Peter Greenaway live in the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane Australia. On June 17 2005 Peter Greenaway, director of film classics like The Pillow Book, The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover, Prospero's books and The Tulse Luper Suitcases, demonstrated in Club 11 Amsterdam his first VJ performance during the NoTV CNCDNC visual art club evening.
On music by DJ Serge Dodwell (aka Radar), 'VJ' Greenaway used for his set a unique VJ system consisting of a large plasma screen with touchscreen, specially developed by technical partner BeamSystems. Utilizing this system, Greenaway projected the 92 Tulse Luper stories on the 12 screens of Club 11 in a multi-screen way and mixed the images 'live'.
The result was amazing: Greenaway rocked the crowd in Amsterdam's VJ temple "11", blending his avantgarde cinematographic imagery (taken from the Tulse Luper Suitcases movie) with the heavy movie score remix by DJ Radar. Mastering the giant touch screen the newborn 'realtime image conductor' Greenaway provided a totally new experience to the audience: Live Cinema at its best.
The magnificent VJ debut of Peter Greenaway did not go unnoticed. As "real time image conductor" he finally freed himself from classic cinematographic linearity. With his outstanding cinematographic eye and energetic approach Greenaway won the respect of fellow VJs worldwide and hereby set the pace in the toplevel international VJ scene.
The tremendous succes of this performance made NoTV and Peter Greenaway decide to take the performance to a next level, and bring it to the international audience by starting the official
"NoTV Peter Greenaway Tulse Luper VJ World Tour".
The 2005-2009 performance has travelled successfully worldwide and we are happy to announce that the public and media interest exceeded all expectations.
In Krakow Poland VJ Peter Greenaway attracted 4000 spectators in the city square.
NEW 2010 / 2014 World Tour:
THE TULSE LUPER ENCYCLOPEDIA
THE TULSE LUPER ENCYCLOPEDIA presents a live encyclopedia for the Information Age:
92 Characters, 92 Places around the World, 92 Global Events, 92 Stories, 92 Elements, 92 Objects to Represent the World, 92 Atomic Bombs.
In the new Live Cinema Performance Greenaway takes his magnum opus "The Tulse Luper story" to exciting new heights:
- with new video content (in High Definition),
- specially composed audio (by Dutch 'Golden Calf' Award winner Huibert Boon)
- and new state-of-the-art VJ & DJ control system technology.
Greenaway's ground breaking original VJ Performance proved immensely succesful. After a challenging and exciting start in 2005 the tour travelled in 4 years to 14 countries: Australia, Belgium, Brasil, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.
Film, video, music and crossover festivals hosted the 33 performances in classic and modern theatres, open squares, industrial halls, amphitheatres and musea.
Pushing the boundaries of cinema even further, the world tour continues in Summer 2010 with a brand new VJ performance. Exploiting state-of-the-art technologies, Greenaway will take his "present tense non-linear live cinema performance" to exciting new heights: immersive cinema created live, and no performance will ever be the same. Cinema is dead; long live Cinema!
Peter Greenaway open air live performance in Guanajuato Mexico (3000 spectators)
For the new 2010/2011 tour the Dutch sounddesigner / electro-acoustical composer Huibert Boon joins the stage.
Huibert Boon's first attempts in electroacoustics started at the age of 9, dismantling his father's taperecorder trying to salvage a Moebius-ring constructed tapeloop which had miraculously jammed deep inside the machine. This experience resulted in his great respect for the uncomprehensible complexity of audio-equipment and the irresistable tendency to explore the boundaries of acoustical richness of electronic devices. Influenced by the main avantgarde pioneers (from Cage to Varese; from Zappa to Zorn) his musical activities focus on the integration of computer based sound synthesis with the sound of pure electricity from analog electronic instruments (like the MOOG Voyager and Weezil sound generator) and the complex noises from ordinary life.
