Den Bosch

Music copyright Machinist
www.machinistdrone.com
www.zenovandenbroek.com

Music and lyrics copyright Hadewych
www.hadewych.net

I'm working on the videos for Hadewych and Machinist. They both performed last Saturday in Den Bosch in an old school next to the city's museum. As always the performances were haunting and beautiful!

I was there to film, hoping to create a document of the evening, but unfortunately not everything went as planned. Because of the very minimal amount of time I had to prepare and change positions during the change-over from one act to the next, I had barely time to set audiolevels and make sure everything was ready to go. The audio was not the best I've recorded. Also, someone accidentally (?) switched off one of the camera's during Hadewych's performance, so I unfortunately only have the handheld images.

Here is a screencap from both performances:

I was lucky enough that Machinist had his own recording device with him, with which he captured the audio for his performance, so I'll be able to mix that in with the ambient recording. Hadewych however was not so lucky, so I have only the low-quality on cam mic recording, which bums me out. I don't know what to do yet, but I'll discuss it with Peter J. Nijland to see what he wants to do with the footage.

I'll be working on the edits for the videos tonite in hopes of finishing them before Christmas.

Happy holidays everyone!

My friend Peter Johan Nijland is performing with his band Hadewych on December 18th 2010 in Den Bosch during MOL.

Hadewych conjures the ultragrotesque. As they put it themselves:

Music in its directness. Music that is true to itself as music. Non-conceptual music. Music that reveals being. Avant-garde music, ritual music, atmospheric aesthetics of old black metal, prepared piano music, 20th century composers (e.g. Cage, Scelsi), some ambient, some shoegaze, some art rock, some ultra.

Peter has asked me to help him create visual art for the Hadewych performance next Saturday. He's looking to bring the forest into the venue and use abstract images of body positions to accentuate the music. We'll be heading out to the forest to shoot the footage, one of my favorite places to be. And since I haven't had any time to be in a forest for a while now, I'm looking very much forward to working there with Peter this Sunday.

My good friend Peter Johan Nijland is performing with his ultragrotesque project Hadewych at a special location, courtesy of MOL (Music On Location).

Also great experimentalist Zeno van den Broek is performing with his project Machinist. The third act will be Lucy BakesPurple Cakes & Subuk.

MOL is a project by Renk van Oyen, based on the concept of three acts of half an hour in the strangest locations.