Dont´miss:
OPTRONICA
VISUAL MUSIC ON THE BIG SCREEN
@ C/O POP FESTIVAL, KÖLN, 16.08.07
Optronica's cutting-edge fusion of music and cinema offers a dazzling vision of the future. TIME OUT
Merging those elements of film and music festivals, Optronica delivers the best of both worlds. XLR8R
Brain-child of audiovisual artists and producers Addictive TV and new-media curators Cinefeel, Optronica is a London based festival exploring the fusion of music and visuals. Optronica features live audiovisual performances, screenings and related special presentations from a whole host of audiovisual artists, film-makers and music acts, all exploring different aspects of audio/visual fusion and showing how today the long tradition of visual-music has expanded to include a wide range of styles and practices.
Following the huge success of the festival's second edition in March 2007 organised in collaboration with the British Film Institute in London, C/O Pop invited Optronica to present a selection of audiovisual delights in Köln this summer. There will be live performances by leading UK audiovisual artists Addictive TV and Semiconductor. Globe-trotting audio/video remix experts Addictive TV will play a special film remix set and film-makers and AV experimentalist duo Semiconductor will present their Sonic Inc and Brilliant Noise projects. Other participating artists include EZ3kiel from France with their brand new DVD-Rom project Naphtaline; plus there's recorded work from top German AV and VJ artists Bauhouse, Giraffentoast and Transforma, and a 'Best of Optronica' cinema screening featuring C-TRL Labs, Dextro, Studio Brutus, Gabriel Shalom, Teppei Kuroyanagi and many more.
PLUS:
More work exhibited at the AV Gallery of RheinTriadem, the festival headquaters, including a short Optronica report and a sneak previews of forthcoming AV albums by British AV acts Exceeda, The Mellowtrons and The Noodles Foundation.
Thursday 16th August
Museum für Angewandte Kunst
An der Rechtsschule, Köln 50667
Doors open at 18h30.
Ticket info: www.c-o-pop.de
MORE INFO: www.optronica.org or www.myspace.com/optronica