... the live set from Atomic Tour Project (Luis Cardoso-vídeo, Pedro Gil - Laptop/keyboards, João Oliveira - guitar).
After several weeks trying to do something together with DJ João Maria and Mary B (Plano A), suddenly two events in a week. The first one took place in Lisbon's old central railway station (presently under reconstruction) and hosted more than 2.000 people.
It was the Christmas Party for the Deloitte Consulting Group and business partners and it was packed with young crazy people. 
MC Jeff and the warm sax of Heather (singing at the photo!) and the party ended at 5am with the disco grooves from João Maria. 
For the first time I had the chance to try a brand new LED floor mosaic (see picture), with an incredible resolution especially with motion graphics. It works very well when the dance floor is empty though. With people dancing on it, nobody sees it :-) 
The other one was also a Christmas Party for 150 "ativists", this time in a disco near Fatima. Kayene is by far one of the best discos I've worked on, with an incredible DJ booth with the best technical material you could ask for.
Few but good, that was the motto until 4am, when the last bus headed back to the hotel.
Well, the two crazy-long weekend in the UK is finally over. 
The Skyliner stage welcomed the power of top quality house-music with a very good stage performance and lighting production. The visual part could have been much better (could someone please explain me the point of having two plasmas 4m high and two projection screens 16:9 vertically placed, obviously cutting the image???). 
Nevertheless, the whole setup worked as a whole, and the people kept gathering more and more as time passed by until the end of the show, round 2h30.
The concept of the festival is very good, as it brings to life a dorment summer resort, attracting young people from all over England for a crazy event that spreads along 6 different places/stages with different kinds of music. 
This last weekend only, featured more than 70 artists and ended at 6 am with a massive performance by DJ AmberD.
Videomorphose did the giant wall visuals for the last part of the launch party of Rock in Rio-Lisboa that took place last week at the Convento do Beato. It was a great experience working together with true professionals and see in action the giant marketing machine of the world's biggest music festival.
The party was aimed to VIPs only and resumed to a small presentation of Rock in Rio goals as far as environment protection and "the better world" motto is concerned.
It was also a way of presenting next year's sponsors to their partners and institutional targets.
Videomorphose prepared some stuff oriented to the 60's, as the after party music was assured by DJ Piti, the resident DJ of Ibiza Pacha's theme parties "Flower Power". It was kind of a revival journey into soul, funky and rock that put everyone's to dance until late 3 am...
Pioneer officially took the wraps off the SVM-1000, the first integrated 4-Channel audio and video DVJ mixer. Basically they took their DJM-800 mixer, broke it in half, stuck a huge color 11 inch touchscreen in the middle and welded the whole thing together. The SVM-1000 allows DJs to mix both audio and video elements into their performance in perfect sync.
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We are once again clear to go to the next edition of Numero-Projecta-International Festival for Multimedia Arts, Cinema and Music.Wednesday, Nov 8th @ Centro Cultural O Século
23h00 Kemika Fields (live AV- PT)
23h45 Mista Jules (live - PT)
00h30 Plagia (live - PT)
01h00 Hedonic2 (DJ set - PT)
Friday, Nov 9th @ Cinema S.Jorge
21h00 Photonz (live AV - PT)
22h15 Rafael Toral (live AV - PT)
23h00 Cluster (live AV - DE)
00h15 Frank Bretschneider (live AV - DE)
01h00 No-domain (live AV - ES)
Saturday, Nov 10th @ Cinema S.Jorge
21h00 Atomic Tour Project (film-concert - PT) - ÚLTIMA HORA: CANCELADO!
22h15 Ikue Mori (film-concert "Maya Derren" - JP)
23h00 Oriol Rossell (live AV - ES)
00h15 D-Fuse (live AV - UK)
01h00 Sutekh (live AV - USA
Going to Berlin to do this premiére was really an outstanding experience. We all knew Berlin, but everytime we go there the city seems to have gone through some kind of metamorphosis.
Places become different as they continually restore fassades and build new architectonic icons, art is proudly everywhere and youth people seem to have taken possession of the city.
We presented the film-concert "A Canção de Lisboa" at the EisZeit Kino, a small two-room cinema that welcomed during this last few days the Portuguese Festival. This was a great chance to show the most typical portuguese of all times in a completely new context.
The movie was reduced in about 30m and a whole new and original soundtrack was made by Pedro Gil (laptop/keyboards) and João Oliveira (guitar). The result was a 1h10 performance that weaved between the classical movie song and the beat-driven dance music (with real-time guitar riffs and keyboard solos). The movie was also altered real-time with background colors and vector animation. There was some flaws, of course, but this experience has showed us that this project is different and still has a long way to go.
Just a small photo from the saturday night gig at the MusicBox (downtown Lisboa), together with DJ Miguel Rendeiro.
...concert from Erik Truffaz 4tet yesterday at the Lux Jazz Sessions, where he presented the new album "Arkhangelsk". With Patrick Muller on piano/rhodes, Christophe Chambet on the bass and a very versatile Marc Erbetta on drums.
I just got to know Cindi Drennan as one important visual artist from Australia. In her website I found these beautiful photos from her participation in the 2006 edition of "Sculpture in the Vineyards" art meeting, where she presented her new work - Voice of Light created especially for St Michaels Catholic Church. 
Cindi fuses projection, illustration and painting to enlighten - combining projected images with live light painting, she will transform and embellish the church. Imagery fuses illumination drawing on ancient medieval iconography, with contemporary theosophical nuances. St Michaels is situated in Wollombi, somewhere in the giant Australia...
Well, I couldn't just come back to Lisbon from my vacation is Sagres without taking out all the video gear and do something with it...
The proposal was well received (of course!) and I just had guaranteed my vodkas mixed with natural apple juice for the rest of the night.
The plasma TV was to be shut off and the lighting reduced to the minimum.
The effect was really great, hopefully gave them some ideas to bring artistic video to the place (and not only surf videos on the plasma screen!) and the customers were happy. I got happily drunk that night :-)
On my way to Algarve, on vacation, I get this phone call from DJ China, a well known DJ southern Portugal, asking me if I was available to do a gig with his new project in Albufeira Town Square. "Hell yes, man, I sent you and Samanta an e-mail teasing you about this a few weeks ago!". Well, we met so that I could hear the new sounds coming up in the new CD and prepare some stuff.
Tó Neto, one of the early portuguese electronic musicians, and his wife, as well as Samanta Ray, a beautiful australian singer/performer with a serious talent, that I met by chance one month before on myspace and to whom I sent the teasing e-mail... 
The stage was mounted on the middle of the town square, the entrance was free, the place was almost packed and we had a great time.
The 3 days we spent in Terceira, Azores, were awesome. The weather was ok, the place of the festival was great and the organization was really fantastic (Miguel, Paulo, Bruno e Rui). When we got there we met a local girlfriend who introduced us to the whole festival people. We were at home (thanks Natacha!).
We didn't take any beamers with us, so the empty projection surface at the chill out area was to stay that way until the end of the festival. And what a shame, as the spot was unique, the music great (20h/day?) and the only thing missing was a nice visual on the surrounding forest. Well, next time... 
The main stage welcomed a couple of new local bands, from rock-covers to metal originals. We only performed when the DJs took place, normally around midnight. We had a 6x4 screen next to the stage and a 5.000L beamer. If we have the chance next year, this is definetely something to upgrade (beamers location, stage design and light vs video interaction).
Finally, let me point out the very good company of some Kussondulola musicians, the warm water of Azores, the beautiful women with great spirit and energy, the grilled "lapas" and all crew members from the Festival, especially Soraia.
Well, this was a perfect Allgarve working-weekend. I took my windsurf board with me and had the greatest windy afternoon for a long time.
At sunset I headed to the Fábrica da Cerveja in Faro and set my rig up. The place was beautifully decorated and all I can say is that it was a real pleasure working with the Desafio Global crew and Alfasom technicians.
My projections were being beamed to a giant wall with a 18.000 L Barco. More than enough, considering the distance. Behind us was a 4x3 LED wall with wacky effects.
I started beaming my visuals together with DJ António Alves , a young dj and producer from Porto, who brought his minimal beats to the most heterogeneous public you could imagine. A really good sound.
The Architecture and Art Exhibition is really worth while seeing (curated by the Serralves Foundation) and this was a great way to start the "Allgarve" campaign.
Pista 1 - Dance
ANTÓNIO ALVES aka JACKZEN [Groob | PT]
Jackzen é um jovem DJ com uma carreira iniciada em 1999. Em poucos anos tem-se vindo gradualmente a afirmar como DJ, como produtor e até como editor e promotor de eventos. Como DJ começa a dar nas vistas em 2001, ano em inicia uma residência no Frágil, em parceria com o seu cumplice de sempre, Kaspar, e outra no mítico e saudoso Meia Cave, no Porto, com André Cascais, com quem viria a partilhar a cabine do Festival de Vilar de Mouros, em 2002. Desde aí, tem levado o seu talento aos melhores espaços do país, tendo passado por locais como Lux, Op-Art, Estado Liquido, Via Club, Olaria, Aniki-Bóbó, Porto-Rio, Indústria, Maus Hábitos, Bazaar, Rivoli, Passos Manuel e Triplex, entre nós, e La Paloma e La Sal em Barcelona, para além do já citado Frágil e do Trintaeum, onde actua regularmente. Como produtor, Jackzen forma dupla com Kaspar, tendo editado um tema na compilação estreia da Groovement, projecto editorial que partilha com Rui Torrinha; remisturou um original dos canadianos Moonstarr; e prepara actualmente a edição do seu maxi de estreia “THX 1138 E.P.”.
DJ JAN-ERIC KAISER [Areal |DE]
Jan-Eric Kaiser é um dos principais DJs e produtores da editora alemã Areal, fundada por Konfekt, Basteroid e Metope. Os seus dois CDs de misturas, “Bis Neun” e “Bis Neunzehn”, converteram-se numa espécie de set de culto, com enfoque no catálogo desta editora, casa de outros grandes nomes recentes da música de dança que nos chega de Colónia, como Ada ou Undo/Redo.
Kaiser vai muito para além do “coser os discos em série”, trabalhando longas misturas de batidas e cortes abruptos, com excelente sentido rítmico e reverência e entusiasmo pelos novos caminhos que o house minimal alemão tem vindo a trilhar nos últimos anos.
Pista 2 - Lounge
BEZEGOL [Matarroa | PT]
Bezegol é um dos principais impulsionadores do movimento Reggae/Rap em Portugal. Nascido e residente na cidade do Porto, apresenta-se multifacetadamente como MC, DJ, Produtor. Foi fundador da Red Towers Clan, a produtora dos eventos “Dope Sessions” (que remontam a 2001) e que contam com convidados especiais como J-Live, Wordsworth, IC3, Harry Love, Plus One (Scratch Preverts), Mr Thing, Skitz, entre outros. Estas sessões estiveram intimamente ligadas ao crescimento da editora Matarroa, e têm servido de plataforma de divulgação aos projectos da mesma.
Bezegol tem sido também responsável por outros projectos: Funkativity e Funkativiteam com Leonor Galvão, Dope Device MC's e Rude Bwoy Sound Against the System, com MC Sooba. É ainda parte integrante do grupo Matozoo e tem, ao longo dos últimos anos, efectuado parcerias para álbuns e compilações quer nacionais e internacionais.
VARIOUS [XL Recordings | UK]
Envoltas em mistério, as duas figuras centrais de Various, Adam e Ian, em torno dos quais gravitam os vários vocalistas convidados, surgiram com um dos mais imprevisíveis e entusiasmantes projectos de música electrónica dos últimos anos – cruzam as batidas ferozes e manifestamente austeras e cruas com melodias claramente pop, numa viagem estonteante que vai do dubstep e do grime à folk espartana ou ao trip-hop mais resistente. A sua singularidade e frescura é afirmada pela forma audaciosa com que intencionalmente põem rótulos de lado e fazem desmoronar divisões entre géneros e estilos na construção de novas formas pop, e sublinhada pelo notável trabalho de imagem com que assinam as suas edições e projecções vídeo.
Last saturday more than 2.500 people attended the Absoluto Beach Party right in front of Tamariz.
Although the photos are not great, the effect worked really well. I had to reorganise all my set, as I could only use either bright B/W loops or very colorful ones.
All the stuff I had prepared the night before had no use whatsoever... Starting with a great reggae performance by the One Sun Tribe crew, the event followed with an interesting Hip-Hop presentation by two young rappers. After a short break, the DJ sets began at about 2h with the warm-up DJ, Filipe.
And then the funk really hit the fan with Rui Remix, a very well-known DJ to all clubbers, that was accompanied by Scheriff on percussion, Pizzicato on the violin, Armstrong on the sax and MC Jeff shaking things up.
DJ Tiago Costa (what a great surprise!) rose to the occasion and brought in the missing Minimal House beat. 
The night was great (the wind droped drastically in the middle of the night) and the party ended with lots of people dancing on the stage. Great organisation and helpful crew members.
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