COLDCUT’S JONATHAN MOORE
June 17th, 2004 by susanna
Sam Pow talks to Coldcut’s Jonathan More
Any surprises planned for The Forum gig?
‘New toys, new tricknology, new tones, and bastard pop
vidiscratchamological
dexploitation. We’ll be showing of our new AV piece ‘Cooking with Coldcut’,
where Jon and I fight killer GM vegetables (‘The G Meenies’) in a kung fu
stylé over an AV riddim composed of cooking, clanging, cutting and chopping
to a horrifying mutant climax.’
What direction is your new album (due out next year) taking?
‘Quaquaversal: all directions simultaneously! We’ve got a lot of tracks on
the go so we’ll have to finish them all and then probably pick the ones
that
make a coherent playable set. We’re working with some fresh multimedia
crews, there will be a new take on musical video games All the influences
are in the mix, and our possible title is ‘Rip It Off And Start Again’.
Do you feel like pioneers of a now huge VJ industry.
Well, yes it is satisfying to see VJing blowing up and thinking we helped
light the fuse. But there’s a way to go, which is exciting because it’s
still an open playground. One project we are involved in is VJs.net which
is working to get VJing on the National Curriculum. We continue to develop
VJamm the leading AV software with partners Camart, and have released on
open source the first ever live Video effects standard ‘Freeframe’, now in
use by several other VJ programs. It is truly awesome. BTW, if any VJs need
a name, how about VJ Hue Saturation, or VJ Da Vid, Or VJ Vile Jelly. ‘
Following on from that, do you sit back and wonder why it took the rest of
the (clubbing) world so long to catch on that visuals to music is a great
thing?
Coldcut don’t have much time to sit back and wonder, we’re busy getting on
with it!
Perhaps the commercial clubbing world was asleep, or happy with the way
things were? It’s inconvenient for the media to report on real change in a
scene their handlers control. Change happens at the fringes not the centre.
Step outside the fence: AV performance and composition is where cinema
meets
hip hop. Coldcut invite you to party.
