Projects
The world of PIKU
Audiovisual performance by developed by Visual Systeemi and Tuomas Toivonen for Premiere at PixelAche 2005.
The world of PIKU is a collaborative live mix of videos and sounds from select times, places and realities. Performed with sounds from Mesak/Tatu Metsetähti of Mr Velcro Fastener at the Ultrasound Festival in Huddersfield in november 2005.
Some pics to be found here
The world of PIKU is supported by AVEK
Keksi
Keksi was Visual Systeemi’s pioneering Video design project, which was commissioned by Bar Päiväkoti in Turku.
The concept of the project was to create for the bar’s weekly saturday club called Keksi, a unique moving image design, based on the themes of inventiveness and playfulness.
The whole project included a production of a DVD that was playable by itself, not needing a VJ to be present, and live performances with selected music artists. The project was a sucess but clearly showed the distinction between live Vj’d club visuals and background / decorative style self-sufficient-DVD-visuals.
Visual Systeemi Mix Sessions
Visual Systeemi Mix Sessions was an audiovisual clubbing experience. Each night had a theme and was designed to be a coherent mix of music and visuals with experiments in non-linear and fractioned storytelling in club context.
The club also aimed the dialogue between DJ’s and VJ’s to be more active and to produce new meanings out of the pre-planned but still mostly random mixes of music and image.
All the nights up to this day were held at the wonderful Bar Päiväkoti.
Our 7 volumes featured music from(in order of appereance: Burdock, Moleman, LBJ, Dj Ionic, Ricardo and Rücker(Cool Cappucino), Halo, dRS, Eugene Fatal and Kicki Love Galore, Indigo, Mekaanikko,Kuusumun Profeetta, ACID KINGS, Mesak and Tuomas Toivonen. Mix Sessions the club is now on a indefinite break but might rise in a new and unexpected form from the shallow grave that it is now lying in… Keep your eyes open!
Video Lounge
VideoLounge is a slow, extended audio/visual performance. An endless stream of livemixed artvideo, documentary, internetvideo, shortfilm, live and recorded vj sets are projected. DJ’s are present and the sound of the visual material is sometimes mixed with music and sometimes showed in its original form.
More than a screening, VideoLounge is a social event, where Visual Systeemi wants to show a new way of consuming visual material and spend time with your friends. A videolounge has no begining and no end, it is to be percived as a constant stream.
Even though each VideoLounge revolves loosly around a theme, a main feature is the unexpected and you never know where the twists and turns of the mix might take you!
Ritual Systeemi
Ritual Systeemi was a live-performance video / animation work done for the Night of the arts in Turku 2003 in collaboration with the Wäinö Aaltosen Museum. The output was projected onto the outer wall of the Museum and was performed from the sidewalk between the Aura River and the museum.
Ritual Systeemi contained no sound effects or music. The sounds of the city on the performance location provided the needed soundtrack for the visual artists.
The performance was repeated 6 times during the course of the night. We mixed pre-made video and animation clips with live-cam material from a special mobile altar that we had devised beforehand. Each performance was different in tempo and mixing style. One of the ideas of the project was to show the development of
the live generated visuals; how a piece can change during the course of its lifetime and how early stages of work are also valid pieces demonstrating the process of the work.
The piece evolved around the theme of rituals; what are modern rituals and where do we see them? The starting point for the project was rituals in modern (post-modern?) society that for the most part are conducted without the being aware of their ritualistic qualities. The aim was to visualise these processes in ritualised way.
The world of PIKU A/V setup in Kiasma
The world of PIKU performance in Kiasma theatre at Pixelache 2005
The world of PIKU A/V setup at UltraSound, England