[plug.in] DVD

64 min

Labland is an album of visual music. It is the first project of its kind. The sychronism between visual and musical creation is what gives it its innovative form. The images were composed by the Berlin art group Pfadfinderei (" the scouts" in English) who simultaneously use two complementary visual elements: motion graphic design and video. Minimalist and innovative, the visual language created by Pfadfinderei employs signs and vectors. For this original production on DVD, the Pfadfinderei (the images) collaborated with the duo Modeselektor (the music) who have produced several records for Ellen Allien's label Bpitch Control. Their philosophy: distortion and recycling. Pfadfinderei and Modeselektor play live their animated images and sounds. Paint the rhythm. Draw the melody. Invent another form of dance, dance with the images. Drums and bass, colors, point and line on a surface. Like notes on a musical stave, the image fragments (shot, programmed or drawn) make up a visual partition. The themes, refrains, and melodies appear on the screen in response to the music.

H.018
2004 dalbin