Tuesday 20 May 2003

state-of-the-art visuals vs hardcore experiments featuring international pioneers of electronic music and video

22 | 23 | 24 May, Melkweg, Amsterdam

THURSDAY MAY 22: Red Scanner, Label Night Invasion Planete: Le Syndicat Electronique, IT & My Computer, Porn.Darsteller, Rollinka, DonLeo

FRIDAY MAY 23: Green TLR, Orgue Electronique, Kassen, Legowelt, Monkeyshop, Solvent/Lowfish, Meso, DJ Raphael, Driessens & Verstappen, Hassan Khan, Serhat Köksal, SmashTV, Ellen Allien, Pfadfinderei

SATURDAY MAY 24: Blue Barkode, Vive la Fête, VJK, Terry Toner, DJ Dion, Station Rose, Arno Coenen vs Transformer di Roboter, Burnt Friedmann & Nu Dub Players, Michal Butink

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About RGB - VJ/DJ Festival

RGB is a three day event, exclusively dedicated to contemporary VJ-culture and the electronic music scene. RGB presents almost thirty live-performances by international musicians, artists and collectives that operate at the intersection of visual art, performance, new media and pop culture. New artistic directions are being explored. It's art for art's sake, music for music's sake, and style for style's sake. RGB takes place on the World Wide Video Festival's last weekend, in one location, in the Melkweg, on Thursday 22, Friday 23 and Saturday 24 May. The programme is compiled by the World Wide Video Festival and the Melkweg in collaboration with the Netherlands Media Art Institute and Electronation.

Programme THURSDAY 22 May: RED: Melkweg Max

Scanner (GBR) The résumé of the pioneering English artist, musician and writer Robin Rimbaud reads like a history of contemporary electronic music and performance culture. "He is very experimental because he is searching in a realm of sound which is not usually used for music... he has a good sense of atmosphere". Karlheinz Stockhausen on Scanner, BBC Radio 3.

DonLeo (NLD) / Label Night Invasion Planete (FRA): met Le Syndicat Electronique, IT & My Computer, Porn.Darsteller en Rollinka DonLeo is Leonard van Munster, a young artist who works across a range of different media. He was formerly part of the famous DEPT collective. The French electronic purists of the Invasion Planete label present four hours of sexy, minimal electro. The releases of Invasion Planete have been called the equivalent of Godard's films from the 1960s.

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Programme FRIDAY 23 May: Melkweg Max & Old Hall

Meso (DEU) / TLR (NLD), Solvent/Lowfish (CAN), Orgue Electronique (NLD), Legowelt (NLD), Kassen (NLD), Monkeychop (SWE), Driessens & Verstappen (NLD) / DJ Raphael (BEL) A journey through the electronic universe, including Solvent and Lowfish, Monkeychop and Orgue Electronique, Legowelt and Kassen. It's a single performance featuring all artists connected to one sound mixer, DJ'ed and conducted by 'Master of the Electronic Universe' TLR. All this will be accompanied by real-time computer generated visuals by Meso. Followed by a late set from Belgium's infamous DJ Rafael with visuals by Driessens & Verstappen's SonicScope software to round out the journey.

Hassan Khan (EGT) Khan's performance 'Tabla Dubb' is an attempt at fashioning public media using the basic elements of popular musical culture. Khan connects the music to a library of video images that arise out of an engagement with the city and its sociography.

2/5BZ Serhat Köksal (TUR) In his performances Köksal uses samplers and electronics as well as traditional (acoustic) instruments like saz, darbouka, drums, vocals and spoken word. Seventies Turkish cinema, music, literature, and experimental electronic music influence his style.

Pfadfinderei / SmashTV / DJ Ellen Allien (DEU) Three acts from the groundbreaking Bpitchcontrol label from Berlin. Pfadfinderei is one of the most highly acclaimed VJ crews in Germany. At their beginning, instead of gnawing on the slow memory capacity of their pre 21st century computers, they transformed them into vector-ridden graphic style video beasts. Ellen Allien is the owner of Bpitchcontrol and famous for her hypnotic sequences and strange slow beats. SmashTV's music is a tight variety of electro - electech. It bears the sign of the new millennium, transformed into 8-bit pixel optics, and hints to their B-Boy roots.

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Programme SATURDAY 24 May: Melkweg Max & Old Hall

Barkode / Eelco (NLD) Barkode develop projects on the borders of media, club, design and art. They were actually one of the first VJ crews to experiment with all encompassing club concepts which include visuals, music, performers and even scents. At RGB Barkode will present their new show.

VJK (NLD) / Vive la Fete (BEL) An unusual combination of VJK's slick and kaleidoscopic pop-images and the electro-rock by Vive la Fête. Vive la fête vowed allegiance to sleazy glamour, cheeky humour and anything-goes optimism. Danny Mommens displayes his love for eighties synth pop, melancholic cold wave and back-to-basics electronica, while Els Pynoo juxtaposes his sparse and rhythmic soundscapes with cooing, breathy vocals and self-penned lyrics, written in French. Followed by a late set from DJ Terry Toner en DJ Dion.

Station Rose (DEU) - Playing Field Station Rose's audio-visual jam sessions, which begin as a flow on workstations connected through MIDI, are streamed live on the internet. During these webcasts they improvise in real time on patterns and structures developed earlier in the studio.

Arno Coenen (NLD) / Transformer di Roboter (DEU) The irony and social criticism of VJ Arno Coenen's incredible 3D-animations with music by the German computer trashmetal band Transformer di Roboter. The general idea behind their music is bootlegging. 'Why make crappy new songs when there are great old ones?'.

Michal Butink (GBR) / Burnt Friedmann & Nu Dub Players (DEU) VJ Michal Butink refers to her work as 'moving photography'. In her performances Butink concentrates on ambiance, rhythm and the experience itself. Burnt Friedmann is one of Germany's most respected electronic artists. He plays abstract crackling funk.

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Information and Tickets

Location: Melkweg, Amsterdam. Lijnbaansgracht 234a

Public transport: Tram 1, 2 or 5 from Central Station to stop Leidseplein

Start: 22.00 hrs

Admission 22 May, Melkweg Max: Euro 10 / Euro 7,50 Admission 23 May, Melkweg Max and Old Hall: Euro 15 / Euro 12,50 Admission 24 May, Melkweg Max and Old Hall: Euro 15 / Euro 12,50 Festival pass valid

Pre-sale: Melkweg; AUB Ticketshop Uitlijn (0900-0191, 0,40 cpm); http://www.uitlijn.nl; Ticket Service (0900 - 3001250, 0,45cpm); http://www.ticketservice.nl; 150 post offices; GWK; Station offices; and other pre-sale addresses.

The exhibitions in the Passenger Terminal Amsterdam, De Appel and the Netherlands Media Art Institute can be visited till Sunday 25 May (Mon till Wed 11 - 20 hrs, Thu till Sun 11 - 22 hrs).

More information: World Wide Video Festival Keizersgracht 462 Amsterdam

P +31 (0)20 420 77 29 F +31 (0)20 421 38 28 wwvf@wwvf.nl http://www.wwvf.nl/RGB

Melkweg Lijnbaansgracht 234a Amsterdam P 020 5218181

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