Moving Cinema – Pushkar Camer Fair Edition

Posted on December 5, 2008 by maarten

We at RebelUp! Soundclash are proud to have presented a moving cinema project. The first edition is about the Camel Fair in Pushkar, India. The first screening was at RebelUp in the OCCII last saterday, the 29th. Seb and I were improvising live -Seb as a DJ with audio and me as a VJ with video- on a running track we edited.

What is Moving Cinema? Moving Cinema is a term coined by Seb to describe the collaboration of live image and sound in a cinematographic way. In our case it is a mix between a documentary and a music video that has a very dream like cinematographic quality to it. It is a live experience! But we hope to make a DVD version of it as well.

The session lasted for an hour, but it felt much shorter. Mixing audio and video live really brings the footage to live and brings a dreamy quality at times. The reaction of the audience was amazing; we really felt inspired to continue with this and bring out many more editions.

About the Pushkar Camel Fair: the Pushkar Camel Fair is a yearly Camel Fair in Pushkar Rajastan. In this desert area 10ths of thousands camels come together with their owners to be traded off. The event lasts for four weeks and there is a festival along side it. There is a carnaval, there are tourist attractions, there is a Mela (festival ground with live performances from all over India) and there are traditional musicians wandering around playing for money. The fair ends in religious all night praying sessions, expressed with singing and live music.

Seb and I headed out to record folk musians and went to the fair hoping to catch a few. We stayed the whole four weeks to get to know the place and the people. We sure did meet a few musicians and we recorded a lot. After Pushkar we continued traveling through northern India for two more month together, recording more mucisians elsewhere.

Pushkar The Camel Fair is our first Moving Cinema project coming out of that trip. More will follow: a Rajasthan Edition and a Punjab -India and Pakisthan!- are in the making.

We will be having more Moving Cinema Editions at RebelUp Soundclash and hopefully else where.

We will post a clip here soon.

Rebel Up! Soundclash #17, saturday 18th of october, special guest Malorix (NL)

Posted on October 12, 2008 by maarten

Dear individuals of the freed society,

You who know better than wasting your time and money on the global bank failing system. You who heard the sounds crash from oh so many parties. Canâ€™t you hear the horns of a fanfare passing by your doorsteps? Or maybe the volume of your Mesopotamian LP is already too high. You would definitely like to cheer it a bit with a Nigerian high-life.

Well, if you have a minute or five full hours to spare, you might have a chance to meet that kind of stuff and plenty more this saturday at the OCCII, on the next Rebel Up night! Starting as usual : get your first drink at 22.30 and start to dance at 23.00 or break the rule, you fool. Some of the survivors of the last september clash still feel the rumbles of the African Guinean drums played live by those cool Polish guys and backed by Selecta Vega.

This time we’ll have special guest Malorix from the multicultural port of Rotterdam. He’ll treat you to a live laptop set and meet me in the White Lodge if he canâ€™t play enough rough shake-it-shake-it rarities and beat ratatats! Expect not just live electronics but also his finest selection of Northern African RaÃ¯ and Arab-Asian sounds
www.myspace.com/malorix

Also the nomadic Nohmada guys from Ghent will join us again with refreshed sprinkles of Southern and Eastern European delights. Sure you’ll hop and bounce to their playfull tunes till your ankles hurt! www.nohmada.com

And here another good reason to come…….

As you may well know, things are not going for the best in Zimbabwe, due to the perpetual thirst of power by nasty characters over an overwhelmed population.

The British association Garden Africa develops agricultural methods for resource and land management. In other words; to teach local people how they can plant, grow and harvest their crops under the best possible conditions to have enough food. The Rusapa project is a fine step in the right direction and with your help by a simple contribution at the entrance and at free will during the night, you can make a difference too! Hope to meet you there for the good of your legs and for the health of those in needs. See more at: gardenafrica