Black Meteoric Star and Assume Vivid Astro Focus will be here in Athens for one of the last shows under this project.

Gavin Russom launched B.M.S. in 2006 as a channel for his love of dance music and dance culture The sonic aesthetic was specifically inspired by the electronic music produced in Detroit and Chicago during the mid 1980’s and largely released on the TRAX label. This manifests itself in a minimal but psychedelic arrangements, and a soundtrack like continuity. In recorded form Gavin will be distributing the Black Meteoric Star as a series of 3 12″s released on the New York City based label DFA beginning in late 2008. Each track in the series is like a chapter in a story book and the overall story is a journey through night.

Assume Vivid Astro Focus and BMS joined forces to present this music live. Our plan is to capitalize on our mutual loves (both of the aforementioned early electronic dance music and of deep psychedelic saturation) to create an audio-visual landscape to engage the public in the story that this music tells. We do not conceive of the event as a spectacle, to be observed from outside, but rather as a celebration during which each person is a participant. For this reason we wish to place ourselves within, or to re-create on site, a nightclub atmosphere, with DJing and dancing preceding and following the Black Meteoric Star music. The event will include special lighting and video projections, as well as spatial and visual enhancements (such as balloons and rainbow vision glasses) created by AVAF. Gavin will perform the entire 12″ series, creating extended versions of each track and re-composing the whole live.

This collaboration debuted in April of 2008 in Paris in a more subdued version as part of the event SUPER#3, organized by label Dalbin, in which 3 visual artists were paired with three music acts from DFA. Since then BMS and avaf have made joint presentations at the Sao Paulo Biennial, Moma NY’s Poprally and Donau Music Festival in Vienna.

Warm up set by the Echo Volt Djs aka Dynamons and Jimmy jib

Guests will receive a limited-edition mask designed by assume vivid astro focus to wear at the event. Please be advised: the performance will feature strobe lights, a smoke machine, and lasers.

performance by voin de voin
videos by rodrigo garcia dutra, giles round and avaf

Starts at : 23.30
Admission : 10 euro

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