Visual Kitchen
bio
Visual Kitchen is an audiovisual arts company that creates visuals and installations for contemporary music and performance projects. An initiative of Sam Vanoverschelde and Jurgen Van Gemert, it was originally founded as a VJ collective, focusing on the production of electronic music in the late 1990s. While their first productions were meant for entertainment, the company's focus shifted when Vanoverschelde and and Van Gemert started working together with contemporary classic and electronic musicians. Since then Visual Kitchen took on a more personal and semiotic approach and started conducting research about the semantics of live AV-performance and video art. This led to the production of the acclaimed performance Pole für 2, in which a score by K.H. Stockhausen was translated into video parameters. Characteristic for the productions of Visual Kitchen are the dazzling trips of visual flux, rigorously combining structured loops with software or hardware generated chaos.
Visual Kitchen co-founded Cimatics, a festival and a platform for AV- performance and contemporary media art in Belgium. Visual Kitchen has been collaborating in a wide range of music projects, from Schubert to Sondheim, AFX to Feldman or Huoratron to Harvey.
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Selectie van performances en installaties
2009
'Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco': Video adaptation of Jonathan Harvey's B channel tape-piece, composes in 1981, presented in a disengaged church 'Ursulinekapel', presented bij 'Intro in situ', Musica Sacra Maastricht, (The Netherlands); Huddersdield Contemporary Music festival; Happy New Festival, O.L.V kerk, Kortrijk (Belgium); Holland festival, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
'Aquarius', Opera by Karel Goeyvaert, Vlaamse Opera, Antwerp (Belgium); Holland Festival, Muziekgebouw aan't IJ, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
'Investment': creation of a powerpoint presentation for the performance by Davis Freeman (Random Scream) premiered at ImPulz Tanz, Vienna (Austria)
2008
'Assasins' a Steve Sondheim musical adapted by Davis Freeman. (Random scream): animating and presenting stage backdrops. Theatre Garonne, Toulouse (France); De Singel/De Monty (Antwerpen); Theatre Marni, Brussels (Belgium); Vooruit Ghent (Belgium); Bit Teatergasjen, Bergen (Norway); Avant Garden, Trondheim (Norway); Cultuurcentrum Biekorf, Brugge (Belgium); Maltafestival, Poznan (Poland)
'Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco': Video adaptation of Jonathan Harvey's B channel tape-piece, composes in 1981. Premiere at the Gaida Festival, Vilnius (Italy)
2007
'100% Schubert': creating live visuals for Octet D.803 by Schubert with the Danel Quartet & friends
'Quatre Chants pour franchir le Seuil': composing visuals for 'Stèle'(pour deux percussionistes') by G.Grisey and 'Songs and dances of death' by M.Mussorgski, orchestrated and combined with new work by A.Raskatov. A collaboration with the Radio Kamer Filharmonie conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw, commissioned by NPS and Holland Festival, Concertgebouw aan het IJ, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
'E/T' installation on 3 joint screens +audio for 'Plastic at the WhiteHotel', Brussels (Belgium)
'Plastic' at the whitehotel: presentation of several movies
2005
'Locker 03' installation by Eavesdropper & Visual Kitchen, presented at Gallery Jan Dhaese, Ghent (Belgium)
'Mum meet Xenakis' live set with Mum, Radio Kamer Orkest, Holland Festival, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
'Apsara, Eavesdropper & Visual Kitchen': live set combining recorder, electronics and visuals, Concertgebouw, Brugge (Belgium)
'Everything that Silence breaks' with Eavesdropper: premiere of the dual screen live setup, Klara Minimal festival, ABClub, Brussels (Belgium)
2004
'Pole für 2' video adaptation of a piece by K.H. Stockhausen, STUK, Leuven (Belgium)
Marc Moulin Entertainment tour: creation of a standalone videoshow for the live performances of Marc Moulin, premiered at the Blue Note festival, Ghent (Belgium)
'GaS 0.4' Ganz andere Stelle: Narrative AV set with Eavesdropper, Concertgebouw, Bruges (Belgium)
2003
'Pole für 2' video adaptation of a piece by K.H. Stockhausen, Concertgebouw, Bruges (Belgium)
'GaS 0.4' Ganz andere Stelle: Narrative AV set with Eavesdropper, Cimatics Festival, Brussels (Belgium)
Funkstörung, Eavesdropper & Visual Kitchen. live set, Cimatics Festival, Brussels (Belgium)
Cinedays: AV set with Cortechsvalley, Grand Place, Brussels (Belgium)
Live set with 'Eavesdropper & Waterman', Festival van Vlaanderen, Mechelen (Belgium)
'De zotte Koning' AV set with Jambangle, a jazz bigband, De Centrale, Ghent (Belgium)
'Laborintus II' creation of a videotrack for the avant garde opera by Luciano Berio, Concertgebouw, Bruges (Belgium)
2002
Opening Brugge 2002: Remixing a poem by Peter Verhelst, Concertgebouw, Bruges (Belgium)
Concert Marc Moulin, Botanique, Brussel (Belgium)
'GaS 0.3' Ganz andere Stelle: Narrative AV set with Styrofoam, Flanders Film Festival, Ghent (Belgium)
2001
Netmage Diesel Awards: AV set with Styrofoam, Bologna (Italy)
'GaS 0.1' Ganz andere Stelle: Narrative AV set with Styrofoam, KcNona, Mechelen (Belgium)
Music Videos (selection)
2007
'Crest', Michael Fakesch, K7 @ www.fluctuating-images.de
'Humanoid', Stakker: Fuckarma's Cane Remix
2008
'Heatmachine': background projections for Eurosong candidates Raeven
'Your Guiding Star': background projections for Eurosong candidates EFR
'Wheel of Time': background projections for Eurosong candidate Geena Lisa
'Around the world': background projections for Eurosong candidate Elisa
'Thanden Strakk', Even Tuell. For th Rüts DVD compilation
'Try Humanity', The Brown Acid, N.E.W.S.
Booking and organization
Pukkelpop '00, '01, '02, '03, '04, '05, '06: production and organisation of all vj-related performanced at the festival (except for the mainstage). Line up of vj's at the Boilerroom
Cimatics 03: Technical management
Cinedays: production and organisation of an AV concert at the Brussels Grand Place
Cimatics 04: production and organisation of the Brussels international festival for live autdiovisual performance and vj'ing
Artefact Festival 05: booking and presentation of artists and screenings form the Cimatics platform
From 2005 on, booking and organization is further developed through the Cimatic platform: www.cimatics.com
Selected VJ-sets (selection)
2007
Fase 25th Anniversary party Rosas, Brussels (Belgium)
Red Bull Visual Beats, Club11, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Playhouse Labelnight, Club11, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Vj-set with K-os, Cimatic Festival, Beursschouwburg, Brussels (Belgium)
Still labelnight, Cimatics Festival, Beursschouwburg, Brussel (Belgium)
2008
Focus-Le Vif launch party, La Centrale Electrique, Brussels (Belgium)
Lab-CvB, DJVJ set at recyclart, Brussels (Belgium)
CityScape, djvj set with Eavesdropper, City Scape Brussels (Belgium)
Oostende Ingeblikt: DJVK set at the award ceremony, Club Terminus, Oostende (Belgium)
Meakusma presents 'Rüts', Vj set, at Recyclart, Brussels (Belgium)
2009
Dourfestival, DanceHall: VJset with Djedjotronic (dj), Matzak (live) and Popof (live) (Belgium)
2010
Cimatics festival: AVJ set on triple screen, Les Brigitinnes, Brussels (Belgium)
Cimatics closing party, VJ set at Fuse, Brussels (Belgium)
works
Pole für 2
The legendary Stockhausen piece, composed for the German pavilion at the Osaka '70 EXPO, reinterpreted by Arne Deforce on Cellotron, a midi interface on a deconstructed cello, and electronic sound by Eavesdropper. The spatialized sound on an 8 speaker system, mixed by CRFMW, also serves as a modulator for the video signal that is being generated by a dual MX50 setup with source noise feedback.
Composition: K.H. Stockhausen
Performance: Arne Deforce, Eavesdropper, Visual Kitchen
Other artists and developpers: CRFMW (Centre de Recherches et de Formation Musicales de Wallonie asbl): Jean-Marc Sullon (audio mixing & spatialization), Patrick Delges (audio mixing, spatialization and Max/MSP coding)
Producers: Concertgebouw, Bruges (Belgium), Artefact Festival, Leuven (Belgium)
Première: 11/01/2003, Concertgebouw, Bruges (Belgium)
documentation
Visual Kitchen
T: +32 (0)2 410 80 45
M: +32 (0)495 325 421
E: info@visualkitchen.org
W: www.visualkitchen.org
1070 Anderlecht / Brussel, België
