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The first performance takes place at the millenniumfestival in rock paradise Paradiso [Amsterdam, 2000] and is at the same time the start of Snowcrash' music adventure with her eclectic mix of hardcore, minimal, electro, disco, breakbeats and experimental.
Artists from Hongkong, Tokyo, Seattle, Berlin, Strasbourg and Prague perform live via internet. The singers, rappers and musicians tune in on Snowcrash' beats and soundsystem. On several screens the audience can overlook this taut mix of music and live images. Guest players join in on stage.
Snowcrash searches the boundaries of possibilities on the area of internationale interactieve stage shows and crosses them.
Gitarists from Seattle and Hongkong are challenged to a gitar duel on Snowbeats. [International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2001]
Snowcrash is being exhibited as a work of art on 'This is America'. [VJ Launch#8 Museum of Contemporary Art - Utrecht, 2006]
12 Screens show VJ's from Hongkong, Strassbourg, and Berlin, ventilating strong criticism on American politics tautly mixed on heavy Snowbeats, supported by live singing.
A singer in Hongkong and a singer in Praque resembles to a fascinating duet, directed by Snowcrash. The spectators in the main hall can witness this interaction on screens arranged like a cube, exchanged with VJ images. [Off Corso Theater - International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2004]
Two rappers in a wild houseparty in Berlin break in on een Snowcrash show in Rotterdam and start to rap on Snow grooves. Within the club circuit this is the first double performance through internet.
In the center of a famous square in Amsterdam, 'Nieuwmarkt', a girl starts singing. A few innocent bystanders don't know that this singer is being broadcast directly to a hall in Utrecht.
Close to the singer stands a carrier bike, hardly noticable, with Snowcrash equipment and crew, who takes care of the broadcast connection with the hall in Utrecht. [VJ Launch#6 - Ekko Utrecht, 2006] The bystanders watch her singing without any audience oer background music, but to the audience in Utrecht her song matches the beat and performance perfectly and she takes the show away.
The most border crossing act of Snowcrash is the so called dressing room breakdown in the Melkweg in Amsterdam.
After performing, a camera follows Snowcrash to their dressing room. These camera images are being shown on big screens in the main hall. The audience and organization witnesses how Snowcrash tears the dressing room completely apart. Everybody looks horrified at the images, but what they don't know is that they actually are looking at a prefabricated recording of a fake dressing room being destroyed. The commotion afterwards was so big that it took the Snowcrash members 5 hours to convince the organisation that everything was being staged and if they maybe can get their confiscated equipment back.
The national press pays elaborate attention to this incident. [Netcongestion streaming media festival - Melkweg Amsterdam, 2000]
Whether it's about festivals or clubs like De Balie [Centre for culture and politics - Amsterdam], The Spontaan Festival [NDSM - Amsterdam], Trax and Traces Festival [Paradiso - Amsterdam], Festival of Dutch Songs [Paradiso - Amsterdam], Hongkong City Festival [Hongkong], Club Bitterzoet and The Sugarfactory and Club Nl in Amsterdam, Snowcrash crosses boarders, breaks down barriers and shows how exciting a live performance from different sights put together can be. The world outside steps inside.
Snowcrash exists through th cooperation of artists, musicians, photografers, Vj's, stylists and people in the film and media industry.
Lately Snowcrash's main occupation is the development of new music and new performance techniques.
A taste of this was recently demonstrated at the Amsterdam Dance Event 2009 during 'Share' in the Sugarfactory. Mechanical toys from the seventies, mixed with live VJ material, shows an unexpected Snowcrash universe.
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INTERNATIONAL
FILM
FESTIVAL
2004 ROTTERDAM
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VJ LAUNCH#8
EKKO
UTRECHT
2006
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LIVE
MELKWEG
AMSTERDAM
2000
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SUGAR
FACTORY

AMSTERDAM 2006
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LIVE
FROM
HONGKONG
2006
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SNOWVIBES
@
OFF CORSO
ROTTERDAM
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LIVE
FROM
PRAGUE
2007
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INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
ROTTERDAM
2001
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LIVE FROM
NIEUWMARKT

AMSTERDAM 2006
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'THIS IS AMERICA'
CENTRAAL MUSEUM
UTRECHT
2006
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INTERNATIONAL
GITAR BATTLE
BETWEEN
3 GITARISTS
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SNOW TECK
VJ LAUNCH#6
UTRECHT
2006
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INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL

ROTTERDAM 2001
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LIVE VJ SETS
FROM
STRASBOURG
2005
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LIVE RAPPERS
FROM
BERLIN 2004
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OFF CORSO
THEATER
ROTTERDAM
2004
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NETCONGESTION
FESTIVAL
MELKWEG
2000
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VJ LAUNCH
#8

UTRECHT 2006
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PARADISO
MILLENNIUM
FESTIVAL
2000
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MUSEUM OF
CONTEMPORARY
ARTS
UTRECHT 2006
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THEATER
CALYPSO

ROTTERDAM 2001
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EKKO
- - - UTRECHT

2006
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VIDEO READY MADE
WITH
BOOM CHICAGO
2006
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SNOW VIBES
@
CALYPSO
ROTTERDAM 2001
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