26 Mar 2012 — Henning Lahmann
Three months ago, French video artist collective
Cat(s)fight and participative production company
Microcultures started a visionary trans-continental music and video project named
Songs From Another Room, to bring together bring independent musicians and directors from France, USA, Italy, Canada, and other places, to compose and record new songs that would subsequently be accompanied by original video works, eventually ending up in a unique CD/DVD box set, all made possible entirely via crowdfunding. Today, the first video from the collection was made public, featuring a new song by NFOP favorite
A.P. Witomski. "In a Sense of Conformity" is an incredible pop song, dense and dark, with dashes of 80s-informed synth pop, lush and unashamedly melodic. The video, appropriately held in monochrome, is weird and puzzling yet thoroughly absorbing, a wonderful first result of a truly intriguing, ambitious art project.
Watch this short video to learn about the whole project and how you can help funding it:
