An Exciting New Showcase For The International Creative Arts

A feature article by omnimoda, Feb 03, 2008         

Summary: The filmmakers, musicians, artists and writers involved are linked by a common aim to innovate, subvert, experiment and veer from the cliches of the mainstream.

 
Omnimoda is an exciting new showcase for the international creative arts. The filmmakers, musicians, artists and writers involved are linked by a common aim to innovate, subvert, experiment and veer from the cliches of the mainstream. They inhabit a space “where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up” (Gilles Deleuze). Their influences are diverse, from Kathie Murphy to Hunter S Thompson to British hip hop to JG Ballard. Fundamental to omnimoda.com is the power of ideas, some of them being public art, the Gonzo creed, anarchism, eschatology, controversialism, love, peak experiences and the possibility of originality. Affiliates: Tom and Simon Sykes are the editors of the travel book No Such Thing As A Free Ride? (published in 2005 by Cassell Illustrated) (ISBN: 1844033821) which was named Observer Travel Book of the Month and serialized in The Times. Writers of fiction and journalism from the UK, US, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Africa and Canada. The turntablist hip hop DJ Anode has supported the likes of DJ Yoda and the Scratch Perverts. Singer-songwriter Lucie has recorded and toured the country extensively. Over an eight year career electronic ‘stompbeatz’ outfit Ether Flyer have been reviewed in the NME and in 2001 released an album Noises You Get Used To on Centaur Records in Dundee. Off-the-wall French singer Eddie Spamfinga has been slowly garnering a cult following across Europe and is now promoting himself in the UK via omnimoda.com. The website is also associated with Pretty Scruffy jewellery, whose aesthetic is one of ‘recycling, beach-combing, sewing, surrealist miming’. Ross Dobner is a professional animator who has worked in the UK, Vietnam and Holland. He has enjoyed success with music videos, commercials and art films. Coming soon: A multimedia concept-project about a fictional 1920s musical ensemble who unwittingly pioneered various forms of pop music long before they were thought to have been invented. Tom Sykes has a novella The Blank Space due to be published later in the year by Pendragon Press. Lucie will be touring a range of venues in the south and west of England over the summer. After a long hiatus Ether Flyer will be performing a spoken word event with Tom Sykes at an arts festival in Folkestone, Kent in June to help promote publication of his story True Sounds of Infamy. Omnimoda (copyright 2008 Omnimoda Productions)

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