We have finished the White Out period in Kortrijk (B). Buda offered us the ideal environment to work on the performance, in their workspace-program. Starting point was the existing material as shown in Campo in Ghent. From there we went further on to explore the strange but beautiful world that Naomi initiated. New scenes, actions and dramatic developments entered the performance. I followed the advice to put the sound much louder. This created a more immersive experience for the audience. Lots of new audio material was created during this working period. I even picked up my old guitar again to play the live intro to the piece.
We were lucky to be surrounded by good people: Akim was unstoppable fine-tuning the lights. Simon-outside eye-Allemeersch was really the perfect guy to have close to us in the process. Rinus joined us for the image-mixing and ninja-moves (with BNC-cables in the dark). Inge & Tom & many others helped with wires and opinions. Actually the whole team @ buda attributed in many ways to the developments. thanx for that.
We’ve played 4 shows in the blackbox that has been our home for two weeks.
The video “laundrygarden” is incorporated in the selection of DANSCAMDANSE 2009. You can view the complete selection at danscamdanse.be.
Featuring Ayco (playing and dancing in our garden) and me (filming and hanging laundry). It’s one of my observations around the house. In between the hanging I shot some footage to make some kind of laundry-stop-motion clip. Ayco started to dance, without any music playing.
While editing the video we tried the trixiesong as audio to guide the images. The track supports the chill atmosphere of that summer afternoon.
The video ‘laundrygarden’ by lewis in heaven has been screened at the Festival Internacional Videodanza UARCIS, from 2-6 november 2009 in Santiago, Chile. It was part of a Belgian selection, curated by Lazara Rosell Albear.
November 12th, 2009 | Tags: video | Category: composer | Comments Off
‘parachut’, the first release of the boomfanfare is out!
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El Cabrao Cavalo
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We played the performance ‘white out’ in Campo Nieuwpoort in Gent (B). Lots of fabric, lots of stitching, lots of wires & cables, lots of camera’s, lots of speakers…
And still, it was a very close & intimate experience; both for public and ourselves.
Also lots of work to be done manually, so Naomi gathered all of her friends to finish the objects and scenery’s. L’onion fait la farce: we made it for the premiere..
With my sounds I tried to co-build a world in which Naomi can play, imagine and manipulate things live on stage.
This environment is very close to what we want to do for an audience & ourselves. This first performance is a starting point. We will develop it later in 2010.
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..we’ve been quite busy in between cooking, cleaning the floor and reading bedtime-stories
_ Boomfanfare release
With the boomfanfare we’ve recorded 7 songs for a EP/Cd called ‘parachut’. Karel De Backer did the recording, mixing and mastering. It will be available in june 2009.
white Out
I joined forces with Naomi Kerkhove for her graduating project.It’ll be a performance based upon her drawings- that are actually stitched on canvas. At this stage, I’m preparing the soundtrack with new songs, bruitages and collages.
C-TOUR
Nu-architects from Ghent are designing a parcours in the old mine of Winterslag, Genk. It ‘ll be a permanent exhibition where the public can experience what it must have been ‘working underground’. Evoking and exploring this atmosphere; that’s what it’s about.
It involves a lot of sound-installations, and that’s where I come in. We’re preparing the whole thing now. It ‘ll be a big and exciting project with many, many challenges.
Cleaning up the attick, I stumbled upon these pictures. Back in 1997, we (fellow students architecture) built this fortress in Cap Gris Nez (Fr). We challenged the sea to destroy it. We lost.
