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SKELETAL, OFF-WORLD ELECTRONICA
In an ethereal world between worlds, alien lullabies envelop and mesmerize, warped beauty enfolds you in an unsettling and compelling "No Man's Land".
"Stylish, elegant and sinister...obscure electronica, minimal beats and exotic voice merge seamlessly with abstract animations to evolve into a multi-media artwork" (New Zealand Herald)
Colliderscope is the international audio-visual collaboration of New Zealand based animation artist Zennor Alexander and Scottish/Burmese composer and vocalist Fiona Soe Paing. Starting with a minimal electronica track with vocals in Burmese, the show twists and turns through pulsating slabs of whispered electronica, bent out of shape blues ballads and haunting cinematic sound-scapes.
'SEDUCES, SCARES AND EMBRACES YOU ALL A ONCE" (INTERNATIONAL DJ MAGAZINE)
Lush, soulful, dark and minimal, using wayward synths, ghostly strings, sparse beats and textural atmospherics, this is left-field downbeat at its most down. Combining laptop based electronica, surreal, projected 3D animations and a compelling live vocal performance, "No Man's Land" is a powerful and hypnotic live cinema experience.
" Welcome - you are now entering "No Man's Land" - the borderlands where geographies, cultures, identities, genres and languages collide and interchange. Visitors are requested to leave your preconceptions at the checkpoint. Please proceed...."
Blurring the boundaries between experimental music, screen-based media and visual art, the theme of cross-boundary hybrids is explored in the concepts behind "No Man's Land". The music's "lyrical" content is a mix of half-forgotten dialects, pidgin English, and abstract, non-lingual vocalisations - an invented "No Man's Language"
"...hybrid going on mutant..." (The Guardian)
A specially designed alphabet and font appear throughout the animations as a recurring visual motif, and give concrete visual form to the abstract language. For the visuals, found objects, original and remixed film footage, graphics, photography, archive family photographs, and original drawings are transformed using 3D animation techniques.
"OUTRAGEOUSLY BEAUTIFUL" (GRAND CENTRAL RECORDS)
"NO MAN'S LAND" AVAILABLE NOW ON DVD AND CD
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