Modeselektor: Interview on working with a visualist, Show in Chicago tonight

Here’s a brief interview with Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, the musicians behind Modeselektor, along with their touring

visualist, who extrapolate on how they work together in a live environment. Considering as the musician half use Max / MSP with a custom patch by Apparat, one would suspect that their audio / video interaction might involve something equally complex, along the lines of Jitter or whatnot, but that appears not to be the case.

An interesting bit of trivia comes from the divulgence that Modeselektor was the result of a veritable German alt-tronica DIY endurance match, where the last men standing in a collective of audio and visual producers teamed up to form the current lineup.

Modeselektor plays tonight in Chicago at Sonotheque, a venue that might not be able to withstand the chaos that is Modeselektor’s live performance.