TodaysArt Festival 2007 - Artist Updates

La Melodia -

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:20:44 GMT +0100

For those who haven’t heard it on the streets yet: La Melodia is Holland’s most promising hiphop star to be! With Melodee on the vocals and I.N.T. on the beats you can be sure their songs will grab you and dump you somewhere in high places.

La Melodia is warm and soulful, with rugged and raw beats and some up-tempo bossa nova stuff added into the mix.

Quantasonic by Voldemars Johansons and Tom Tlalim - TAG: Information Aesthetics

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:10:43 GMT +0100

Quantasonic is algorithmic environment for temporal and spatial organisation of data. It is presented as automated installation in which anonymous constellations of input data are shaped by sequences of iterative processes and used as control structures for events occurring in sonic and visual domains. The modulation defined by generative
functions results in motion and renders to forms displaying organic qualities of data constructions in synchronous visual and sonic outputs.

The projection of the data environment in actual space is presented via quadrascopic video projection (cube) and a spatial sound system.

KABK Art/Science - Helgi Kristinsson - Pelagic Zone II

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:47:19 GMT +0100

The Icelandic visual artist Helgi Kristinsson graudated from the KABK in June 2007 with an intriguing project: Pelagic Zone II. Pelagic comes from the Latin word pelagos, meaning seabed. Walking through the Schoolstraat, it appears as if you are close to sea. Pelagic Zone II floods you with images and sounds through speakers and tv�s, which are used as streetlights.

Cosmiq Microbiq - Rokolectiv Festival

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:33:28 GMT +0100

Rokolectiv's organisation also enjoys spinning a few records now and then. The Rokolectiv mastermind and initiator will climb into the dj-booth and close the night in typical Bucharest-style.

Kindred Spirits -

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:21:18 GMT +0100

What is important to Kindred Spirits is that people are collectively brought together and embark on this musical road that runs through different styles and era�s. This boundless mix consists of the deepest soul and jazz, the heaviest latin and funk, boogie and disco, honest hiphop, Brasilian music and afrobeat, soulful house and new futuristic musicstyles.

The only criterion is that they are Kindred Spirits: like-minded people who share the same musical vision and are willing to get down. And that is precisely the case
with Tom Trago, La Melodia and the dj�s from Kindred Spirits Soundsystem.

Tom Trago -

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:21:13 GMT +0100

This young dj/producer made it to the Dutch dj top in a relative short period of time, through residencies at Paradiso, Now&Wow and Jimmy Woo. With his contemporary eclectic sound he is a much sought after dj at festivals such as Lowlands and Kindred Spirits
events. Tom embarked on his own musical journey and found his home in hip hop, soul, dub, broken beat and house.

Holland Dance Festival - Move-Me

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:21:10 GMT +0100

In September, TodaysArt and Holland Dance Festival present the Move-Me.com project, a multidisciplinary art project with dance, sound, film and internet. The project fits all the elements which both festivals focus on and offers the perfect opportunity for a fruitful collaboration.

Pictoplasma - Screenings

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:21:08 GMT +0100

Inside the cinema, a selection of animations, motion graphics and music visuals from Pictoplasma will be screened, revolving around the topic of artificial worlds and their inhabitants.

DJ Design -

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:21:06 GMT +0100

Dutch DJ Design designs innovative dj-sets. The ingredients are various musical styles, such as breakbeat, electro and techno, a mix of breaks and monotony in a synthetic form and a combination of rhythm and melody mixed into a danceable whole. He stood in the finals of the TWSTD dj-contest, was a resident at drum �n bass event Substance, Eklektro and street theatre festival Blikopener. He now makes his own productions for the label Sunday Afternoon Records.

Jerome hill -

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:21:02 GMT +0100

Inspired by radio pirates in London, British Jerome discovered turntables in 1990. He started out with hiphop, house, breakbeat and early Eurotechno, teamed up with the infamous London soundsystem JIBA, started the techno funk label Dont and now mixes and scratches almost anything he can get his hands on. Very danceable.

Cursor Miner -

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:21:00 GMT +0100

Cursor Miner, from Chichester, England, released his first album in 2002 with Lo Recordings and recently released his third. His music consists of nice and tight beats, which become more and more detailed as songs progress. Melodies are often brilliant combinations of grainy leads and dark bass, but every now and then Cursor Miner grabs the microphone and adds a bit of vocal. This musician doesn�t take himself too seriously, resulting in magnificent songs with a good dose of humour that are very danceable.

Commonwealth -

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:20:54 GMT +0100

Commonwealth Studio, opgericht door product ontwerpers Francisco David Boira en Zoe Coombes, focust zich op onderzoek en samenwerkingsverbanden binnen het brede spectrum van design in al zijn vormen.

EL MIRO -

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:20:51 GMT +0100

Graphic self studied El Miro (32) has been active in pushing the envelope in arts and science for some years now. He once started as a graffiti vandal, but now works for the award winning agency Hallelujah and produces modern art and fashion prints.

ISO120 -

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:20:49 GMT +0100

ISO120 is an initiative by two experience photographers from the Hague, Marco Eschler en Joan Nispen tot Sevenaer. Marco en Joan�s work is a mixture of excellent photography skills and graphical software, creating very powerful and thought-provoking images.

JACKSON CHANG -

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:20:46 GMT +0100

After graduating cum laude for graphic design at the KABK in The Hague, Jackson Chang worked alongside creative director Jan Heijnen at SELF studio, Amsterdam. His growing reputation brings him a client list which includes Diesel, Grolsch, Lucky Strike, Quote Magazine and Sony.

Kozyndan -

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:20:41 GMT +0100

Kozyndan is the joint pseudonym of Los Angeles- based husband-and-wife illustrator team Ko Zue and Dan Kitchens, known in particular for their whimsical and occasionally absurd illustrations of modern cityscapes.

Marco Eschler -

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:20:39 GMT +0100

Marco�s work is a mix of his excellent photography skills and the use of graphical software where he uses his images to mix powerful thought provoking stills that stick to you.

TAG vs TodaysArt - Exhibition C.E.B. REAS

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:20:36 GMT +0100

<>TAG presents new work of C.E.B. Reas in the Hague Space. C.E.B. Reas focuses on defining processes and translating them into images. He is an associate professor in the department of Design/Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Frank Bretschneider - Rhythm Exp

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:20:32 GMT +0100

Frank Bretschneider, manager of label Raster-Noton together with Carsten Nicolai and Olaf Bender, works as a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin. His work is known for precise sound placement, complex, interwoven rhythm structures and its minimal,
flowing approach. Described as �abstract analogue pointillism�, �ambience for spaceports� and often compared to Ryoji Ikeda, Bretschneider�s subtle and detailed music is echoed by his visuals. Rhythm Exp is a music-visual work based on the idea that fine art should attain the abstract purity of music.

Radar Festival Films - Screenings

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:44:00 GMT +0100

See the winning video's of the last Radar Festival at TodaysArt. Are you joining the creativie competiotion this year:

There is no better way for aspiring music video directors to crack the industry than by entering this year�s Radar Festival.

Win one of 20 record label commissions, �1,000 ($2,000) cash or mentoring from world class production companies, The Directors Bureau, Black Dog and Draw Pictures

- Every director gets an evaluation of their film from Radar
- Up to 240 of the best videos will be seen and judged by record label commissioners
- All participating directors will be invited to pitch for new paid work on forthcoming Radar collaborations
- All tracks are licensed so directors can use their promo for showreels and film festivals without the worry of getting label permissions or red tape.

Radar Festival has been set up to create opportunities for talented unknown filmmakers from across the world.

From the 230 people who entered last year�s Radar, four directors already have representation with production companies (like Colonel Blimp), nine directors have made or are making promos for labels, two have made big brand commercials and many directors have been invited to pitch for work as a result of Radar.

There�s more� the top 20 promos from last year�s Radar have been screened at festivals around the world and Radar is working on distribution deals for the best 60 promos.

Tracks by artists such as Maximo Park, Kylie and The Cinematic Orchestra have been released to Radar for filmmakers to base their promos on. Radar is partnered with Dazed and Confused, BBC Film Network, Qoob, Antville and Channel 4 Talent. Label winners will be shown on the DazedDigital site in December, the winners screened in London in January and selected entries will be presented at flagship Apple stores in seven cities across the world

Making an iconic music video can take little more than a camera, an edit package and an ingenious idea (as seen in Radar's DIY Music Video Top 10 at http://blog.myspace.com/radarfestival).

Get work, cash and connections and enter Radar now! It costs �10 ($20) to enter and is FREE for students. The deadline is 7th October 2007, for more information visit www.radarfestival.com.

Rabarber - Out To Lunch

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 17:44:05 GMT +0100

‘Out To Lunch’ is a theatre and dance performance, played by teenagers from the Youth theatre school Rabarber in The Hague. The performance is about what can happen when daily routines are broken, when the mask falls off and you have to show your trueface. Who are you when you no longer have to keep up appearances?

How would it be to really get in touch with the person sitting next to you? What would you say to one another?

VillaNuts - Interactive Playgrounds

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:02:25 GMT +0100

VillaNuts is a meeting place, a foundation that organises expositions, performances, movies, lectures and a whole host of other activities for young artists, students of the KABK (the academy of art), the Royal Conservatoire for music and dance, and anyone else who is interested. The Foundation provides young artists with the opportunity to show their work to a large audience. VillaNuts is responsible for the ‘Interactive Playground’-programme in the dungeon of the Nieuwe Kerk. The foundation invited young artists to create interactive installations and performances as an introduction for the audience to the work of young artists in the field of multimedia.

MasterMundo - KABK Interactive/ Media/ Design/

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:53:52 GMT +0100

I/M/D is a new study at the KABK and at the TodaysArt it will present the Mastermundo mini conference. In order to inspire, motivate, and also irritate people during their studies, the Pool of Masterminds was created. This pool (see url) consists of all sorts of prominent people from a whole range of disciplines, both national and international. A miniature Mastermundo was created just for the TodaysArt Festival, for which several masterminds from the pool will come to share their passion with the visitors. The names are listed on the KABK and TodaysArt-website. Due to limited space, tickets need to be reserved (www.kabk.nl).

Michael B. Johnson (MPG Lead, Pixar Animation Studios, USA)
Régine Debatty (fulltime blogger; we-make-money-not-art.com)
Kris Moyes (music video director; The Directors Bureau, USA)
Derek Cheshire (innovation strategist, UK)
Zachery Jean Paradis (innovation strategist, experience designer, USA)
Arjan Dingsté (architect; UN Studio NL)
Fons Schiedon (designer, illustrator, animator, NL)
Erwin Blom (Head VPRO digitaal, NL)
Jeroen van Erp (Creative Director, Fabrique Communication and Design, NL)
Tjeerd Hoek, Executive Creative Director at frog design and former Director of User Experience Design at Microsoft Corporation

See Mastermundo.org how to reserve for this programme!

Amos Ben Tal -

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 01:30:56 GMT +0100

Amos Ben Tal was born in Israel in 1979, where he started his education as a dancer at the age of thirteen, finishing his training in Canada in 1997. Shortly after, he moved to the Netherlands to work with Nederlands Dans Theater 2 and later Nederlands Dans Theater 1. Not long ago, after six years of dancing and choreography, Amos started his solo career. Besides working as a choreographer, he is now also the front man of the band Noblesse, a three-piece indie-rock band from The Hague. Blending alt-rock, sleazy pop and punk with a noble touch, Noblesse unleashes a contagious brand of rock n' roll that grabs you and leaves you yearning for more. Hard and melodic, daring and accessible, raw and refined. At the TodaysArt Festival, Amos and Noblesse will present a daring crossover between modern dance, music and ideals: three musicians and three dancers will give a performance filled with social criticism, breaking through cultural and social barriers through the power of song and dance.

Nanine Linning - Cry Love: Extended

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:11:40 GMT +0100

The performance �Cry Love� by Nanine Linning premiered in 2006 during the Holland Festival. Cry Love combines a video-installation and dance performance into one act. It is a complete experience, a refined ensemble of dance, music and video. Cry Love is about man who is driven by his instincts, his urges and his emotions.

In this performance, the dancers are driven by the fierce emotions which house in everyone�s subconsciousness: the primal urges which we suppress and control in our everyday lives.

André Gingras - CYP17

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:11:32 GMT +0100

CYP17 by Andr� Gingras is a dance/video performance that presents the freakshow of the future, asking what our lives will be like after gene manipulation, super athletes and CIA collaboration with alien forces. With this solo Gingras collaborated for the first time with video artist Fabio Iaquone and dramaturge Sue Jane Stoker.

CYP17 premiered in The Hague and after a successful season in the Netherlands, invitations poured in from festivals and theatres in Europe, North America and India. Within two years, Gingras had reached international status. Gingras now returns to the Netherlands at the TodaysArt Festival for an exclusive and intimate performance in Korzo theatre, the place where this choreography was once created.

JazzSole INA VISION & MIND EYE ft. CHRIS ROWE & DON ’T HIT MAMA - Circle of Sol

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:10:42 GMT +0100

Inna Vision and Mind Eye are passionate music lovers who like a broad scope of musical genres. They are the driving force behind JazzSole�s unique �Circle of Sole� club nights. For nearly five years, Da Sole Selecta�s have been organising groundbreaking underground club nights, hosting local and international dj�s, who spin the most exclusive records from the independent music scene. At their energetic and intimate parties all sorts of stuff is played, such as broken beatz, future jazz, afro beat, hiphop and future soul.

At the TodaysArt Festival, you can also see the two amazing dancers Don�t hit Mama (NL) and Chris Rowe (VS), who will show a variety of the newest urban dance styles.

Milanese -

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:07:02 GMT +0100

Extend, Milanese's first full length album, dropped amongst fans of grime and dubstep styles like a asteroid from the far reaches of the sonic universe. Yet musically it only loosely fits the format of these genres. Milanese melts hard-edged industrial techno beats with sinister rave bass lines, and the sort of deliberately haunting b-movie samples that usually pervade dark drum n' bass tracks. Milanese’s live sets are excellent, putting him on the most wanted list of many a festival. And, while we were still celebrating that we had managed to book him, we got some incredible news: Milanese will climb the stage together with the one and only Neil Landstrumm, one of the biggest names in dubstep! Apparently these two have secretly collaborated and decided to let the visitors of the TodaysArt Festival be the first to hear it. We didn’t stop celebrating for quite a while after hearing that.

Vicky Bennet - people like us

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:54:02 GMT +0100

Neil Landstrumm Vs. Milanese - unique combi

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:30:06 GMT +0100

3 Chairs -

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:29:12 GMT +0100

Malik Pittman, Theo Parrish and Rick Wilhite call themselves 3 Chairs and treat listeners to futuristic soul, deep jazz and true musical genius. These techno heroes from Detroit have created a very distinct sound, which can at times be called loungy, but never quite loses the connection with the techno background of the musicians involved. All critics agree that this is simply excellent stuff from a bunch of extremely talented guys.

Antistrot - Maxalot Projections

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:38:20 GMT +0100

Antistrot`s members, Paul B�rchers, Johan Kleinjan, David Elshout, Silas Schletterer, Bruno Ferro Xavier da Silva, Charlie Dronkers and Michiel Walraven, have been working together since 1997. The collective�s aim is to be a visual sounding board for its members, for reactions towards the speedily changing and critic-less norms of our society.

Timoreous Beasties - Maxalot Projections

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:38:17 GMT +0100

Design studio Timorous Beasties is wellknown for its surreal and provocative textiles and wallpapers.

Kustaa Saksi - Maxalot Projections

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:38:13 GMT +0100

Finland�s finest export combines organic touches and viscous shapes into new world psychedelica. Kustaa Saksi�s illustrations are a syrupy disarray of elements: playful, paradoxical, often over-glossy, inviting, troubling, messy, and yet strangely clear.

Phunk:studio - Maxalot Projections

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:34:32 GMT +0100

As Singapore�s leading graphic studio, :phunk�s expansive scope of projects ranges from graphic design publications to audiovisual graphic installations. Incorporating their urban street background with popular culture, they are known for their groundbreaking work in content development.

Angel Souto - Maxalot Projections

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:34:29 GMT +0100

Angel Souto fuses 3D images with 2D design creating info-graphic artworks. One of Spain�s leading graphic designers, his clients include Ericsson and Telefonica.

Joshua Davis - Maxalot Projections

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:34:27 GMT +0100

A web designer, author, technologist, and artist in new media Joshua Davis produces both public and private work for companies, collectors, and institutions.

Boris Hoppek - Maxalot Projections

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:34:23 GMT +0100

Boris Hoppek is a grafitti- and street-artist whose prolific ouput of paintings, drawings, photography, cardboard box sculpture and plush dolls have made him an international superstar.

PSYOP - Maxalot Projections

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:34:19 GMT +0100

PSYOP uit New York cre�erden vele prijswinnende visual motion graphics voor advertenties, marketing, computerspelletjes en videoclips. Op hun indrukwekkende lijst van klanten staan onder meer AT&T, Ford, Nike, Red Hot Chili Peppers en Volkswagen.

Build - Maxalot Projections

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:34:17 GMT +0100

Build is a multi-disciplinary studio working in the field of design for print across a wide range of media (including record sleeves, advertising, identities), typography and art direction (including motion, animated sequences, websites).

Inocuo - Maxalot Projections

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:34:14 GMT +0100

Barcelona�s most sought-after design team has a strong, fresh and unmistakable trademark style which graces a plethora of flyers and party posters for BCN�s hottest clubs, digital animations for the big telivision networks and sleeve-work for trip- and hip-hop artists for, among others, Ninja Tunes and Cristal Records.

Universal Everything - Maxalot Projections

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:33:25 GMT +0100

The man behind this brilliant creative powerhouse is not other than Mr. Matt Pyke of Sheffield. Not limited to graphics alone, they work on projects ranging from music to retail, fashion to architecture, and advertising to broadcast projects worldwide. Their client list: Canon, Casio, Colette, MTV, Nike and Nokia.

Eboy - Maxalot Projections

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:33:18 GMT +0100

Widely credited for starting the new wave in pixel-based graphics. Mixing popular culture and commercial icons into their wild imaginary worlds, the guys from eBoy build threedimensional illustrations filled with robots, cars, guns and girls.

WeWorkForThem - Maxalot Projections

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:33:14 GMT +0100

This non-stop art and design duo (Michael Young and Mike Cina) changed the face of design. WeWorkForThem has attracted a legion of clients and fans with its minimalist, dark, geometric designs. Their online shopping empire Youworkforthem.com (!) is many creative�s favourite webshop.

KABK: Fotografie -

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:33:09 GMT +0100

Every human being knows moments of fear, but fear as we know it now in Dutch society is something typical for the times we live in. Is this fear appropriate? Or is it false fear? The photography collective LOS, founded in 2006 by KABK-graduates, supervises students Photography and Fine Art for the multidisciplinary project (false) Fear.

Rzac23 -

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:32:54 GMT +0100

Chances are good that at some point you heard about “Teknival”-parties: illegal free festivals that started in the nineties and have now grown to immense proportions with as much as 100.000 visitors. These festivals have big names in their line-ups, from all sorts of genres provided they have some sort of link to techno. At one point, the most prominent musicians performing at Teknivals united and called themselves SP23, which later changed to Rzac23.

Two of these musicians now perform at TodaysArt: 69DB and Crystal Distortion. 69DB is very big in France and is often hailed as the best live musician of our time on electronic instruments. And Crystal Distortion is often called the Mozart of the underground techno scene. His amazing work garnered him a huge fanbase. In the past few years, these techno heroes have sporadically performed together in France, with concerts being sold-out months in advance.

Neil Landstrumm -

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:32:43 GMT +0100

A stalwart of the UK electronic music scene since 1994, Neil Landstrumm has released work on many of the most recognised labels in the industry. Starting with Peacefrog, shifting gears to Berlins’ Tresor Records he then upped the bass-game onto arguably the UKs’ most important electronic label of the moment, Planet Mu. Neil Landstrumm is an artist who always seems to be at the spearhead of experimental, dancehall low frequency electronics.

At the moment, he is seen as an important contributor to the dupstep genre, bringing it together with classic UK techno vibes, giving dubstep a new rave-like quality, with some people coining it ravestep. That aside, we have amazing news concerning Landstrumm: he will climb the stage together with the one and only Milanese! Apparently these two have secretly collaborated and decided to let the visitors of the TodaysArt Festival be the first to hear it!

Legowelt -

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:32:32 GMT +0100

In the early nineties, Legowelt (Danny Wolfers) got inspired by the sounds of Detroit�s Underground Resistance, Model 500, Blake Baxter, Chicago heroes such as Farley Jackmaster Funk, Armando Gallop and mr. Fingers. But nothing had more impact on Danny than when Legowelt heard Unit Moebius on the radio: freaked out Lo-fi Chicago trax and deep Detroit jams from Legowelt�s very own hometown, The Hague! He quickly found Bunker Records in The Hague and the rest is history.

Legowelt has played live shows all over the world and his Italo disco Chicago style is crazy cool and by now a regular at TodaysArt.

Tech-matix -

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:32:18 GMT +0100

TecH-MatiX started out by making music on conventional instruments, but after his first rave and the energy he felt there, he knew what he wanted to do. TecH-MatiX has been dj�ing for ten years and four years ago he started producing his own records. TecH-MatiX is a passionate musician and for his dj-set at TodaysArt he will spin a lot of his own work.

CO2RO -

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:32:15 GMT +0100

CO2RO, real name Marko Broeders, is from the southern higher grounds of the Netherlands, somewhere in the mist of the Brabant area. He has been an active member of the Dutch scene since the late eighties and has travelled through the musical styles from genre to genre following the beats that interested him. Going from garage punk to industrial to jungle, he finally reached the dance floors of the Dutch underground parties.

After many years behind the turntables, he is currently working as a theater- and interior designer as well as light alchemist, in other words, vj�ing. At TodaysArt, CO2RO will provide 3D-visuals for the performances in the small venue in Paard van Troje.

Mr. Wix - dj set

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 02:31:37 GMT +0100

Mr. Wix is a rising star. After honing his talents in the best clubs Rotterdam and Amsterdam had to offer and at VPRO’s 3voor12, it now seems that Mr. Wix is spreading his wings and flying into the big wide open.

With inventive styles and new musical genres such as Balei Funk and Baltimore Booty, it didn’t take long before he was booked at exclusive clubs and parties. Together with graphical designer Piet Parra he now has a monthly show at the famous Paris Paris Club and just recently he started as a musical consultant to Nike and G-Star, letting him put his mark on international marketing campaigns and fashion shows. Mr. Wix is simply very talented and takes you to higher places with his amazing remixes and surprising style.

Hoogtij - Hoogtij #9

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:09:15 GMT +0100

Hoogtij is the new name of what used to be the Haagse Rondgang, an event which started in 1997. Hoogtij is an excursion to all the cultural hotspots in The Hague. The route shows the normally mostly hidden artistic potential of the city. Art groups display experimental and groundbreaking installations and performances especially for the excursion. The more established art is presented in the ‘white cubes’ of the galleries and other art institutions. The combination of these two extremes is what makes Hoogtij special.

Highlights HOOGTIJ #9: The event starts Friday evening at 7.30 pm with a performance of Wannes Goetschalcx at Gallery West (Groenewegje 136)
At Filmhuis Zaal 5 at 9.00 pm Antonis Pittas will tell about his installation 8,83 x 7,20 followed by an interactive demonstration of the AR+RFID Lab at 9.15 pm (Spui 191).
On Saterday Bart�s Coffeebar will be on route with exotic espresso and cappuccino, from 3.00 till 7.00 pm. At 1.00 and 3.00 pm at the Theater aan het Spui Tuctucs will
take you for a free HOOGTIJ-ride to the different participants. (Spui 187) At the art initiatives, galleries, institutions you will get a culinary HOOGTIJ amuse.
For complete programme visit HOOGTIJ.NET

TUK TUK TRANSPORT HOOGTIJ
Saturday afternoon at 13.00 and 15.00 there will be some TukTuks available to transport you. The TukTuks are waiting for you at Theater aan het Spui.

Crimejazz - Blacksoil Night

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:09:25 GMT +0100

CrimeJazz is a literary/poetry programme in which various forms of spoken word are alternated with jazz and related musical genres. Besides artistic narrative skills such as poetry and prose, the focus will also be on modern styles such as rap-poetry and spoken word.

The emphasis for all the acts will be on innovation, originality and topicality.

KOOL KEITH aka dr. Octagon featuring KutMasta Kurt & Motion Man -

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:04:17 GMT +0100

Keith Matthew Thornton, also known as Kool Keith and Dr. Octagon, is an American rapper and producer. After being a part of the legendary hiphop formation Ultramagnetic MC’s, Kool Keith made his debut as a solo artist in 1996.

Typical of his solo work is his range of different aliases and his creative use of language. Most people probably know him because of his voice in the chorus of the song ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ by the Prodigy, a fragment which was used without his permission.

OneFourOne - Last Man Standing

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:02:49 GMT +0100

Brave MC’s who were chosen based on demos they sent in, challenge each other to brutal freestyle microphone duels for the Last-Man-Standing-title. The audience is the jury and will determine the winner after each battle. In the end, two finalists remain who will battle each other in two rounds for the title (in cooperation with OneFourOne).

Duvel -

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:02:46 GMT +0100

Duvel has been a household name in the hiphop scene of Rotterdam since the eighties. In the past 25 years, Duvel was busy with, in chronological order, breakdancing, spraying graffiti, producing mixtapes and music and making hiphop with DuvelDuvel and with Opgezwolle under the band name Opgeduveld. Apart from DuvelDuvel, Duvel is still very busy on his own. He made a few guest appearances on the albums of Jawat!, Opgezwolle, Kubus and Extince.

He also released the album 'Whisky op de Aperotz' in 2006 together with Dion.

DJ MK - dj-set

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 20:02:44 GMT +0100

DJ MK is without a doubt one of the biggest names in the English hiphop scene in the past ten years. He was there when the musical genre became popular and had a considerable influence on all English hiphop DJ’s through his mix tapes and his high standards. Nowadays, MK is world famous and works with the likes of Roots Manuva, Jehst, Lewis Parker and Skitz, Rodney P, Skinnyman, Fallacy, Mystro, Kyza, Pirelli, Plan B, Mr Ti2bs, Yungun, Mr Thing, Ransom Badbonez & Harry Love. He is always looking for new talent and knows the scene like no one else does.

Rokolectiv Festival -

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:15:17 GMT +0100

This year the Romanian Rokolectiv Festival took place for the second time. In Romania, electronic music is still very differentiated, each genre having their own urban and social codes, causing the different groups to be rather segregated.

Rokolectiv’s program reflects the current tendency of reducing the differences between codes or genres and the oppositions between experimental/pop, dance/ non-dance, analogue/digital and mainstream/ alternative. Rokolectiv presents various genres, approaches and techniques of creating electronic music, as well as the visual arts which are born in relation to it, in the same spirit.

Since these two festivals have a lot in common, TodaysArt invited Rokolectiv to add to our program, giving you Minus and Vali Chinci and the Rokolektiv organisation on stage in KingKong.

Vali Chincisan + Minus - Rokolectiv Festival

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:15:14 GMT +0100

Romanian Vali Chincisan is a young visual artist, creator of fresh, original visual sets based on programmed flash animation. He farms a universe of modular beings, dragons, millipede, all synthesised from geometrical shapes, human and animal organs, all roaming through blank, black and white spaces, according to the life-giving algorhythms that their master endows them with.

Alongside 8 bit music samurai Minus, Vali Chincisan Minus is Daniel Stanciu, a 21 year-old Romania- born computer science student. His performance will focus on more gameboy, uptempo, chiptune influenced tracks, with visual courtesy by Vali Chincisan.

Blacksoil -

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:15:10 GMT +0100

Black Soil International Hiphop Filmfestival puts hiphop in a broader perspective: besides films inspired by DJ’s, graffiti, MC’s and break dancers, Black Soil shows films that come directly from the hiphop culture and films that serve as a source of inspiration for
hiphop artists and filmmakers. Besides film Black Soil is also about debates and afterparties with live performances and prominent DJ’s.

This year, Black Soil celebrates its fifth birthday from 23 till 25 November on different locations in Rotterdam and from 30 November till 2 December in Bitterzoet, Amsterdam. Because of its prominent status in the hiphop circuit, Black Soil can book the
very best acts, which is exactly what they did for the TodaysArt Festival.

Cylob - SuperCollider Clubnight

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:50:23 GMT +0100

Electronic music maker Chris Jeffs, aka Cylob, got his break in 1993 when he signed to Aphex Twin's Rephlex label. Many singles, records, remixes and collaborations later, he continues to break new creative and technological ground while performing and dj-ing internationally.

Timeblind - SuperCollider Clubnight

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:50:18 GMT +0100

Known for his many records in techno, dubstep, dancehall, downtempo, abstract, glitch and IDM, he hasy played clubs, festivals, and raves since the early 90's. His live set blends elements of dubstep, dub, minimal techno, bassline, grime, 4x4, this and that until you stop trying to figure out what you are listening to.

He currently lives in New York.

Redfrik - SuperCollider Clubnight

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:50:12 GMT +0100

Berlin-based video artist and musician. As a video artist he has travelled the world collaborating with a multitude of performance artists, dancers and improvising musicians. Long standing collaborations include klipp av, Musical Fields Forever and Aktiv Bullerbekämpning (ABB).

This time he is generating visuals for his own music.

TN8 - SuperCollider Clubnight

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:50:10 GMT +0100

Takeko Akamatsu became obsessed with the charms of SuperCollider while at the International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences in Japan, and developed a maniac approach including making everything from SC socks to J-Pop which she sings over.

Adrian Vacca - SuperCollider Clubnight

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:50:07 GMT +0100

Composer and media artist, member of the goto10 collective. Projects include Powerbooks Unplugged, bl0b70b, and work for the dutch Schreck ensemble. His (solo-) live work, if anything, is eclectic, improvising algorithms and sing-along popmusic.

Sam Pluta - SuperCollider Clubnight

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:50:04 GMT +0100

Composer/improviser from New York. He is a member of Glissando Bin Laden, His MusicHideen, and exclusiveOr (a vintage synth band that just completed its first album), as well as a laptop soloist, focusing on live improvisation of sound and image.

His music has been released on Quiet Design, Vox Novus, and SEAMUS record labels.

Dan Stowell - SuperCollider Clubnight

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:50:01 GMT +0100

Computer programmer and experimental musician from London. In 2004 he released an album of experimental beatbox music minutes before both Tom Waits and Björk did exactly the same thing. In 2006 he developed an evolutionary sound system using Genetic Algorithms for interactive sound.

Yota Morimoto - SuperCollider Clubnight

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:49:58 GMT +0100

Computer musician and live video artist working with interactive dance. Born in Brazil, studied in Tokyo and lives in The Hague.

MXZehn - SuperCollider Clubnight

Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:49:55 GMT +0100

Bahadir Hamdemir and Stefan Kraus began in 1997 as genericPreset, and since 2004 perform as MXZEHN on events and festivals across Europe. Each set is different but the visuals are 100% live and there’s no other VJ team that performs so physically, turning simple video mixers into exploding visual organs.

No boring button shifting, 34 and OPTOYZ are PAL rock’s that roll.

SuperCollider - Audio/Visual Clubnight

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:06:43 GMT +0100

SuperCollider is cutting edge open source audio software of unparalleled power and flexibility. Those who use it tend to want to defy the conventions of standard software, to experiment with their own interfaces, sound synthesis and processing, and enable new musical interactions and sound worlds. It has been explored by many electronica artists, from Richard D. James (Aphex Twin), through Jem Finer, Timeblind and Cylob.

This club event brings together many of the principle protagonists in the use of SuperCollider in club and alternative settings and has them showing off their skills. This event is the culmination of a week long SuperCollider Symposium in The Hague. Check out SuperCollider at http://supercollider. sourceforge.net.

The SuperCollider Symposium is an initiative of SampleAnd-Hold.org and supported by Gemeente Den Haag, Theater Zeebelt, Loos Foundation, Institute of Sonology, Koninklijk Conservatorium, STEIM, Utrecht School of Arts, Stichting DCR and TodaysArt.

Nacht van de lauwe cultuur III - Cultuurhoer

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:41:57 GMT +0100

During the third edition of the ‘lauwe nacht’, all hell breaks loose again. It promises to be another night filled with Trash, Cult, Fuckedup Noise, Extravaganza, Slutter, Filth and audiovisual terrorism. This night will long haunt your cortex. Leave your momma at
home and bring your sister!

Pow Ensemble -

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:38:06 GMT +0100

The computer group POW ensemble, with Han Buhrs, Guy Harries, Luc Houtkamp, Joseph Bowie, Nina Hitz, Micha de Kanter and special guest Marije Nie, was founded in 2001 by Dutch composer/saxophonist Luc Houtkamp, with the aim of exploring and expanding the musical potential of the computer. Computer music is often thought of as incomprehensible sounds that nobody can understand, apart from some isolated nerds.

A concert by the POW ensemble is something completely different, however: here, ‘real’ music is being made! The musicians use improvisation, live processing, electronic and acoustic instruments such as saxophones, cello and trombone. The POW ensemble can be regarded as the chamber ensemble of the 21st century, using computers as musical instruments.

Sanne Kruithof - Dolly Wally

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 20:02:13 GMT +0100

From when he was a little boy, Sanne Kruithof knew he wanted to draw. At first, he thought he wanted to be a comic book artist, but from the moment he touched his first spray can, he knew he wanted to do street-art.

After founding the Staygold Studio in 2006, a brief episode at the Willem de Kooning academie and a street art exposition in Brasil, Sanne now also does live painting sessions at festivals.

Hotel Oscar Tango Echo Lima -

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:53:53 GMT +0100

Hotel Mercure will serve as the backdrop for the work of (typo)graphic designers from The Hague as well as students of KABK: Graphic Design. The images are based on the theme of the TodaysArt Festival: The Hague International. Flight Patterns, arrival and departure times or other associations are translated into images and text. Among others, works of Pierre Derks, Atelier Carvalho Bernau and Chromosoom.

KABK: Grafisch Ontwerpen -

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:53:49 GMT +0100

Under supervision of the internationally famous graphic designer and teacher at the KABK, Gert Dumbar, a route was designed to the academy which was given a surprising design in the middle of the public domain.

Onno Poiesz - Pilot

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:44:20 GMT +0100

Onno Poiesz, born in Rotterdam in 1974, uses the airplane as a symbol of our modern time. By placing the airplane upside down, it is stripped of its function. The suspended aircraft is transformed from a modern machine to an archaeological object, which is linked to a period that is not yet over: our time. The whole seems to be reduced to a reflection of reality: the scale model.

Aaron Koblin - Flight Patterns

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:36:25 GMT +0100

Aaron Koblin, who has a background in the computer game industry and has been working with data driven projects as a designer, artist and researcher, will show his work ‘Flight Patterns’ on a giant screen, to coincide with the audio-visual airport runway that
design studio LUST will create in the city centre for the festival.

Lust - THX: The Hague Int'l

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:18:54 GMT +0100

For two days The Hague will have a virtual airport in its city center: THX, The Hague International Airport. At scheduled times, virtual planes will land to bring the artists, hailing from all parts of the world, to the different theaters. De Grote Marktstraat will be
the focal point of this airport, complete with landing lights and thundering sounds, just like a landing strip. The Grote Markstraat will never be the same again even long after the festival.

THX is a project by LUST, with a soundscape by Mike Rijnierse and Detlef Villerius, Basten Stokhuizen.

Lust - THX: Arrivals & Departures

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:04:48 GMT +0100

For the fifth time in ten years, LUST will relight the Volharding building, on the corner of the Grote Markstraat and the Grote Marktstraat. The building was designed in the twenties of the last century in such a way that it could be used for messages. unfortunately, it was only used that way until the end of the twenties, until it was relighted in the nineties by LUST!

For this edition of the festival, all Arrivals and Departures will be announced by means of image and sound on the building. This installation has a strong relation with the virtual landing strip on the Grote Marktstraat.

Urban Space & Futuristic Visions - Short Film Programme

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:34:13 GMT +0100

Nina Köll’s movie programme Urban Space & Futuristic Visions criticises the definition of reality, the future using unique perspectives. For instance, the movie “Le Dernier Cri” by Erwin Olaf uses a kind of hyperrealism, often described as Jacques Tati meets
David Lynch. “On a Wednesday Night in Tokyo” by Jan Verbeek, recorded in 1 take, shows the inevitable up to the edge of the unbearable. This work is part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Jouni Hokkanen and Simojukka Ruippo created a short, music video-like documentary, which was illegally filmed in North Korea and offers a unique view on a bizarre reality.

Zur Rettung der Popkultur - Short Film Programme

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:21:48 GMT +0100

This programme, called ‘Zur Rettung der Popkultur’ (Saving Pop Culture), features the fifteen best examples of German experimental music videos produced between 1998 and 2003, selected from the MuVi programme of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. The Oberhausen MuVi Prize is awarded for best visualization, which puts these clips in stark contrast to the vibe of expensive performer videos. These videos refuse to obey mainstream laws, re-shaping them according to their own standards, creating a parallel cultural niche which incorporates all the traditions of modern art.

Nederlands Dans Theater II - Sleepless

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:10:58 GMT +0100

At TodaysArt 2007, Nederlands Dans Theater II presents Sleepless, by choreographer Jirí Kylián. This work has been performed before at the TodaysArt Festival in the Atrium, but will now be performed in the more intimate Grote Kerk. The reason for this repeat performance is that Kylián is celebrating his sixtieth birthday by touring internationally with three of his works, including Sleepless. He chose this performance for TodaysArt because it gives the dancers the opportunity to show their newest techniques. This makes it the ideal showcase for contemporary dance.

Sleepless was created for six dancers, with the set playing an important part. A synthetic background creates illusions and fantasies. Kylián’s composer Dirk Haubrich adapted the slow part of the adagio and rondo KV 617 in c-major by Mozart. This piece of music for, amongst other instruments, the glass harmonica, is one of Mozart’s later works. Sixteen young dancers (aged 18-23) from all four corners of the world, together form the internationally renowned Nederlands Dans Theater II. Their technique is amazing, their boundless energy is contagious. The group is one of the favourite dance acts of TodaysArt due to its revamping of dance and their youthful input.

Phill Niblock -

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:59:01 GMT +0100

American composer Phill Niblock’s drone performances contain audible moiré patterns of interference that, on a microscopic level, explore (un)predictability, cycles, and decay. The accompanying films depict the Sisyphean work of the world’s labourers, the universal daily grind, or perhaps the futility of efforts to break out of life’s cycle.

William Basinski -

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:49:26 GMT +0100

William Basinski’s use of loops is fundamentally different from both Bastien’s and Bergeron’s. Known over his twenty-year career as a composer who used generative techniques to develop his melancholic soundscapes, he has made extensive use of both
moiré patterns (overlapping matrices that produce interference) and durational ratios in his work.

Pierre Bastien -

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:42:41 GMT +0100

Pierre Bastien has spent nearly two decades
exploring the limits of loops. He has constructed
tiny, semi-automated robots to function
as an ‘orchestra’, and with them he explores
the friction between loop sequences
and improvisation.

Patrick Bergeron - LoopLoop

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:30:42 GMT +0100

Canadian artist Patrick Bergeron’s video montage ‘LoopLoop’ uses recurring motifs; the same sequences run forwards and backwards, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind.

The images are of a developing Hanoi, a city in Vietnam.

Daan Brinkmann - 16 pillars

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:25:32 GMT +0100

16 Pillars is an interactive light- and sound installation which works with the movements of its audience. The living sculpture registers movements in the room and processes these with the aid of special software. The audience is walking through a sort of virtual puddle of water which they disturb just like a pebble in a pond. The waveforms that are created are turned into sound and made visible with moving colour patterns.

16 Pillars recently won the René Coelho Prize at the institute of New Media Art “Montevideo”.

AR+RFID Lab - Augmented Reality

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:14:08 GMT +0100

AR+RFID Lab is a collaboration initiative between the KABK, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and local companies from the creative industry focusing on the development of applications for emerging ubiquitous computing technologies in the field of art and design.

The AR+RFID Lab team will present its interactive 3D-installation using translucent goggles, physical objects fitted with RFID-chips and a data-glove.

Bas van Koolwijk & Gert-Jan Prins - Synchronator

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:09:26 GMT +0100

From the beginning of video art, work has been produced that, because it does not produce a standard TV-signal, cannot be recorded perfectly or displayed on anything else but a CRT screen. Video artist Bas van Koolwijk and sound artist Gert-Jan Prins perform experiments with the purpose of recording fused analog audio and video signals with today’s video equipment.

Mikomikona - Fourier-Tanzformation I+II

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:04:24 GMT +0100

Mikomikona investigates the dynamic transformability of sound into image, image into sound and the effects of cross media interference.

With the piece Fourier-Tanzformation I+II, Mikomikona uses two overhead projectors as sound devices. The spectators see the two projections of black & white patterns while simultaneously hearing the sound these patterns perform.

Antonis Pittas - 8,83 X 7,20

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:00:58 GMT +0100

8,83 x 7,20 by Antonis Pittas (Greece, 1973) is about The Hague as a junction for different kinds of power: political, royal and as one of the judicial centres of the world. In a subtle and confronting manner, Pittas asks questions about the consequences of this power.

At the same time, the spectator plays a role in providing meaning through viewing the movie and interpreting the images. How do you deal with the (cinematographic) ‘reality’?

Sextet - Movie by Eddy Terstall

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:45:37 GMT +0100

TodaysArt visitors who want to chill out and watch a movie can start their Saturday with a relaxed but stimulating movie. Sextet is about sex. It is a comical frame story about Dutch people and their relationships. The movie reveals the most intimate stories about the sexual escapades of the characters. The amazing cast of renowned Dutch actors makes for a convincing story and strong acting. With: Katja Schuurman, Esmarel Gasman.

KABK: Textiel & Mode - Fashionshow

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:31:14 GMT +0100

With the library as an enormous display window, the Textile and Fashion department will provide the audience with a surprising and diverse style of fashion presentation and experience. By creating a range of unique atmospheres for different parts of the presentation, the designers constantly leave behind new impressions, which will give the idea of a relaxed evening of ‘window-shopping’ a whole new meaning.

Inside the library there is no way you can ignore the 120 models, hairand make-up artists and VJ+DJ Ontwerpatelier and Radion with a special fashion vj set, who together form the perfect fashion accessory for the amazing presentation in the display window.

Schmerzlabor - live - black rock motorpunk/acid soul/mutant funk/heroin

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:20:46 GMT +0100

Your Motorwolf DJ, who gives you that retarded black rock motorpunk experience, the superfreak sounds of the sixties and seventies: acid soul, heroin rock and mutant funk.

Al Naafiysh - live - black acid drug metal

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:16:36 GMT +0100

Black ritual drug rock metal brought to you over a 1000-watt SUNN amplification, so you can worship the temple of doom together with Al Naafiysh. In other words: fucking loud.

Toner Low - live

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:12:07 GMT +0100

An ultra-doom space ritual, a psychedelic light show, an ultra-heavy sound and a spectacular hi-volume rock performance, that’s Toner Low.

Brian Chinetti - Live

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:04:45 GMT +0100

On what would turn out to be the last Unit Moebius live performance ever (apart from the amazing performance on TodaysArt 2006 of course...) Brian Chinetti gave a demo tape to Guy Tavares, the owner of Bunker Records.

He quickly became a household name in the Bunker scene and in the past few years, he has been playing live all over the world, inviting people to discover his soulful excursions into minimal funk, deep disco, melodic freestyle, electro-stiffness and Chicago swang.

Pawel Blot - dj-set

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:58:44 GMT +0100

Born in Poland during a period of general misery, Pawel Chrzempka developed his musical taste by listening to pre-italo, electro and electronica. After discovering old disco tracks, chicago house, detroit and modern “west coast electro sound of Holland”, Pawel redefined himself. He soon stumbled into Legowelt and from that point on he started playing at parties alongside the Bunker Team and found a new musical home at the Crème Organization label. He is currently working hard on reviving the electro scene in Poland.

TLR - dj-set

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:56:10 GMT +0100

Risen from the ashes of the jungle and drum n’ bass of the nineties, TLR creates fantastic DJ sets with modern electro. TLR has been involved in the electro-scene of The Hague since the beginning and was there when the legendary Bunker lable was founded and he was the founding father of Crème Organization. His influence on electronic music is not to be underestimated and the same goes for his great performances.

DJ Technician -

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:50:31 GMT +0100

DJ Technician (Mathieu de Ridder) started scratching and mixing around 1987. In 1988 he bought an Amiga 500 computer and cool sunglasses and started making Hiphop beats for various rappers and performing regularly live on stage, mostly in Hamburg - Germany. It didn’t take long for Technician to discover electro and nowadays he produces bassy electro beats with brilliant vocoder, synth- and bass melodies.

Kassen - Live

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:44:29 GMT +0100

Kassen was born in the cold, lonely, north of the Netherlands where he spent most of his free time playing StreetFighterII. He moved to The Hague where he switched to writing music, labouring endlessly over minute details.

Bored with that he instead wrote a sequencer, labouring endlessly over minute details. Now he plays music like he used to play StreetFighterII. Forward, down, downforward plus punch!

Crème Organization/Motorwolf nights - dirty, brown and miserable: you bet we've got something personal against you

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:38:07 GMT +0100

Crème Organization was founded in 2000 by TLR as the mutant disco offspring of Bunker Records, but has since then been 100% independent and self- indulgent.

Motorwolf Records is music without compromises. An outlet for the most extreme, inadmissible, stirring, dark and enlightening heavy shit.

Motorwolf Records makes selections based on passion instead of sales figures and sticks up a fat and proud middle finger to all the zombie music currently scouring the Earth.

The Crème Organization will program the Friday under the motto “You bet we’ve got something against you” and Motorwolf Records gets the Saturday with the theme “Dirty, Brown and Miserable”.

Model 500 -

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:22:27 GMT +0100

Juan Atkins had already established himself as a pioneer in electronic music with the group Cybotron when he created the persona of Model 500 and went on to produce a string of hits on his own Metroplex label. But not content with his success as a DJ and producer, he took Model 500 to another level by creating a band of the same name. While the group Model 500 has never toured much beyond the US, in its latest incarnation the band is set to give audiences a taste of the classics as well as a hint of things to come.

“Mad” Mike Banks of Underground Resistance was Atkins’ first choice as bandmate and musical director. Banks shares musical direction with Milton “DJ Skurge” Baldwin of UR’s Interstellar Fugitives. Rounding out the quartet is Mark Taylor, a producer/musician whose successes in R&B, techno, hip hop, and funk made him the perfect compliment to the other three. Together as Model 500, they debuted at the 2007 DEMF Festival in Detroit and are currently working on several projects slated for the fall.

UR/Detroit dj's -

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:07:18 GMT +0100

Synonymous with the progression and preservation of Detroit’s techno heritage, Underground Resistance’s (UR) operations continue to resonate heavily throughout modern dance music. Between the other live acts in Asta, dj’s from UR and pure Detroit dj’s will warp your mind with their distinctive High Tech Soul Detroit sounds.

Galaxy 2 Galaxy - live

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:58:11 GMT +0100

Galaxy 2 Galaxy started off as a recording project. The brainchild of “Mad” Mike Banks, it was a way to have various musicians interact in ways that were familiar and yet different. Starting with jazz as a base and using techno as the framework, it was an exploration of not only the roots of musical inspiration, but of the future of that inspiration as well. The live band, Galaxy 2 Galaxy formed under the same conditions, also incorporating gospel, house, funk, and even spoken word.

Taking you on a journey from one musical galaxy to another, the G2G show is designed to show the connections between all these sounds and use music to show how close we all truly are.

KABK: Beeld + Geluid /Art Science -

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:35:59 GMT +0100

The Interfaculty Image and Sound/Art-Science was behind one of the highlights of TodaysArt in 2006, the project Structet. In 2007, students and teachers will show their skill again, using the theme ‘movement’: Foucault’s pendulum, a loudspeaker’s cone, a
balloon, it’s all part of this amazing spectacle which will take place high up in the Atrium.

Kangding Ray -

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:21:21 GMT +0100

Kangding Ray, a French architect and musician, lives and works in Berlin. His musical compositions consist of subtle melodies which combine with machine sounds into subtle and rhythmic tunes. He skilfully integrates guitar loops, bass lines, residual noise, acoustic instruments and digital anomalies to create a textured and dreamy soundscape, perfect for the Atrium. At his live performances Kangding Ray uses analog machines, laptops, midi pads and guitars.

<>TAG vs. TodaysArt - Information Aesthetics

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:08:33 GMT +0100

Following the enormous success of <>TAG’s March 2007 exhibition, featuring new work of designers LUST in the context of the monthlong Information Aesthetics Symposium, <>TAG continues on this path with a new exhibition and related symposium, parts of
which will take place during the TodaysArt Festival. Broadly speaking, information aesthetics refers to the different ways in which data or code can be translated into aesthetic images or sound and how the aesthetics can influence information flow or in some sense give meaning or trigger emotions.

<>TAG participates in the TodaysArt Festival with an exhibition in the City Hall. The programme includes work by Karsten Schmidt, Spam Architecture by Alex Dragulescu, physical 3D data representations by Marius Watz, QuantaSonic, an audio-visual
representation by Voldemars Johansons and Tom Tlalim, work by Sieger Duinkerken, Globe 4d by Rick Companje, Nico van Dijk, Hanco Hogenbirk en Danica Mast and a multi-touch table by Arjen Klinkenberg of ID Studiolab TU Delft.

KABK: Interior Architecture -

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:08:31 GMT +0100

In architect Eric Vreedenburgh’s classes, students of Interior Architecture make highly unusual architectural designs by using algorithms, comparable to works of art. You can see designs of these so-called folly’s in the Atrium. You can also admire furniture designs from first year students.

KABK: Post Graduate Industrial design -

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 12:08:29 GMT +0100

The Post Graduate Course Industrial Design sits between industrial and graphic design: the perfect mixture of skills, culture and industry. Because of the 325th birthday of the KABK, students received the assignment to make a unique gift for the academy’s birthday. The students went to work and the amazing range of models for presents that they came up with is displayed in the Atrium. One of the models has been chosen to actually be carried out.

Claudia Märzendorfer + Nik Hummer - Frozen Records

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:57:09 GMT +0100

In the atrium of the white building known as the ‘Ice Palace’, artist Claudia Märzendorfer will DJ delicate records made of ice on specially prepared turntables for her act “VLUN/Much ado about nothing”. In stark contrast to the immutability of contemporary
methods of sound storage – the digital world of mp3s, wavs and AIFFs – the artist has chosen a storage medium that disintegrates almost immediately.

After the first few grooves the sound begins to degrade as the stylus digs deeper through the deteriorating groovestructures; each disc lasts an average of only ten minutes, and most can be played only once. The medium melts, the grooves disintegrate
into puddles. Metaphors abound in the art of freezing sounds and melting records: the impermanence and fragility of art and life. Beauty. Entropy.

Tommie Sunshine - Dj-set

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:51:54 GMT +0100

Tommie Sunshine, looking suspiciously like ‘the dude’ from the movie The Big Lebowski, was influenced by bands like AC/DC and Kraftwerk, owns a label, produces, is an artist, dj and remixer (amongst others Peaches and Princess Superstar) and spins his records all over the world in all the major clubs.

His contagious mix of rock and techno get every dance floor jumping and garnered him international fame.

Spindokter Ries - dj-set

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:51:02 GMT +0100

Ries has been working his turntables since 1989 and was one of the driving forces behind Mononom, the hardcore and dark industrial Dutch sound system which was part of the Teknival organisation.

Spindokter Ries plays his energetic dj-sets all over Europe and is a hardworking and spirited performer who gives all to his crowds with (acid)house, techno, electro, breakbeats and so much more.

MAXALOT -

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:37:28 GMT +0100

The stylish white city hall of The Hague, designed by architect Richard Meyer, will function as a public space gallery when 22 of the world’s finest graphic designers and illustrators, curated by Maxalot Gallery from Barcelona – an internationally renowned gallery
which showcases graphic design as a contemporary art-form – will use the big white surfaces of the structure as their canvas. Through hi-end projection equipment the building will be lit up by artworks especially created for this show, changing it into an exhibition space for the two nights of the festival.

This year, the city hall will be used in four ways. First of all, works of art that perfectly fit the shape of the building will be projected onto the Spuiplein-side of the building during the Slide Show.
Secondly, for the Video Art Show Maxalot introduces a revolutionary way of projecting video that also fits the shape of the building and is accompanied by sound.
Thirdly, for the Live Art Show four artists will create an artwork via a live-drawing installation whereby they can literally paint the building using full colour video projectors, a computer and touch-screen and creative software of choice.
And lastly, ISO120 will activate the Slideshow LCD, which projects beautiful photographs that were inspired by the holy Indian Shiva Lingam stones.

So, you can watch the following shows: Slide Show from 20.00 – 01.00, Live Art Show from 20.00 – 23.00, Video Art Show from 23.00 – 01.00 and Slideshow LCD from 20.00 – 01.00.

United Visual Artists - Tryptich

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:59:02 GMT +0100

United Visual Artists are a multidisciplinary arts company combining art direction, production and software engineering. They create responsive, immersive and sculptural light-based environments. UVA was founded by partners Chris Bird, Matt Clark and Ash Nehru in 2003. Their first project was the creation of the ground-breaking visual show for Massive Attack’s 100th Window world tour. Since then they have gone on to work with bands including Basement Jaxx, U.N.K.L.E. and U2 (Vertigo tour 2005). UVA have also diversified into other areas, working on music videos for Kylie Minogue, Colder, Arctic Monkeys and recently directed Battles (Tonto) with Warp Films. In 2004 UVA created a curved LED installation for the Kabaret’s Prophecy nightclub in Soho, which won Wallpaper Magazine’s ‘Best Designed Nightclub’ award in 2005.

Their current major project is the design and installation of architectural lighting for the Santral Contemporary Art Space in Istanbul, Turkey. Tryptich, which will have its premiere at the
TodaysArt Festival, represents the next phase of UVA’s explorations in monumental sitespecific LED sculpture - three brooding presences that respond to the movements of people approaching them, creating a visceral experience of sound and light.

Evil Knievel -

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:57:41 GMT +0100

Dressed as the American flag, in red, white and blue, Evil Knievel is the self-proclaimed incarnation of the American hero. In his outstanding performance “I love America” Evil Knievel will yet again proof his abilities. To the clapping sound of a group of kids Evil will shake his hips, move his body, dance.

You can find Knievel at the Rancho Relaxo All Stars on Friday in venue 2 of the Asta, but he’ll also be at King Kong most of the time.

Vice - Vice Guide To Travel

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:53:21 GMT +0100

Correspondents from VICE magazine, amongst others Spike Jonze and Johnny Knoxville, journeyed towards the most dangerous and weird places on Earth. Searching for the last dinosaur in Congo, buying a dirty bomb in Bulgaria and shooting bears in Chernobyl. Just so you won’t have to do it anymore

CCDD -

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:32:26 GMT +0100

Hot Eclectic Boom Box Beats For Global Booties. Music has always been a driving force behind Nanna & Nadine’s art works. Urban street beats shaped the physical approach of their design and photography projects: velocity and bodies in motion. Nanna & Nadine are formerly known as N&N and were associated with dj collectives like Rundfunk and FNNNN.

For TodaysArt, CCDD will present a strictly female deejay set with dancehall, hiphop and baile funk.

Jahcoozi - Live

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:00:26 GMT +0100

Jahcoozi is a band from the Berlin club scene with musicians from London, with that little cute girl who rages like a maniac. They’ve shared a stage with the likes of Public Enemy, Jamie Lidell, Aphex Twin, Roots Manuva’s Banana Clan, Massive Attack, Chicks on Speed, the list is endless.... Their music is a low-end grime-tech-dub-rave-tronic monster that effortlessly boils down these infinite shades of electronica into an irresistible blend of pop.

The production is R&B thick, the songwriting well into its maturity and Sasha Perera’s social commentary as personal and caustic as ever.

Ebony Bones - Live

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:54:48 GMT +0100

Raw, explosively dynamic and perhaps the most chattered about act in London right now, Miss Ebony Bones is a one of a kind songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and all-round femme fatale who mixes up post-punk stylings, with pure girl sass. Enlisting a crew of rhythm section and backing vocalists, the Ebony Bones live experience is one part punk rock show, one part carnival parade.

Princess Superstar - dj-set

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:53:18 GMT +0100

Concetta Kirschner moved to New York in 1994, aged 17, taking her guitar, her samples and her lyrics with her. Within no time she was a huge hype in the underground scene.

With a groundbreaking electro and hiphop mix and nowadays with some Italo disco influences, she tours around the globe, playing all the big venues and festivals and working together with names like N.E.R.D., Björk and Dr. Octagon.

Lexie Lee - Live

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:51:38 GMT +0100

Jamaican Lexie Lee is something different. She writes amazing lyrics which make her music rise above the saturated and meaningless overproduced mainstream music scene. Lexie Lee doesn’t shy away from controversial topics, singing about important matters such as Aids, poverty, violence and self esteem. Her music with thumping, angry beats and Jamaican accent shook up the dancehall world, with critics calling her the bringer of ‘the new era of dancehall’.

She performs with an overwhelming energy and a touch of anger, making you think and dance.

Daan Roosegaarde - Dune 4.1

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:16:04 GMT +0100

Daan Roosegaarde, a young sculptor and architect, uses his work to explore the dynamic relationship between architecture, people and new media. His sculptures are a confrontation between man and technology and create situations in which man and public space temporarily fuse, becoming one entity.

Dune 4.0 is an interactive landscape consisting of hundreds of fibers. These fibers respond to sound and movement with patterns of light. Dune 4.1 is a hybrid of nature and technology which enters into a futuristic relationship with its environment.

Studio Roosegaarde
in corporation with Peter de Man (partner in software), Axis Stuifmeel (partner in technologies), Marnix Rijnart (electronica) and Mark van Meerkerk (realisation).

Daan Roosegaarde - Flow 5.0

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:06:50 GMT +0100

Daan Roosegaarde is a young artist working in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts AKI in Enschede and the Berlage Institute, a Postgraduate Laboratory of Architecture in Rotterdam. Roosegaarde’s work explores the dynamic relation between architecture, people and new media. His sculptures are a collision of technology and the human body. In this interaction the sculptures create a situation where visitor and (public) space become one.

Roosegaarde’s projects have been shown at international exhibitions at V2, Netherlands Media Art Institute & 5th Triennale in Slovenia and published in Items, NRC Handelsblad and MARK magazine. In 2006 he launched Studio Roosegaarde, a laboratory in which series of interactive artworks are created.

Specially for TodaysArt 2007 the interactive landscape Flow 5.0 is developed. Flow 5.0 is an interactive sculpture made out of hundreds of ventilators which are reacting to your sound and motion. By walking and interacting an illusive landscape of transparancies and artificial wind is created. Walking through Flow 5.0 in the white Cityhall of Den Hague the visitor becomes conscious of himself as a body, in a dynamic relation with space and technology.

Studio Roosegaarde
in corporation with Peter de Man (partner in software), Axis Stuifmeel (partner in technologies), Marnix Rijnart (electronica) and Mark van Meerkerk (realisation).

Pictoplasma - Character Arena

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:21:38 GMT +0100

Pictoplasma presents an installation, a photo gallery and cinema. Visitors enter a colourful, intriguing world of friendly, archetypical beings. In the centre of the installation, a character sculpture created by Japanese artist Akinori Oishi, gently moves up and down and turns around in elegant circles, following the movement of visitors and passer-byes. It invites visitors to come closer, cuddle it and ride on its back.

In the basement you can see pictures of real-life character species in various every day situations and settings. Inside the cinema, a selection of animations, motion graphics and music visuals will be screened, revolving around the topic of artificial worlds and their inhabitants.

Tarek Atoui - Empty Cans

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:19:38 GMT +0100

Leading up to the TodaysArt Festival, Tarek Atoui, a 27-year old Lebanese artist, collaborated with twelve Dutch high school students and created the first Dutch edition of his internationally renowned Empty Cans workshops. By using the Empty Cans software designed by Tarek, the students are able to manipulate video and audio live on stage with game console joysticks, thus creating a live music video performance.

Tarek Atoui started the Empty cans workshops in France in 2005 with teenagers from different origins and backgrounds. During the summer of 2006, Tarek took the workshop to Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, until the outbreak of the war forced him to leave. After the war, Tarek returned and noticed how his workshops helped the children cope with their wartime experiences by implementing audio and visual material from the war into the workshops.

The project has been receiving much international attention and is being developed into an instrument to stimulate interaction and create bonds between children from different nationalities and backgrounds. Empty Cans will travel to Cairo, Beirut and Nantes before returning to The Hague for the TodaysArt Festival 2007. At the festival, a selection of young people from countries such as Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and the Netherlands will give away a riveting live performance from cross-cultural talent.

Boxcutter - Live

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:36:22 GMT +0100

Barry Lynn from Northern Ireland, aka Boxcutter, makes abstract electronic music with raw bass sounds, heavy beats and warm organic sounds. His debut album, "Oneiric", was released in April 2006 on Mike Paradinas' Planet Mu label, to widespread critical acclaim. Its fractured take on the London-centric dub-step sound drew it many accolades, including being named as one of the best Electronica albums of 2006 in the Wire's end of year review.

His additions to dub-step prevented the demise of yet another underground genre, which often grind to a halt due to uncompromising attitudes. A follow-up album titled "Glyphic" is due for release soon on Planet Mu. His live sets are a combination of laptop-playing and improvisations on bass and guitar.

Warlock - Dj-set

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:35:55 GMT +0100

Warlock is a man raised on dark beats and bass. Cutting his teeth as an uncompromising DJ throughout the 90's, learnt skills of moving a dancefloor were quickly taken into the studio. Warlock's earliest releases were twisting through breaks electro and dubstep orientated, then he began dabbling with psycho bass, and dirty funk, his releases becoming a continuum of experimentation. Together with partner Noyeahno Warlock runs and releases on the Rag & Bone label. His dj sets are the same, effortlessly carving up a whole range of disparate styles and re-assembling them into a clear and purposeful sonic journey.

Vex'd - Live / Dj

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 19:35:26 GMT +0100

‘Vex’d’ is cold, twisted alien music charged with sub bass and raw energy, mixing in elements of heavy metal, dubstep and grime arrangements. Since 2006, Vex’d have been all around the world gigging, playing large events and festivals such as Glade in the UK, across Europe, the USA tour – even reaching Israel.

Jamie Teasdale and Roly Porter play together in a live/dj crossover format whereby Jamie mixes up a cutting-edge dubplate selection while Roly layers deeper and deeper levels of atmospherics and carefully crafted sound design through his lap top and portable mixing desk. The two are currently working on their new album which promises to drop later this year on Planet Mu.

Modeselektor & Pfadfinderei -

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:15:35 GMT +0100

The guys behind Modeselektor, Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, are true musical pioneers who started their career way back in 1992 when Berlin’s electronica scene was still so underground that most people didn’t know about it. The group draws heavily from IDM, glitch, electro and hiphop. They produce all their material with self-developed software and MIDI controllers.

Their work is now world famous, which yields interesting collaborations, such as recently with Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Maxïmo Park. Modeselektor’s live performances are best known for their innovative character, which is a reputation that they earned partly because of their collaboration with Pfadfinderei as Pfadselektor. Pfadfinderei is a phenomenal design collective that runs the label Bpitchcontrol, which just happens to be the label that releases Modeselektor’s work. These vj’s and graphic designers from Berlin produce stunning visuals and form an integral part of Modeselektor’s performance.

PIPS:lab - Die Space

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:13:08 GMT +0100

What do you want to be when you…are dead? PIPS:lab, a technological music and theatre collective who, in cooperation with Paradiso-Melkweg Productiehuis integrate digital technology into really cool theatre shows, uses the increase in the number of elderly people worldwide as the guiding principle in their new show.

PIPS:lab introduces DieSpace: the first internet community for dead people. In this interactive musical performance with laptops, cameras and light sensors, PIPS:lab discusses live after death. Some audience participation, live elements and of course a large dose of comedy, result in a hilarious performance supported by freaky songs and absurd acts.

MFO - Aviorama

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:27:37 GMT +0100

Aviorama is a live video show made for three screens. It features very special material filmed at the local airport and flight control tower, being reworked to an immersive and dense impression.

His material is the real world: greyed architecture, systematically guided human traffic, the pulse of public life – broken down to its elementary building blocks and animated by the use of self-developed software. The musical layer of Aviorama is presented by Repeatbeat, a multi-style DJ veteran, whose capability to adopt to different situations made him the ideal partner for this project.

Chris de Luca & Phon.o - Live

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:04:24 GMT +0100

De Luca and Phon.o joined forces in the spring of 2006 and quickly discovered that they have a contagious sort of chemistry on stage. Since then, they’ve been rocking clubs and festivals all over Europe with their ass-kicking sets. This unconventional combination of hip hop, ghetto beats, IDM and dirty techno goes beyond typical contemporary genre boundaries.

ASCII DISKO -

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:04:20 GMT +0100

ASCII.DISKO is Daniel Holc, who blew the minds of many a critic in a positive way back in 2003 when he released his self-titled debut. Following that debut he toured the world with his infectious mix of electro, wave, techno, pop and rock. Unmistakably, heavy metal and punk still lie at the roots of his work, but his music really boils down to extremely danceable techno with a special twist.

Holc’s performances are already cult before they even happened, whether they are DJ-sets or live, so be there and spread the word.

Nôze -

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:56:17 GMT +0100

Nicolas Sfintescu aka DJ Freak, founding member of the label Circus Company, and his stage partner, the brilliant Ezechiel Pailhès, together form the duo Nôze, an adventurous electro band from Paris.

Crowds go insane, people pass out, they nearly pass out, everyone nearly passes out, and all the time they pass out this insane electro music to crowds forever wanting more.

Yuksek -

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:04:47 GMT +0100

At the forefront of the growing French electro scene along with Justice, Para One, Sebastian and Surkin, Pierre-Alexandre Buisson aka Yuksek is a purveyor of sleazy, synth-heavy tech-hop. A hybrid sound created from the techiness of electro and the rawness of hiphop, and brought together over powerful baselines directed straight at the dancefloor.

Solo with machines and a microphone, Yuksek returns to old school origins without ornament, using dry acid sounds, electro-techno beats, and stop and start breakdowns. He’s got one foot in hiphop and the other in techno, and he’ll probably have your feet jumping up and down.

Optical Machines - Shift

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:54:59 GMT +0100

(SHIFT) is a kind of Pandora's Box. An ingenious case with a battery of lights forms the basis for a play with interfering patterns and abstract animation. (SHIFT) is a real live show with light images that are generated, manipulated, mixed and projected on the spot. The interaction between image and sound is twofold: the soundtrack influences the image and vice versa.

LAB[au] + Res Publica - Man in e.Space

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:30:42 GMT +0100

This performance is a collaboration of the French dance group Res Publica and the Belgian designers Lab[au] and builds on the experimental German cinema and dance of the twenties, examining the notion of bodyspace in relation to machines and the resulting aesthetics. From Etienne Jules Marey’s cinematic experiences to Oskar Fischinger’s audiovisual works or to the choreographic work of Oskar Schlemmer, all proposed an analytic and artistic view on the body by building an abstract and symbolic representation.
The performance ‘Man in e.Space’ is based on the complete reduction of space and body. This is achieved in a darkened room where images are projected on four carefully positioned screens and dancers are reduced to glowing lines with the use of a light emitting tubes attached to black costumes.

Rancho Relaxo All Stars - live

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:37:02 GMT +0100

Rancho Relaxo as we know it was born from parties that began in 1994. The first party took place one fateful Saturday night at the infamous Limelight Club in NYC.

Abe Duque wanted to “try something different”. He wanted to create a party with a different concept. So, Abe asked all his “electronic music friends" to come, each with at least 1 electronic music device and jam. Now, a few world tours and two albums later, the Ranchos from back then have reunited and made a third album, capturing that cowboy magic yet again and inviting you to come and enjoy that spontaneous, fun-soaked sound.

Robert Henke - Layering Buddha

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 03:17:23 GMT +0100

Robert Henke, famous as Monolake for his techno productions and as one of the developers of the world famous music software Ableton Live, is an inconceivably talented person.

At the TodaysArt Festival you will get the rare opportunity of seeing two of Henke’s most famous projects in the Lutherian church: Linear Grid and Layering Buddha.

Layering Buddha is an installation based on the Buddha machine, a little sound apparatus from China. At his performance, Henke will guide the visitor, who is invited to stand in the middle of a ring of speakers, through his bizarre ec(h)osystem.

Robert Henke - Linear Grid

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 01:20:13 GMT +0100

Robert Henke, famous as Monolake for his techno productions and as one of the developers of the world famous music software Ableton Live, is an inconceivably talented person.

At the TodaysArt Festival you will get the rare opportunity of seeing two of Henke’s most famous projects in the Lutherian church: Linear Grid and Layering Buddha.

Linear Grid is an installation which enables the user to break through the constraints of time and space with sound. During the performance someone else, at a different location, is linked to the performance through an identical installation.

Mr. Oizo & SebastiAn -

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:24:50 GMT +0100

Most of us will probably remember the little yellow guy called �Flat Eric�. He was the main character in the Levi�s commercials in 1999, dishing out minimalist dance moves to minimal house and quickly rising to the top of Europe�s music charts with the song �Flat Beat�. The mastermind behind it all was Quentin Dupieux, aka Mr. Oizo, a Frenchmen gifted in the field of film and music.

During the past few years, Mr. Oizo has been busy with remixes of famous artists such as Air and Scissor Sisters, releasing two albums and producing Uffie�s and Feadz� album. French musician SebastiAn follows in the footsteps of fellow French melodic minimalists Gel, Encre and Sylvain Chauveau with his glorious multi faceted drone based music. After being discovered by Ed Banger, he soon became a rising star not only in France but also internationally, touring with major names such as Daft Punk and Kavinsky.

At the TodaysArt Festival, Mr. Oizo and SebastiAn will officially close the French summer, in which the European festivals were filled with the French electrohouse acts from Ed Banger Records.

Array - Outre

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:23:02 GMT +0100

Outre is a unique event: a distinctly altered theatrical world where music hall meets end of the pier freak show meets ghost train: a disturbing but extraordinary beautiful place within which Darren Johnston�s powerful choreography for his company of six dancers exists in all its startling, haunting originality. In a half-lit haze on a monochrome stage a chanteuse sings a fragmented lyric: a woman in a hooped frock has a mannequin�s face:
a salsa dancer twitches to radio static and a Japanese ghost-girl gyrates in falling rain. All appear in their black-and-white world somewhere on the edge of consciousness.

With commissioned music from Christian Vogel and Warp artists including Jamie Lidell and Tyondai Braxton (Battles), Darren Johnston has created a seamless unity of live performance, music and visual design in a way that engages on a myriad of sensory levels to manipulate, persuade and above all, enthrall.

Charly & Gallus - BAF Soundsystem

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 01:04:24 GMT +0100

Since the mid-nineties, Charly and Gallus have been running the mighty BAF Soundsystem. After doing numerous events and collaborations, performing with various major players in the drum & bass / electro and dubstep / grime scene, they decided to focus on their own music and started doing live sets together.

Their style can be described as meditative dub breaks with the main focus on bass. Under the name The Hague Dunestep soldiers they provide a unique take on the dubstep genre.