Last night, I attended the NEW YORK PREMIERE PARTY AND DVD SCREENING for the newest creation by Andreas Nilssen, the art director and creator of the audiovisual experience of The Knife. If you’ve ever seen a Knife concert, you know what I’m talking about. The DVD, which will be available soon, features a mystical intensity and magical disturbance that only Nilssen is capable of. Without ever a glimpse of the faces of the Knife, the audience is forced into complete concentration of imagery and sound that envelopes the room in a silent aura as each viewer accesses a unique part of their imagination, perhaps not entered before. From “Like a Pen” to “We Share Our Mother’s Health” to a slower and perhaps even more beautiful remix of their first single, “Heartbeats”, the audience is taken on an audiovisual experience, shifting in their chairs, fluttering their eyes at the overbearing presence of the strobelight, but all the while encapsuled in the perfect harmony of what they are watching and hearing. It is a lesson in the imagination, and the presence of a skull at one point even evokes a quiet chuckle from the audience– which, for me at least, was the realization that the visuals were so perfectly and beautifully eerie that a skull seems as innocent as the elegant blonde Karin and Olaf themselves. Check out a preview of the audiovisual show at the Subterranean blog, or the Knife website at www.theknife.net. For those of you who are familiar with The Knife… I hope this means something to you (or else its just plain embarrassing):
07/18/2007
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