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Title: Patchcord Sunday Report
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Date: 2009-09-07 11:35
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Category: blog
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Author: Kiritan Flux
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Slug: patchcord-sunday-report
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Tags: vjism, gonzo, berlin, english
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By coincidence I stumbled into two inspiring performances yesterday. One
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was [Blank Pages](http://www.blankpages.fr/ "Blank Pages"), an
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experimental audio jam around four simple rules: use PureData or
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Max/MSP, open a blank patch, jam for 60 minutes, no load - no save. The
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event took place at the [NK](http://www.myspace.com/enka52 "NK"), an art
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gallery / studio / open space run by an old friend of VisualBerlin:
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Julian Percy. The registered participants were experimental musician and
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Max/MSP veteran [Stefan
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Tiedje](http://www.myspace.com/ondesmemorielles "MySpace Link"),
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installation and plastic artist [Renaud
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Rubiano](http://renaudrubiano.com/ "Renaud Rubiano"), VisualBerlin's
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hardware expert and PD geek
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[Servando](http://servandobarreiro.es/ "Ser's Website"), João Pais from
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Brazil, and the musicians Duan Wasi and [Dominik
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Tresowski](http://www.myspace.com/tellerwaescher "MySpace Link"). It was
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one hour of ambient noise and experimental resampling joy and we got
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back in touch with the [NK](http://www.myspace.com/enka52 "NK") for
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future collaboration. A visual focused blank pages event with Jitter,
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GEM, vvvv, Isadora etc. has been in the back of my head for a long time
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and now I'm even more keen to realize such an event some time in the
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near future.
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from the NK we went to [General
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Public](http://www.generalpublic.de "General Public") in the evening to
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see the performances of Andre Castro and [Pan Am
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Scan](http://www.myspace.com/panamscan "MySpace Link"). Andre started
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off with a really interesting live sound piece, resampling, looping and
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processing short snippets of noisy radio signals while surfing the
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frequency bands.
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The following audiovisual performance of [Pan Am
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Scan](http://www.myspace.com/panamscan "MySpace Link") totally blew me
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away! The stage setup was impressive already, with a beautiful large
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vibraphone, a quite odd drum set, huge contrabass and laptop galore. My
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senses tried to follow every milisecond of the 40 minute performance of
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noisy ambient live jazz with incredibly talented vibraphone
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improvisation and insane drum geekery. The vvvv-based visuals perfectly
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matched the music and overall ambience and were just incredible.
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Silhouettes and subliminal outlines of faces and people shone through a
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strangely organic full screen dot matrix, occasionally flashing up in
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bright lens flare like glitches and feedback or bloating up into the
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third dimension towards the audience. Stunningly analog looking
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television interference noise flickering in sync with the audio, zoomed
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in to beautiful wave patterns with mesmerizing jitter. The whole
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performance really gave me shivers and I will definetly be there when
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[Pan Am Scan](http://www.myspace.com/panamscan "MySpace Link") will
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perform again in Berlin.
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[more impressions
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here](http://www.flickr.com/photos/kflux/sets/72157622157560639/ "flickr")
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