Here, despite the visuals (video footage of a beach), the majority of the room were lying on the floor, heads supported by jumpers and coats to enjoy the excellent acoustics of this room and Cordero’s artistry. Next up was a live performance from David Cordero in the CCCB theatre, can only be described as a transcendental trip. Though we weren’t disappointed with the replacement, Lanoche (‘the night’ in Spanish) from vinyl-only record label, So Unreal (Madrid) created an interesting fusion between house and techno, which, accompanied by some impressive video footage from In da Cratz, made for a captivating audiovisual performance. Sadly for the organisers of Lapsus, one of their headliners, Karen Gwyer was cancelled at the last minute (we didn’t manage to find out why exactly). I felt that I had to do quite a lot of leg-work myself to work out who exactly F-On & Urtzi are, but fortunately there’s an excellent article by soundofthought, which explains the whole artistic project in great detail. If there’s one thing I would like to suggest for the next edition it would be a little more accessible information on each of the artists, with more regular social media updates. Never before has an audiovisual performance given me such a strong desire to travel before and was reminiscent of Filastine’s visual performance with street scenes of Barcelona’s Raval neighbourhood.į-On & Urtzi, Spain, Visuals – In da Cratz Between them, they provided an excellent combination of styles in order to adapt to each and every one of the artists performing in the central hall, with everything from more abstract effects through to some incredible city travel shots filmed in Hong Kong, including Wang Chai Station. In da cratz is an artistic duo formed by Miki Arregui (Videocratz) and David Sala (Lectrovision) who filled our eyes with a wide range of stimulating live video performance throughout our time at Lapsus on Saturday. Each location was equally assigned with a visual counterpart, with the festival relying on 3 big local visual artists to support the audio pros: In da cratz, Mau Morgó and Slurp TV. The main hall was well allocated to the more up tempo techno artists with more dancable sets such as the likes of F-On & Urtzi, and Lanoche, whereas the theatre was quite rightly reserved for more experimental sounds, with many spectators lying on the floor to enjoy the ambience. The festival venue was divided very well, with three main spaces that consistently offered similar personalities throughout the day: the main hall, theatre and outside space.
#The art of the vj and live visuals full
Unfortunately we weren’t able to last the full 12 hours of the festival (one of the down sides of organising an all-dayer) but we think we probably caught some of the best bits. Unsure of what to expect for this 3 rd edition of the festival, we went armed with camera to see what audiovisual treats we could find. Lapsus consists of three branches of musical activity including Lapsus Radio, record label, Lapsus Records and annual festival held at the Centre of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona (CCCB). This year Audiovisual City attended the festival LAPSUS in Barcelona for the first time to check out the audiovisual offerings (and a little bit of the music too).
Photographic Reportage and Review, by Hayley Cantor ( VJ AYL)
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