MOTORSAW
MOTORSAW was originally a collaboration between Lau Nørgaard and Sune Petersen. The collaboration began in 2000 when the current state of commercial VJ software did not satisfy the expectations of MOTORSAW.
Biography
MOTORSAW was originally a collaboration between Lau Nørgaard and Sune Petersen. The collaboration began in 2000 when the current state of commercial Vj-software did not satisfy the expectations of MOTORSAW. Being a skilled programmer Lau set out to create software that would meet the technical demands of the team resulting in a customized hardware and software configuration that fits MOTORSAW live performance requirements. Today, however, MOTORSAW consists mainly of Sune.
The current software is the second revision, a real time modular video performance and processing system, evolving around the processing of video footage making intense use of feedback.
Artistically, the MOTORSAW visuals balance between the abstract and the concrete as well as organic noise. The images are mostly made with base in real footage, and in the concrete element of a performance, the footage is processed, often to unrecognizability thus creating an abstract element of the performance. Usually the performance flow is made live in real-time, leaving room for an improvisional approach that produces unique and ideosyncratic moments of audiovisual synergy.
In recent years, MOTORSAW has performed in both Denmark and abroad, including Germany, Italy and Spain.