news archive 05/06

kosei takasaki (kokomono.com) rocks and tours japan

kosei takasaki played at the AMRAX and in one of the most exciting location in Tokyo: the WOMB in downtown shibuya in beginning of february (9th and 16th).
The crowd appreciated the visuals and DJ DSKE and takasaki rocked the WOMB just at the prime time from 01:00 to 03:00 a.m.

“I’m just happy to be back here in tokyo, where all started 6 years ago. I’m just connected with my soul and inspiration with this city, which embraces you if you really want it” said kosei takasaki.

 

Bread & Butter Berlin 2007

kokomono produces video show for f.rau becker

kokomono artists created the live visual show and presentation movie for the fashion label f.rau becker for their show at the Club Felix in downtown Berlin.
The label f.rau becker, a cooperation between designer martina rau and designer barabara becker (former wife of tennis star boris becker), also showed their new collection at the Bread & Butter Kraftwerk,
basing their presentation mainly on a visual concept by kokomono artists.

 

 

 

   

kokomonos MELT Performance live in TV

Germanys Public TV Station WDR is going to show the concerts of the Meltfestival in their programm ROCKPALAST at the night of
1./2. October 2006 at 00.30 - 02.00 a.m..

Absolutely a must is the legendary concert of
the german electro-hiphop Band DEICHKIND.


2880 Grand Prix du Film

Filmmaker David Köhne and Kosei Takasaki
took part in the Leverkusen based Filmfestival
2880 Grand Prix Du Film at the 25.-27. August ‘06.
The 2880 Festival is a 48 Hours Filmfestival,
which means that you have only 48 hours
from the time you get your thema
until the deadline for handing in the film.

We had a more difficult task to accomplish,
because we had to send the film
to West Germany, so actually we filmed
and edited the movie in only 16-20 hours.

The screening will be at the 9th of Septembe
in Leverkusen, and the Finals
at the 16. September ‘06


kokomono MELTed the Mainstage

In the 3rd consecutive year kokomono rocked the mainstage
of the extraordinary MELT Festival, which took place in
Graefenhainichen near to Berlin.

This year kokomono was doing visuals for with MIA,
The Streets, Nightmares on Wax, Roni Size,
Aphex Twins and others

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activismo visual no es terrorismo


Activismo visual:
Watch this new Artwork which partly
was shown at the LUX 2006
Viual Arts Meeting in Sevilla.
Music was also produced by kokomono.

kokomono thanks Reel for his support
and energy to realize this work.

 


Maerc! shown at the Galao Shorts

The new short movie by a.nowak and k.takasaki,
MAERC!, was shwon at the 2.nd Short Film Festival
GALAO-Shots in Berlin.
MAERC! was among the Best 20 movies

 


kokomono’s back from LUX 2006

kokomono was invited to the
International Veejay and Video Art Meeting
LUX 2006
,
taking place at the
Sala Ines in Sevilla, Spain at 26th of May.


kokomono was showing a 45 minutes performance,
which he partly produced especially for Sevilla.
Absolutely new stylez and commented
by the visitors with a warm and
supporting feedback, the very first 15 minutes
gave a glance where vjaying
can develop apart from
visuals created and manipulated
by automated computers.

kokomono thanks reel and alex nowak
for their support. peace!

 

 


SAMPLEMINDS & KOKOMONO
in the Studio

Sampleminds and kokomono cooperated with theInstitute for Music and Media
(Robert Schumann Artschool Duesseldorf, germany)
and spent some days in the Studio.

OUT NOW: WATCH THE PREVIEW MIX

The DVD with Tutorial and 3 Livemixes (sound and video) will be released 2006.

 

 


kokomono Release on Looppool DVD

project initiated by GRWABOECKLER
and commissioned by the
51st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2005 .
Looppool is a collection of 50 infinte videoloops
by 55 international artists.
Find loops, between 6 frames
and 10 minutes duration. They all last forever.

read the INTRO arcticle (german)

 

 

 

kokomono at the csides festival, Jerusalem

kokomono was invited to the csides festival,
a festival for independent electronic music
and political media art,
taking place in Jerusalem, Israel from 29th to 31st of August.
And he also played at the Afterparty with Anna and Zahid from Pacothek at Club Stanga at the 2nd of September.

 

 

 

 

K contributes videowork and filmed second ending

J. W. Goethe’s reluctantly wrote a second ending for his theaterplay “Stella”, but his original ending triggered a scandal, he had not expected.
kokomono had the chance to work together with director Barabara Zimmermann and the Ensemble “Harry Hol schon mal den Wagen” from south-germany’s Freiburg. He contributed videobackgrounds and a filmed version of the “bloody” second ending for this piece in Fabrik Theater in Freiburg…

 

 

maD Rid

Take a ride with Flavio Degen,
and watch this SHORT
fastly and wildly cutted by Kosei Takasaki

 

Takasaki meets Vassileva

Kosei Takasaki worked together with
Video Artist Mariana Vassileva from Berlin.
Her work “Defintion” will be shown at
the Digital & Video Art Fair DIVA, New York.

 

 

 

5 - The quintology

One of the very recent project by
Alexander Nowak and Kosei Takasaki aka kokomono:
5 short, funny, critical, and sophisticated movies
taking place in and around train line nr. 5.
You can watch already story one and two…
Part 3- 5 will come up right here on kokomono.com

 

 

kokomono videoworks for “7 Stufen der Akzeptanz”

A theater play by Lisa Danulat about a man meeting his own cancer. Benjamin Griebel and David Köhne showed a stunning play in spring 2005. kokomono created the “video environment” of this play

 

 

kokomono LIVEMIX DVD

kokomono was invited to the VJ-Contest
of the International Videofestival Bochum, Germany.
His Performance was called “Broken Realities - stories of nothingness”
If you are interested in tpurchasing the non-commercial DVD
of this Livemix contact please

 

 

 

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