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PEOPLEText: Mayumi Kaneko

What do you think about the future of the visual music?

We believe it is the way forward. When DVD becomes more widespread and recordable there will be no need for just audio CD players. You may as well be watching the video at the same time, and obviously, the more synchronised it is, the more interesting it will be.

Where have you shown your works in London?

The onedotzero festival at the ICA have shown our stuff for the past two years, and we also performed both times. We have also shown stuff at Kentra, which is more of a film club.

The Futuresonic festival in Manchester recently showcased the whole album in video form. Cinefeel in London have also always showed our stuff, and they also showcased it at the recent reopening of the Pompidou centre in Paris. We have also had stuff shown at the Mirrorball festival and various other non-club events.

Is there any movements and matters you keep your eyes in London?

There are quite a lot of events like Halloween Society cropping up around London, which basically concentrate on film/video and music together. This is really interesting for us, since it is perfect for what we do, and also show the growing interest in audio-visual entertainment.

What do you think about Japan?

Both Stuart and Mark have been to Japan and both loved it. The club culture there seems to be more open to the experimental and visual side of clubs. There also seems to be a growing VJ culture in Japan which is very interesting. We are all fascinated by the technical side of Japan, and wish that Europe would catch up. We always hate waiting for the technologigal advances to filter through.

Are you going to go on a tour with the new album?

We aren’t really doing a set tour, but we are continuing to do gigs worldwide this year and next. We are hopefully coming to Japan in November, as part of a Ninja Tour over there. So we hope to see you soon !

Do you have any plans for the future?

We are hoping to get the DVD side of things going really strong, and to also develop our live show a lot more. We also want to start doing some more commercial work for television etc, since we need to earn some money !

We’d like to get into the Internet side of things more, as when it speeds up a bit, the possibilities for visuals and broadcasting over the web will be limitless.

Text: Mayumi Kaneko

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