Second live act by Tsukimono just started and my first thought was; “if Ljudbilden & Piloten could calm down all the beasts of the jungle, Tsukimono could enfuriate them in a touch of a key…” Tsukimono produced an esthetic “harmony of disfunctions”, aberrations and ellipsis marked an effective break with Ljudbilden & Piloten. aproximately 40 minutes of an auditive intensity that reached invasiveness, generating anguish and saturation sharp enough to produce intense aesthetic experiences. Tsukimono made noise, and noise was nice.

While Tsukimono was playing, Actop was producing live images that were as intense as the sounds; tinned products, war, consumism, urbanism, fragmentation, enclosure, saturation, stimulus, brands, real and imaginary ghosts in the city, complicated urban and mental architectures… and above all, a perfect bound between sounds and images that made people accept the show as a beautiful combination of talents.

After the ovation, the third part of RUGA® launched works by Glaznost, Lycette Bros, Jewboy Corporation, D-Fuse, Sascha Pohflepp and 310k. This last part of RUGA® was the perfect medicine to get the audience back on earth.

Finally, the last big live act, and the biggest surprise of all. Conduo Orchestra with live visuals by Boris Hoppek was the perfect bound between noise and harmony (in fact, Conduo Orquestra is formed by Kristofer from Ljudbilden & Piloten and Johan from Tsukimono) and the meeting of two opposite but complementary styles in a great perfomance, that produced in the public a state of full placidness. Boris Hoppek delivered is home made videos addapting the images and themes to the different tunes by Conduo Orquestra… Again, and as final act… the combination of these three talents made the approximate 40 minutes more intense and beautiful of the night.

The narrative that joined the three acts was probably an homage to the creative act by excellence: placenta, birth, self awareness, rupture, caos, deconstruction, happyness. Probably, people that experiment this vital process once and again, is earning new energy.

After the final live act, I asked Kristopher from Ljudbilden & Piloten about his music and how he combines all these elements to build his beautiful tunes, and he said: “Well…it’s kind of hard to explain the idea behind my music. Since I make music live and record it all into my loop-pedal I create music that I feel for at the moment, with either images in my head or just feelings in my heart.”

ROJO® celebrates his 4th anniversary with a super event where artists were always the main act, and were many friends came out to enjoy a new audiovisual experience confirming that there is still new things to be done and many artists to be discovered.

ROJO® 4th Anniversary Party
Date: June 15th, 2005
Open: 20:00 – 00:30
Place: Sala Apolo
Address: 113 Nou de la Rambla, 08004, Barcelona
Ticket: €5 (including one drink and a CD copy of ROJO®.tachan)
https://www.revista-rojo.com/apolo/