WATCH IMPATV’S MUSIC VIDEO FOR NEW QUJAKU SONG “​IN NEUTRAL​”

OUTLANDS ​experimental music touring​ ​network present an original audio-visual collaboration between Japanese psych band ​Qujaku​ and UK visual artists​ IMPATV​.

Developed during a residency in Japan in June 2019, this new production explores ideas of duality. Sound triggers light that in turn creates form via an amalgam of heavy, rhythmic ambience combined with visual projections, lighting and stage design. The resulting union will unfurl as an expansive spectacle to stimulate the senses.

Special guests ​group A ​open each night of the tour with a spectacular new AV set.

Ensō Sone ​expresses a freedom to create loudness, which marks the starting point for this exciting new collaboration. ​Further ideas from Japanese Zen practice—of oneness, natural opposites and equilibrium, the spirit of harmonious cooperation, the visible and the invisible, absolute fullness in emptiness, simplicity, completeness, and endlessness—are explored.

The tour includes special guests electronic, industrial act group A (now the solo project of Tommi Tokyo) who in turn collaborate with Berlin based visual artist ​DEAD SLOW AHEAD on a new multi-dimensional video universe, opening the gate to the inside-self, mixing slow ethereal abstract sounds with mind-shattering stroboscopic video pulsations, designed to challenge the observers’ expectations of AV work.

As with all OUTLANDS tours, there will be an accompanying workshop to shine a light on the artistic processes behind the production. ​IMPATV will host an experimental video workshop prior to the ENS​Õ SONE shows, exploring some of the techniques they use to create their videos and visual work, using a variety of new and outdated technologies. Participants will have their own experimental video work to take away with them. ​For more info.

OUTLANDS TOUR DATES:

Wed 6 Nov - Birmingham - Hare & Hounds
Thu 7 Nov - Milton Keynes Gallery
Fri 8 Nov - London - Corsica Studios
Sat 9 Nov - Cambridge Junction
Sun 10 Nov - Bexhill - De La Warr Pavilion
Mon 11 Nov - Bristol - Cube Cinema
Tue 12 Nov - Plymouth - KARST
Wed 13 Nov - Manchester - Fairfield Social Club
Thu 14 Nov - Bradford - Fuse

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

QUJAKU Formed in 2013, QUJAKU are a Japanese heavy psychedelic rock band based in Shizuoka. Their dark, heavy psychedelia is replete with rich distortion and feedback creating a unique decadent ambience. The apocalyptic sound they muster fuels an urge to release from the everyday to discover an ephemeral beauty behind the fierceness. The delicate yet strong leading voice, filled with destructive guitar, repetitive rhythmic percussion, and deep, bellowing bass, combines to create Qujaku's unique sound atmosphere to preoccupy the mind and enhance the experience.

IMPATV IMPATV is a collaborative video and stage production project from UK artists Isadora Darke and Jamie Robinson. Using new digital technologies and live mixing methods combined with costumes and stage design, they produce immersive installations, music videos, live streaming, and art and music productions across the realms of DIY, experimental and underground culture.

GROUP A - DEAD SLOW AHEAD group A present a mix of synth heavy minimal wave, avant noise, striking visuals and performance art that carries the very breath of early industrial pioneers such as Throbbing Gristle or Cabaret Voltaire. Their early shows came as a shock to most spectators, non-stop waves of experimental noise, intensely emotional poetry readings and nude live-paintings. As the violinist Sayaka goes on a long hiatus, group A is evolving, currently the solo project of Tommi Tokyo, she continues to collaborate with Berlin based visual artist DEAD SLOW AHEAD for live A/V performances. The work of DEAD SLOW AHEAD centres around erratic geometry, slow strobe destruction, and negation of the visual comfort zone.