Experience live electronic music more intensely with surround sound and surround video projections.
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COLLIDER FESTIVAL AREA CONCEPT
As Rot8ion we expertise in surround music and synchronised surround visuals. Our festival area Collider was born out of the experiences we built up over the past years. Collider is our platform for artists to perform their music and visuals live for a an audience. With the right positioning of speakers and projections all around the dancefloor we create a completely new festival experience.
The artists are positioned in the middle in order to control the surround music and visuals in the best possible way. The projected visuals react live to the music. The musicians and visual artists work closely together in teams of 2 and together they deliver a performance with sound and visuals as a whole experience. An 8.1 PA system (speakers from 8 directions) delivers the sound and an array of 4 to 16 beamers project the full surround visuals.
INTRODUCTION / INTERVIEWS
The following video tells about the progress we have made with Rot8ion. It shows how we have involved the feedback of innovative artists, like Monolake, to prepare for our next endeavour: a 360 degrees audio/video festival area called Collider. You will hear about first hand experiences of the Collider prototype at STRP Festival. The background music is composed by involved artist OBKSUR (Peter Horrevorts):
These artists have worked with Collider or have seen Collider live in action and give it their enthusiatic support. We plan to proudly present you these artists on our Collider stage in the near future. Experience surround music that fits perfectly in Collider!
LIVE MUSIC + LIVE VISUALS
All the music acts on the Collider stage feature live visuals in 360 degrees around the audience! The video projections respond directly and clearly to the music and are controlled by a VJ and/or a computer.
MONOLAKE LIVE SURROUND
Live dubtechno with live visuals exploring the audiovisual surround possibilities in a club context. Robert Henke (one of the fathers of Ableton Live) does the surround audio part and Tarik Barri works with multiscreen video projections.
Robert's sonic explorations are rooted in academic sound research as well as in club culture. With his collaborative musical project 'Monolake' he became part of the legendary 'Chain Reaction' record label in the early 1990s, and shaped what later became 'the sound of Berlin techno music'.
Tarik use two computers running an adjusted version of his self-designed Versum engine, which allows him to VJ with 3D images live. Robert and Tarik are connected via a network so the images react to the music. Tarik controls live how the images react and evolve over time.
In 2001 Peter Horrevorts released his first record; Sweets EP on X-trax under his guise Forcesupreme. His unique, bombastic and energetic style were highly appreciated by DJs like Marco Carola, Carl Cox and Adam Beyer. The even bigger follow-up "Funkfragment EP" ruled the DMC world charts for several weeks.
After this Peter wanted to experiment more with sound and melody and started producing tech-house with heavy Detroit influences, which resulted in releases on X-Trax Sub (Mirage EP) and Tsunami Special Blend. He has remixed work from artists such as Ferry Corsten, The Timewriter, Secret Cinema, Dj Misjah, Michel De Hey, Dj Remy and Roland Klinkenberg.
2008 saw the release of his full length debut album "EVOLVER" on Kanzleramt Records which received massive support from artists from many different scenes. "EVOLVER" can be bought as CD, VINYL or Digital format from the Kanzleramt website or other online portals.
OBKSUR will show a more experimental side of Peter.
Kubus took on the task of fusing electro, techno and hip-hop. This resulted in his world of deep textures on aggressive rhythms. As a hardware synthesizer fan he can often be found tweaking knobs to find new strange sounds. He constantly pushes his sound forward by doing collaborations with inspirational artists.
Kubus has collaborated extensively with big names in Dutch Hiphop and is about to release a new album with Rico.
Sergio Karijopawiro aka Tachini is a live-act with a funky triggering performance rarely seen on stage. Ever since his early childhood he has been listening to his father's classic Motown soul and funk of Otis Redding, his own creative talents. After starting his career with hip-hop, being an MC, DJ and beatcreator he soon joined the techno community.
By now, Tachini has developed a unique, energetic and funky sound, with rolling and pumping basslines which make you move and put that big happy smile on your face. He has joined several line-ups (Awakenings, CODE Fabrik Madrid) which also included renowned artists like Steve Bicknell, Vince Watson, Pacou, Reeko, Billy Nasty, Rue East.
The past several years have been an amazing voyage for Dutch Techno DJ and Producer "Patch Park", playing around the globe at leading clubs such as The Loft (ES), Paradiso (NL), Ministry Of Sound (UK) and Space Terrace (USA), Amnesia (ES) and renowned festivals such as Dance Valley, Nature One, Solar Weekend and Extrema Outdoor.
Patch Park is very much interested in surround sound so be prepared to see him in Collider!
(VIDEO OF VJ Henrik Jose)
Minimal music / dance music project of Rutger Muller, in which experiments with fusing contemporary classical music with minimal techno, dubstep, etc.
Henrik will project his own beautifully filmed images. More on that soon.
(VIDEO COMPILATION OF ECHONAUT / ROT8ION PERFORMANCES)
Echonaut is the alter ego of Rob van Rooij, born 1976. Rob is a functional and interaction designer, sound and installation artist and performer. Rob received a Master degree in Multimedia in September 2007. He specialized himself in designing innovative software in multiple diciplines.Ever since he was a little boy, he was facinated with kinetic projects such as perpetuum mobiles and rolling ball sculptures. The continuing movement of sounds facinated him.
As Echonaut he combines the skills from his academic background with his experience as minimal dj and producer of experimental electronic music. He explores new sound dimensions and creates worlds based on fantasies triggered by sound. These worlds are unique for each visitor. Lush layers of sounds, come from different directions and move around the visitor. Rob is the creative director of the Rot8ion electroacoustic surround effects instrument.
Echonauts performances and installations have been shown at festivals such as Extrema outdoor, Solar Weekend, Glow festival and Playgrounds festival. Echonaut creates installations for festivals, does live performances solo or with other artists.
Presk is a house/garage producer and a graduated Master of Music and Technology. He will do something special for Collider! More details soon.
Tarik is an audiovisual composer based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Through the use of self made software he has developed methods for arranging images and sounds into audiovisual compositions. In doing this he is discovering new synergies and aesthetics in the combination of music and visuals. The main concept behind his works is that image and sound are connected in an inextricable way: the viewer hears images and sees sounds. Versum is a realtime three-dimensional audiovisual composition tool that Tarik programmed. It forces both the audience and the composer to look at the music and listen to the visuals. Within Versum one can undertake three dimensional journeys in virtual space. Tarik performs most of the time together with Robert Henke as Monolake, but also does solo performances (Fiber festival 2011) and performances with other artists, such as Presk.
The artists are positioned in the middle in order to control the surround music and visuals in the best possible way. The projected visuals react live to the music. The musicians and visual artists work closely together in teams of 2 and together they deliver a performance with sound and visuals as a whole experience. An 8.1 PA system (speakers from 8 directions) delivers the sound and an array of 4 to 16 beamers project the full surround visuals.
