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Kill the Ego is now available as a digital release from the Soundwalk Collective site. Click here to purchase the album. Audio excerpt of Kill the Ego.
This autumn, the 37th Edition of Paris’ highly renowned Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain known as la FIAC will be the occasion for label Dalbin to launch Collectorserie, a visual art digital edition featuring Soundwalk and Rostarr’s movie “Kill The Ego“, directed by Jim Helton and Ron Patane. The FIAC is one of Paris’ most important contemporary art event of the year, gathering art galleries, collectors, curators, museum directors, journalists and contemporary art lovers coming from more than 66 countries.
Collectorserie will be presented at the Grand Palais, from the 21st to the 24th of October 2010.
More about Kill the Ego on Soundwalk’s website
More info about Collectorserie
As we mentioned briefly in our last post, Kill the Ego will be screened on September 4, 2010, at the prestigious Circuito Off Venice International Short Film Festival in Venice. The festival program describes the film thus: “This film is the encounter between the work of American painter Rostarr and sound recordings that Soundwalk did in New York between 1998 and 2008. Rostarr captured the sound material and placed in matter in motion and color the words of fragmented memories, poets and prophets, visionaries and lost children. A story, a tribute to the city, is emerging in the assembly of these micro-narratives.”
Head here for a preview of the film.
PRACTICAL INFO
Screening: 5:30 P.M., 4 September, 2010 | Auditorium Santa Margherita Venezia
Click here to find the auditorium on the map.
For more information about the Circuito Festival, check them out on Twitter and Facebook.
The Creators Project is a new network dedicated to the celebration of creativity and culture across media around the world, gathering “the world’s most creative minds”, in partnership with Intel and Vice Magazine.
“At a time in the history of the arts where digital technologies have revolutionized distribution, democratized access, and completely re-imagined the scope and scale with which an artist can create a vision and reach an audience, The Creators Project is a completely new kind of arts and culture channel for a completely new kind of world”
This week, The Creators Project features a series of projects initiated by Dalbin, and among others the movie “Kill The Ego” realised by Soundwalk in collaboration with Rostarr.
Check out Kill the Ego’s page on The Creators Project’s website
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KILL THE EGO ON COLLECTORSERIE
“Kill the Ego” is available for purchase through the Collectorserie iPhone/iPad application. Collectorserie is a visual and musical works of art collection that was developped by Dalbin in collaboration with mobile agency Clicmobile, with the objective of placing contemporary video and sound creation at the collector’s fingertips.
“Kill The Ego” from Soundwalk to Rostarr (Trailer) from Dalbin on Vimeo.
Soundwalk is happy to announce the screening of its movie “Kill The Ego” at Seconde Nature Festival’s fourth Edition in Aix-en-Provence, this week-end.
Seconde Nature is a multidisciplinary Festival dedicated to the most recent creative sound, visual, art and multi-media works in the fields of electronic music, digital art, and “other cultural oddities”.
“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. Initiated by Dalbin, 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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TICKETS TO WIN
Clark Magazine is giving away free tickets to the Festival, more info : click here
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SCREENINGS : FRIDAY 11 AND SATURDAY 12 OF JUNE, 7PM – 2AM
“Kill The Ego” will be shown along with four other films on Friday 11th and Saturday 12th of June, from 7PM to 2AM, at Fondation Vasarely, Aix-En-Provence.
More info about screenings on Seconde Nature’s website
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KILL THE EGO ON COLLECTORSERIE
“Kill the Ego” is available for purchase through the Collectorserie iPhone/iPad application. Collectorserie is a visual and musical works of art collection that was developped by Dalbin in collaboration with mobile agency Clicmobile, with the objective of placing contemporary video and sound creation at the collector’s fingertips.
Blast Magazine, a French Design, fashion, and culture publication, has featured Soundwalk’s Ulysses’ Syndrome installation at the Shanghai 2010 Expo on their site this week, April 3, 2010. The review, written by Guillaume Fédou, names Ulysses’ Syndrome as “[the most ambitious piece of sound art since Homer's Odyssey, dipping its toes in the China Sea]“.
“[Ulysses continues his trek to the port of Shanghai, mixing the flavors of the Mediterranean with the fruits of the China Sea. A 24-hour work of sound gathering a range of fragments recorded in autumn 2009 between Troy and Ithaca (passing by the Gulf of Naples, Palermo, the Stromboli Volcano and the Eolie Islands, Carthage), Ulysses' Syndrome is likely Soundwalk's most ambitious work since the film Kill the Ego. The fact that it is being presented today, in Shanghai, is no coincidence since it is there the mythology of the twenty-first century is playing out. It is situated in the center of the cosmopolitan city, on Nankin street (the equivalent of the Champs-Elysées) in an ancient Taoist temple named Hong Niao (red bird)
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
8 LISTEN TO ERIC DALBIN’S INTERVIEW WITH RADIO ALIGRE on dalbin.com (in French only)
Eric Dalbin was invited by Véronique Godé, aka Orevo, for an interview on the radio show “Vive le cinéma” on Aligre FM to discuss Label Dalbin‘s current projects, among them his work with Soundwalk and Philippe Starck for LE SON DU NOUS.
Dalbin initiated, directed and produced LE SON DU NOUS. An independent contemporary creation label founded in 2003 in Paris, Dalbin produces and publishes works of art, events and audiovisual content. They co-produced “Kill the Ego” from Soundwalk to Rostarr, which will be featured in the art collection iPhone app and website Collector Serie on March 21.
In this interview, Eric Dalbin speaks of the idea of contemporary creation at the heart of his label, which seeks to support and be involved in artworks that cross the boundary between sound and image.
He talks about the artwork and artists that Label Dalbin has been working with in this vein: how he introduced Rostarr to Soundwalk’s Stephan Crasneanscki and Dug Winningham to make “Kill the Ego”, on the appearances of Xavier Veilhan and Sebastien Tellier on the film “Furtivo”…
Eric says of Collector Serie that its theory lies in an aspiration to build a collection of video artworks where sound and image can melt together and form a new media or ‘matière’. He is enthusiastic about the dematerialization of art distribution facilitated by new technologies. Collector Serie artworks will be available online (through the website Collectorserie.com) and on the iPhone/iPad.
Eric Dalbin gives a few sneak peaks into LE SON DU NOUS. Label Dalbin initiated the idea for this performance, an encounter between the designer Philippe Starck and the art collective Soundwalk centered around the quest for the essence of the human sound. LE SON DU NOUS will build a sound narration between Starck and Soundwalk, in which Starck will talk about his passion for sound, while Soundwalk will explore the history of sound, from pre-human sounds to sounds produced by human systems and constructions. This sound dialogue will be enhanced by intrumentalists, sound technicians (‘bruiteurs’), and the audience.
© DR, Photo credits to www.dalbin.com
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!