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21st October 2004, 12:32 PM
Yesterday I saw Dj Spooky and Pan Sonic (http://www.romaeuropa.net/English/festival/schede_compagnie2004/10pansonic.htm) in a the wonderful Auditorium in Rome, Italy.
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I was aware the Auditorium is a great place, but yesterday I went for the first time. How great great architechture is.............:nod: :nod: :nod:
Dj Spooky acted alone, remixed "Birth of a Nation (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004972/) " by Griffith. From what I understood (all coincidence with reality is fortuitous) the original 1915 film is pretty racist. Instead Spooky changed the titles (it's a silent film) to make it the opposite. I didn't understand very much the sense of the film since the titles first were in italian, then in english and anyway a lot of times too little for my eyes to read...
There were three screens, the central being bigger. The lateral ones showing the same. The visuals were pretty repetitive, consisting basically in changing the (sub)titles, the order of the scenes and layering some electronic schemes over the images.
The music was better, even if at some moments I felt little relation to the movie/images.
All in all it was a little too long, but had good moments (mainly in war scenes).
The thing that bothered me was that before starting the set, Dj Spooky said "Don't forget everything is done live" and all the people who saw it thought the opposite, all was canned. He changed volumes, delays and scratched some musical passages.
Pan Sonic instead surprised me a lot at the begining. They used only the big central screen, in which they projected an osciloscope image of the sound. The background was gray and the line black. It was good to understand what they were doing to the sound...
The sound was LOUD, noisy but minimalistic. If someone described me the show I would never be atracted. But feeling that brutal noise, and see how the couple of guys on the stage modulated to their will it was great.
The structure basically was, they started a beat (simple and efective) and they started to distor/add noise on it until they arrived to a big chaos, at this point they started again with another beat. The first two or three times I was really impressed and the audience too (they shouted!!!). All in all I loved their simplicity and precision. I missed some variation of the structure...
ys
I was aware the Auditorium is a great place, but yesterday I went for the first time. How great great architechture is.............:nod: :nod: :nod:
Dj Spooky acted alone, remixed "Birth of a Nation (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004972/) " by Griffith. From what I understood (all coincidence with reality is fortuitous) the original 1915 film is pretty racist. Instead Spooky changed the titles (it's a silent film) to make it the opposite. I didn't understand very much the sense of the film since the titles first were in italian, then in english and anyway a lot of times too little for my eyes to read...
There were three screens, the central being bigger. The lateral ones showing the same. The visuals were pretty repetitive, consisting basically in changing the (sub)titles, the order of the scenes and layering some electronic schemes over the images.
The music was better, even if at some moments I felt little relation to the movie/images.
All in all it was a little too long, but had good moments (mainly in war scenes).
The thing that bothered me was that before starting the set, Dj Spooky said "Don't forget everything is done live" and all the people who saw it thought the opposite, all was canned. He changed volumes, delays and scratched some musical passages.
Pan Sonic instead surprised me a lot at the begining. They used only the big central screen, in which they projected an osciloscope image of the sound. The background was gray and the line black. It was good to understand what they were doing to the sound...
The sound was LOUD, noisy but minimalistic. If someone described me the show I would never be atracted. But feeling that brutal noise, and see how the couple of guys on the stage modulated to their will it was great.
The structure basically was, they started a beat (simple and efective) and they started to distor/add noise on it until they arrived to a big chaos, at this point they started again with another beat. The first two or three times I was really impressed and the audience too (they shouted!!!). All in all I loved their simplicity and precision. I missed some variation of the structure...