The opening night of the Electrified exhibition coincides with the opening weekend of the annual music festival in Vooruit, 10 Days Off. An ideal occasion for a special live programme. On Friday we will present three audiovisual performances and on Saturday you will be able to enjoy a DC Recordings special from 4 pm.
Optical Machines is a project by young Dutchmen Rikkert Brok and Maarten Halmans. The duo works with self-made projectors that are especially designed to produce loops, generating fascinating patterns and magical abstract animations live.
Brothers Boris and Brecht Debackere are completely absorbed by virtual audiovisual landscapes. Rotor is a live cinema performance that connects one of these synthetic environments to the classic concept of film in an absolutely stunning way. Sound is an essential factor here. The setting is a live cinema performance: a concert at which live images and sound unchain an audiovisual trip.
Skate by Janek Schaefer (UK) was originally an installation consisting of sounds scars: scratches on a vinyl record that make the needle move across the record aberrantly. Especially for Electrified, Schaefer will present Skate as a live performance. To this purpose, he will use one of the turntable creations that made him famous: the Twin Turntable with two arms. The sound of the LP controls three lights suspended in the space, illustrating that sound always exists in a certain space. The project received an award at the renowned Ars Electronica festival.
