Festival der elektronischen Musik
… that’s Remko Catersels, Ronald Lander und Andy Godschalk from the Netherlands. The VJ collective interweaves self-shot footage with computer animated graphics to visually stage electronic music in clubs and at festivals. They’ve joined first-class artists such as Sven Väth, Carl Craig, Kevin Saunderson and Joris Voorn and complemented those sounds with their visual arts.
Originally a group of five people, founded in 1998, Lichtsport has now developed into a nationwide art network which tries to be a joint between club culture, media and art. Its work touches upon many different topics and involves selfmade objects and projection surfaces, slides, live improvised video projections (veejaying), audio improvisation and DJing.
The Club is their bakery. With their project vlight.to, the gents Karsten Blaschke and Theis Müller turn into visual confectioners and prepare delicious cakes with good music and visuals as ingredients. Always live, always with a sugar coating of butterflies or grenades. That’s to the taste of the party people on the dance floors.
Animated pictures telling stories in keeping with the music. Visual companions on the journey across the nocturnal dance floors. Okinawa 69 is synonymous with the fascinating and unexpected unknown. And convention is not part of the lexicon. You never know, when and where and which visual bounty Okinawa 69 come up with next. At one time or the other your ways will cross – in a dark club, an art-gallery or some other unexpected place.
Bahadir Hamdemir and Stefan Kraus are chopping up the world’s screen with their WJ-MX10 mixers. Their radical handling with pictures, structure and frequency makes their projections so unique. They’re open the HD-VJing chapter with their Inhouse Software MXWendler. Visual hardcore jazz performed with uncompromising dedication to the instrument.
Bruno Tait has grown out of the fledgling stages. Since the formation in 2000 the project for the exploration of the interface between graphics, light and music has developed its own style. Fizzy enthusiasm and an awfully great delight in unconventional audio-visual experiments are the tools for the creation of unique visual choreographies. Bruno Tait is home where live-videos and music interact.
Askew, slant and asymmetrical – who-be’s designed spaces only reveal their dynamic compositions in interaction with light jolting the party crowd out of their well-structured daily routine. He’s specialised in projection screens of diverse forms and materials displaying aesthetic, upmarket footage. His light productions jitter and burst into pieces matching the sounds of loud music.
If your parents bestowed the surname ‘Licht’ upon you, there are two obvious options to capitalise on that name. On the one hand, you could earn some money as man of the cloth in sparsely inhabited Mecklenburg or you study design at Bauhaus university, do side lining as lighting designer and craft well-wrought lighting and video installation in clubs.
