This new project, produced by UK arts outfit Forma, brings together two of today's most pioneering artists in a virtuoso live audiovisual performance.

With the World Premiere at the IMAX of their new collaboration, acclaimed Austrian electronic composer Christian Fennesz and the award-winning filmmaker and video artist Charles Atlas bring to Optronica a very different approach to visual music.
    
Once described as "the electric guitar severed from cliché and all of its physical limitations, shaping a bold new musical language' Fennesz's densely layered musical compositions are anything but sterile computer experiments, having an inherent naturalism, evocative of light, texture and atmosphere.  His most recent albums Endless Summer (2001) and Venice (2004) achieved widespread critical and popular acclaim. 

Atlas meanwhile, has created work for film, theatre, television and such prestigious museums as the Whitney in NY and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris.  A pioneer of the integration of live video with stage performance, Atlas is best known for his acclaimed collaborations with choreographers, dancers and performers such as Michael Clark, Leigh Bowery, Merce Cunningham and more recently with New York band Antony and the Johnsons on the audiovisual performance Turning.  Atlas is the recipient of three Bessie (New York Dance and Performance) Awards and was recently presented with the prestigious John Cage Award 2006, by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.