Ek, do, tin, accha!: May 2009

Sunday, May 3, 2009

First montage of India finished

We have finisheda short version of the Live Cinema Project.

Live Cinema is mixing in extra video and audio layers during projection. In this case a documentary about the Camel Fair at Pushkar, India. By manipulating the image and sound live, extra layers come into play and a dreamy quality is brought into the viewing experience.

Seb and Maarten went to Pushkar, India to witness and record the Pushkar Camel Fair. Having heard many stories about it and with high hopes of meeting folk musicians they set out. This video is a view of that first encounter.

This montage is the base track, so without the extra layers (yet). All the audio in this film is recorded on location. Enjoy!

Live Cinema: Pushkar Camel Fair V 1 from IndiVisuals on Vimeo.

But why, how and what? here iz zee plan:

We started to plan this trip to India a while back as part of backpacking our way around and at the same time do some projects that could mash our interests together. Seb keeps himself busy with writing articles and the entries here and also takes care of recording music of live musicians, field recordings and tapping radio for unheard sounds. Maarten is a freelance VJ by profession and takes care of everything visual, filming whatever scenes he can for the projects or even improvises small side projects as the images and scenery present itself to us.

The projects that we had in mind before setting off, are these:

*During 2 months, filming a documentary about nomadic/tribal musicians in Rajasthan; the instrument makers, their teachings, their way of every day living and lastly their music performances.

*Recording nomadic/tribal musicians in Rajasthan, either on streets or other settings.

*Filming and recording sounds and in the Punjab region (both India & Pakistan) during 1 month, documenting everything we can from street scenery, radio and tv. Kinda like a cultural collage of current Punjab times as it were.

Whether we can manage all/some of the above....who knows... but we sure hope to. As new idea's have been popping up, we're not starved for inspiration since we're here. :)

We try do this all with our own dusty wallet, since we are not funded by a broadcast group, record label or third party. It keeps us free to pursue whatever idea we like to, but on the other hand we do not have much financial backup either.

This isn't a desperate shout for money, but if you wish to support us with whatever donation you feel like to aid our projects, you can!

Just so you know; we will use the donations solely for funding the projects, like materials for technical use or musicians or middle men that we need to pay for their work and so on.

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Sunday, May 3, 2009

First montage of India finished

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