Enclosed with the hardcopy of this issue of Mediamatic is V.O.L.V.O. Airbag, a CD-Rom produced by Paul Groot and Jans Possel for the based Rave Art Ensemble V.O.L.V.O.. Airbag is the third in an ongoing series of CD-Roms published with Mediamatic Magazine.
Airbag features Pinky, Richard and Lennart, the three faces of V.O.L.V.O.. For a prolonged version of their one-song-concept, D.J. 's who work regularly in disco's in Rotterdam, Amsterdam, London, Ibiza, Rimini, New York, Brussels and Chicago, made different remixes of the original song Airbag can save Lives.
Accompanied by films of multi-talent Yariv Alter Fin, and surrounded by products of V.O.L.V.O. -friends, this CD-Rom gives you the ultimate state in music and dance.
The hype that V.O.L.V.O. generated all over Europe is compacted here on 680MB. With the exclusive report of their world tour and a never ending live performance of Airbag Can Save Your Life at the Paradiso, Amsterdam.
This musical experiment, this portrait of the hype-popgroup V.O.L.V.O., this series of remixes of the song Airbag Can Save Lives, are all set up in an interactive form regulated by the so -called 'Angels'. These Angels - typical Mediamatic code, already used in the Mediamatic Interactive Promo - are used here for a journey set as a film-noir-like experience This is not a disk with the face of an anti-menu like the BlindRom (just awarded the first prize at the Berlin Filmfestival in the category CD-Roms), nor an image of hypertext-networking like in the DoPRom, but a cinematographic experiment.
And be aware: interactivity was never so integrated with your mouse: never let your mouse down, try out the possibilities of your mouse pad and let your mouse roll...
The hardcopy of Mediamatic Vol 8#2/3, including the CD-Rom V.O.L.V.O. Airbag is available in the better book- and magazinestores for DFL. 45,-. You could ofcourse also subscribe to Mediamatic Magazine.