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wwvf2003
19th May 2003, 09:23 AM
RGB - VJ/DJ Festival

state-of-the-art visuals vs hardcore experiments
featuring international pioneers of electronic music and video

22 | 23 | 24 May, Melkweg, Amsterdam

THURSDAY MAY 22: Red
Scanner, Label Night Invasion Planete: Le Syndicat Electronique, IT & My Computer, Porn.Darsteller, Rollinka, DonLeo

FRIDAY MAY 23: Green
TLR, Orgue Electronique, Kassen, Legowelt, Monkeyshop, Solvent/Lowfish, Meso, DJ Raphael, Driessens & Verstappen, Hassan Khan, Serhat K?ksal, SmashTV, Ellen Allien, Pfadfinderei

SATURDAY MAY 24: Blue
<b>Barkode, Vive la F?te, VJK, Terry Toner, DJ Dion, Station Rose, Arno Coenen vs Transformer di Roboter, Burnt Friedmann & Nu Dub Players, Michal Butink</b>

http://www.wwvf.nl/RGB

- About RGB - VJ/DJ Festival
- Programme THURSDAY 22 May
- Programme FRIDAY 23 May
- Programme SATURDAY 24 May

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About RGB - VJ/DJ Festival
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RGB is a three day event, exclusively dedicated to contemporary VJ-culture and the electronic music scene. RGB presents almost thirty live-performances by international musicians, artists and collectives that operate at the intersection of visual art, performance, new media and pop culture. New artistic directions are being explored. It's art for art's sake, music for music's sake, and style for style's sake. RGB takes place on the World Wide
Video Festival's last weekend, in one location, in the Melkweg, on Thursday 22, Friday 23 and Saturday 24 May.

The programme is compiled by the World Wide Video Festival and the Melkweg in collaboration with the Netherlands Media Art Institute and Electronation.

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Programme THURSDAY 22 May: RED: Melkweg Max
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Scanner (GBR)
The r?sum? of the pioneering English artist, musician and writer Robin Rimbaud reads like a history of contemporary electronic music and performance culture.

DonLeo (NLD) / Label Night Invasion Planete (FRA): met Le Syndicat Electronique, IT & My Computer, Porn.Darsteller en Rollinka
DonLeo is Leonard van Munster, a young artist who works across a range of different media. He was formerly part of the famous DEPT collective. The French electronic purists of the Invasion Planete label present four hours of sexy, minimal electro.

http://www.wwvf.nl/RGB

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Programme FRIDAY 23 May: Melkweg Max & Old Hall
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Meso (DEU) / TLR (NLD), Solvent/Lowfish (CAN), Orgue Electronique (NLD), Legowelt (NLD), Kassen (NLD), Monkeychop (SWE), Driessens & Verstappen (NLD)
/ DJ Raphael (BEL)
A journey through the electronic universe, including Solvent and Lowfish, Monkeychop and Orgue Electronique, Legowelt and Kassen. It's a single performance featuring all artists connected to one sound mixer, DJ'ed and conducted by 'Master of the Electronic Universe' TLR. All this will be accompanied by real-time computer generated visuals by Meso. Followed by a late set from Belgium's infamous DJ Rafael with visuals by Driessens &
Verstappen's SonicScope software to round out the journey.

Hassan Khan (EGT)
Khan's performance 'Tabla Dubb' is an attempt at fashioning public media using the basic elements of popular musical culture. Khan connects the music to a library of video images that arise out of an engagement with the city and its sociography.

2/5BZ Serhat K?ksal (TUR)
In his performances K?ksal uses samplers and electronics as well as traditional (acoustic) instruments like saz, darbouka, drums, vocals and spoken word. Seventies Turkish cinema, music, literature, and experimental electronic music influence his style.

Pfadfinderei / SmashTV / DJ Ellen Allien (DEU)
Three acts from the groundbreaking Bpitchcontrol label from Berlin. Pfadfinderei is one of the most highly acclaimed VJ crews in Germany. At their beginning, instead of gnawing on the slow memory capacity of their pre 21st century computers, they transformed them into vector-ridden graphic style video beasts. Ellen Allien is the owner of Bpitchcontrol and famous for her hypnotic sequences and strange slow beats. SmashTV's music is a
tight variety of electro - electech. It bears the sign of the new
millennium, transformed into 8-bit pixel optics, and hints to their B-Boy roots.

http://www.wwvf.nl/RGB

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Programme SATURDAY 24 May: Melkweg Max & Old Hall
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Barkode / Eelco (NLD)
Barkode develop projects on the borders of media, club, design and art. They were actually one of the first VJ crews to experiment with all encompassing club concepts which include visuals, music, performers and even scents. At RGB Barkode will present their new show.

VJK (NLD) / Vive la Fete (BEL)
An unusual combination of VJK's slick and kaleidoscopic pop-images and the electro-rock by Vive la F?te. Vive la f?te vowed allegiance to sleazy glamour, cheeky humour and anything-goes optimism. Danny Mommens displayes his love for eighties synth pop, melancholic cold wave and back-to-basics electronica, while Els Pynoo juxtaposes his sparse and rhythmic soundscapes
with cooing, breathy vocals and self-penned lyrics, written in French. Followed by a late set from DJ Terry Toner en DJ Dion.

Station Rose (DEU) - Playing Field
Station Rose's audio-visual jam sessions, which begin as a flow on
workstations connected through MIDI, are streamed live on the internet. During these webcasts they improvise in real time on patterns and structures developed earlier in the studio.

Arno Coenen (NLD) / Transformer di Roboter (DEU)
The irony and social criticism of VJ Arno Coenen's incredible 3D-animations with music by the German computer trashmetal band Transformer di Roboter. The general idea behind their music is bootlegging. 'Why make crappy new songs when there are great old ones?'.

Michal Butink (GBR) / Burnt Friedmann & Nu Dub Players (DEU)
VJ Michal Butink refers to her work as 'moving photography'. In her performances Butink concentrates on ambiance, rhythm and the experience itself. Burnt Friedmann is one of Germany's most respected electronic artists. He plays abstract crackling funk.

http://www.wwvf.nl/RGB

Bartholomew
19th May 2003, 10:26 AM
who elso is going? i defenately am ...

silk
19th May 2003, 10:57 AM
me too ;p

would be great if we could meet each other at a meeting point at a particular time

Rovastar
19th May 2003, 02:23 PM
Is this a call for submissions or the final lineup??

I do wonder when VJ events crop up and we have heard nothing in the build up here. (sorry if a thread has been mentioned before)

Do these VJ's not know about vjf/vjc???

wwvf2003
19th May 2003, 11:51 PM
This is the final lineup of the RGB programme. All artists are confirmed and will be present.

And no, I don't know about VJF/VJC.

MatFx
20th May 2003, 06:20 AM
Thinking of going, only can't come on saturday:(

Bartholomew
20th May 2003, 07:51 AM
Originally posted by Rovastar
Is this a call for submissions or the final lineup??

I do wonder when VJ events crop up and we have heard nothing in the build up here. (sorry if a thread has been mentioned before)

Do these VJ's not know about vjf/vjc???


please! the world IS bigger than this forum!


btw i think i,m going on friday (and possibly on saturday too) with eddy so the full resolume crew will be there and handing out flyers ;-)

robotfunk
20th May 2003, 09:54 AM
ill be giving my birthday bash this weekend, so alas, must give it a miss.

Primebase3
20th May 2003, 09:57 AM
going to the wwvf definetly great stuff , and lots of fun!!!!:cool:

psychodude
20th May 2003, 10:47 AM
Originally posted by Bartholomew



please! the world IS bigger than this forum!




It is, now isn't it, but this forum would be a gathering-point for Vj's, no? I'm with Rovastar on this. If one doesn't know one can't send in a demo.

'Love the idea though. Too bad I already have previous appointment ... with my rig this saturday ...

Morninglight
20th May 2003, 11:09 AM
I'm going there... dunno when I have to work though.,.

I'm going to 4-Elements on saturday so maybe thursday or friday..

sleepytom
20th May 2003, 11:12 AM
not all events are organised on a "send us a demo" type of arrangement -many events are simply put together by inviting people to play who the promoter considers to be good - the last thing people organising these events want is a huge pile of vhs tapes from international newbees which i guess is what they fear they would be letting themselves in for if they posted details here.

if you wanted to book some international, well regarded DJs then would you post on djforums.com ?

wwvf2003
20th May 2003, 11:34 PM
RGB is part of the World Wide Video Festival - a media art festival which has been showing VJ acts each year at the festival since 1996. This is the 20th anniversary and we wanted to do something special around VJing because we feel that it is an important medium and a lot of interesting developments are happening. Plus we wanted to nake a really great party. We had a few goals with RGB. 1. RGB was designed to be a festival about innovation and originality, about the here and now. This was the basic criterium for selecting the VJ's/VJ crews but also the musicians/bands. We only selected VJ's that produce their own visuals. 2. RGB is international. We have invited VJ's from Germany, France, Japan, Turkey, Egypt and of course Holland.
An important not is that we are not making a profit here. We are doing this because we feel passionate about the VJ culture. And if enough people show up we can do another RGB next year. By the way, we are always interested in new talent. I'll post a thread here as soon as we start working on next years programme.

Rovastar
21st May 2003, 01:22 AM
Originally posted by sleepytom
not all events are organised on a "send us a demo" type of arrangement -many events are simply put together by inviting people to play who the promoter considers to be good - the last thing people organising these events want is a huge pile of vhs tapes from international newbees which i guess is what they fear they would be letting themselves in for if they posted details here.

if you wanted to book some international, well regarded DJs then would you post on djforums.com ?

I understand that it was a little unclear to begin with.

Someone registering just to post an event then a do tend to wonder. Either viewing the forum from afar or suddenly stumbled across it.

Anyway it is all good and another VJ festival. :)

(edit:
so tell us how did you come up with those VJ's?

Bartholomew
21st May 2003, 07:30 AM
Originally posted by wwvf2003
By the way, we are always interested in new talent. I'll post a thread here as soon as we start working on next years programme.

I,m doing to get shit for this but: please don,t! what i hear from everybody who is going is: 'I only know one or two vjs that are performing on RGB.' THATS GREAT! I want it to be a surprise and see something new.

Anyone
21st May 2003, 08:25 AM
Originally posted by wwvf2003
We have invited VJ's from Germany, France, Japan, Turkey, Egypt and of course Holland.


who's coming from Japan?
I didn't see any (JPN) signs next to the line up on the first post...

Ne1

AetherPan
21st May 2003, 09:39 AM
Originally posted by Rovastar

Do these VJ's not know about vjf/vjc???

they do.
www.pfadfinderei.com
one of them is also signed up here, but not an active poster.

questionmark
26th May 2003, 04:35 PM
Originally posted by Anyone


who's coming from Japan?
I didn't see any (JPN) signs next to the line up on the first post...

Ne1

on their website:
"VJK is Kaoru Yamamoto"

Originally posted by Rovastar
Do these VJ's not know about vjf/vjc???

it wasn't produced by vj's, but by some venues and the team from world wide video festival, a video art festival. In that sense I didn't see it as a real festival but as a big after party for the exhibition visitors.

Did anyone of you go?
I was quite surprised to find out that on the Thursday evening, there was only one vj playing! He was quite good, but from a veejayfestival I had expected something better. Apart from him, there were three dj's. :confused:

Saturday the programme was severely delayed, which was quite annoying. We had to wait more than an hour to see one of my favorite vj's. When it finally started, the musical act was really bad and...blokking the screen.

After this act I was really tired and chilled away nicely with the Japanese visuals...

RGB: I wouldn't say a waste of time or money, just disappointing and not what they promised.

Bartholomew
27th May 2003, 08:01 AM
yes it was quite a boring experience on friday ... tooooo baaaaad ...

the only one i enjoyed was pfadfinderei ... they look like wannabees with their visors on but they did some nice flash visuals.

questionmark
27th May 2003, 10:58 AM
Originally posted by Bartholomew
yes it was quite a boring experience on friday ... tooooo baaaaad ...
the only one i enjoyed was pfadfinderei ... they look like wannabees with their visors
visors= ?
new word for the veejay slang list!
http://www.vjcentral.com/faq/show/4567

on but they did some nice flash visuals.

what sort of style?
I wanted to go both days, but Thursday had already costed me 10 euros...for 1 act! :(

Deebur
30th May 2003, 07:56 PM
[i]
the only one i enjoyed was pfadfinderei ...[/B]

Indeed it looked nice(nice style)......but in the other room I saw verry poor performance... I checked about five times, and all I saw was 1 nice loop on one screen and some sort off crappy winamp plug on the four other screens... tsssssssssss:smurf:

Had a nice evenning anyway , but dissapointing... :stoned:

zap25
4th June 2003, 11:01 AM
Originally posted by Deebur


Indeed it looked nice(nice style)......but in the other room I saw verry poor performance... I checked about five times, and all I saw was 1 nice loop on one screen and some sort off crappy winamp plug on the four other screens... tsssssssssss:smurf:



HEY! What's wrong with winamp plugins?

well ok.... if you choose the wrong ones and don't customise then the result may be pretty crappy

jeremy
4th June 2003, 09:33 PM
Bartholomew, Questionmark
and Deebur you are right...
Friday was boring, thurday also....
a little disappointing....

Bartholomew did you see the guys using Resolume on Saturday ?not bad.

let's hope that next year it will be better,... maybe with all of you, guys...

Rovastar
4th June 2003, 10:34 PM
Originally posted by zap25


HEY! What's wrong with winamp plugins?

well ok.... if you choose the wrong ones and don't customise then the result may be pretty crappy

Wow someone defending Winamp plugins that doesn't happen too often on VJforums! :)

zap25
5th June 2003, 09:46 AM
Originally posted by Rovastar


Wow someone defending Winamp plugins that doesn't happen too often on VJforums! :)

Maybe it's because most people are scared... scared some day some plugin is going to render all VJs useless.

questionmark
5th June 2003, 11:43 AM
Originally posted by jeremy

...the guys using Resolume on Saturday ?not bad.


I was there on Sarurday too, do you remember the act's name?
Barkode, VJK, Michal Butink?

Rovastar
5th June 2003, 01:03 PM
Originally posted by zap25


Maybe it's because most people are scared... scared some day some plugin is going to render all VJs useless.

I don't think it will every come to that - even in my must optimistic dream. :);) There is a definate place for VJ IMO and a place for automated stuff. Surprising some big name VJ's don'tthink there is a future for VJ'ing and in a few years most things will be automated. I really cannot see how although I do think therew will be more stuff.

Bartholomew
5th June 2003, 01:40 PM
Originally posted by questionmark


I was there on Sarurday too, do you remember the act's name?
Barkode, VJK, Michal Butink?


hmm we do not have any of them as registered users ... maybee they were using a cracked version? we should have been there to bust their ass ;-)

Rovastar
5th June 2003, 05:18 PM
hehe yeah. Maybe I should have been there too.:)

vjpupuce
6th June 2003, 11:11 AM
thursday and friday show were... a... "ramp"...

oxygen
9th June 2003, 05:07 PM
yes, i was there on thursday
i liked scanner :-),
but further on i was so very dissapointed.
and this is what they call the world wide video festival??????
did i miss something?

but i didnt see the other days.....

robotfunk
9th June 2003, 07:16 PM
Yes scanner is good, it is also the single most boring act to book for such a festival. Boring because I cannot remember one video related thing in the Paradiso or Melkweg that didn't have scanner.

I keep seeing the same names over and over again on all these art/video events, is this just all they know of or are they all masons or something.

oxygen
9th June 2003, 09:14 PM
true, scanner is everywhere (did he clone himself?).
the commercial things are always running behind...

maybe, the more money and the bigger the club/event becomes the
more dull it gets?

ps:robotfunk
ga jij ook naar croatie in augustus, begreep ik van irena?

robotfunk
9th June 2003, 10:47 PM
oxygen: yup !! :)

oxygen
9th June 2003, 11:44 PM
cool!!!