Finissage

The End of “Young Belgian Artists” at the Bozar last Friday, was an artsy-fartsy event I would normally not be caught dead attending: Desperate debutantes overloaded into their outfits and foppish fashionistos over-eagerly dancing to very mediocre music…. Just isn’t my thing.

Els & Friend outside Bozar

Otoh, our new geeky, artist friend, Els Vermang debuted something new of her own that night which — luckily — we managed to catch a good 20 minutes of:  A 3D sound- and visual-“scape” manually choreographed by Els behind the keyboard. I didn’t get all of it, but the idea is that scattered “inside” a 3D program on her computer were snippets of 3D sound, which she could navigate with her mouse, in order to generate sounds and visuals on the fly. Very nice stuff.

We give it a "One"

Oh and btw, this week, Els is hanging out with Mika Vainio of Pan Sonic since they’re working on a new project together… It was during a Pan Sonic concert in Kortrijk where Darius made the hugest moves in my tummy he ever did during my entire twin pregnancy — and not because it was loud. Just because of the BASS.  But if you check out their MySpace page above, you’ll understand what I mean, or watch this video from Sonar 2008 (but be forewarned):

Apparently, Els also regularly does events with the gents from the Raster Noton label (see a video about them done by our very own AB people here; and a 12-year anniversary tribute here). Thought my husband was going to swoon.

Els & Wim "tête-à-tête"

If I hadn’t been styling the backless jersey I just got in London, with my Spanish “fire” boots from NYC a few years ago, I fear Els would have posed a greater threat to my marital union than she did.*  After four days working around-the-clock for an IT project at the UN in Geneva (!), Wim was love-starved that night. Very lucky for me, though, it was apparently my love he was starving for… Whew.

Cherry's Fireboots

*Just kidding about this — but isn’t the picture great??! 😉