PROJECT INFO

Mimaku Spldat & MFO present "Shattered Society"


Greifswald 2005, St. Marien Church
Greifswald 2005, St. Marien Church Foto: Plus.Eins

The three screens at St. Marien
The three screens at St. Marien Foto: Plus.Eins

In front of the pastor's pulpit
In front of the pastor's pulpit Foto: Plus.Eins

In front of the pastor's pulpit
Performing in Leipzig at AudiovisuaLE, 2006 Foto: Michael Ehritt

This project is a collaboration between Mimaku Spldat, a Berlin based musician, and MFO, a video artist from Leipzig. It is an audio-visual reflection of today's world, a reflection of our contemporary, post industrial society. Excerpts from everyday life are taken, layered and used as pattern, thus exposing some details and blinding out some others, opening up new perspectives on things. Although this reflection of the world is one by a obfuscating mirror, it has no predefined meaning. It's more an expression of feelings that arise when looking at modern society.
The sound consists of complex layers of twisted sampling, flavoured with harsh breaks and heavy basses. It is created by Mimaku Spldat, who produces electronic music since about six years and had several releases on i.e. Phantomnoise Rec. or Invasion Wreck Chords.
The visuals come from MFO, an artist with five years of live experience. His visuals are collages of photo/film clippings and vector art - cut, broken, than glued together to form something new and very own.
Combined together the audio-visual melange creates a hysteric and tense, however stimulating atmosphere. It's rising full of tension, exploding in light, than taking a rest in downtempo to start again with hidden noises.


„Shattered Society“ could be seen at:

2005, june – GrIStuF Festival – Greifswald, St. Marien Church
2005, october – Interlude to Alec Empire – Conne Island, Leipzig
2006, april – Pixelfestival – ZMF, Berlin
2006, june – AudiovisuaLE – UTConnewitz, Leipzig



To say it clearly, the following demo shows a recorded live set! All you hear and see is arranged live and in real time!
Download the demos here. (Use right-click than "save file as...")

The full demo // DivX format // 176mb
The full demo // WindowsMedia // 143mb

4min excerpt as teaser // DivX format // 40mb
4min excerpt as teaser // WindowsMedia // 19mb

In order to watch the DivX videos, you need the codec  freely downloadable here.



You can also download  the press packet (10mb)  containing photos & texts.

THE ARTISTS

MIMAKU SPLDAT (audio)


Mimaku Spldat
Felix Berger aka Mimaku Spldat
Felix Berger, known as "Mimaku Spldat", produces electronic music since 1999. After playing drums in the late 90s, Jungle and Hardcore Breakbeat introduced and immediately infected him with a harder sampling based sound.
The tracks are dominated by harsh breaks, heavy basses and complex layers of twisted sampling.
Starting out with Industrial like Amiga Breakcore, he now keeps his tracks unpredictable and less-repetitive-as-possible. Dark Jungle elements melt down into a somehow hysteric basic atmosphere, that now and then drifts off into fun moments of grotesque humour.
His debut 12" was released on Phantomnoise Records, which was chosen for "Label of the month" by John Peel in 2004. Peel who played several in his last radio shows called Mimaku Spldat's music "extraordinary".

Releases: The origin of the vomitory / Trash Tapes 34
Whatever I want EP / Phantomnoise 008
V.A. – Noizze: Just do it! / Invasion Wreck Chords 19
V.A. – The scariest weapon Vol.1 / Invasion Wreck Chords 23
V.A. – Mélaina Cholé Remix EP / Phantomnoise 011

Live sets in Berlin, Vienna, Graz, Ghent, Leipzig … more to come.

Additional infos can be found on www.mimaku.info.

MFO (video)


MFO
Marcel Weber aka MFO
Marcel Weber is "MFO", a Leipzig based video artist, who is making visuals live in clubs, on festivals and concerts since about 5 years now. He started out with abstract, realtime build, generative vector graphics. Fluently he changed his style from these synthetic pictures to today's form of a frag- mentary, playful approach to work with pictures.
His influence and starting material is the real world, no designer dreams out of the computer. Greyed architecture, systematically guided human traffic, the pulse of public life – broken down to its elementary building blocks - get cut, than glued together to form something new and very own. In constant motion these pieces form a new whole and show a fascinating, different perspective in symbiosis with the music.

Beside events in Berlin, Cologne, Leipzig, Dresden and Jena, MFOs visuals could be seen on many festivals and tours in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Poland and Romania. Regularly video shows have been done for acts from the Leipzig based Labels Phantomnoise (MFO accompanied the tour 2003) and Alphacut, also Freude-Am-Tanzen Recordings and Moon Harbour Rec.

For further info check MFOs artist info page.