It's almost a platitude to say that No Wave director Amos Poe rocks with his  camera like musicians do with their axes. His filmography includes not only neo-noir featuring the likes of Deborah Harry and John Lurie, experimental films with stellar soundtracks and music docs like "Blank Generation", "Night Lunch" and "Steve Earle: Just an Continue Reading

Eva Sterk is a Berlin-based singer-songwriter group with post rock overtones. Their latest music clip for the tune "No Note" was shot in the suburbs of Eastern Berlin and directed by realeyz.tv video blogger Laura Huertas Zurriaga. Some other members of the realeyz.tv team and their families are also involved.
The clip's considerable charm lies in Continue Reading

SoftwareDR (Dirk Roth) has created an amazing shot by shot recreation of Joy Division’s career-making live rendition of “Transmission” on Tony Wilson’s show “Something Else” on Granada TV. Wilson was a British TV journalist who later founded the Manchester-based Factory Records, the label Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays and many other seminal post punk Continue Reading

 
Photo: On the set of the music video ‘Gotta Give’ (courtesy of Steps for the Future)
Reading an obituary about Gil Scott-Heron’s untimely death at age 62 on Friday, May 27, greatly saddened me. Scott-Heron’s witty and incisive social commentary had been a great source of inspiration, call to action and solace for almost three decades.He Continue Reading

Morphing
Artist: Blu
Elusive Italian street artist Blu created this piece on an abadoned hangar in Gdansk harbor. The city of Gdansk (Danzig) has a turbulent history - ruled by various Polish kingdoms, Prussia, Imperial Germany, two interludes as a free state (1807 to 1814 and 1918 to 1939), occupation and annexation by Nazi Germany and since Continue Reading

Screenplay is a series of VJ and live cinema performances by international audiovisual artists taking place in Berlin’s Hungarian Cultural Center on April 9. Talks about the past, present and future of live cinema and vjing round off the program. The event is organised by Visual Berlin. in addition to sponsors, the project is also Continue Reading

The visuals (by Losier, Bradley Eros and Sebastien S. Santamaria, if I am correctly informed) refer to the couple’s merging.

See here an excerpt of the opening piece. Sorry about the shaky video.

Or what about the post-Wall 90s pilgrimage of techno musicians like Jeff Mills from Detroit, Richie Hawtin from the Candian-US border region and many others. Not to forget the turn of the millennium Canadian invasion spearheaded by Peaches and (the now Chilly) Gonzales, with Taylor Savvy and Feist soon joining the ranks. In the second Continue Reading

The internet equivalent of zapping - surfing and clicking on hypertext links (although less arbitrary, more interactive than zapping and demanding more coginitive effort) - and the proliferation of YouTube supposedly shorten attention spans even more. Until 2010, video uploads on YouTube couldn’t exceed ten minutes, which meant chopping up sitcom episodes into three, feature Continue Reading

In the 2000s, the clip also transcended the boundaries of the rectangular TV screen. The image became smaller but also portable and accessible 24/7 on the web and mobile devices. Or it was blown up and even multiplied for crossover with installation art and VJing, coming almost full circle to past immersive forms of music-vision-synthesis Continue Reading