Kill the Ego, a video collaboration between Soundwalk, the artist Rostarr, and directors Jim Helton and Ron Patane, was invited as an international Film selection to be screened at Hors Pistes Tokyo. The film is being shown at the M Event Space & Bar in the Daikanyama area of Tokyo on Friday June 10th 8:30 PM. For info on the location of the screening click here.
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KILL THE EGO AT PARIS FIAC 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
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
KILL THE EGO AT VENICE’S CIRCUITO OFF FILM FESTIVAL
Friday, August 13, 2010
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.
KILL THE EGO FEATURED ON THE CREATORS PROJECT
Monday, June 28, 2010
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 AT FRENCH FESTIVAL SECONDE NATURE
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
“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.
ARTE.TV REVIEWS EXIT FESTIVAL & LE SON DU NOUS
Thursday, March 25, 2010
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
KILL THE EGO AT CENTRE POMPIDOU A SUCCESS!
Monday, March 1, 2010
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!
“KILL THE EGO” AU CENTRE POMPIDOU : 10 TICKETS A GAGNER !
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Soundwalk le plaisir d’annoncer la projection de son film “KILL THE EGO“ le 26 février au Centre Pompidou à Paris dans le cadre du festival Hors Pistes 2010: Un Autre Mouvement des Images.
Depuis 2006, le festival Hors Pistes “s’attache aux nouveaux usages de l’image contemporaine et témoigne des ruptures et des détournements qui nourrissent les formes traditionnelles du film et de la narration. Pour cette 5e édition, un double dispositif illustre l’abondance et l’autorité des images. Les œuvres projetées en salle donnent à voir le monde contemporain à travers les regards singuliers, décalés et affirmés d’artistes internationaux.”
“KILL THE EGO” a débuté comme une chanson, un poème épique de 40 minutes construit à partir de 10 ans d’enregistrements sonores capturés dans New York par Soundwalk entre 1998 et 2008. Les mémoires fragmentées de poètes et de dominatrices, de maquereaux et de prophètes, de visionnaires et d’enfants perdus… Les situations de rue les plus diverses, les recoins les plus improbables, l’agitation underground, les fables intimes et universelles de Manhattan, de Brooklyn ou du Bronx… Soundwalk a capturé puis mélangé des bruits, des paroles, des mélodies urbaines. Le peintre Rostarr s’est emparé de cette bande-son de la ville pour l’interpréter visuellement et s’est lancé dans un marathon de peinture documenté par les réalisateurs Jim Helton et Ron Patane. Inspirés par la technique utilisée dans le chef d’œuvre d’Henri-Georges Clouzot, «Le Mystère Picasso», ils ont cherché à donner vie au processus de création et donné naissance à cette œuvre sonore et visuelle qu’est le film “KILL THE EGO”.
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GAGNEZ DES TICKETS POUR “KILL THE EGO” AU CENTRE POMPIDOU !
Soundwalk offre dix tickets pour la projection de “KILL THE EGO” au Centre Pompidou. Le concours aura lieu du 10 au 18 février. Pour gagner un ticket, laissez un commentaire sous cet article. A la fin de la période du concours, dix gagnants seront tirés au sort parmi les auteurs de commentaires !
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PROJECTION : 26 février 2010, 20:00, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Tickets en vente le jour même sur place. 6€ (4€ tarif réduit).
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COLLECTOR SERIE | Application iPhone lancée par Label Dalbin, 21 mars 2010
“KILL THE EGO” sera également la première œuvre vidéo en vente dans l’application iPhone Collector Serie. Ce concept, lancé par Label Dalbin en collaboration avec l’agence mobile Clicmobile, va révolutionner la collection et la distribution de l’art vidéo en plaçant celui-ci littéralement au bout des doigts du collectionneur.
Le film Furtivo du chanteur Sebastien Tellier et de l’artiste Xavier Veilhan sera la deuxième œuvre disponible sur Collector Serie, et sera également projeté à Hors Pistes cette année (20 février 2010, 19:00).
PRESSE: télécharger le dossier de presse de l’application iPhone Collector Serie ici.
“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).
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?
KILL THE EGO IN JUXTAPOZ MAGAZINE
Friday, January 8, 2010
Juxtapoz #108 | January 2010
Soundwalk’s Kill the Ego has been listed as one of Juxtapoz Magazine’s Top 100 Moments of 2009.
“Kill the Ego started as a song [of New York] by the sound design team Soundwalk. Insert an epic song [built over ten years of fragmented memories, voices of pimps and engineers, poets and domanitrixes, visionaries and children, hope and sorrow] into Rostarr’s psyche. After some internalizing, mixing with their own hopes, dreams and aesthetic vision, the result is ‘Kill the Ego’.
“The film is a remarkable mix of motion-painting, capturing street sounds, and it plays as this incredible narrative . . .amazing.” – Eric Pricco
Kill the Ego will be shown at Centre Pompidou, Paris, in February 2010.
View the video here.