VAMPLING / LIVE CINEMA PERFORMER

UPCOMING SHOWS

NOVEMBER 12 LEEDS INTL FILM FESTIVAL (with VIDEO LOVE)
NOVEMBER 13 MANCHESTER (TBA)

Matterlink began vampling (video sampling or "live-cinema") in 2000 with the group AE in Paris. He now performs both solo as well as with musicians and other artists. He is currently performing in a duo with Elmapi called VIDEO LOVE.

-VIDEO LOVE album/dvd in the works

"... a dangerously live, raw content-driven sampling from thousands of video fragments both shot and found. Retaining the original sound from the "vamples"[shots], he 'triggers affect pockets' (shots ) from a midi keyboard. Sometimes the vamples are played raw and sometimes Matterlink re-samples and transforms bits of the video and sound he plays, grabbing and altering loops, punctuating them with phrases as, he explains : '...narrative strains emerge and are submerged back into the chaos of sound and image.'" vampler.net

"Parmi les vamplers célèbres, les pionniers Negativland, Coldcut ou The Light Surgeons mais aussi Matterlink, spécialiste barré du cut-up vidéo, qui rejoue depuis son clavier, des plans de films en utilisant le potentiel sonore des images. Par exemple, des crissements de pneus de courses de voitures dans différents films, utilisés comme autant de notes." from France's daily paper- Liberation

THESE VIDEOS ARE POSTINGS FROM A FEW MATTERLINK SHOWS, COLLABORATIONS, and other video that has floated this way. THANKS to PECOSPECAN for UNLOADING his VIDS to MATTERLINK.