REPORTS - 2010
LPM - REPORT 2010
Eighth edition
The eighth edition of LPM is closed and it's time to take a report. Great satisfaction for the producers, who have seen confirmed the usual success in public and in artists' participation, including old friends and new recruits.
Same location, the Brancaleone in Rome, and same issues of the past edition, for the four days of the meeting: Digital Freedoms, Breakbeat / Techno / Electro, 8 Bit / Eletcropop, Visual Genders. The line up is rich and varied, amongst performance A / V, installations and vj battle.
The first day was entirely devoted to digital freedoms; the keyword is remix, deconstruct and reconstruct the different forms of expression, in order to obtain visual landscapes resulting from the recombination of the favourite performing arts. Dance, action painting and music, mingle in the Analog-digital quartet from the collective Future Arts of Turin, in the multimedia generative art performance 74s181 from Datasheet, and in Synthesis from Micron, a performance in which the harmony of dance is transformed in a digital action painting.
Friday is the first of two days dedicated to electronic music. Let's start with the breakbeat, and the pace of broken sounds that form the backdrop to the sci-fi, apocalyptic or mystical visions of the performers on stage.
Elektro Moon Vision and Lazy Lab present Urbanism, a 6 hands live set, resulting from the personal research on urban spaces, comparable to living organisms that grow, process, produce new forms of interaction and communication, adjusting the life of their inhabitants. The same approach characterizes the work of Gazmo and Borys the Drummer speaking about how a point of view can change reality. Amount and Mowgli move instead towards the borders of fiction and absurd scenarios, as deep as unexpected.
We should also mention the performance of Sound-d-vision, the spanish duo that opens the dancefloor, and introduces the dj Shy Fx, special guest of the evening.
Saturday is dominated by 8 bit sounds, rhythms and images generated by revisited nintendo, home-made software, samplers, mini-synthesizer, vocoder. Perfectly in terms the Pikilipita's performance, a duo that uses video game consoles and mobile phones to create cartoon style and gig performances. The brazilians Marcelo Track and HOL are both concerned with the theme of virtual identities: the first interacts with an avatar in Pintado o 7, while the second one reflects on the process of the hegelian dialectic through a generative performance video, Aufhebung. Along the suggestion of the virtual alterity, move Plaster and ValerioM+StudioAira that transform the emotions of the electro sound into images.
The most amazing performance of the evening, is the video installation made of LED screens, conceived by the hungarian producers of the prestigious VjTorna: Laki, Nano, Grasshop, Skylab, playing for two hours in the opening dj sets.
Sunday is the queer day, with a series of irreverent and disarming performance, focused on the reinterpretation of anarchist symbols of mainstream culture. Pornography, religion, politics, trash but also mythology, death and resurrection dominate inthe live performance presented by AlexEtJeremy, Zombiebrothers, Vocodec and in Dream of a gynoid by Kiravision, the italian female duo deeply focused on the representation of female identity and on the related issues.
In this eighth edition have also been proposed several showcases and particularly noteworthy workshops, such as those about Modul8 and Resolume, the one about the home-made video controller with Arduino and one about Computer Vision, to implement a vjing software with this innovative information technology.