This is an expert of the performance of VJ M during the Lowriders DJ set in the Worm, Roterdam, 26th of january 2013
In this clip I combined different styles and element to combine a palette that fits the music well. With a combination of analog recorded clips and digitally made material I try to blur the line between analog and digital, between human forms and artificial forms, using the deformation of the music as a guide.
UPDATE: donate $10 and receive the album ‘Quilombo do Futuro’, donate $15 and you’ll also receive the remixes of the album. For $25 you get the DJ Pack which includes instrumentals and acapella’s! This is a steal and will help move the project forwards!
Here is a great review of the album: http://www.soundsandcolours.com/reviews/music-reviews/maga-bo-quilombo-do-futuro/
It is also featured on the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/arts/music/new-cds-from-rye-rye-maga-bo-sigur-ros-and-cold-specks.html
Donate via paypal or bank: kickstarter.com is great for crowdfunding projects internationally. But not everybody has a credit card. That’s why we also accept donations through paypal or bank tranfer. All the donations will be reflected on the kickstarter page.
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MAGA BO/VJ M video collaboration
Introduction
Maarten van der Glas (VJ M) and producer/DJ Maga Bo collaborate on an audiovisual research and production project. For the duration of 1 month, they will be collaborating in Rio de Janeiro to work on two music video’s for the song’s Galope and Xororô from Maga Bo’s new album Quilombo do Futuro and create a new live video engine to be integrated with Maga Bo’s live audio set.
Both artists are well-known for their globetrotting approach to creating their art, with a strong focus on community participation. Maga Bo’s music spans the breadth of international urban bass music from North Africa to Brazil, whereas many of Maarten van der Glas’s works feature footage shot during his journeys in South Asia.
The Music Video
For the music video’s for Galope and Xororô we will seek out and contrast stark contrasts in the city Rio de Janeiro to reflect our age’s wider condition of the unequal distribution of wealth. This is especially visible in the favelas, shanty-towns consisting of improvised dwellings, known in the West mainly through connotations of poverty and social problems.
Rio’s favelas, however, are also vibrant centers of creativity – many of Brazil’s most legendary samba schools originated in the favelas, as did today’s baile funk style. We want to capture the diversity and contrasts of life in Rio in an investigative manner, portraying both the hopes and dilemmas of contemporary life in the city.
The Live Video Engine
Besides the music video’s for Galope and Xororô, Maarten van der Glas will be laying the foundation for a Max/MSP live video engine to be integrated with Maga Bo’s Ableton Live audio set. By layering audio and video tracks, Maga Bo’s live improvisations will extend to the visual realm, allowing an instantaneous integration of video material generated during Maga Bo’s travels around the globe.
What we need
For these projects Maarten van der Glas will travel to Rio de Janeiro, where Maga Bo lives, and live there for a month recording the material for the two video’s and laying foundations for the live video set. After that periode Maarten van der Glas will edit the material back in Europe. The Kickstarter Funding is needed for travel expenses, software licenses, materials and living expenses.
Here is more info about the making of Maga Bo’s album ‘Quilombo do Futuro’
Your donation is greatly appreciated to make this project possible. Thanks.
Here is the link to the kickstarter project.
DJ Three Sixty
Live Set Process Rebel
All images were made by me, either with stop motion, recorded on locations
Here are some tests I made for a video clip involving some local street art in Rio de Janeiro
This is a second test, where we are working with real graffiti and making a 3D world out of it, animating elements, together with video footage elements, a new world is created.
Finished work on a one minute dance video. I submitted it to this festival: http://www.choreographiccaptures.org/
‘Moving within without’Is an experimental dance video that investigates the movement from the dancers within and from the outside. It takes the notion of being moved from within to the extreme: the dancers literary moves space.Sharing the same movement and tune each in there own way they createspaces-paintings with pixels.
‘Moving within without’ deals the theme of being moved and moving fromwithin. Where did the tune that is stuck in your head come from? Whenwe move we move the whole world around us. Moving through time thesedancers make spaces-paintings.
We had Digiffiti as a multi media lounge installation in the Melkweg, Amsterdam, on 25th of september. We are going to do a greenscreen installation there also soon!
Beat me up party @ vechtclub, every month, check vechtclub.nl