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The Joshua Light Show

New York City 1967. When the Summer of Love blows its wind from the West Coast to the city, it brings with it new ideas, colours and sounds.
That was the beginning of the Joshua Light Show, but this incredible show never reached middle-europe, till now. In Line with the transmediale and the CTM.12 Festival he performs with three outstanding musicians in Berlin.
Supersilent with Stian Westerhus, Oneohtrix Point Never and as a special highlight, no other than Krautrock / cosmic / minimalism giant Manuel Göttsching (Ash Ra Tempel/Ashra, de).
I just can say it was really impressive. Hear and see for yourself.

The projections are complete analog. Only with lights and the visuals of colors in a petri dish projected on a wall, he creates fantastic abstracts forms and patterns. The analog procedure makes the whole composition even more realistic and touchable.He plasticise your imagination. In every form your mind creates your own symbols and figures and puts it together in a adventoures realistic dream. In combination with the the electronic music you even get more carried away. I picked some pictures from the website. And I hope the show is coming back soon to Berlin.
To see some videos from the Show go to –> this site

Here some old and new Impressions from the Show.

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In line of the Transmediale Festival in Berlin from  30.01 – 05.02.12. I want to show you the work of Till Nowak.

He will present his short film “The Centrifuge Brain Project” at the Festival. It’s not online, but i give you a short vision. In this fictive documentation he builds monstrous machines, which scientist use to overcome gravity. With 3-D-Modelling-and Animation Software he manipulates the reality. After taking live pictures to extract the 3-D structure, he put these animation back to the documentary footage via Match-Moving-Method. So that we get the impression, that gravity is no matter anymore.

Digital Art by Till Nowak

“Till Nowak is a digital artist, designer and filmmaker. Since 1999 Till works as a professional computer graphics artist on his own independent projects and as an efficient one-man-production-company for high profile clients. He is based in Hamburg. He has is own computer animation Studio frameboX”

Pjusk – Sus from Till Nowak on Vimeo.

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Highly recommended. Every Year in the end of January and beginning of February the CTM Festival in cooperation with  transmediale  takes place in Berlin.

For every Year now, I joined the Festival. Its taking you away in another universe of music and cultural adventures. It will sharpen your senses and put your percipience on an higher level. Mostly it is really experimental. It’s more music for your mind then for your feet.

CTM Festival

“With an extensive program of concerts, discourses and an exhibition space, CTM.12 – Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts is appropriating the festival theme SPECTRAL to explore the current reemergence of all things ghostly and dark in experimental music, avant-pop, and art – and to speculate about its possible causes and inherent potentials.

In addition to a comprehensive music program at HAU, Berghain, Passionskirche, Gretchen, Kater Holzig and Horst Krzbrg, a discourse series developed in collaboration with the philosopher, psycho-historian and author Andreas L. Hofbauer will address the festival’s theme by pursuing questions concerning art, theory, and music. ”

Here are just some great Musicians – for the specific programm go to this site

Eleh (US) / Jana Winderen (NO) / Hildur Gudnadottir (IS) / Charles Matthews (UK) / Marcus Davidson (UK) / The Eternal Chord (US)

Conrad Schnitzler (DE), Wolfgang Seidel (DE) and his Free Arts Lab project / Qluster (Hans-Joachim Roedelius + Onnen Bock (DE) / Borngräber & Strüver (DE), Köhn (BE)

Mouse on Mars (DE) / Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop (DE) / Sølyst (DE) /DJ Elephant Power (BE)

Ben Frost with Borgar Magnason (contra bass) and Shazad Ismaily (drums, synth) (IS/US) / Roly Porter with videos by MFO (UK/DE) – world premiere /Ancient Methods (DE) / G.H. (UK) – German premiere / Opium Hum (DE)

Sendai (BE) / Kangding Ray (DE) / Mark Fell (UK) / Byetone (DE, DJ set)  and many more

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I fall in love again…..

A Newcomer from Glasgow. His music shaped from his heart and soul. Waving melodies, which breaks on the impulsive bass in beautiful fine and fragile mosaics.

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Today i looked at my smartphone and thought about how this little object shaped our present from the early 80‘s till today. Star Trek is no Science Fiction anymore. So let’s catch a glimpse of the world of tomorrow how the Star Trek Vison will look like under our leading Companys. Nowadays we already say iTrek, but the next videos will show us much more.

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Animation-Site
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Twitter-David Oreilly

This film is about….? uh really hard to describe, you have to watch it several times to catch the details, and the film language is running so fast from szene to szene you almost forget to breath. But you laugh and a moment later you get shocked. It makes you think, but during the film you have no time to think about what you see, you just absorb the pictures and the pictures get razor-sharp in you mind.
The IFTA award winning maker of this film, David Oreilly, takes us to a journey to our worlds we are living in, but in this film we don’t see the borders anymore. We are floating in between the worlds. Digital and analog is melting. Even our mindworld gets real, everything is real or everything is unreal. We don’t know anymore. We lose ourselves.

The External World from David OReilly on Vimeo.

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Aesthetic technology shown in a new visual language of Digital Media Design in his best performance. Enjoy ! Interview with Prof. Joachim Sauter from Gestalten TV, presenting the work of ART+COM

ART+COM

“ART+COM-Book:The monograph published by Gestalten Verlag presents a selection of projects from the 23 year history of ART+COM. Created at the intersection of design, art and technology, these works highlight the milestones in the journey, which provided influential design impulses to the field of communication with new media. Additionally to comprehensive photo spreads, texts characterize the interdisciplinary working methods of the ART+COM-team and give insight into both the past and the future of new media in space.” (ART+COM)

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New and fresh electronic music from Russia and beyond. Really great music, smooth and chilly tunes. He creates soundscapes from melancholy sound patterns to crumbling noise in wide space. An intense musical collage with all the little shapes of experimental music which takes you to higher places.

And be sure to check out the motion cover art, some visuals are really nice to look at.

Listen to the whole album and download it for free at G5 Music. Immediate download of 12-track album in your choice of MP3 320, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.

And check soundcloud Gimme 5, Russia

[G5004] Maguett – Twilight EP by G5 Music

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