Never Ending Shanghai app for iPhone and iPad

Never Ending Shanghai - LiveRemix the performance is a new digital approach to experiencing music and video art. The interactive app equals music and visuals, and in a system of arbitrary movements it keeps evolving in an endless stream of instantly composed music and moving images.

The app explores new perspectives on real time composition in a united output of visual and auditive art. It unfolds with music, videos and moving images in a distinct experience for eyes and ears. As in a holistic spaceship, everything is connected when you join the meditative timetravel, moving back and forth from past to present in a dreamy universe.

The app is derived from the audiovisual stage-performance Never Ending Shanghai. It extends the live-concert in a cross-media experience, bringing new perspectives to the music in this "pocket work" for you to enjoy at home. In this format you slowly move along the city, experiencing old futuristic buildings and interactively looking around in a meditative tempo, for you to lean back and enjoy.

In the app you hear Signe Bisgaards music played by one of the leading European bigbands, Blood Sweat Drum+Bass. Music interacts with the moving images by designer Laura Rathschau.

Blood Sweat Drum+Bass is an extended bigband with 23 live-musicians including 3 drummers, laptop, vocal, synths and horn-section. The app remixes the music from the record Never Ending Shanghai (released by Danish game-developer Kong Orange 2017).

What is Never Ending Shanghai - LiveRemix the performance

∙ A new digital approach to experiencing music and video art

∙ A never ending system of instantly composed music

∙ A meditative timetravel where you lean back and enjoy the musical and visual journey

∙ An audiovisual remix of the live-record Never Ending shanghai

∙ A pocket work enhancing the audiovisual stage-performance Never Ending Shanghai

About the interactive music-system:
The music consists of 3 layers and the app randomly plays 2 of them at a time. Each track is 50 sec.-1 minute long and at the end it randomly chooses the next layer with 3 tracks. The tracks are linked to the different environments, and follows the visual atmosphere.

Created by Danish artist-duo Laura Rathschau and Signe Bisgaard

Co-developed by Ingeborg Munk Toft, Poul Munk, Jarl Falke Hyttel, Josefine Cecilie Moa Nielsen, Thomas Højgård Hansen, Esben Kjær Ravn & Kong Orange

Music played by Blood Sweat Drum+Bass

Programmed by Kanda

Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation, Aarhus Kommune, DJBFA, Kapelmesterforeningen and DAF.

Thanks to Ruben Lisboa, Peter Kjær, Jakob Hougaard Andersen, Jacob Junker, Kristian Andreasen & Mikkel Maltesen