Visual Kitchen & Eavesdropper

by Eavesdropper & Visual Kitchen (B)

About Visual Kitchen

Visual Kitchen explores the semantics of live AV performance and video art from a background of VJ’ing and music video production. As designers of moving images, Visual Kitchen adapts any kind of (non-)narrative structure into dazzling trips of visual flux, combining rigorously structured loops with soft- or hardware-generated coincidences. The output is very diverse and versatile, from analogue photographic to digital minimalism, always playfully incorporating contrasting factors of the audiovisual spectrum.

Visual Kitchen started in the late nineties as a collective that focused on live video mixing and is considered one of the pioneers in the Belgian vj-history. In the early days the main activities aimed for the dance floor, with a residency at the Brussels' Cybertheatre, collaborations with mayor Belgian dance-events (10daysOff, I Love Techno, Groovecity) and a long track record of underground performances (RephlexNight, Seats'nBeats). An 'artist in residency'-status at 'Concertgebouw' in Bruges in 2003 were a turning point in the artistic approach, opening up the horizons towards all kinds of different musicians to play with and acquiring a personal set of semantics in performing. With interpretations of the K.H.Stockhausen piece 'Pole für 2' for dual MX50 with feedback or the visual adaptation of the original audiotape that accompanied the 'Laborintus II' opera by L.Berio, they set themselves a new standard. The collaborations with Eavesdropper, also resident, continued and intensified resulting in several forms of collaborations such as the Massive Central collective or the Locker03 DVD/installation.

About Eavesdropper

Eavesdropper - Yves De Mey started out as a drum’n’bass and breakbeat producer. After playing extensively throughout Flanders and a few releases he got asked to make a score for “Aars”, a huge theatre play by Het Toneelhuis – Antwerp. One year later, he made the soundtrack for “Scratching the Inner Fields” by Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez.
Since then, Eavesdropper has been very active on different levels; sound installations, scores for dance, theatre, performance and film, sound design for movies and commercials, DJ-sets, live gigs and many more, in belgium as well as abroad. He also runs the lo profile label Knobsounds and Stem and collaborates with Visual Kitchen. In 2009, releases are planned on Time 2 Express and Line/12K
Lately he's collaborated with Peter Verhelst, Het Paleis (Josse De Pauw, Stefan Perceval, Dimitri Leue), Meg Stuart, Sanne Van Rijn, Inne Goris, Claudio Bernardo, Antoine Effroy...
Aside from all these activities, he's also creative director at the Sonicville studios where he works as a sounddesigner, musician and soundengineer for film and other media

http://www.visualkitchen.org
http://www.knobsounds.com