Do you us too? V2.0
by Motek (BE)
World Premiere
Motek is an audiovisual collective with a predilection for the visual force of music. The four members use bass, drums, guitar, samples and images to seek those moments of intensity when music and image lead to submission and submersion.
About Motek–
Motek has been working with videoartists and filmmakers since its foundation in 2005 and also produces its own images. As a broad audiovisual collective Motek has been involved in music, video-art, sampling installations and performance. Motek has signed up with Noisesome Recordings/EMI Belgium and already had residences at Beursschouwburg Brussel, Vooruit Ghent and Pianofabriek St.-Gillis.
Motek works from a gut feeling. During the organic creational process Motek is open to any influences which might be at hand at the time. Sometimes images inspire music, sometimes music inspires images, sometimes everyday sounds are processed, sometimes an unfathomable network audiovisually comes into existence. Starting from an open attitude towards the world, Motek is really capable of going anywhere. Motek produces visual music.
About “Do You Us Too”–
The stage, one scène. ‘DO YOU US TOO’ is the performance created by Motek, in which they go on a quest for the moment on the knife’s edge between image and music. Two cameramen, a vj, four musicians and the audience fire away their imaginary and real images onto each other. The space in which these images come together is continuously changing.
Motek test the boundaries of a live-performance, by leaving the contact with the audience somewhere in the middle. In the scenic surroundings audience and musicians are confronted with desires which are always eminent with pop-and rockshows: do you want to listen or watch? Do you want to watch or be watched? Do you want your images or those of others? Do you want to be alone with the music, or be alone with the others? What do you want?
‘DO YOU US TOO?’ is an experiment evolving around that elusive moment when the ear meets the eye; when you don’t want to know anymore what exactly grabs you by the throat: image or sound.
With the support of the “Pianofabriek”