By and large I spent little time at the conference of this festival. It was just too much to do the conference, see films, exhibitions, and then manage to see all the acts of the night concerts without feeling completely exhausted. So I tended to skip the conference and come in for the night-time. I would have liked to see Jeffrey Shaw's talk, hopefully there'll be a podcast online.I managed to pick up quite a few items along the way: ...Read More
Julien Maire 'Digit' - De Balie FoyerA lone man sits at a desk passing his hand over blank pages. Miraculously, words appear, as if typed. I was unsure how this piece was executed, either by some form of 'stamp' hidden within the artists' palm, or perhaps some kind of heat sensitive system, however resulted in an intriguing and entertaining spectacle. Read More
Leeraum (Pe Lang & Zimoun) LIVE at Melkweg Media Room, AMSTRDM An interesting minimal piece that used motors controlled by pots to affect the speed of the 'necklace' objects that rotated around them. The surface under each machine was amplified by contact mics while the material was changed from cardboard to felt and other materials, affecting timbre. Read More
'The Drone People' - Live @ Paradiso(BJ nilsen, Joachim Nordwall, Mika Vainino, Hildur Gudnadottir, Spencer Yeh, Carl Michael von Hausswolff).Netherlands Media Arts Institute Exhibition'Probe' - Boris Debockere 'Soil' - Ulf Langheinrich 'OSC' - Ulf Langheinrich Read More