Perhaps best known as one half of the New York droner duo Mountains, New York's Koen Holtkamp has a solo album full of enveloping guitar and synth collages coming out tomorrow. In this video for "Between Visible Things," his delicately flickering modular work imbues footage of a European sporting match with a counterintuitive calm. The video, he says, "takes the classic era of The Netherlands 'Total Football' as inspiration. A beautiful fluid style of soccer which is extremely malleable and often highlights passing over high scores. The video uses formal masking techniques and found footage of a soccer match as source material to create moving graphic images that sit somewhere between collage and choreography." Motion & Connected Works is out March 25th via Thrill Jockey. Tourdates below.
Tourdates:
4/1 - Iowa City, IA - The Mill #
4/2 - Milwaukee, WI - Sugar Maple
4/3 - Chicago, IL- Constellation *
4/4 - Louisville, KY - Dreamland - Koen Holtkamp video screening + live performance
4/17 - Toronto, ON - Man Finds Fire at Geary Lane *
4/18 - Montreal, QC - Casa Del Popolo *
4/19 - Hudson, NY - Spotty Dog *
4/20 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool ^ (Motion Record Release Show)
# - Mission Creek Festival w/ Mark Mcguire, Jenny Hval
* - w/ Mind Over Mirrors
^ - w/ Mind Over Mirrors & Mike Wexler