ELECTRA plays 'The Briefcase' by Vinex; Live broadcast, VPRO TV

Live broadcast, VPRO Television (Dutch National Television)
ELECTRA performs 'De Aktetas' (The Briefcase) in the show Vrije Geluiden.
film & music by Vinex Productions: Michiel van Dijk, music; Sjeng Schupp, animation

ELECTRA: Monica Germino, violin/electric violin; Tatiana Koleva, percussion/marimba, Michaela Riener, voice/keyboard; Susanna Borsch, recorder/electronics

This film and more is available on ELECTRA's CD/DVD, ABLE TO BE (Attacca Records). To order, email: orders(at)electranewmusic.com or go to Amazon.com

from the liner notes by Anthonly Fiumara:
Vinex stands for Vierde Nota Ruimtelijke Ordening Extra, a notation of the ministry for housing, spatial scheduling, and environment management in the Netherlands. Large outer city areas were pointed out in this notation for massive new housing development (source: Wikipedia). Vinex Productions, however, founded in 2002, stands for Sjeng Schupp and Michiel van Dijk. Together they create music-animation films, in which Sjeng Schupp does the animation and Michiel van Dijk writes the music. Schupp and van Dijk develop the images and sounds simultaneously so that a sound can react to an image, and vice versa. The result of this way of working is a perfect fit of image and music, in which Escher-like repetitions, metamorphoses, and imaginary vanishing points go hand-in-hand with a good dose of humor. [dvd] De Aktetas (The Briefcase, 2005) sports a subtitle which could easily fit one of Sophocles tragedies: An Act Of God Which Got Out Of Hand. The film, however, is more of a shortened version of the creation, in which the name of the Dutch show host Sjors Fröhlich (George Fröhlich in the Vinex video) plays a bizarre role; on top of music which chugs along pleasantly throughout the Vinex universe. The mysterious lyrics seem, even for Vinex themselves, a bit Greek. In any case, The Briefcase proves that the ELECTRA women can just as easily serve a lighter muse.

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