4shrooms

andi on oils, oils on tent

back from Symposion Lindabrunn and our first cut of Lux Ludica.  I’m attempting to upload some imagery, but failing dismally, it seems that TCP of greater that 80k is now banned across the english channel. Fixed, the problem was closer to me than I thought… now uploaded in large format only.  (I still have no way to create small images from the big ones.)

The story was that we converged — almost all the 4shroomies and some friends, extras and cameras — on Symposion Lindabrunn to try out our ideas for a weekend “event”.  Now that we have proven the basic idea, the work begins on making it somewhat more serious … next year!

Luckily we got some support from Angewandte who purchased a huge tent for such productions.  This arrived the day before us, so we got to put it up in its virginal near-white state.  As it was some 10m x 5m, it took up almost all of the floor space in the ampitheatro!  From the outside, it made for a very nice screen, and the inside was just too chill-out for words.

Also, we included a couple of friends, Dominic and his mate (name?) who brought along 25 slide projectors :-~ We like enthusiasm, but that’s a first!  It also caused lots of scrurrying around for extra power.  Luckily again, the Lindabrunn place has scads of power:  3 x 3 phase circuits, and we used them all.

crystal, colours, trick lens and lazy susan!

Which makes for a new record for 4shrooms:  4×16mm, 4xOHP, 5xDias and with the 15 of Dominic, we are up to 28 projectors.  A tough challenge.

Shroomies, get your photos up there…. Mine were not that grand as I was doing other things.

Thanks to Gurter, Johana, Kurt for hosting us.  Thanks to Pablo and Matthias for video support!  Next year, with a vengeance!

More projections than Sigmund Freud’s waiting room! We had a lucky 13 beams in all, across both sides of the Radowan hall in Yppenplatz. Including our new, tiny €1 two-slide antique.

Soho also saw for the first time ever all 8 shroomies on performance, and for the second night, we welcomed as special guest artist Marc a.k.a Deep Fjord.

Veteran shroomie Ruth now goes on sabbatical to a Peruvian alpine village to contemplate how the Austrians projected their spoor across the planet. She will be back at the end of the year, hopefully, elsewise we have to mount a rescue operation.

Call to all shroomies, do we have photos of LifeBall?

Rumours that we made the national news are still unconfirmed, but as one wit observed, a 30 second spot still leaves us 14 and a half minutes of fame in the bank account.

Notable highlights: a wonderful stage put us in a commanding position, and our two beamers saved the show. Our longest performance ever! Projectors were on by 21:00 and the last one was turned off on the dot at 05:00 … We cleared the building in 30 minutes, and were home and cracking the vodka by 06:00.

A good performance at the re.sonance closing night!

For some reason that cannot be explained by fun visuals, loyal crowd and jam-sandwich sound, the performance upstairs at the ragnarhof drew most of the crowd upstairs! Okeydokey, wasn’t our fault guys, perhaps matthias’s bass boxes just weren’t big enough

The show had some flaws… layout of the equipment meant that the crowd weren’t drawn to the front. We started somewhat chaotically, and never quite built up a climax.

On the other hand, it ran on for 3 hours and nobody complained…. For ambience, it rated 5 exploding stars. Nice one, and it gives food for thought as we rush into the traditional dieting season known as xmas.