NADJA/AIDAN BAKER -WHITENIGHT/DRONEFIELD/DOM - #/200 ED

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Please see image for payment and shipping details. Will ship world wide. Please see below for shipping rates, auction information and details below in the image. Artist: Nadja/Baker, Aidan Title: White Nights/Drone Fields/DOM Label: Beta-lactam Ring Records Format: 2xDVD+2xCD Catalog #: mt236 Description: WHITE NIGHTS/DRONE FIELDS - DVD Trailer 2xDVD+2xCD. First edition of 200 numbered and signed copies, 2xDVD including 5.1 audio mixes, original live photo of Nadja by greg C Photography () and a TWO bonus CD's “DOM” presented in a gatefold cd case and all packaged in a deluxe book bound slipcase. Note: a standard 2xDVD ed. will be issued Sept. 24, 2010 (unnumbered, unsigned and no bonus CDs or photo) . Aidan Baker's anodyne ambiences almost act as aural dream machines on their own. But now Baker has collaborated with actual film makers for his Opus Dei, embodied in this double DVD set (one credited as Aidan Baker and the other to Nadja). Clocking in at nearly 6 hours, this in-home installation is the ultimate video aquarium for the acid-minded. Baker's thrum-scapes lay back and patiently coo mantras something akin to mid-period Nocturnal Emissions or Vidna Obmana, while spectacular visions wend and squirm from the absolutely abstract to hi-def nature photography, all to blissful affect. Some footage oozes out and away, like Cocteau Twins albums come to life, while other footage juxtaposes layers of treated imagery ala Derek Jarman experimental films, or early Cabaret Voltaire Doublevision videos. The pieces are so beautifully mixed, often taking field footage and slowly tweaking colours, definitions, focii into indefinable splashes and spectrums. Smoke, fire, clouds, oil, water, glass, humanity and its relation to light and movement are manipulated in a million wondrous ways, matching Baker's epic garden music drone for drone; loop for loop; god for god. NADJA “WHITE NIGHTS” 2h 45min This concert was recorded live between 4am and 7am during the 2007 Nuit Blanche event in Toronto. Nadja’s set was part of Insomnosonic, an evening of musical performances at the Toronto City Works Parking Garage, curated by Camilla Singh and The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. Every traveller starts out on foot, and this journey is no exception. Starting out on a night stroll through the city, the viewer is taken on an all night multi-destination visual tour. These destinations give an impression of the past, the present, the real and the distopic. In the spirit of Nuit Blanche, the videos in this compilation celebrate ritual, community, dance, and other ecstatic attempts to create something eternal and mark the passage of time. Aidan Baker () is a musician and writer; Leah Buckareff () is a musician and a bookbinder; together they make music as Nadja (nadjaluv.ca). Their footage consists of night-time perambulations through walkways, under bridges, in subway tunnels, and along the streets of Toronto. Keith Urquhart is a writer for the stage, screen, and page. In his spare time he also videotapes things. Keith contributed the video footage from the Nuit Blanche performance. The entire event was held in a cavernous garage. He tried to capture the industrial nature of the venue, which meshed quite well with the music. Naomi Hocura is a video artist/musician and independent curator. She performed a live video set with Nadja for the Nuit Blanche concert. Taking those images (taken during a trip throughout Asia shot from the window of trains and buses) she incorporated band footage to create the first section. Section three features the revivial of Japanese ghosts and an scroll storytelling of an ancient folktale called Dojoji. The footage in section four was taken at the Neputa Festival in northern Japan. Winston Hacking is an artist living in Toronto currently directing+producing collaborative music video projects and working in the art department on stop motion animated films. His contribution to the project was a simple documentation of video projected... read more

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