Kuvaputki will premiere at the Sonar festival,
Friday 20th. 03:10pm
Saturday 21st. 12:00am,
screening one angle of the DVD, as well a mysterious announcement and preview of the forthcoming Hazmazk Anthology.
Sonar writes,
“Cathode rays are streams of electrons observed in vacuum tubes, i.e. evacuated glass tubes that are equipped with at least two electrodes, a cathode (negative electrode) and an anode (positive electrode) in a configuration known as a diode. When the cathode is heated, it emits radiation, which travels to the anode. If the inner glass walls behind the anode are coated with a phosphorescent material the incident electrons induce a glow” (quoted from Wikipedia).
Pan Sonic’s first-ever DVD release is the result of a collaboration between the Finnish duo and US digital artist Edward Quist, who produced complex cathode ray images to accompany Ilpo Väisänen and Mika Vainio's abstract electronic sound world.
The surprising simplicity and elegance of the black and white images is a perfect fit for Pan Sonic’s angular rhythms and abrasive frequencies. Co-produced by Scissor Sister’s Derek Gruen (aka Del Marquis), the initial idea of producing a documentary on Pan Sonic's live shows culminated in this abstract audiovisual tour de force."
Pan Sonic’s first-ever DVD release is the result of a collaboration between the Finnish duo and US digital artist Edward Quist, who produced complex cathode ray images to accompany Ilpo Väisänen and Mika Vainio's abstract electronic sound world.
Kuvaputki (40 min)
Dir: Edward Quist. Música: Pan Sonic. Editor: Michael Wargula.
Hazmazk
Dir: Edward Quist. Music: Del Marquis & Edward Quist. Editor: Michael Wargula.
Sonar's Multimedia Activities Program
The Museum of Moving Image's Calendar
Coinciding with the screening Embryoroom has a special offer.
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Kuvaputki acheived number 1 in multiple categories at amazon.co.uk, amazon.fr and charted number 2 on amazon.de and 13 on amazon.com
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VARIOUS REVIEWS
Downtown Music Gallery writes,
PANSONIC - Kuvaputki (Cathode Ray Tube) [DVD] (Blast First DVD09; UK) Region 0 NTSC. "I remembering seeing Pan Sonic back in 99' in Washington, DC with some amazing visuals (for back then) utilizing sound waves projected onto a small class room size movie screen. The 'immediacy' and sheer bare bones aesthetics appealed to me and allowed this listener to be fully pulled into the world of Pan Sonic. Now post-itunes era, these visual accompaniments by Edward Quist stream close to what the major conglomerates have regurgitated, but more so to fuck with and less to assimilate, much akin to Ilpo & Mika's choice for a band name. Their music continues in the thematic direction of pushing the boundaries of pulses and noise; and as you go deeper into the DVD you get less generic visual manipulation, and more visual noise! Visually triggering a soft spot in my memory bank of when I used to listen to music in the dark while staring at a strobe light. There is even some footage of Pan Sonic live in New York 1/24/00, where you see (a grainy video of) Ilpo & Mika up close knob-twiddling, which is located in the extras section. Too bad they didn't include a live section of the gig I witnessed. Epileptics beware! For those yearning for creative electronic music that straddles the line between recognizably hypnotic and absurd abrasions. The dvd also has an option for surround sound (for those who have that luxury). RECOMMENDED!" -Chuck Bettis/DMG
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Reviews From France,
Trax Magazine writes,
Sound and light. A really long time ago, well before the aesthetic plagiarisms of a certain Carsten Nicolai, Pan( a )sonic accompanied its brutal analogical explorations with the simplest visual device: a prehistoric electric oscillator reacting in real time to the diverse forms and the frequencies generated by the magic machines. A decade later, this DVD assembles a performance recorded in New York in 1999 with the strange black and white stroboscopic convolution of the artist Edward Quist, with the apparition, here and there, of the mute faces of the duo. More than a meanly illustrated live show, here is one true multimedia proposition, like a digital update of "In the Shadow of the Sun" by Derek Jarman and with Throbbing Gristle.
Article in French
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"Pan Sonic with a first DVD entitled "Kuvaputki" and produced by the American Edward Quist. This rich audio-visual documentary retraces the 1999-2000 Round The World Tour. The concerts are treated , visually speaking, in an experimental and unusual way, but this illustrates well the Finnish duo's electronic abstractions.
Article in French
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D-side Magazine writes,
In the experimental field, this live DVD has to offer a real innovative device, in order to compensate the absence of visual performance. In Pan Sonic's case, the experience had been attempted. . .with the help of the American filmmaker Edward Quist, [in Kuvaputki.]
Manipulating the cathode ray tube (which is what Kuvaputki means), Quist produces black and white abstractions, that respond to Finnish duo's music, especially composed of re-invented titles and fragments from A. Austere, of course, . . . as a real Pan Sonic book , this DVD proposes an experience that is minimal as well as hypnotic, sometimes interrupted by Mika Vainio's fugitive visions and Ilpo Vaisanen, absorbed on their machines like mechanical specters.
Like coming from a far away world that we could capture only from deficient antennas, Kuvaputki visions, from their hazardous legibility, makes them more precious.
Article in French
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Positive Rage writes,
"As the title of this DVD indicates it, it uses a very particular language that is between experimental cathodic performance on the borders of contemporary art and raw and minimal electronic performance. The American visual artist Edward Quist meets the Finnish musical duo and collaborate around a set performed in 1999. The cold and hypnotic buckles of the pair become the generator of very special artistic creation. In black and white, the oscillating forms succeed one another, evolve, build themselves and disintegrate under the influence of beats and frequencies. The atmosphere is closed, stifling and disturbing (it is not for the claustrophobic and those who are photo elileptic!) Difficult to maintain your attention in these conditions, unless you already have screens instead of eyes. The experimental Electro-Industrial, forbids emotion just like the free waveforms of Quist..."
Article in French
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