Metabletica

This two-day event centers around the borderland between sound, music, performance, film, and video. Performances where held on three stages in three different rooms of the V2 factory building. One could rather speak of 'visual sound structures' (visuele geluidsbouwwerken) than regular concerts. The program title was inspired by the book 'Metabletica' ("science of change", 1956) by Jan van den Berg. A two day event held at V2, 's-Hertogenbosch 05.09.-06.09.1986. The Friday-program consisted of Zombies under Stress (NL), a two-people performance, where music can be described as electronic hardcore and film a part of the performance. Bog-Art (BRD) was a fusion of bodyperformance and music on stage, where the rhythmic sound supported the performance. Tasaday (IT) used current instruments, drums, saxophone and guitar, and the music can be described as 'rustic-industrial'. Katharos (NL) was a collective of musicians, video- and filmmakers, some of which performed under the name 'Sluagh Ghairm'. Afterwards a video by Katharos was shown. On Saturday, the 6th, Coup de Grace (USA) together with Danny Devos (BEL) delivered a performance, describable as short, powerful, uncompromising. The next performance by Kanker Kommando (BEL) is hard to describe. In Belgium, they performed a six-hour event on different floors of a building. Étant Donnés (FR) showed a perfectly balanced performance with an oversized puppet and a great amount of light effects; an explosive action accompanied by a studio-tape. Swimming Behaviour O.T.H.I. (BRD) consisted of four people, none of whom performed music on stage: they exclusively used light-, film- and diaprojectors, with sound from a tape.