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BY FAT OUT & OUTLANDS NETWORK
An original audio-visual collaboration between Japanese psych band Qujaku and uk visual artists IMPATV, toured around the Outlands Network in November 2019.
Developed during a residencies in Japan & Salford 2019, this new production explored ideas of duality. sound triggers light that in turn creates form via an amalgam of heavy, rhythmic ambience combined with visual projections, lighting and stage design.
BLOG ON OUR RESIDENCY IN JAPAN
Enso Sone expresses a freedom to create loudness, which marked the starting point for this collaboration. Further ideas from Japanese Zen practice; of oneness, natural opposites and equilibrium, the spirit of harmonious cooperation, the visible and the invisible, absolute fullness in emptiness, simplicity, completeness, and endlessness were explored.
The tour included special guests electronic, industrial act group A (now the solo project of Tommi Tokyo) who in turn collaborate with Berlin based visual artist DEAD SLOW AHEAD on a new multi-dimensional video universe, opening the gate to the inside-self, mixing slow ethereal abstract sounds with mind-shattering stroboscopic video pulsations, designed to challenge the observers’ expectations of AV work.
The tour was accompanying workshop to shine a light on the artistic processes behind the production. IMPATV hosted a series experimental video workshop, exploring some of the techniques they use to create their videos and visual work, using a variety of new and outdated technologies.
IMPATV produced a new music video for Qujaku for the track In Neutral, made with footage filmed during the residency is Japan.
QUJAKU
Formed in 2013, QUJAKU are a Japanese heavy psychedelic rock band based in Shizuoka. Their dark, heavy psychedelia is replete with rich distortion and feedback creating a unique decadent ambience. The apocalyptic sound they muster fuels an urge to release from the everyday to discover an ephemeral beauty behind the fierceness. The delicate yet strong leading voice, filled with destructive guitar, repetitive rhythmic percussion, and deep, bellowing bass combine to create Qujaku's unique sound atmosphere to preoccupy the mind and enhance the experience.
IMPATV
IMPATV is a collaborative video and stage production project from UK artists Isadora Darke and Jamie Robinson. Using new digital technologies and live mixing methods combined with costumes and stage design they produce immersive installations, music videos, live streaming, and art and music productions across the realms of DIY,
