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ARTE.TV REVIEWS EXIT FESTIVAL & LE SON DU NOUS

Thursday, March 25, 2010

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Art and culture journalist Véronique Godé has provided a what’s what at the 2010 Exit Festival on the Cultures Electroniques page of French TV station Arte’s website.

Godé profiles LE SON DU NOUS, performed this past weekend, immediately classifying it as a “unique, original” performance. The article leads with a review of Soundwalk’s preceding event, Kill the Ego. “[This film, conceived from an incredibly rich mix of extraordinary sound collected over 10 years in the streets of New York, brings the painter Rostarr to the scene, as he executes a prolific artwork of pictorial and graphic power, lifted by the kinetic energy of the audio track which propels us from jazz to funk to detours at a crossroads, or a conversation]“.

Recently presented at a sold out event at the Pompidou Center, “Kill the Ego” is, as of March 21, 2010, available for sale online: 300 editions are downloadable via the new iphone application, Collectorserie.

This year, writes Godé, “[Eric Dalbin brings us the New York [Soundwalk] collective on the big stage: two live performances, two unique evenings, original and ambitious, on the genesis of sound: sound engineers on the stage, sound artists in command, Philippe Starck playing a new role of MC. Will he find this original sound, the universal sound, everything that we are looking for, that which we call, the Sound of Us? We’ll find out…]”

Thanks to Arte.tv for the coverage!

Photo credit: Yves Malenfer

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KILL THE EGO AT CENTRE POMPIDOU A SUCCESS!

Monday, March 1, 2010

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We were so pleased that so many of you turned up for Kill the Ego last Friday at Centre Pompidou, as a part of their Hors Pistes festival – both screenings were sold out and received with enthusiasm. Thanks to all of you for your support, and we hope you enjoyed the show!

Following the 8:00 screening was a discussion in which the artists spoke to the audience about the inspiration and motivation driving the film’s creation. According to the sound designers, among them Stephan Crasneanscki and Dug Winningham, the film plays with a recording’s unique ability to alter the reality of a sound: temporally, by allowing it to be heard long after it has in fact ceased, and contextually, by layering and mixing it with other sounds to create a new sonic text. The painter, Rostarr, commented on the project’s personal value to him as a means of expressing the important role that New York City has played in his life throughout the years he has called it home.

It was a great evening, and we’re looking forward to next event with Philippe Starck at the International Exit Festival in Paris later this month. Stay tuned for more details!

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“KILL THE EGO” AT CENTRE POMPIDOU: 10 TICKETS TO WIN!

Monday, February 8, 2010

Soundwalk is very pleased to announce the screening of its movie “KILL THE EGO“ at Centre Pompidou’s Hors Pistes 2010: Un Autre Mouvement des Images festival in Paris on February 26.

Since 2006, the Hors Pistes festival has, “in examining new usages of contemporary imagery, shown the ruptures and departures that nourish traditional forms of film and narration. For this 5th edition, a double device illustrates the abundance and authority of images. The contemporary world firstly appears in the screened works, through the uncommon, unconventional and asserted vision of international artists.”
“KILL THE EGO” began as a song, as an epic 40-minute-long poem composed of 10 years of sound recordings captured in New York by Soundwalk between 1998 and 2008. The fragmented memories of poets and dominatrixes, of pimps and prophets, of visionaries and lost children – the gamut of stories from the street: of the most obscure corners, of underground unrest, intimate and universal biographies of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx – Soundwalk has captured and woven together the sounds, conversations, and songs of urbanity. This soundtrack of New York City has been represented visually onscreen by the artist Rostarr, who used the sound recordings as a launch for an art series documented by directors Jim Helton and Ron Patane. Inspired by the technique used in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s masterpiece “Le mystère Picasso”, the directors sought to give life to the creative process and gave birth to the aural and visual work that is the film KILL THE EGO.

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WIN TICKETS TO “KILL THE EGO” AT CENTRE POMPIDOU!

We are giving away ten tickets to the screening of “KILL THE EGO” at Centre Pompidou in Paris. The contest will run from February 10-18. To win a ticket, leave a comment on this blog post – at the end of the contest period we will select ten winners at random!

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SCREENING: 26 February 2010, 20:00, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Tickets available for sale before the screening at the Centre Pompidou ticket counter for 6€ (4€ reduced price).


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COLLECTOR SERIE | Launched by Label Dalbin, 21 March 2010

“KILL THE EGO” will also be the first piece available for purchase through the Collector Serie application for iPhone. This concept, developed by Label Dalbin in collaboration with mobile agency Clicmobile, will revolutionize the collection and distribution of video art by placing it literally at the collector’s fingertips.

Singer Sebastien Tellier and artist Xavier Veilhan’s film Furtivo will be the second film available for sale through Collector Serie, and will also be screened at Hors Pistes this year (20 February 2010, 19:00).

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KILL THE EGO will also be the first piece available for purchase through the Collector Serie application for iPhone. This concept, developed by Soundwalk co-founder and CEO Alex Kummerman, will revolutionize the collection and distribution of video art by placing it literally at the collector’s fingertips. Xavier Veilhan’s film Furtivo will be the second film available for sale through Collector Serie, and will also be screened at Hors Pistes this year.
[09/02/10 17:05:15] Isabella Neale Yeager: add: Soundwalk contributor Xavier Veilhan?


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