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15 March 2025
Extratonal Special #4.2 – Illustration Connections
20:30-23:00 | Tickets!doors open 20:00
Not all the connections between performance and illustration have yet been fully explored. On the occasion of the Rotterdam Illustration Festival, the Platform for Extratonality has curated an evening to bring us closer to this connection. Three acts will show the intersections of these two fields. The evening will be opened with the results of the Graphic Notation Workshop that took place earlier that day.
Happy Fuji News is a surrealistic dive into the world of apps, geology, tourism, love and more, done in a joyously performed proto-cinematic way. It is a live-edited "movie" made out of 201 woodcuts, written, carved and printed by Eric Kinny over the course of 2016 - 2022. Prints are shown and thrown at the rhythm of an audio soundtrack with MIDI guitar music by Raphaël Desmarets and characters voices by McCloud Zicmuse, Siet Phorae, Molly Rex, Ma Clément, Alice Perez & Joey Wright, for a total length of 30min. The story follows the unlikely story of a touristic guide on the foothills of Mt Fuji in Japan, trying to make sense of life after facing harsh Tripadvisor reviews of the mountain.
interstellar is a temporary shared practice collectively brought to life by video artist Video Boy, illustrator Jacco Jansen and musician Pietro Frigato. It spawns from their desire to tell stories together and to appropriate abandoned non-spaces by turning them into places of belonging and self-expression. Together,
interstellar tells stories of entangled pasts, presents, and futures—stories that are of desire, hope, and love. It embeds and unfolds these stories into the crevices left behind and unseen. There is hope, and it blossoms in unexpected places; there is resistance, and it sprouts in the cracks. There is belonging and togetherness, and it is here and now — not in the future, nor in the past, not in the big and shiny halls. The beings interacting in this suspended space/time capsule, stirring together a cauldron of different media —a mix of obsolete and advanced technologies — celebrate the mere act of collective crafting as a sacred practice.
DRW is a lightweight web app where participants can contribute quick and gestural drawings transformed into vector graphics for live coding performances. DRW, accessible from smartphones, empowers audiences to directly influence the visuals in real-time. This system has been utilized in live concerts, where audience members' responses to the music in the form of drawings become part of the visual experience. DRW is in active development by Kamo and Chae. It will be accompanied musically by Logosamphia! The alter ego of Iranian/Dutch audio artist Sadra Hemati who has released more than 15 albums on various international labels. He is a frequently booked artist at home and abroad. His live sets are energetic, chaotic and contain homemade instruments, questionable samples and various pieces of fruit with which he makes music.
Happy Fuji News is a surrealistic dive into the world of apps, geology, tourism, love and more, done in a joyously performed proto-cinematic way. It is a live-edited "movie" made out of 201 woodcuts, written, carved and printed by Eric Kinny over the course of 2016 - 2022. Prints are shown and thrown at the rhythm of an audio soundtrack with MIDI guitar music by Raphaël Desmarets and characters voices by McCloud Zicmuse, Siet Phorae, Molly Rex, Ma Clément, Alice Perez & Joey Wright, for a total length of 30min. The story follows the unlikely story of a touristic guide on the foothills of Mt Fuji in Japan, trying to make sense of life after facing harsh Tripadvisor reviews of the mountain.
interstellar is a temporary shared practice collectively brought to life by video artist Video Boy, illustrator Jacco Jansen and musician Pietro Frigato. It spawns from their desire to tell stories together and to appropriate abandoned non-spaces by turning them into places of belonging and self-expression. Together,
interstellar tells stories of entangled pasts, presents, and futures—stories that are of desire, hope, and love. It embeds and unfolds these stories into the crevices left behind and unseen. There is hope, and it blossoms in unexpected places; there is resistance, and it sprouts in the cracks. There is belonging and togetherness, and it is here and now — not in the future, nor in the past, not in the big and shiny halls. The beings interacting in this suspended space/time capsule, stirring together a cauldron of different media —a mix of obsolete and advanced technologies — celebrate the mere act of collective crafting as a sacred practice.
DRW is a lightweight web app where participants can contribute quick and gestural drawings transformed into vector graphics for live coding performances. DRW, accessible from smartphones, empowers audiences to directly influence the visuals in real-time. This system has been utilized in live concerts, where audience members' responses to the music in the form of drawings become part of the visual experience. DRW is in active development by Kamo and Chae. It will be accompanied musically by Logosamphia! The alter ego of Iranian/Dutch audio artist Sadra Hemati who has released more than 15 albums on various international labels. He is a frequently booked artist at home and abroad. His live sets are energetic, chaotic and contain homemade instruments, questionable samples and various pieces of fruit with which he makes music.
