DARK MATTERS


Magiske Lofter
Frederiks­borg Slot
2023
Museum
                                   

Mysteries of the Sea
Fiskeri- og Søfarts­museet
2023
Museum
                                   

City-born Beings 1.0   
Seoul
2023
Art
                                   

Our Architecture    
Danish Archi­tecture Center 
2022
Museum

Explosions
Plane­tarium
2022
Museum
                                   

Letter to a Cycad
Natural History Museum of Denmark
2022
Museum
                                   

Digitize!                  
Museum für Natur­kunde Berlin
2022
Museum
                                   

Recolab                   At Recolab Helsinbörg
2021
Museum
                                   

Fabulous Animals                  
Historical Museum in Oslo
2021
Museum
                                   

FAT        
Tom Dixon x d line
2021
Video
                                   

The City Data  
Museum of Copen­hagen
2020
Museum
                                   

King of Dinosaurs            
Natural History Museum
2020
Museum
                                   

The Furnace Room            
Holme­gaard Værk
2020
Museum
                                   

Echoes                    
Kuben, Horsens
2020
Art
                                   

Kulturnatten 19               
Thorvald­sen Museum
2019
Event

6 Defining Moments
Copen­hagen Phil
2019
Event

Butterflies                    
Natural History Museum
2019
Museum
                                   

Storm20                    
Neonsign
2019
Art
                                   

Esrum Abbey              
Abbey Life
2019
Museum
                                   

Leges Motus              
Printemps Nordique at Place des Arts
2018
Art
                                   

Rethink War                
The Danish Castle Centre
2018
Museum
                                   

Manifesta 18                
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
2018
Event
                                   

Den Sorte Skole            
The Play­house,
Vega,
Orange Stage
2017,
2015,
2013
Event
                                   

Erik Mortensen              
Design­museum Danmark   
2017
Museum
                                   

Tonsure                    
Autumn/ Winter 2017
2017
Event
                                   

The Right to Space                
Venice Biennale
2016
Museum
                                   

Monet's Magical Garden                    
Ordrup­gaard Museum
2016
Museum
                                   

Blackout                    
Copen­hagen Contem­porary Art Centre
2015
Art
                                   

The Danish Castle Centre            
Museum Southeast Denmark
2014
Museum
                                   

The Doghouse            
Copen­hagen Contem­porary Art Centre
2014
Art
                                   

Social Zone                  
Roskilde Festival
2012
Event
                                   

Kenton Slash Demon              
Music Videos
2010,
2011,
2012
Video
                                   



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Den Sorte Skole

Different Locations (2013  — 2017)


Den Sorte Skole is a Danish turntable collective famous for its digging and mixing abilities. They have a distinct ability to create a holistic unity between samples, creating a cinematic experience. For their third album “Lektion 3”, they decided to take the sampling to a whole new level, with thousands of small sample bites from over 250 albums from all over the planet, they created an eighty-eighth-minute-long, poetic journey.  


Lektion III A/V Tour

The Playhouse (2015)

We instantly fell in love with the music and its thematic soundtrack feeling and decided the concert audience should be the hero of this journey. Using a famous cliché in storytelling and; the 'Mono-myth' created by Joseph Campbell, we divided the set into twenty-three different universes. As the concert progressed, each spectator would be the main character in the journey, creating their narrative and personal relation to this unique Audiovisual experience.

The visual concept was to use a variety of media types and artistic techniques, to match the diversity of the samples in the album. This resulted in everything from classic cardboard stop motion, hand-drawn animations, custom-designed totem poles, classic sixties projected oil visuals, 300 hand-painted landscapes, digitally generated star clusters + millions of sand particles and old-school computer game graphics. 




Indians and Cowboys A/V Tour

Store Vega ( 2016)

For Den Sorte Skoles’ next exploration Dark Matters decided to follow in their tracks and make a complete sample-based visual universe for the 'Indians & Cowboys tour’.

3 Dogmas were put in place for this concept: 

• No effects or other manipulations of the original material

• Each song needed at least 2 different films with no relations.

• No movies after 1985 (ok, we made a few exceptions).

Scavenging through endless old animations, education films, home videos etc. the result ended in a completely new and unseen universe. Everything from the first dancers in the world captured on film, a trip over the Inca pyramids with chanting Indians, wireframe animation through an experimental sea of paint, a wedding in Iran with a ghost and an English nobleman and a train trip from the open landscape on a distant planet to the heart of a lost love. 



Roskilde Festival

Orange Stage (2017)

A custom-made audiovisual show tailored to the legendary Roskilde Festival main stage, Orange Stage.

Proceeding with our running concept of thematic world-building, we left Earth and went to space. The big stage needed a big concept: a massive invading demi-god going through different faces. Birth, growth, destruction, death, resurrection, duplication and finally an invasion, were used as the main forces of our lonely protagonist. 

Over 100 participants were part of the production; guest musicians from around the world, 12 dancers and a 22-people Icelandic choir.

The show ended Friday night of the festival, with 50.000 people experiencing this once-in-a-lifetime extravaganza in the pouring rain. The show received critical acclaim, with Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende hailing it as “one of the most important cultural manifestations in Roskilde Festival history”.



Credits

Lektion 3

Staklenih & Formula Dub:
Animation and design by Aske Melhof

Did you ever: 
Handmade oil visuals by Kristian Nihlen & Stöjs.
Fai Yen: Drawings by Nicky Grünfeld

Hürel:
300 handpainted acrylic paintings by Bente Giandrup Fabian

Gowla/Island Girl:
Animation & design by Egor Jagunov

En lille en: 
Processing star clusters by 
Claus Rytter Brun de Neergaard.

Music: 
Den Sorte Skole

Light Design: 
Frederik Heitmann
Sound: James Hancock
Indians & Cowboys

SAMPLE CREDITS

L'Idee - Berthold Bartosch (1932)
Cabaret - Ideya Garanina (1981)
Afterlife - Ishu Patel (1978)
War criminals - Soyuzmultfilm Studio (1939)
Cineforms - Andrzej Pawlowski (1957)
Czar kółek - Kazimierz Urbanski (1966)
Podróż  - Daniel Szczechura  (1970)
Dansa Serpentina (1900, Anonymous)
Divine Fate - Ishu Patel (1993)
Franz Kafka - Piotr Dumała (1991)
Kerjus - Rein Raamat [1985]
Linn - Rein Raamat (1988)
MOTO-GAZ - Kazimierz Urbański (1963)
La faim - Peter Fouldes (1974)
Pintura 62 i 63 - Ton Sirera (1962-63)
Sciany - Piotr Dumala (1988)
Painters attack - Piotr Kamler (1966)
Foules - Robert Lapoujade (1960)
I go seek - V. Fessenko (1992)The mermaid - Ivan Aksenchuk (1966)
The Glass Harmonica - Andrei Khrzhanovsky (1968)
Phaethon: syn solntsa - Vasily Livanov (1972)
Picture in your mind - Philip Sapp (1948)
Sentinel of silence - Robert Amran (1971)
Conservation: Waterfall - Dannis Roshay (1969)
dances of the kwakiutl - William Heick (1951)
Radiance: The Experience Of Light - Dorothy Fadiman (1979)
#18 Iran - Watson Kinter (1963)
Wild Men of the Kalahari - C. Ernest Cadle (1930)  
Operation X-70 - Raoul Servalis (1972)
The Ravishing of Frank N. Stein - Georges Schwizgebel (1882)
Free Radicals - Len Lye (1958)
The Last Trick - Jan Svankmajer (1964)
#42 New Guinea - Watson Kintner (1957)
Here and There - Andrzej Pawlowski (1957)
Somnambulists -  Mieczyslaw Waskowski (1958)
Jubilee - Vladimir Tarasov (1983)
Zbigniew Rybczyński - Zupa (1974)