V/A
- Circuitfest
Last November Arts Industria hosted
Circuitfest, an evening of electro / industrial music with live performances by
Signal to Noise, Epoch, Assemblage 23, Black Dahlia,
and Sphere Lazza. Held at the Razor in Indianapolis, Circuitfest drew an
enormous crowd, but not everyone who would have liked to been there as able to
attend. Thus, Ken at Arts Industria edited together a video tape of the
evening, Circuitfest Video Document No. 1. 45 minutes in length,
this video shows the highlights of the evening, with live footage of all the
bands on the roster. First up was Ken’s own project, Signal to Noise. The
three StN songs on this tape, The Verge, Today (Like Any Other Day),
and Crushed show Ken on the keys and vocals, along with a live guitarist,
drummer and second synth player. Right away I realized that the studio versions
of the songs were dubbed over top of the live video. This is apparent through
out, especially in a few places where Ken is singing, but the words vocals do
not match his lips. Also, I listened carefully to the tracks, and soon realized
that even though there was a guitar player on the stage, there was no guitar in
the song. I changed my outlook on the tape and than began to watch it as if it
were a set of videos rather than a live performance. This seemed to work much
better. On Crushed, there are several snippets of film, some of which were
taken from the Odessa Steps sequence in the 1925 classic, Potemkin. Visually,
this was a grabber. Mahhole Vortex took the stage next, playing Superhuman
Machines. After that Black Dahlia played Quatrain, and Assemblage 23
played Graverobber. Lastly, fellow Floridians Sphere Lazza wrapped up
with a Dirge and Morpheus, both of which also contained snippets
of films. There are a few places on the video where the live audio was used,
one of those being Sphere Lazza’s mini opening song, Mr. Grinch (yes, from the
Dr. Seuss cartoon.) Overall the video is entertaining. In some places the video
effects became a bit overused, making it difficult to make out exactly what was
going on. Aside from that, it is well worth the $13 (which includes a CD too!)
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