WELCOME
THE WORLD OF BRAVE NEW MEDIA
» We are scientists engaged in the creation of memory...
but our memory will neither blur nor fade. «
SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE (2000)
E. Elias Merhige
LEM-STUDIOS
THE WORLD OF
BRAVE NEW MEDIA
LEM-Studios is a Berlin based collective of new media artists and audiovisual engineers under the creative direction of Sebastian M. Purfürst.
Founded in 2002 by Sebastian M. Purfürst and Christian Mahler LEM-Studios has been working on various commercial and independent new media projects.
LEM-Studios is an open, flexible network focusing on inspiring partnerships and productive cooperations.
Welcome to the world of brave new media.
OUR FIELDS OF WORK
MEDIA FOR
IMMERSIVE SPACES
We develop, compose and design audiovisual media for immersives spaces.
MEDIA FOR
LIVE PERFORMANCES
We develop, compose and design audiovisual media for theatrical and musical live performances.
VIDEO AND MUSIC
PRODUCTIONS
At the core of every new media production lies the pure craftmanship of filming, editing, animating, composing and recording music, creating foley sounds, mixing mastering and much more.
This is the fundament of our work over
the last years .
TRAVELLING THE WORLD OF BRAVE NEW MEDIA AND ITS SEVEN SEAS
A PERSONAL NOTE BY SEBASTIAN M. PURFÜRST
"We never see the same thing when we also hear;
we don’t hear the same thing when we see as well."
(—Michel Chion)
I have two great passions: it's music and it's the picture.
In 2002 I started together with my dear colleague and friend Christian Mahler "LEM-STUDIOS" to fuse together two fundamental dimensions of light and sound into our idea of a world of brave new media.
The senses of seeing and hearing fundamentally influence each other in our perception — so both dimensions were equally respected and sensitively taken care of in our ideas, our concepts, our compositions and productions from day one.
The convergence of media totally liberated and democratized the media production processes. A laptop is a soundmachine and musical instrument, an image generator, an editing suite, an photo lab, a typewriter and wonderful communication tool. The technical and aesthetic boundaries no longer exist, the auditory and visual digital information can be linked and translated in endless combinations. The old utopian dreams of synaesthesia, visual music and gesamtkunstwerk are part of our everyday working life in our studios.
In 2006 Christian Mahler started to focus primarily on his teaching as professor for motion design in Berlin and later Hildesheim. I decided to continue LEM-Studios as the open hub, experimental lab and collaborative network of artists and engineers it had grown over the years.
I've had the great pleasure of collaborating with highly creative people over the last years, in various constellations and locations. In 2016, LEM-Studios found its new home in Berlin — Weissensee, where we share our studios with a group of great creative minds.
A lot of productions required highly specific technical skills and knowledge which were more than often provided by my long-term collaborator and friend Hendrik Neumerkel.
Our work took me literally around the world from Shanghai, CH (World Expo 2012, TRIAD) over Seattle, USA (MARVEL Universe of Super heroes 2018, SC-Exhibitions) to Grahamstown, ZA (Wanderer, Hannah Ma 2019).
Besides our commercial work I always had great interest in supporting independent music –, dance — and theatre scene with various works for the Hannah Ma Dance Company, or productions at theatres like Deutsches Theater (Berlin) or Staatstheater Mainz
I am very grateful for this huge palette of creative challenges with so many wonderful people. My creative Fernweh is as strong as ever and I love travelling the world of brave new media and it’s seven seas.
Sebastian M. Purfürst
Berlin, September 2019
P.S. "LEM" was always an insider reference to the polish science-fiction author Stanislaw Lem. We simply loved his visionary novels where science-fiction, political and social were woven into fantastical worlds.
Only years later I discovered that NASA had named their lander spacecraft LEM (Lunar Excursion Module) in their Apollo Program in the 60s.
Both associative links are wonderful.
VJ / STOCK FOOTAGE
AVAILABE NOW
VJ FOOTAGE
DAY OF THE ARTHROPOD
ABOUT THE KIT
A footage collection of bugs & glitches in a retro vintage sci-fi look.
CONTENT
9 motives, 4 flashes &
5 moving Textures
USE
Use it for vj performances, opening titles
and music videos. Loop, combine and collage the elements to create complex visual moods.
STOCK FOOTAGE
RAPID RAY MOVEMENT
ABOUT THE KIT
A collection of cathode ray noise footage
filmed off of an old vintage tube monitor
CONTENT
90 clips, divided into four categories:
cathode ray explosions, flashes, flickers & interlaced textures.
USE
Works great for impactful transitions,
as texture overlays or displacement maps.
SONICONOCLASM ART BOOK
AVAILABLE NOW
DIPTYCHON SERIES
» Inside my Corporate home
lives a heart
full of noise «
BOOKLET ART
SONICONOCLASM
All PhOTOGRAPHS, AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA, LOGOS AND REGISTERED TRADEMARKS ARE THE PROPERTY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS.
© 2019 LEM-Studios, BERLIN / SEBASTIAN M. PURFÜRST