If you happen to travel Austria this March, don’t miss Timo Novotny‘s new live audiovisual show together with Sofa Surfers. I really hope to see this show one day here in Berlin. Timo & Monoscope‘s inspirational short-film and VJ show back in 1998 for Sofa Surfers was the one that got me into video-art in the first place. -flux

Sofa Surfers visualist and filmmaker Timo Novotny (Life in Loops, a megacities rmx feat. Sofa Surfers) has been traveling around the world to find people and stories about the subway systems. TRAINS OF THOUGHTS is an audio-visual essay, which reflects upon and compares metro systems around the world. It is an exploration of a world inside the world as well as the feelings, fascination, obsession, fear and themes – of survival, control and silence – that revolve it.

The film will take you through New York, Moscow, Vienna, Tokyo and Berlin, unleashing the imagination at every destination with its distinctive palette of
visuals and selection of sounds from Sofa Surfers. In each city, the audience will meet different kinds of characters and get acquainted with their relationships with metro-systems. The viewer will find that they are able to familiarize themselves with the characters and feel with them as the music complementing the scenes will be created from found sound and words originating from their respective locations. When interwoven into the music, these sounds will amplify the mood and atmosphere of the respective scenes. Altogether, the film unveils several short stories about people who live with or
for the metro. Their stories are staged against the backdrop of a strange juxtaposition of ambitious above-the-ground architecture and charming underworld.

“We shape the things we build, and forevermore they shape us” (Winston Churchill)

Upcoming shows:

• 20/03 – Sofa Surfers – Triple score of private eye “Brenner” – PPC, Graz, Austria
• 21/03 – Sofa Surfers – Triple score of private eye “Brenner” – Volxhaus, Klagenfurt, Austria
• 26/03 – Sofa Surfers – Triple score of private eye “Brenner” – ARGEkultur, Salzburg, Austria
• 27/03 – Sofa Surfers – Triple score of private eye “Brenner” – Conrad Sohm, Dornbirn, Austria
• 16/04 – Sofa Surfers – Cocoon Club, Frankfurt, Germany