[Sculpture's Reuben Sutherland / photo: basic_sounds]
Another year, another MUTEK. I've posted my review of the most recent edition of the Montreal festival at Creative Applications and, as was the case in 2009, I've focused on the A/Visions program. A/Visions is dedicated to showcasing integrated audio visual performance projects and given that these collaborations are usually realized as visualizations or forays into post-cinema experimentation, this is really where my heart is within the festival. While Murcof and Simon Geilfus's (of AntiVJ) realtime graphics were utterly stunning, I found it a bit curious that my other favourite acts this year were crafted with tape loops and zoetropic discs (Sculpture) and an automated piano (Seth Horvitz) – truly innovative/groundbreaking work that was hardly new media (let's jettison that term already). Cruise on over to Creative Applications to check out my overview, I was able to compile a pretty thorough selection of videos of the work presented and some of these endeavours are truly remarkable.
Chema Cobo
Marc Chagall
Chema Madoz
