7 days to go

You may not belive but I am not turning in to vynil DJ. I am a VJ that uses DJ tecnology. In fact, any technology, as long as it does what I want it to.

How does it feel?

When I started lecturing I thought I was special. yes, we all feel we are something special at some point. I felt special. Why? because I had a thrill as good as sex, as good as real tasty food when you eat it after 2 days of eating the cheapest stuff your few coins can buy, basically, as good as it goes. Within the first 5 minutes after the start of a lecture, all is messy in my head: language, meaning, structure, etc. Then, slowly, everything starts fitting in to place and a long time after I started the lecture, I can spot the cute guys, the sleepy people, who is taking notes and who is bored. I can pretty much stop and continue; stop, get lost and then continue (after saying 'sorry I got lost now'); change the subject to make it more appropriate to the audience, raise the tone of the voice to reach those with sleepy ears, anything really.
Same thing happens when VJing. The same thing. I am me (whoever I decide to be at that moment) and I am in control.
Mark Amerika describes in his new book META/DATA, how, while performing, he experiences not being there, losing control of himself. but, I said I am in control didn't I? This is true, as it is true that I am lost in me: I am one with the music, the musician, my mechanisms (mixer, camera, toys,..), people around (and not only with those that pop in the both to say 'hello'), the visuals, the heat and the drinks I drank and other too. I acknowledge everything around me as part of me. This is the performance. We are one.
There are two things that remain unknown to me at the moment - Perhaps I didn't read the book Mark wrote far enough to find something about this neither the interview with this hacker called 'curator', which happens to be the reason why I started to write this text. The two things are: first, am I also not the only one to be in ecstasy after a lecture, presentation or performance (this gives me the stronger ecstasy). This I pure happiness is pure joy and a feeling of one with the world. A truly religious experience. Any similarity with some drugs? I thought so. The second thing actually is to those who read this text and feel some empathy: do you also feel you are getting addicted?

10 days to go

Musics I can't get out of my head: 'i'm a victim of this song'

Me too my dear Pipilotti Rist.
Originality and what we take from others. On our perspective there are so many thigs we see in us as original and then it is not. Strating with our feeling and sometimes a generic but idividual tendecy to feel misunderstood and unique. don't we all share too much of our lives and thoughts and feelings and work and items from each one of our music libraries to be original?

Falmouth Agosto 2007 num triptico: A vista do meu atelier

Anita vai numa de Openess

Estes sao os recuerdos de mais uma viagem da destemida Anita que mais uma vez deixa a ilha povoada de Falmouthianos onde vive e vai em aventuras. Esta e' mais uma das visitas da Anita a' terra do sol quente (onde o sol aquece a qualquer hora do dia sem que seja preciso qualquer tipo de tecnologia) de onde traz sempre milhoes de aventuras para contar de monstros, distorcoes visuais, gentes de estranhos mas pacatos habitos e alucinacoes.

Smoothie: lick it clean!

Um dia ligaram ca para casa ( para o telamovel, eu podia estar noutro sitio mas por acaso estava em casa) e perguntaram se eu tinha muito que fazer no Sabado.
'Nao, nao tenho'
'Entao anda passar visuais aqui'
'aqui' e' um bar num edificio construido com consciencia ecologica e que as pessoas da zona gostam especialmente.
eu disse que 'sim, ok, eu vou'.
para DJ, pensei num gajo que eu tinha filmado uns dias atraz a comer gelado. perguntei-lhe:
'que fazes no Sabado?'
'nada de especial', disse ele.
'queres vir passar musica ao Miss Peapod's para os meus visuais?'
'nao', disse ele.
'e se te der ouro gelado?'
'ta bem. mas desta vez nao filmas'.
mesmo sabendo que vou continuar a fazer bues de filmes com o gajo a comer gelados, quer ele queira quer nao, disse: 'ta bem'.
ele sabe lamber os geldos muito bem
;-)

bom. e e' isto, no Sabado a gente ve-se!

Magenta

Musics I can't get out of my head: 'Telstar'

How many versions there are of this music and how many different instruments were used in each one of the different versions?
Like our individualized self, which some of us choose to change and shape, revealing the multitude we are, also videos and musics can be versioned. In verious versions, by various artists, a music reveals layers of meanings. Music works have several versions more often than videos.