In this audiovisual performance the Angel of History reflects on the PAL signal and its supposed end. Although PAL is now obsolete and outdated, it still lives on indirectly in newer technologies like the DVB signal. The Collapse of PAL is an hommage to the typical artefacts of the analogue signal, which Rosa Menkman captured using feedback, image bending techniques, a broken digital camera, digital compression, video bending devices and a game console. The soundtrack is crafted using the sounds of a Cracklebox, an old Casio keyboard, European telephone signals, Morse code etc. more...

Fair Use looks at our accelerating culture through the electronic  performance and remixing of cinema. The trio uses the picture and  soundtrack of culturally significant movies, drastically compressed in  time, as the sole materials for an improvised set which interrogates our  cinematic memories through frenetic audiovisual processing and  re-narration of the cinematic object. Fair Use will be performing a triple feature based on The Wizard of Oz, Snow White and Kubrick's 2001, investigating three aspects of establishment of the self in an unknown universe. more...

live performance by Ei Wada
Braun Tube Jazz Band more...