15 May 2003
About RGB - VJ/DJ Festival
RGB is a three day event, exclusively dedicated to contemporary VJ-culture and the electronic music scene. RGB presents almost thirty live-performances by international musicians, artists and collectives that operate at the intersection of visual art, performance, new media and pop culture. New artistic directions are being explored. It's art for art's sake, music for music's sake, and style for style's sake. RGB takes place on the World Wide Video Festival's last weekend, in one location, in the Melkweg, on Thursday 22, Friday 23 and Saturday 24 May.
The programme is compiled by the World Wide Video Festival and the Melkweg in collaboration with the Netherlands Media Art Institute and Electronation.
THURSDAY 22 May: RED: Melkweg Max
Scanner (GBR)
The résumé of the pioneering English artist, musician and writer Robin Rimbaud reads like a history of contemporary electronic music and performance culture. "He is very experimental because he is searching in a realm of sound which is not usually used for music... he has a good sense of atmosphere". Karlheinz Stockhausen on Scanner, BBC Radio 3.
DonLeo (NLD) / Label Night Invasion Planete (FRA): met Le Syndicat Electronique, IT & My Computer, Porn.Darsteller en Rollinka
DonLeo is Leonard van Munster, a young artist who works across a range of different media. He was formerly part of the famous DEPT collective. The French electronic purists of the Invasion Planete label present four hours of sexy, minimal electro. The releases of Invasion Planete have been called the equivalent of Godard’s films from the 1960s.
FRIDAY 23 May: Melkweg Max & Old Hall
Meso (DEU) / TLR (NLD), Solvent/Lowfish (CAN), Orgue Electronique (NLD), Legowelt (NLD), Kassen (NLD), Monkeychop (SWE), Driessens & Verstappen (NLD) / DJ Raphael (BEL)
A journey through the electronic universe, including Solvent and Lowfish, Monkeychop and Orgue Electronique, Legowelt and Kassen. It's a single performance featuring all artists connected to one sound mixer, DJ'ed and conducted by 'Master of the Electronic Universe' TLR. All this will be accompanied by real-time computer generated visuals by Meso. Followed by a late set from Belgium's infamous DJ Rafael with visuals by Driessens & Verstappen's SonicScope software to round out the journey.
Hassan Khan (EGT)
Khan's performance 'Tabla Dubb' is an attempt at fashioning public media using the basic elements of popular musical culture. Khan connects the music to a library of video images that arise out of an engagement with the city and its sociography.
2/5BZ Serhat Köksal (TUR)
In his performances Köksal uses samplers and electronics as well as traditional (acoustic) instruments like saz, darbouka, drums, vocals and spoken word. Seventies Turkish cinema, music, literature, and experimental electronic music influence his style.
Pfadfinderei / SmashTV / DJ Ellen Allien (DEU)
Three acts from the groundbreaking Bpitchcontrol label from Berlin. Pfadfinderei is one of the most highly acclaimed VJ crews in Germany. At their beginning, instead of gnawing on the slow memory capacity of their pre 21st century computers, they transformed them into vector-ridden graphic style video beasts. Ellen Allien is the owner of Bpitchcontrol and famous for her hypnotic sequences and strange slow beats. SmashTV's music is a tight variety of electro - electech. It bears the sign of the new millennium, transformed into 8-bit pixel optics, and hints to their B-Boy roots.
SATURDAY 24 May: Melkweg Max & Old Hall
Barkode / Eelco (NLD)
Barkode develop projects on the borders of media, club, design and art. They were actually one of the first VJ crews to experiment with all encompassing club concepts which include visuals, music, performers and even scents. At RGB Barkode will present their new show.
VJK (NLD) / Vive la Fete (BEL)
An unusual combination of VJK’s slick and kaleidoscopic pop-images and the electro-rock by Vive la Fęte. Vive la fęte vowed allegiance to sleazy glamour, cheeky humour and anything-goes optimism. Danny Mommens displayes his love for eighties synth pop, melancholic cold wave and back-to-basics electronica, while Els Pynoo juxtaposes his sparse and rhythmic soundscapes with cooing, breathy vocals and self-penned lyrics, written in French. Followed by a late set from DJ Terry Toner en DJ Dion.
Station Rose (DEU) - Playing Field
Station Rose's audio-visual jam sessions, which begin as a flow on workstations connected through MIDI, are streamed live on the internet. During these webcasts they improvise in real time on patterns and structures developed earlier in the studio.
Arno Coenen (NLD) / Transformer di Roboter (DEU)
The irony and social criticism of VJ Arno Coenen's incredible 3D-animations with music by the German computer trashmetal band Transformer di Roboter. The general idea behind their music is bootlegging. 'Why make crappy new songs when there are great old ones?'.
Michal Butink (GBR) / Burnt Friedmann & Nu Dub Players (DEU)
VJ Michal Butink refers to her work as 'moving photography'. In her performances Butink concentrates on ambiance, rhythm and the experience itself. Burnt Friedmann is one of Germany's most respected electronic artists. He plays abstract crackling funk.
For more information:
World Wide Video Festival
Keizersgracht 462
1016 GE Amsterdam
P: +31 (0)20 420 77 29
F: +31 (0)20 421 38 28
E: 
wwvf@wwvf.nl
W: www.wwvf.nl
