Sonic Youth,Charlesque,5 Days Off Media,Snow Angel,All Tomorrow’s Parties,Samm Hodges,U-Ram Choe,Whatever Works,LJ Kruzer

Sonic Youth have unveiled the video for “Sacred Trickster,” opening track off their new album "The Eternal".

Watch | Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster



In a black & white Paris, little creatures with paintbrush decide to brighten up the city...

Reulf is student project from University of Paris VIII directed by Quentin Carnicelli, Charles Klipfel & Jean-François Jégo as part of our graduate program in Arts and Technologies de l'Image.
Music composed by Robert le magnifique & Olivier Mellano.

Watch | Reulf



Frozen, 5 Days Off MEDIA
2 - 26 July 2008
Melkweg Mediaroom, Paradiso
Amsterdam

In the Mediaroom at the Melkweg multi-channel sound pieces can be experienced over an advanced speaker setup, accompanied by sound in a "frozen" form: Images and sculptural objects made using sound as input. These artworks use audio analysis and custom software processes to extract meaningful data from the sound signal, creating a mapping between audio and other media. Frozen will feature digital prints as well as four "sound sculptures" created using digital fabrication technology such as rapid prototyping, CNC and laser cutting, which allow for the direct translation of a digital model into physical form.

Frozen arose in collaboration with the Norwegian artist and curator Marius Watz, whose Generator.x project investigates the implications of generative systems and computational models of creation. The recent exhibition Generator.x 2.0: Beyond the Screen brought together artists and architects to explore the potential of this new mode of creation.

Besides Watz's own contribution, 'audio sculptures' will be on display by Andreas Nicolas Fischer (DE) & Benjamin Maus (DE), Leander Herzog (CH), and Daniel Widrig & Shajay Booshan (UK). These sculptures are based on audioworks by Freiband (Nl, Frans de Waard), and Alexander Rishaug (No). Frozen



A girl from a strange family falls prey to her doppelgänger in this surreal animation that resulted from a collaborative script by John Malkovich for Sony.

To set the scene: a girl looks from a window onto a snowy vista, where she ventures to make a row of snow angels. That is until her doppelgänger buries her in the snow and returns to the house, which is populated by circus folk; a midget, a fire-eater, a contortionist and ‘her’ mother who wears a bandage over one eye. The girl is then sent upstairs call the other girls for breakfast, who turn out to be identical to her, and all dressed in gymnast outfits. Meanwhile outside a groundsman and his dog discover the original girl and begin to dig out the snow. The girls lead the doppelgänger down to breakfast, where her mother takes off her clothes to reveal the same gymnast outfit beneath. Then at the urging of the fire-eater, the midget attempts (and fails) to throw a strawberry into the mother’s mouth much to the glee of the onlookers. The doppelgänger runs to the window, through which we can see it is now Spring and the groundsman stands to reveal a white lilly on the spot where the original girl lay.Short of the Week

Watch | Snow Angel - Online Script Project



ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES - THE FILM

FEATURING: Belle And Sebastian / Grizzly Bear / Sonic Youth / Battles / Portishead / Daniel Johnston / Grinderman / David Cross / Animal Collective / The Boredoms / Les Savy Fav / Mogwai / Octopus Project / Slint / The Dirty Three / The Yeah Yeah Yeahs / The Gossip / GZA / Seasick Steve / Iggy And The Stooges / A Hawk And A Hacksaw / Fuck Buttons / Micah P Hinson / Two Gallants / Akron/Family / Jah Shaka / Saul Williams / Shellac / Patti Smith / John Cooper Clark / Lightning Bolt / Roscoe Mitchell / The Mars Volta

Coming Soon from Warp Films

In an out-of-season holiday camp on the coast of England, alternative music festival All Tomorrow’s Parties serves up a heady combination of alternative music, crazy golf and chalet-living; all curated by a single band or artist. This post-punk DIY bricolage uses material generated by the fans and musicians themselves, on a multitude of formats and over the history of ATP, to capture the uncompromising spirit of a parallel music universe. All Tomorrow’s Parties was created by All Tomorrow’s People and Jonathan Caouette. Ourtrueintent

Watch | All Tomorrow's Parties



Fantastic reel from Samm Hodges , awesome combination of graphics and sound.

Watch | Samm Hodges/Mothlight Design Reel '09





U-Ram Choe work engages a fanciful dialog of aesthetics and machinery, and explores themes of biological transformation, flight, and movement. In his recent work, large-scale metal and plastic automata materialize with such a delicacy and weightlessness that it seems to take on the shape and silhouette of an organic life form. Motors, heat and light sensitive materials add to the intricacy of Choe's kinetic sculptures.

With Choe's incorporation of scientific nomenclature into artwork titling systems, walking into the gallery space can be reminiscent of touring a prehistoric exhibit at a natural science or history museum-there are certain elements of recognition: mechanical diagrams, text descriptions of habitats, visible evidence of fins evolving into wings, and even propellers. The warm biologic livelihoods of machine-creatures become the subject in Choe's work. These dynamic forms bear emotion and have anthropological roots, despite their streamlined metallic sheen. Narratives authored by the artist complement his 3-dimensional designs and drawings. Wikipedia



Whatever Works is an upcoming 2009 comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. The film is a black comedy featuring Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Kristen Johnston, Ed Begley, Jr., Michael McKean, and Henry Cavill. David stars as Boris Yelnikoff, an eccentric, misanthropic physicist from Greenwich Village who becomes entangled with a young girl from the south (played by Wood) and her parents. The movie was filmed in New York City, marking Allen's return to his native city after a four-film sojourn in Europe. "It's very classic Woody Allen but it's still different than anything he's done," revealed Wood in a December 2008 interview. Wikipedia

Watch | Whatever Works



LJ Kruzer and Uncharted Audio present the Tam Variations, eight engaging experimental versions of Tam, a piece which features on Kruzer's forthcoming album Manhood & Electronics. Each variation is the end result of methodical sequences of sound processing exploring all the possibilities of computer manipulation of digitised sound data - stretching, squashing, restretching and resquashing giving the concertina'd timbres of Tamz; filtering, distorting and reverberating backwards and forwards to create the rough textures of Tamx and Tamxr; modulating brown noise with the source audio to give Tamb; and simple stretching and reverberating resulting in the billowy melancholy of the collection's opener Tam814.

The Tam Variations are available for free as 128kbps mp3s, and name your price for higher quality formats only here. Manhood & Electronics is set for release as a CD and download on Uncharted Audio on June 29th 2009.

Watch | Tam - LJ Kruzer Video

Let's Lounge,Hello World,Emotional Sensing,Dried Up,Yi Zhou,Dan Black, Christien Meindertsma, The Limits Of Control,The Nightseeing Map

Netbook Lounge Chair by Martin Ballendat

Mp3 | 9dw - Posse
Mp3 | Boozoo Bajou - Same Sun [ Prins Thomas Diskomiks ]
Mp3 | Bugge Wesseltoft - Eve Nin [ Les Gammas mix ]
Mp3 | Chateau Flight - Instant Replay
Mp3 | Curtis Mayfield - Do We Wap Is Strong In Here [ Ashley Beedle Re-Edit ]
Mp3 | Earl Zinger - who killed saturday night
Mp3 | Melvin Van Peebles - Sweetback's Theme
Mp3 | Micatone - Traces
Mp3 | Omni Trio - Renegade Snares [ Fould Play VIP Mix ]
Mp3 | Romanthony - $ luv
Mp3 | Season & Sygaire feat. Randolph Matthews - Cowboys & Angels
Mp3 | Truby Trio - Cruisin

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Hello World! is a large-scale audio visual installation comprised of thousands of unique video diaries gathered from the internet. The project is a meditation on the contemporary plight of democratic, participative media and the fundamental human desire to be heard.

On one hand, new media technologies like YouTube have enabled new speakers at an alarming rate. On the other hand, no new technologies have emerged that allow us to listen to all of these new public speakers. Each video consists of a single lone individual speaking candidly to a (potentially massive) imagined audience from a private space such as a bedroom, kitchen, or dorm room. The multi-channel sound composition glides between individuals and the group, allowing viewers to listen in on unique speakers or become immersed in the cacophony. Viewers are encouraged to dwell in the space.

Watch | Hello World! or: How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise



Philips Design has developed a series of dynamic garments as part of the ongoing SKIN exploration research into the area known as 'emotional sensing'. The garments, which are intended for demonstration purposes only, demonstrate how electronics can be incorporated into fabrics and garments in order to express the emotions and personality of the wearer.

The marvelously intricate wearable prototypes include 'Bubelle', a dress surrounded by a delicate 'bubble' illuminated by patterns that changed dependent on skin contact- and 'Frison', a body suit that reacts to being blown on by igniting a private constellation of tiny LEDs .

Watch | Probes; SKIN dresses



A short film by Jeremy Casper, Stuart Bury and Isaiah Powers

It a thesis project for Jeremy Casper and Isaiah Powers BFA in animation.

Dried Up is a story about the character of a person who through opposition is true to his own belief and character. He does what he knows he must do to bring life to a town even though others tell him it is pointless.

Watch | Dried Up



My heart laid bare by Yi Zhou (35mm film and 3d animation). featuring charlotte gainsbourg; music by chester french. see more of yi zhou's work Here

Watch | My Heart Laid Bare



Music video produced and directed by Chic & Artistic

Watch | Dan Black - Symphonies



Super cool pouf's by Christien Meindertsma



The Limits of Control is the new movie from filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers, Down by Law). The film is set in the striking and varied landscapes of contemporary Spain (both urban and otherwise). The location shoot there united the writer/director with acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle (In the Mood for Love, Paranoid Park).

Isaach De Bankolé stars in the lead role for Mr. Jarmusch; this marks the duos fourth collaboration over nearly two decades, following Night on Earth, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and Coffee and Cigarettes. The Limits of Control also features several other actors with whom Mr. Jarmusch has previously worked, including Alex Descas, John Hurt, Youki Kudoh, Bill Murray, and Tilda Swinton; and actors new to his films, including Hiam Abbass, Gael García Bernal, Paz De La Huerta, Jean-François Stévenin, and Luis Tosar.

The Limits of Control is the story of a mysterious loner (played by Mr. De Bankolé), a stranger, whose activities remain meticulously outside the law. He is in the process of completing a job, yet he trusts no one, and his objectives are not initially divulged.

His journey, paradoxically both intently focused and dreamlike, takes him not only across Spain but also through his own consciousness. Imdb

Watch | The Limits Of Control



This NIGHTSEEING Map is representative of many noteworthy lighting design projects viewable by the public in New York City. Guidebooks to New York City dutifully recount the names of buildings, the details of structural engineering feats, and the intricacies of construction materials. While it may not be unusual for a tourist to point to a notable skyline tower and evoke the architect, how many can supply the name of the lighting designer responsible for bringing that building to light? This map showcases NYC’s illuminated buildings and the lighting designers responsible, from architectural masterpieces to the cutting edge, hip and trendy...at night!

Whether you’re new to the city, a frequent visitor or a seasoned New Yorker, we hope you find this NIGHTSEEING Map to be a worthy companion as you explore the city. So, with guide in hand, enjoy New York City’s nightscapes from dusk to dawn. Ies Nyc


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Sylvain Chauveau Interview

Sylvain Chauveau is a critically acclaimed instrumental music and electronic music artist and composer from Bayonne, France.

Sylvain has done several albums on labels like Type records, Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier, Creative Sources and FatCat and his music is minimal, melodic compositions for piano, strings, winds and discreet electronic sounds, with silence as a musical element in itself.

He has played live worldwide and opened for Sigur Ros and played with Christian Fennesz , composes soundtracks for Sébastien Betbeder's movies, especially for the full-length film "Nuage" and also did scores for choreographers (Pierre Rigal / Aurélien Bory, Serge Ricci) and for performances with writers (Mark Z. Danielewski, Félicia Atkinson, Joris Lacoste) in France and abroad.

Sylvain Chauveau plays with the band Arca (with Joan Cambon), 0 (say "zero", with Stéphane Garin, Joël Merah and Maitane Sebastian) and On (with Steven Hess).



"Touching Down Lightly" is your new album with only one track of 47 minutes. I consider that musicians that create long music's are the ones who really know how to make music. Do you share my thought?

That's an interesting point of view, I clearly get what you mean. I used to consider that when a musician composed a very long work, he couldn't do it without a lot of heart and conviction. I thought, for example, Morton Feldman couldn't create a 3 or 4 hour piece without having a lot to put in it. Same for LaMonte Young's incredibly long drones, or an opera by Olivier Messiaen lasting 4 hours and a half. And I had this fantasy of composing a long piece myself. I never really did it, but this time I felt I needed something long, in just one part. "Touching Down Lightly" is improvised music. Anyway, the difference with composition is very slight. This kind of improv, very quiet and extremely slow, is like a composition in real time.

It's not a matter of knowing how to make music. It's more about the need: the need to make a piece that can last and to feel powerful enough to do that while you're performing. And this recording was made with heart and conviction.

How is all the creative process of making a original soundtrack for a movie?

I did that several times, mainly for the movies by french director Sébastien Betbeder. It's a difficult process. But when you like the film, like it happened every time with Sébastien's movies, it's also very inspiring. Usually I read the scenario before it's shot, and we talk about what the music could be. Then they shoot the film, and then they give me the first version, a work version. During this time, they start the editing. That's when I start properly composing, while watching the pictures. I record demos and Sébastien listens to them and tells me what he likes or dislikes, where he could use which music. And when he has all the themes he needs, I go to a recording studio and we play all this with the musicians, with the exact durations needed in the movie scenes.

Your music reminds me Yann Tiersen. What’s your biggest influence, such as musical and cultural level?

I can see the link with Yann Tiersen. Especially for one or two short pieces I've done on my early albums. I have liked very much his music, the first 3 or 4 albums he did. My music is different, more experimental, much slower and quieter. My biggest musical heroes in the past years were probably Morton Feldman and Bernhard Günter. But I don't think you can really hear it in my compositions, can you? I believe that lately I was more influenced by painters I like.

How can art, like abstract and minimalist painting influence your music?

Well, I don't really know. But for example, if I am a musician influenced by another musician, let's say Fennesz, then I will tend to make music that sounds like Fennesz. On the other hand, if I am a musician influenced by Mark Rothko and Philip Guston, my music won't sound like them because they didn't do music. The influence will create something else, a way to think about my work, to deal with forms.

You play several instruments. Do you define yourself as a one-man band?

I would not define myself as an instrument player. I am a kind of "music maker". I use instruments when I need them, usually the piano, the guitar (in the past), and now more and more the voice. But I'm not a performer. I don't really practice and try to learn any instrument. I just play with them, make very simple things. And when the composition is too complex to play, I make someone else perform it. And I never play strings or wind instruments: that's why I tend to have my own team of musicians (Ensemble Nocturne).



Do you believe in luck for success or hard work to achieve want you really want?

It depends on what you call success. Usually, we speak about the public recognition, how many records you sell, how many people come to your shows, how many articles you have in the musical newspapers. I don't know how this stuff comes. Maybe luck can be part of it: the luck to make the good thing at the good place, at the right moment.

As for achieving what you really want, that's what I'm interested in. But I'm not sure hard work is the really the key. It's certainly necessary at some point, but I still have the feeling that the key is the will, the violent envy to create your stuff. When the envy is too strong, it makes you do things, it guides you, it makes you work very hard sometimes, and it can open any door.

Is it Sylvain Chauveau a citizen of the world? Do you feel that way when you are on tour?

I like the idea of world citizenship. I'm not sure the borders on this planet are a good thing. But I can't forget my cultural background. Every time I'm travelling I realize how french I am. It's not that I'm proud or ashamed of it. It's just that I've spend 36 years of my life in France and that is my background, my language - though I can speak fluently English and I can understand a bit Spanish. Now I am happy to live outside of France, in Belgium. It's good to try to see things from outside after a while. It makes one understand the world from a slightly different angle. In the past two years I've been touring in different countries, different continents, and I could realize how the french point of view is reducing. And there is maybe one thing I'm ashamed of: our president is really awful. I really hope the left wing will find a decent leader in the future to beat him. France will lose a lot with Sarkozy as president.

You play with Arca, 0 and On. How do you get time to dedicate to all of these projects?

Most of my time is used for my personal, solo work. I play with Arca, On and 0 when we have the occasion to meet and play altogether. We usually plan working sessions. And I always love playing in those bands, with my good friends. It's all different styles. Arca is closer to rock, or post-rock, but now it's song-based. 0 is a quartet, very free, from experimental ideas to melodic pieces. And On is a duo of abstract improv (prepared guitar and percussion).

What are your future projects? Do you intend to go on a World Tour?

I have been working for two years on a new solo album. The title will be "Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)". It will be out in February 2010 on Type, on vinyl, Cd and download. My vocal will play an important part on it. It's gonna be a turning point in my music, a very important step for me. Very quiet and quite abstract, textures and atmospheres without proper melodies, but in a song format.

No world tour planned. I don't have any agent. I just wait and when promoters contact me to perform somewhere, I go. It all goes through my website: sylvain chauveau

Which is your foresight for the development of Ambient / Electronic / Experimental music in Europe?

It's very hard to tell. Today I can't see any movement lasting. Maybe the diffusion of music goes to fast, with the internet. The day a musician develops a new idea, it's immediately hearable all around the world and many other musicians use that new idea. Everything is immediately absorbed. There is no more identity from Europe or any country or continent. You can enjoy a new recording by a Lebanese improviser via internet, or the day after a Chinese percussion quartet. Where you are from doesn't count anymore, which is probably a good thing. What will make you different in the future is the ideas, because with computers we all have access to the same tools.

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Watch | Sylvain Chauveau - Never Let Me Down Again by [ Depeche Mode cover ]
Watch | Sylvain Chauveau - Nuage
Watch | Sylvain Chauveau - An Old Friend

Visbak Festival

Not much to say , a rainy sunday afternoon and a paled image of a once cool festival called Visbak Festival that moved from the Instuif to the Timboektoe & Aloha .
Only the Room Eleven had a little bit of art to warm up the afternoon.
Most fun in the afternoon was watching all that agitation of huge boats passing by and the dudes on the water having all the fun.

Hope next year its back in the Instuif .

News,Mailbox,Fracture,Brent Arnold,Two Door Cinema Club, Maxim Zhestkov,Yeah Yeah Yeahs,Ane Brun,Fischerspooner,Clp feat Kovas,The Auteurs,Kitsune

Wijk aan Zee

Exciting and busy times , been totally hectic and with no time to blog in the last two weeks.
Next October Audiopleasures will be 2 years, to celebrate this date im organizing a free and open door audiovisual weekend in Amsterdam , the event will take place in the Schuim , super cool place in the heart of this awesome city.
We will be screening the works of some of our favorite video artists as well as awesome motion graphics and animation.
There will be a series of interviews to know more about the work of these fabulous people and projects.
For the opening day we have already confirmed the screening of the awesome Advanced Beauty.

At this moment im on the also on the look for the bands who are interested to play in Amsterdam , the dates will be 9/10/11 October , fell free to mail me .

Soon in Audiopleasures a interview with French critically acclaimed instrumental music and electronic musician Sylvain Chauveau.

The Future is Bright :-)
Tiago



Lot's of free and cool stuff that landed on my mailbox in the past two weeks.

Mp3 | 2020 Soundsystem - Sliding Away [ Jonny D mix ]
Mp3 | Bibio - Ambivalence
Mp3 | Bodycode - What did you say
Mp3 | Brian Thomas - The Drop [ Kid Blue mix ]
Mp3 | Clark - Totems Flare
Mp3 | Dada Live - HappyHands & HappyFeet
Mp3 | Donny Hue and the Colors - Steps
Mp3 | Empire of the Sun - Walking on a Dream [ Lapse mix ]
Mp3 | John Roman - Wreck the Diskotek [ Barletta Edit ]
Mp3 | Lost Valentinos - Midnights [ Emperor Machine mix ]
Mp3 | NIYI - Amelia [ DJ Wool mix ]
Mp3 | Relentless - Mono Love
Mp3 | The Glass - Wanna Be Dancin' [ Radio Edit ]
Mp3 | The Honey Brothers - Demonstration
Mp3 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads will roll [ Foulhouse mix ]
Mp3 | Zwolf - Soundtrack to imaginary film
Mp3 | 8rolek - Dogss (Metalo-Disco)



Three masters of the electronic medium; Francisco Lopez, John Wall and John Oswald will create new work in collaboration with the ensemble. Each of their work is characterised by a distinctive style, and a unique approach to sound. The fact that these composers work largely in a medium outside traditional notated music makes this project particularly interesting. The extreme techniques used by these composers in their electronic work will be transformed into the acoustic sound of the ensemble.

Whoever has experienced the concerts of Spanish composer Francisco Lopez, knows that he has a preference for blindfolding the audience in order to experience his subsonic sound world on a more primary level. Over the last twenty five years he has developed an astonishing sonic universe, absolutely personal and iconoclastic, based on a profound listening of the world.

The British sample-composer John Wall makes collages from rock, jazz and classical music, where the source of the material is barely recognisable. Rather than focusing on the frantic juxtaposition of different sources, he fuses the snippets into organic flows of real music. The starting point for the collaboration with Ensemble MAE will be the work ‘Fractuur', which will be transformed and reworked into the colours of the ensemble through use of live electronics.

John Oswald is famous for his ‘Plunderphonics’, collages made entirely from other music, such as Michael Jackson, Elvis or Bruce Springsteen. He nearly always incorporates an electroacoustic element to his productions, focusing on metamorphosis and eclecticism realised from existing materials

Date: Amsterdam Tuesday June 9, 2009
Start time: 20:30

Paradiso Ensemble MAE



Brent Arnold (Brooklyn, NY, United States) , violoncelliste , composer & singer.
My music is experimental songs using amplified cello, voice, and effects (loops, distortion, etc). I incorporate sonic exploration, American & European folksong, improvisation, rock, South Asian and Middle Eastern melody, electronics, European classical, and more. My solo show has been compared to Imogen Heap, Andrew Bird, and Final Fantasy... but very original. More information is below.

I have worked with indie rockers Modest Mouse, Sleater-Kinney and Built to Spill, to electronicists Dj/rupture and Filastine, to pop artists like Lenny Kravitz, to experimentalists like Project W and Eyvind Kang and Degenerate Art Ensemble.

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Music video for Two Door Cinema Club. Director: Brian Philip Davis, Director of Photography / Grading: Ryan Kernaghan, Art Director: Anna McCaughtry

Watch | Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work



New fantastic work from Maxim Zhestkov

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new video for Yeah Yeah Yeah's off their new album "It's Blitz!"

Watch | Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads will roll


Ane Brun @ Daytrotter

In the entire canon of popular music’s many different forms of love songs, the best ones tend to come from the point of view of someone who just can’t make any fucking sense about why it went wrong. But, to be clear, this doesn’t include the songs that can sound ill-tempered or by someone holding a major gripe, someone unable to not feel completely and hopelessly wronged to a disturbing end. It’s the category that is filled by songs that still feel like the love that came before the fallout, of the time and the place where it all began, without malice and sullenness ever being a glimmer in either party’s flaming eyes. These remain as the tender declarations that they could have been in the middle of all the new romance, when time seemed to stand still and rush by like a dragster all at once. It’s the kind of spell that the blood gets put on it during this swooning process, where it’s hot and flooded with all of these odd new endorphins that take over the senses, start running the show and before anyone knows it, the plug’s been pulled and the comedown has already begun – and it’s in that moment of ill-configuration when these songs of loss and unabashed reflection are at their apex, when they are able to just get it all out there in an unprocessed, unedited plume.

Read more and download free Ane Brun session Here



The new music video for Fischerspooner's album Entertainment. Directed / Edited by Jason Cacioppo & Adam Dugas through Subvoyant. Director of photography Jason Cacioppo, imaged with RED ONE in New York City at the historic Performing Garage. DI color correction and RED services by Offhollywood, colorist Robbie Renfrow.

Watch | Fischerspooner - We Are Electric



After successful beta testing of NI Maschine CLP and New York rapper Kovas build a track from the scratch just using NI Urban Arsenal 2 - Kore Sound Pack. Watch the video and enjoy their global interaction.

Watch | Clp feat Kovas



The Auteurs is the fastest growing online destination for lovers of independent, foreign and classic film; an online cinema, anytime, anywhere. The Auteurs will give you the latest buzz from the Cannes Film Festival or a restored masterpiece personally chosen by Martin Scorsese (he's a member, too!). A social network that can let you find a visual gem that will definitely not be released in the local multiplex and allows you to find a girl in Tokyo who loves Kubrick (she actually exists, her name is Yuko and she’s into Wong Kar-Wai too…). The Auteurs invites you to watch, discover and discuss distinctive visionary films from all over the world.

Founded in 2007 by Efe Cakarel, The Auteurs is backed by Celluloid Dreams, The Criterion Collection and Costa Films, supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, and is the exclusive partner of The World Cinema Foundation. The Auteurs is based in Palo Alto, New York, Paris, and London.



Sounds like a great fun , i so wanna be there.