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Deleting is actually a collaboration
between Amatorski and We Work We Play.
I've been working for a while now on what the internet
means to the music industry, on an economic level.
but now we want to think about it from an artist's perspective,
how you can redefine yourself in that context.
I already had some ideas
but we sat together for about two weeks in our studio.
And then we made concrete choices
about what we were going to do: the type of interaction, the web application
and how we were going to elaborate on this
for the live performance in De Singel.
Actually it is a website
where people can collaborate on Amatorski's song.
When you visit the site, you see a picture from the band
and you can immediately click on the screen
and there will appear a dot where you click
and this forms an abstract diamond figure.
and it makes use of the colors of the picture beneath.
When you know how this works
you can also use your own Facebook photos,
and when the backgrond photo changes, the colors of the diamonds also change.
Actually, it's a bit like a music sequencer,
a little music box,
a cylinder with a couple of points,
and every time when the player passes by, you can hear a sound.
Deleting Borders is a digital version of such a music box.
it's certainly a typical Amatorski concert with Amatorski songs
we just wanted to add more depth to the gig
by working with visuals
and by telling the whole story
with the website.
A live concert is already an event where artists and audience interact
but we wanted to take it a step further.
The main challenge is to find a balance
between letting things go
and keeping your own identity.
if you would let the public determine everything
then you will get a chaos, which doesn't relate to the identity or the sound of your band.
So, it's a subtle balance: how far can we go and can we still realize something that's typical for us.
I think it's also typical of Amatorski that we always want do to something from our own
and that we don't always do what an audience expects,
but that we organize things where our audience is involved in some way.
It's great that we can use all the resources and infrastructure from De Singel.
It's a very comfortable situation.
It's also good that we can work very intensively here for a period.
Sometimes it's also tiresome,
but in the end, it's a very productive working process.
Sometimes people say that playing music doesn't fit into a structure,
but for us it works out great.
Sure, it comes close to a 9 to 5 job.
We start and stop working at rather fixed hours.
We arrive here every day with a coffeepot and some sandwiches.