4th I will give a workshop on VJing with Flowmotion at the School of Audio Engineering in Amsterdam
It will start at 19.00

Continuing my recent affair with Dutch language singers, I just returned from a VJ gig at the AZ football stadium, to VJ for Gordon, Frans Bauer amongst others… Oh dear..

Thursday October 18th I’ll do a one hour audiovisual live set at Audio Illustrated’s launch party at the Odeon between 23.30 and 0.30. In the same room also audiovisual performances by Pantoffeldiertjes and E202

The weirdest gigs are happening to me at his moment. The Pantoffeldiertjes asked me to assist on the set of Jan Smit’s new video clip shooting (and as it later turned out, also 3 commercials for C&A fashion).

Using 2 16.000 lumen Christie projectors provided by our friends at Virtual Events, we provided background visuals for the shooting of ‘Dan volg je haar benen’, by Jan Smit, who is a repeat offender at taking #1 in the Dutch charts.

Just when you think you’ve seen everything, you get invited to a mad festival in Ukraine, which in retrospect may just be the biggest dance festival in the world. Where else do you have hundreds of thousands of visitors, over 300 DJs (such as Timo Maas, Dr. Motte, Armin, Grooverider, Robert Babicz, Teichmann Brothers, Playlove, and many more) and who knows how many live acts, 15 stages (and I do not mean tents but architectural feats like geodesic domes, Roman style arenas, some built on land, some in the middle of the sea, some only accessible via a 5m high monorail), and lasting over 5 weeks non-stop?

V-King and me were lucky enough to be invited to VJ there, we stayed for 10 days, VJing 4 nights amongst which one of the highlights of the festival doing the mainstage (which was open only on some crowded saturdays) for Timo Maas amongst others. We even managed to do some DJing on 2 occasions.

With some of the best music you ever heard, gorgeous women wherever you look, this has been more than we hoped for and 10 days were over before we knew it. If you have never heard of it, Kazantip is like combining all the cool clubs on Ibiza on one huge terrain by the Crim sea and fusing it with some Burning Man creativity, that’s as close as I get to describing it.

I just found this video on Youtube describing the interactive VJ installation ‘video-matic’ which I developed in 2005, commissioned by Olga Mink.

related:
video-matic online!

The fabulous people from Fabchannel just put online some footage from the Moon Baker CD release party at the Melkweg in May thi s year. Go to their site to view the full concert.

No rest for the wicked, straight after our UK adventure I headed east to tutor on wednesday, and straight after class I’m back to Amsterdam, not to eat & rest mind you, I’ll be going to the Melkweg straight from the train, to VJ at the release party of Moon Baker’s excellent ‘ABC of Romance’ album. Moon Baker (or Monique Bakker for friends) is one of the sweetest voices in our country and I’m honoured to do her visuals. Expect guest performances from Candy Dulfer and Sandra St. Victor amongst others… (Melkweg, Amsterdam May 10th, starting 20.00)

Just came back from a mad weekend in northern England with my mates V-king and the illustruous duo Pantoffeldiertjes. After we all did seperate gigs on Drop Beats Not Bombs , an anti-war industry festival in Birmingham, we drove off to Nottingham to VJ at Detonate (nice contrast) with Toby *spark…
What can I say … drop beats is a mad festival across many venues at the Custard Factory in Birmingham, with a large visual presence (thanks Syzygy for inviting us!).

Detonate in Nottingham was a mad sunday night, performing for the biggest Drum&Bass DJs in the UK, with a mad mad mad 56 kW sound system that made our vodkas appear to be boiling and our beer cans dance on the table. Never before have I seen earplugs being handed out at the entrance of a club, and every single punter wearing them… the madness continues…