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3 months agoThe Joy of Box likes Icelandic Music Through Unconventional Means
The Joy of Box
Joined April 2008
"ORIGAMIBIRO & THE JOY OF BOX ARE PART OF THAT NEW BREED (THAT) BRING THE BEST OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES INTO THEIR SETS AND THEIR SOUNDS, ENLISTING LOOPING RIFFS AND ELECTRONIC WONDERS.
ITS NOT JUST GUITARS AND BEATS THAT FIND THEMSELVES LOOPED UP BY THE TRIO, BUT THE TEAR OF PAPER, THE FLICKED CORNER OF A BOOK AND THE RIP OF STICKY TAPE. AND AS IF THE PLETHORA OF SOUNDS WERENT ENOUGH, THEY COME PACKED WITH LASHINGS OF VISUALS ON A BIG SCREEN BEHIND THEM, THE SCOPE OF WHICH TAKES IN BOTH ARCHIVE FOOTAGE AND LIVE CLOSE-UPS OF THE BAND THEMSELVES." BBC Manchester Online
Origamibiro and The Joy of Box Live is a collaboration between video artist The Joy of Box (Jim Boxall) and musicians, performers and producers Origamibiro (Tom Hill and Andy Tytherleigh). Jim and Tom have a long history of collaboration: Tom has provided soundtracks for Jim's experimental short films and audio for Jim's live visuals work as part of av_dv. In turn, Jim has provided visuals alongside Tom for both Wauvenfold and Penfold Plum live performances.
The BiroBox project is a culmination of ideas that Tom and Jim had started to discuss in their previous projects concerning ways to perform music and visuals live. Tom wanted to find ways to produce intimate music based on live generated loops without the audience barrier of laptop screens. Jim wanted to produce visuals that could utillise a whole range of different techniques and approaches that could explore emotion, narrative and spectacle through high and low end technology and audience understanding/expectation of what was happening in front of them. In the process of developing ideas and techniques, they enlisted the help of Andy Tytherleigh, a musician also very interested in live multi instrumental looping methods and its relationship to moving image.
Origamibiro's first album 'Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks' was an ideal springboard for Tom and Jim's original ideas. Whilst recording the album, Tom recorded not only the songs and melodies on his classical guitar, he also captured the creaks and groans of it, the chair he was sitting on, even his breath. Jim began to do the same thing visually-looking for ways to create visuals organically-filming dust particles, moisture from his breath and extreme close ups of objects and surfaces. Jim and Tom also began to explore narratives inspired by the new material they were generating and how they could combine these elements into an intimate, engaging and beautiful av performance.
Origamibiro & The Joy of Box Live is essentially an organic project-its content continues to change and readapt as new ideas present themselves. Ultimately, it is three people's attempt to create a multi media performance that can move, challenge and entertain its audience.
ITS NOT JUST GUITARS AND BEATS THAT FIND THEMSELVES LOOPED UP BY THE TRIO, BUT THE TEAR OF PAPER, THE FLICKED CORNER OF A BOOK AND THE RIP OF STICKY TAPE. AND AS IF THE PLETHORA OF SOUNDS WERENT ENOUGH, THEY COME PACKED WITH LASHINGS OF VISUALS ON A BIG SCREEN BEHIND THEM, THE SCOPE OF WHICH TAKES IN BOTH ARCHIVE FOOTAGE AND LIVE CLOSE-UPS OF THE BAND THEMSELVES." BBC Manchester Online
Origamibiro and The Joy of Box Live is a collaboration between video artist The Joy of Box (Jim Boxall) and musicians, performers and producers Origamibiro (Tom Hill and Andy Tytherleigh). Jim and Tom have a long history of collaboration: Tom has provided soundtracks for Jim's experimental short films and audio for Jim's live visuals work as part of av_dv. In turn, Jim has provided visuals alongside Tom for both Wauvenfold and Penfold Plum live performances.
The BiroBox project is a culmination of ideas that Tom and Jim had started to discuss in their previous projects concerning ways to perform music and visuals live. Tom wanted to find ways to produce intimate music based on live generated loops without the audience barrier of laptop screens. Jim wanted to produce visuals that could utillise a whole range of different techniques and approaches that could explore emotion, narrative and spectacle through high and low end technology and audience understanding/expectation of what was happening in front of them. In the process of developing ideas and techniques, they enlisted the help of Andy Tytherleigh, a musician also very interested in live multi instrumental looping methods and its relationship to moving image.
Origamibiro's first album 'Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks' was an ideal springboard for Tom and Jim's original ideas. Whilst recording the album, Tom recorded not only the songs and melodies on his classical guitar, he also captured the creaks and groans of it, the chair he was sitting on, even his breath. Jim began to do the same thing visually-looking for ways to create visuals organically-filming dust particles, moisture from his breath and extreme close ups of objects and surfaces. Jim and Tom also began to explore narratives inspired by the new material they were generating and how they could combine these elements into an intimate, engaging and beautiful av performance.
Origamibiro & The Joy of Box Live is essentially an organic project-its content continues to change and readapt as new ideas present themselves. Ultimately, it is three people's attempt to create a multi media performance that can move, challenge and entertain its audience.
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