Ten Tracks

Hidden Door works extremely closely in partnership with Ten Tracks and in particular, its director Ed Stack.

"We work with Hidden Door because it operates at the vanguard of events curation and organisation.It's more than forward-thinking and all-embracing in its ambitions: each artform is unusually responsive to the others, so much so that the relationship between the artforms becomes the focus of the event (much more so this time than at the first Hidden Door in January).

We believe that events should encourage inclusivity and cultural pluralism underpinned by a sense of respect between different specialisms, not complete separation between them, and Hidden Door serves exactly this cohesive function.

Hidden Door and Ten Tracks work well together because the event's artform-inclusive curation format maps well onto the eclectic 'mixtape' format of the music output on www.tentracks.co.uk.  Ten Tracks in turn releases music to celebrate and publicise the event.  This partnership is one of the things that makes us more than just an on-line music shop - and this kind of added value applies to everyone taking part.

Nothing I have come across before or since Hidden Door 1 has defined 'greater than the sum of its parts' more (and surprisingly few even aim to achieve that, or realise it's something worth achieving).  But it's a wonder why - because it's so rewarding."

American Men

One of the main tasks that the Ten Tracks team have been working on is the the five band collaboration between Dead Boy Robotics, Lipsync for a Lullaby,  The Foundling Wheel, Tokamak, and  American Men, (LuckyMe). On Friday whilst playing their straight sets, 5 bands are filmed in a totally unique way, using a succession of numerous pin-hole cameras. Each photo subsequently becomes a frame in a film reel that is edited to create the impression of a high-end digital 3D tracking shot, but by means of this most basic analog photographic technique captured on regular photographic paper. Saturday sees the development and editing / post-production of the footage into visuals for the show on Sunday. On Sunday the bands play again, simultaneously installed on all 5 stages/playing a composition seamlessly between the stages, culminating in a finale that involves all the bands, and is accompanied by visuals from the prepared film reel.

Confused? Come along and see for yourself!

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