KUVAPTUKI

The DVD is finally out.


"A complete and total 38 minute mind fuck. Highly recommended, unless you suffer from epilepsy. "--
--Kendoka





Please pick it up at

amazon.co.uk

Boomkat



What began as a Documentary over time evolved into a three film "multi angle" with footage of pan sonic carefully crafting their live sound, synchronized with imagery described as ranging from terrorizing, minimal beauty to locations devoid of venue size or audience.

audio 38 minutes
video 38 minutes x 3

Total video 114 minutes + one hidden extra








BOOMKAT writes, "American digital artist Edward Quist hooked up with the mighty Pan Sonic for this, their first ever DVD release, developing accompanying imagery for the duo's monumental experiments in synthesis.
The main feature is the forty-minute audiovisual album dating back to 1999, combining Quist's cathode ray visions with Pan Sonic's uncompromising electronic sound world.
The first thing you'll notice is just how well the two elements fit together: the black and white abstraction of the film ties into the extremes of the music - it's at once grounded in principals of self-restriction and minimalism but always encroaches on overwhelming the viewer/listener.

In fact, sufferers of photo sensitive epilepsy will need to steer clear: in its more frantic moments the strobing can be fairly terrorising, even hypnotic.
Amongst the flashes of raw electricity and grainy waveforms you might find yourself surprised by the emergence of actual live performance footage from Vainio and Vaisanen, whose furtive knob turning looks positively surgical, in a setting that's somewhere between CCTV and a phantom broadcast from some distant, Hebridean outpost with a faulty transmitter.

The music is predictably wonderful, revisiting the advanced sound designs of a time around Pansonic's album, A.
The combined effect of the viewing and listening experience might be compared to an analogue approximation of Ryoji Ikeda's Formula DVD, albeit with wraith-like human shapes occasionally rising from the tangled circuitry, reminding you that this is in fact a tour documentary at heart.
Highly recommended."



EARPLUG MAGAZINE WRITES Directed by Edward Quist and co-produced by Scissor Sisters' Derek Gruen (aka Del Marquis), Kuvaputki began as a documentary about Pan Sonic's famously immersive live shows.

As a result, "a number of motion graphics were developed that would sync with the live documented sound and performance," says Quist. "From there, the idea evolved much further to include a kind of purely audio-visual narrative that included characters and suggests [the] inner life [that] goes on in a TV, as living energy. The various stages of the cathode process visually unfold." That process plays out across three tracks shot between New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Finland, each accessible in real-time as a discrete viewing angle. The structure of the three simultaneous angles — which spin live footage into ghostly projections — is such that images are layered "so that one might be adding, reducing, or revealing elements of the layers"