Pink Twins

Pink Twins CD Prices Go Down

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:35:00 +0000

Because we love you, and because we can; We have cut down the prices of all Pink Twins Media CDs to 10 euros. I repeat, 10 euros, including postage worldwide. The new price of Pink Twins Catalogue 2DVD/book is 20 euros, shipped to your home.

You wanted the best, and now you can afford it! Do it now! Move on to the Music page and get them while we still have them.

Forthcoming Exhibitions

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:01:00 +0000

In 2008 video works by Pink Twins are featured in several exhibitions in art museums all around. Including these:
P.S.1 MoMA, New York City (June-September)
~~MIS (Museu da Imagem e do Som), Sao Paulo (June-August)~~
(postponed to 2009)
Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki (dates tbc)
Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi (June-September)
Kuntsi Museum of Modern Art, Vaasa (September-October)

See the calendar page for more info.

Mongolia: Perception and Utopia in Kerava Art Museum

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:04:00 +0000

The new Pink Twins video Sketches of Pain is included in the exhibition Mongolia: Perception and Utopia, in Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, Finland. The exhibition is open now, until 1 June 2008.
See Kerava Art Museum site for details.

Sketches of Pain is based on the footage from the concert by Pink Twins and Zugeer L in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in 2006.

Cucumber Farmer / Pink Twins 2CD available

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:22:00 +0000

Empirical Research on Western Popular Music 1993-2006 – That Was Cucumber Farmer – the double CD featuring one CD of remixes by Pink Twins - is out now. See details and listen to track previews here: pinktwins.com/empirical

And order here! Double CD, 14 Euros by PayPal, the price includes postage to you.

Sketches of Pain

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:17:00 +0000

Pink Twins is currently working on a new video. Titled Sketches of Pain, the piece is based on footage from the Pink Twins concert in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, together with the death metal band Zugeer L. The video will have its premiere at the Mongolia - Perception and Utopia Exhibition at Kerava Art Museum (Kerava, Finland) in March 2008, and will be featured on an upcoming DVD release.

Pink Twins played at Chameleon Disco Club in Ulaanbaatar in August 2006, with Zugeer L, a popular local metal band.

Live in Moscow

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:50:00 +0000

A clip of the Pink Twins live recording from NCCA, Moscow (13 December 2007) can be listened to at http://netaudio.ru/musica-excentrica/add-noise/sess001/. They also have a recording featuring Pink Twins with Alexei Borisov and Nikita Golyshev, from the same date. Courtesy of Musica Excentrica.

Pink Twins: Universal - Web Radio

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:39:00 +0000

Update: The radio is closed. Thank you for listening.

During the exhibition at 00130Gallery in Helsinki, a stereo mix of the sound installation Universal will be streamed by our very own web radio. Streaming live from the gallery, Universal will be online and in real time 24 hours a day, from 28 November to 16 December 2007.

Pink Twins: Universal is a three-week long realtime mix of hundreds of hours of Pink Twins music, recorded during recent years. Spliced, mixed, deconstructed and collaged in realtime, the music forms a continuous, ever-changing flow. In the exhibition, Universal is presented in a multi-channel installation. The web radio is a high resolution shoutcast stereo mix.

Pink Twins at 00130Gallery, Nov-Dec 2007

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:53:00 +0000

Pink Twins presents an exhibition of new works at 00130Gallery, Helsinki, 28 November - 16 December, 2007.

Welcome to the opening on Tuesday, 27 November, 5-7 PM.

Pink Twins, musicians and video artists Vesa and Juha Vehviläinen, started producing electronic music and video art in 1997. To round out their first ten year plan, Pink Twins open an exhibition at 00130gallery in Helsinki, on November 2007.

The exhibition features two parts and shows the two aspects of Pink Twins. The multi-channel sound installation UNIVERSAL is based on dozens of hours of Pink Twins music recorded during recent years. In contrast to the sound piece, Pink Twins present a silent video work.

A stereo mix of UNIVERSAL will also be streamed during the exhibition time at www.pinktwins.com.

PINK TWINS
00130GALLERY
28.11. – 16.12. 2007

00130GALLERY
Korkeavuorenkatu 27
00130 Helsinki

Open Tue-Fri 12-17 – Sat-Sun 12-16
www.00130gallery.net
tel +358-45-1330923

"Maailman Paras" Premieres at Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:33:00 +0000

Pink Twins live music and video projections are featured in a new theatre production premiering in Kiasma Theatre, Helsinki on 19 September.

Maailman Paras, eli virtuaali ja kyborgit kehittyneessä kapitalismissa ("World's Greatest, or Cyborgs and the Virtual in an Advanced Capitalism") is a theatre/multimedia piece dealing with the experiences of virtuality, addiction and net poker. The play is produced by Circus Maximus, directed by Mikko Kanninen.
Venue: Kiasma Theatre (theatre hall of the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art), Helsinki
Dates:
Wed 19 Sept, 19:00
Fri 21 Sept, 19:00
Sat 22 Sept, 19:00
Sun 23 Sept, 19:00
Wed 26 Sept, 19:00
Thu 27 Sept, 19:00
Fri 28 Sept, 19:00
Sun 30 Sept, 19:00

Pink Twins at Helsinki Kunsthalle Studio

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Wed, 16 May 2007 08:24:00 +0000

A Pink Twins solo exhibition is now open at the Studio space of Helsinki Kunsthalle (Helsingin Taidehalli). The show features an installation version of the video Pulse.

Exhibition is open 12 May - 10 June 2007.
Address: Helsinki Kunsthalle (Helsingin Taidehalli), Nervanderinkatu 3 - Helsinki.
Open Tue-Fri 11:00-18:00, Wed 11:00-20:00, Sat-Sun 12:00-17:00.
Entrance 7 eur (students etc. 5 eur)

Cucumber Farmer 2CD - Featuring a CD of Pink Twins Remixes

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Mon, 14 May 2007 10:42:00 +0000

Update: The double CD will be released in October 2007!

Coming soon: Empirical Research on Western Popular Music 1993-2006 – That Was Cucumber Farmer, a new double CD release by the Finnish conceptual avantgarde rock band Cucumber Farmer.

The first disc of the set is the original Cucumber Farmer album, while CD 2, titled Reconstructions of Western Popular Music by Pink Twins is the full album remixed and remodeled by Pink Twins. The original album spans countless approaches, styles and genres of popular music by fearless empirical experimenting. The Pink Twins remixes broaden the scope further into the realms of digitally twisted dub, lounge house, noise rock and beyond.

The double CD is released by American Brothers
Get a taster here: Steal My E-gow

Pink Twins Catalogue Nominated for Prix Möbius Nordica

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:18:00 +0000

Pink Twins is selected among the 10 finalists for Prix Möbius Nordica, the major annual Helsinki-based media art competition, with Pink Twins Catalogue 2 DVD set. The competition will be held at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art on 30 March 2007.

Update: Yeah, no luck and no prizes for Pink Twins!

Pink Twins Catalogue Available Now!

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:59:00 +0000

It is here... The massive Pink Twins Catalogue, a 2 DVD + book, containing every Pink Twins video, hours of previously unreleased music and a beautiful book! Have a look at the contents and listen to preview music tracks on the special Pink Twins Catalogue site.

Or just go ahead and buy it right here, you know you need it. (Payment by PayPal, postage included)
2 DVD + book - 24,00 EUR

Pink Twins Music Downloads Now Available

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:53:00 +0000

You wanted it, you got it: A new fast and inexpensive way to get Pink Twins music. The Web shop now includes all Pink Twins releases also as digital downloads. The downloads are high quality 320 kbps MP3s. The download purchases are processed instantly by PayPal.

Check the Pink Twins web shop at the Music page for details!

2007

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:42:00 +0000

Some plans for 2007:

Return to Helsinki! After a while, Pink Twins will actually do some concerts in Helsinki! See the calendar page for dates. Also two video exhibitions coming up in Helsinki.

A concert at Inari Festival of Experimental Music, Lapland. There is talk about this taking place in the Ivalo Church. This will be the most northern Pink Twins show so far...

A remix CD for the rock band Cucumber Farmer. Pink Twins are remixing/reconstructing their whole new album Empirical Research on Western Popular Music 1993-2006. The set will be released as a double CD in early 2007 by American Brothers.

A new Pink Twins DVD release, featuring the concert footage from Mongolia. This will probably be released late 2007 or early 2008.

Plus, we will be working on a couple of rather large exhibitions taking place in 2008.

2006

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:47:00 +0000

So that's about it for 2006! It's been another full year for Pink Twins.

We spent most of the first half of the year in our basement putting together the massive Pink Twins Catalogue 2DVD set. This included making a couple of new video works, finishing a couple of unfinished ones, compiling all the material, remastering and reprocessing all the videos, selecting and editing hours of music, putting the package together, designing the book, etc, etc. Pink Twins Catalogue includes all our videos plus hours of music on 2 DVDs and a book. The set will be available here in January 2007!

Other highlights of the year have been the concert in Mongolia with the local metal band Zugeer L, plus the exhibition in Ulaanbaatar; also concerts in Paris, Amsterdam, Gent, Barcelona, Valencia and Vevey... And several exhibitions, screenings, festivals in Europe.

Thanks to all who have participated, we'll be back in 2007! Happy new year!

Pink Twins Catalogue 2 DVD Set

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:17:00 +0000

Pink Twins Catalogue, a 2 DVD + book set will be released in December 2006.

The set includes all of Pink Twins' video works and over five hours of unreleased music on two discs, plus a 40-page book. Five years in the making, spanning works made 2001-2006, this will be massive! Eight hours of pure entertainment! You need this!

More info and full contents soon!

A Spanish Interview

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:04:00 +0000

A Pink Twins interview from October 2006 appears on Clubbinginspain.com. It is in Spanish, but if you're ready for some extreme spanglish, you might try the automatic translation!

Pink Twins Live in Barcelona

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 21:44:00 +0000

Pink Twins live at Fokus Finland opening, KBB, Barcelona, 6 October 2006
Photos by Elbotonrojo

Pink Twins Track on Electrosound.ru

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:51:00 +0000

Exclusive Pink Twins track "Kick" is available for free download on the Russian label Electrosound's website as part of the online compilation "Recycled" (es14). Get the track (and the whole set) here: http://www.electrosound.ru/releases/es14/

European Live Dates, Autumn 2006

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:36:00 +0000

Saturday 2 December 2006
Theatre Paris-Villette, Paris
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

Friday 1 December 2006
SMAK (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Gent

Thursday 30 November 2006
De Duke Ellington Zaal, Conservatory of Amsterdam, Amsterdam

Friday 27 October 2006
Plaza de Velluters (outdoors), Valencia
Vidifestival, The International Festival of Videoart of Valencia

Friday 6 October 2006
Fokus Finland opening, KBB, Barcelona

Watch this space for additions and more info.

Pink Twins Live in Vevey

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:13:00 +0000

Pink Twins live at Repeat All exhibition, Ateliers Mécaniques, Vevey, Switzerland, 16 September 2006
Photos by Raoul Delafontaine

Pink Twins Studio Revealed

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:58:00 +0000

Have a look at the Pink Twins Studio at Trendbeheer.com!
Photos by Niels Post.

Music by Pink Twins Featured in a Mongolian Stage Production

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:46:00 +0000

Opening 14 September in the National Academic Drama Theatre in Ulaanbaatar, a "synthesis art show" features music by Pink Twins. The show "Anatomy," directed and designed by Ser-Odin Sarantsatsralt, is based on Mongolian poetry.

Ulaanbaatar Report

noreply@blogger.com (Pink Twins) — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:37:00 +0000

So we are safely back home from the Mongolian trip. The exhibition "Mongolia: Perception and Utopia" at the Art Gallery of Union of Mongolian Artists included the world premiere of the new Pink Twins video Splitter. Also got the metal crowd at Chameleon club rocking with Mongolian Metal/Finnish Electronics at the Pink Twins/Zugeer L concert.

The concert was recorded and filmed. We are going through the material for a possible future release... We'll see.

Here is the poster:

And a couple of pictures from the show. Photos by Tiina Mielonen