Quiet Cue #077 WEDNESDAY JANUARY 18th· doors open 7:30, show starts 8:16
Alessandro Bosetti »Mask/Mirror«
Heather Frasch »For Solo Flute«
Matija Schellander & Enrico Malatesta
(Austria/Italy) double bass and percussion
Mask/Mirror is a sampler to process recordings of spoken language in real time. The sampler follows both sound and meaning criteria in sorting, organizing and processing samples and in formulating utterances. It is a software tool based on max/msp and a speech recognition software interacting with my own voice during performances. It's also a state of mind enabling expanded spoken and vocal improvisation, expanded communication and ecstasy. It has been developed in collaboration with Harvestworks Digital Arts Center in New York and STEIM in Amsterdam. Mask/Mirror has to do with virtually everything but at the same time it does not have anything special to do with anything special. As well as being a blank mask I can put on my face - and my voice - it's also a mirror that let me browse and talk to my memory while I am watching into it. All mirrors are masks and vice versa. Both are tools enabling identity.
* Heather Fraschis a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music. Also, she performs frequently as an improviser and experimental flutist, and creates sound installations.
Her music has been performed at various festivals such as: The Moscow Autumn Festival, SICMF in Korea, Electroacoustic Listening Room Project, 60x60 project, NYCEMF, SEAMUS, ICMC, Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival, SF Tape Music Festival, among others. She received the George Ladd Prix de Paris in 2008, and Nicol De Lorenzo Prize in Composition in 2010 and 2008.
* Matija Schellander(born 1981 in Bilčovs) lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Studies: computer music and double bass. Works in the field of improvised & contemporary composed music. http://matija.klingt.org
Enrico Malatesta (born 1985 in Cesena, Italy) is a percussionist active in the field of contemporary, electro-acoustic and improvised music. He studied classical percussion instruments at the “Bruno Maderna” Conservatory in Cesena, delving into both the orchestral and soloist repertoire. His personal activity and research is aimed at the redefinition of the role of the percussionist in different contemporary areas, studying the acoustic dimension and the material quality of percussion instruments. Besides his ongoing solo projects he’s also active performing works from the soloist repertoire of the 20th Century, including graphic scores by J.Cage, M.Feldman, K. Stockhausen, E. Brown. yoursadness.blogspot.com
Activity Center [...] This music adds new meaning and new vitality to the "genre" of guitar and percussion improv - in fact it ignores the genre altogether and creates something better. Other improv players dream, in their politically correct and polite way, of leaving enough space for their fellow collaborators to perform... Activity Center go one stage further, and create that space - defining huge areas of interactive possibility between the notes. [...] The Sound Projector
Axel Dörner [...] Dörner's careful, lightly inspiring presence is always opening up possibilities [...] LondonJazz
Noid [...]Haberl mixes an intensity verging on sadism with humour to create challenging, but fascinating music. BBC Online
duo Ulrich Müller, guitar, processing 48nord.de Klaus Janek, doublebass, processing klaus-janek.de
GRAPE SHADE
Biliana Voutchkova, violin/voice Klaus Janek, bass/electronics Ingo Reulecke and Katharina Meves, dance
Grape Shade is dedicated to expanding the relationship between music/sound, dance/movement and improvisation.
Fariello/Ileri The duo was born in summer 2009 in Istanbul. Eren uses only prerecorded alto saxophone samples, and Dario plays with/on/in/under it in real-time. Touching the vinyl controller the tone becomes scratch, leaving we are back to the sax, but in a different part of the composition! So the dj plays rhythmically with this switch possibility: scratch and re-composition, superimposing voices. After some concerts and some private sessions the "sound bank" evolved: they went back to the studio and recorded more material: long sounds made for scratching, wind sections, static soundscapes and multi-layer compositions. soundcloud.com/erenileridariofariello
Rui Faustino was born in 1975 in Algarve, Portugal. He has been playing the drums since 1990. In 1994 he started his academical formation. He studied classical percussion for three years at EPME. After that he moved on to the Jazz drumset which took him to Lisbon to study at HCP, and later to Berlin where he was a guest both at HfM Hans Eisler and UdK Berlin. Rui lives since 2000 between Berlin and Lisbon and has been working with musicians radicated in both countries. He also made music for theater, dance, circus and film. rui-faustino.com
Exchange: Berlin/_____ a sound art project by Johnny Chang & Luke Munn (Berlin/New Zealand) special guests: Lucio Capece (reeds and objects) Annette Krebs (guitar and electronics)
interaction with real world sound via carefully focused responses and common objects, electronics, or instruments.
audience-involving pieces by Peter Ablinger and Christian Kesten.
front room installations by Michael Pisaro, Stefan Thut, Taku Unami, Manfred Werder.
Okkyung Lee: after being in music schools from age of 3 to 25, korean cellist/improviser/composer Okkyung Lee finally found her artistic freedom in New York's lower east side where she moved in 2000. Since then, she has performed and recorded with numerous artists such as Laurie Anderson, Lotte Anker, Derek Bailey, Kjell Bjørgeengen, Carla Bozulich, John Butcher, Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, Sylvie Courvoisier, Carlos Giffoni, John Hollenbeck, Vijay Iyer, Lindha Kallerdahl, Andrew Lampert, Christian Marclay, Min Xiao-Fen, Thurston Moore, Ikue Mori, Lawrence D. "butch" Morris, Jim O'rourke, Evan Parker, Keith Rowe, Wadada Leo smith, Tyshawn Sorey, Skuli Sverrisson,C Spencer Yeh and John Zorn to name a few. Okkyung has released the following albums: her debut album as a leader, Nihm on Tzadik; a duo recording with Christian Marclay, Rubbings on My Cat is an Alien (LP)/A Silent place (CD); solo cello album I saw the Ghost of an Unknown Soul and it Said... on Thurston Moore's Ecstatic Peace!; Check for Monsters with Steve Beresford and Peter Evans on Emanem label. In 2011, her second album Noisy Love Songs on Tzadik will be released in march. followed by limited edition LP Anicca with phil minton on Dancing Wayang later in april. Okkyung also recorded a trio album with Evan Parker and Peter Evans and also a duo with Paul Lytton to be released on psi later in 2011. okkyunglee.com
Matija Schellander * 1981, is an Austrian double bass player and electronic musician living in Vienna and Berlin. He has performed improvised music in Austria, Slovenia, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Italy and has composed pieces for his own groups as well as commisioned pieces for the Jazzwerkstatt Wien Workshop Ensemble, ChoreographersAkemi Takeya, visual artist Meina Schellander, Vocal Ensemble Hortus Musicus, Zur Wachauerin…. Schellanders regular projects include: Duos Rdeča Raketa with Maja Osojnik and with turntablist dieb13, trio Second Sound (Schellander/Bruckner-Weinhuber/Malatesta) and the Low Frequency Orchestra (Osojnik/Castelló/Grill/Schellander). Other collaborations include Franz Hautzinger, Burkhard Stangl, Martin Siewert, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, Christof Kurzmann, Choi Joonyong, Bernhard Lang, Renald Deppe, Pia Palme, Elisabeth Flunger, Noid, Martin Brandlmayr, Marco Eneidi, Wolfgang Mitterrer and many more. Recent Releases: low frequency orchestra & wolfgang mitterer – MOLE (chmafu 2010) rdeča raketa – old girl, old boy (mosz 2010) Metalycée - It is not (mosz 2009) matija.klingt.org
Telling stories about trees: Is a Norwegian/Italian collaboration that stems from a night in Rome where Bluefaced People(Skaset/Moe) shared the bill with a Renato Ciunfrini project. The musicians became mutual aware of each other and decided to meet in Norway to play and experiment togheter. Feeling confident about their music in the cold and dark city of Oslo, they decided to continue the collaboration and tour Italy toghether. After two weeks of touring the music had begun to grow in new directions, and started to get a inner substance and form far beyond improvisation. The mixture of the acoustic instruments with a slow and mechanical, almost electronic approach, makes the music sometimes harsh and rigid. But with spontaneous transitions into smoother and more sporadic melodic passages, the music gets the life and nourishment to continue to grow into new areas. Within the layers of friction overlapped with airy textures and the focus on contrasts, the musicians seeks to reveal a deep duality in the music. conradsound.com/music/telling-stories-about-trees
Massimo Falascone:Born in Milan on a quiet winter's day. Elsewhere in the world, Glenn Gould publishes the "Goldberg Variations", Thelonious Monk is about to record "Brilliant Corners", John Cage composes "Radio Music". Soon Ornette Coleman will lose his job as an elevator boy in a department store. He's been playing his plastic saxophone for two years and there are still four to go before "Free Jazz". MF hardly remembers those days. Would catch up later on. In the late fall of 1968 listening to the radio from the back seat of his father’s car, he is confirmed that "Hey Jude" is for another week at the lead of the "Hit Parade". That single and that group from Liverpool will mark his existence. He quickly learns to play the guitar. In the mid 70s he’s given the book "Jazz" by Arrigo Polillo. It’ll be the beginning of the end. Today he plays various saxophones and live electronics. He composes electroacoustic music. He has played with lots of musicians and has recorded several discs. Created groups, orchestras and associations. He improvises, writes music for the theater, documentaries and installations. He teaches, conducts workshops and master classes on improvisation and writing. John Hughes:Studied music at Montgomery Community College, Rockville, Maryland. Lives in Hamburg, Germany since 1998. Plays compositions by Sun Ra in Rocket No.9 and his own in Trio Hosho. Long time collaborations with italian pianist Alberto Braida in Duo Mobile and with Lars Scherzberg and Jeff Arnal in Tripwire. Releases on schraum, Oaksmus, Generate Records, creative sources, broken research, blue pearls music. Nicolas Wiese:Audiovisual artist living in Berlin.
Audrey Chen is a Chinese-American musician and performance artist born outside of Chicago in 1976. Using the cello, voice and analog electronics, Chen’s work focuses on the combination and layering of traditional and extended techniques. A large component of her music is improvised and her approach to this is often extremely personal and visceral. Her performance work incorporates sound, movement and visual/sculptural concepts. Chen performs solo and in collaboration with a wide number of musicians and dancers. Among musicians, she has worked with many great artists, including Phil Minton, Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura, Ko Ishikawa, Elliott Sharp, Aki Onda, Phill Niblock, Frederic Blondy, Jim Pugliese, Alessandro Bosetti, Mike Cooper... Bilwaworks in both theperforming and visual arts contexts. His electronic music and sound art often involve the abstraction of source material such as dancers’ breath and body sounds, acoustic musicians, and audio frequency feedback—sonicrelics through which he pulls elements of specific spaces, times, and interactions into his work. He is interested insensory perception and subjectivity, and his work documentsthose acts of decipherment. He often uses multiple speakers placed throughout a space, generating a sensory environmentrich in ambient, rhythmic, and spatial sound. Collaboration with other musicians, dancers, and designers and use of improvisation are central to his practice. His collaborators include: Gene Coleman, Audrey Chen, Werner Moebius, Mariella Greil, Christian Schroeder, Michael McDermott, John J.H. Phillips, Maria Nurmela, J. Milo Taylor, Marina Peterson, Helena Espvall, Kimmo Modig, Martin Lanz Landazuri, Topias Tiheäsalo, Daniela Lehman, Klaus Janek, and Antje Velsinger. KAMAMA is the duo project of Audrey Chen and Berlin based percussionist Luca Marini. http://www.myspace.com/kamamaband/music
Selena Junackov (Belgrade) New slide projection work \'LIMINAL SPACE\'
Eyal Maoz (New York City) Guitar / Electronics
solo and duo with:
Stefan Poetzsch Violin http://www.stefanpoetzsch.com
Eyal Maoz, solo performer, composer, ensembles leader, Tzadik and Ayler Records artist and a guest member of John Zorn’s Cobra, performed solo in New York City, Tel Aviv, China, Vienna, Kino Center at Ebensee, Austria, and London. Based in New York City , his ensemble Edom just released a new album at the Radical Jewish Culture series at Tzadik Records. His ensembles performed at major music festivals worldwide such as the Montreal Jazz Festival, Red Sea International Jazz Festival, NYC 2007 Winter JazzFest, the New York Jewish Music and Heritage Festival, Florida Music Harvest, The Jewzapalooza Festival in NYC and more. He was featured on MTV and NPR. eyalmaozmusic.com/live
\'liminal space\', a place where boundaries dissolve a little and we stand there, on the threshold, getting ourselves ready to move across the limits of what we were into what we are to be. \'liminal space\': a space of transformation between phases of separation and reincorporation. Liminal spaces are ambiguous and ambivalent, they slip between global market and local place, between public use and private value, between work and home, between commerce and culture.
Selena Junackov (Belgrade, Serbia) 2008. Graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts, Novi Sad, Department of Photography. 2011. Master at the Department of New Media / Video. vimeo.com/user7815929
Margriet KicksAss (NL)
Rauschmaschine: This interactive sound-sculpture is a former archive-cupboard, and sounds like the engine-room of a ship. It's based on resonance and produces sounds from a big auditieve spectrum.
With clean frequencies the whole unit becomes alive and starts to quake. Different loose iron objects, which are fixed on the unit, are following this movement. The quaking objects are amplified by mics. So you can feel and hear the physical energy. Visitors are invited to explore hidden sounds.
LSD [Vienna] Daniel Lercher (electronics) Bernhard Schöberl (guitars) Gloria Damijan (piano/toy piano)
LSD steht für die Namen der drei MusikerInnen Daniel Lercher (electronics), Bernhard Schöberl (guitars) und Gloria Damijan (piano/toy piano), die einem größeren Netzwerk für elektroakustische improvisierte Musik bzw. Klangkunst angehören. Der Titel der neuen CD – LSD-tripping (einklang records) – ist aber auch eine Anspielung auf die gleichnamige halluzinogene Droge Lysergsäure- diethylamid und die damit assoziierte Reise in andere Bewusstseinszustände. (...) Dieser andere Zustand wird – um wieder zur Musik zurückzukehren – von den drei MusikerInnen sehr sorgfältig und wie ein Teppich ausgebreitet, der dann – so man sich auf diese musikalische Reise einlässt – langsam vom Boden der Alltagsrealität abhebt. (...) Wolfgang Seierl - kofomi, 2010
martiensgohome (mgh - Bruxelles) mgh.constantvzw.org: Radio art collective / Electroacoustic live quartet
Founded in April 1996, martiensgohome is a sound collective whose primary outlet is radio. Operating at the crossroad between radio drama and improvised electronic music, it has been present on the airwaves of Brussels, on radio campus, without interruption since its first broadcast. Instant sound scape, musique concrete sauvage, martiensgohome's music is first and foremost a celebration of the sound spectrum, from the roughest noise to the tiniest resonance. Through personnel changes, regular or occasional guests, game plays, specific side-projects, the collective has always maintained a constant renewal, that justifies its longevity. They keep on challenging themselves, through arbitrary rules, codes and unusual playing formulas, in order to preempt any restraint, any sclerosis, and be able to pursue the highest possible creative freedom. Their music is based on an attention for the microscopic details of their sound environment, from the overlooked specifics of our everyday life to the character of more complex soundscapes. The recordings they collect every week on the field are the edited, treated and confronted to each others' findings. The collective is currently composed of four persons. Their performances are spontaneous and site-specific, taking into account the place, its character and atmosphere.
martiensgohome is operating on the radio every thursday 8:30pm on radio campus107.2, in brussels (streaming: modem - adsl)
Lin Chi-Wei: Born in Taipei, Taiwan, now living in Beijing, Lin Chi-Wei has been one of the pioneers of experimental and noise music in Taiwan. He has been a member of ZLSO (Zero and Sound Liberation Organization) from the early 1990's. He studied cultural anthropology on the issue of temple architecture, taoism ritual and music and later media art. In 2010 he became an invited professor of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. As a multimedia artist, he has published audio and video works and has been involved in solo and group exhibitions. Site : http://www.linchiwei.com/ Video : http://www.linchiwei.com/archives/556 Ballon Music : http://www.linchiwei.com/archives/464
C-drik: Born in Lubumbashi, Congo, now living in Berlin, C-drík started to play experimental and noise music in 1989 while living in Belgium. He studied electro-acoustic music and started his own label Syrphe, mostly focused on producing experimental and electronic music from Asia and Africa as well as some of his projects. He performed across Europe, the Middle East, the Far East, North America and North Africa, playing solo or collaborating with other artists. Site : http://www.syrphe.com/projects/c_drik/c_drik.html Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LPwOnji1Kc
Ernesto Rodrigues (born in Lisbon, August 29, 1959) is a Portuguese composer, violinist, violist and electronic musician. Rodrigues has been playing the violin for 30 years and in that time has played all genres of music ranging from contemporary music to free jazz and free improvisation, in the studio and live around the world. He created the record label Creative Sources Recordings in 1999, which mainly concentrates on releasing experimental and electro-acoustic music. He is also known as a painter. [...] He has created music for films, dance, performance, and video. Has also worked with contemporary dancers like Mário Calixto, Manuela Cipriano, Ana Galan, Valérie Métivier and Andresa Soares.
Lou Mallozzi (b. 1957) is an audio artist in Chicago who dismembers and reconstitutes sound, language, gesture, and image in various media. He works in live performance, radio art, sound installation, CD recording, soundtrack design, and visual art. He has presented works at numerous festivals, concerts, galleries, and broadcasts since 1986, including the Bludenz Festival for Contemporary Music (Austria), the TUBE Audio Art Series (Munich), Fylkingen (Stockholm), The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), The Fort Wayne Museum of Art (Indiana), Podewil (Berlin), The PAC/edge Performance Festival (Chicago), Aetherfest Radio Art Festival (Albuquerque), The Resonance FM Radio Festival (London), Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich), The Chicago Cultural Center, The Donald Young Gallery, Corbett vs Dempsey, and many others. He has collaborated with numerous artists in these endeavors, including Sandra Binion, Michael Vorfeld, Mats Gustafsson, Jaap Blonk, Michael Zerang, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Carlos Zingaro, Hal Rammel, Terri Kapsalis, ensemble Intégrales, Guillermo Gregorio, and many others.
Ap’strophe is the duo of Ferran Fages and Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga. They began working together in 2006, when Ferran Fages recorded “Cançons per a un lent retard”. At that time he collaborated with Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga in the track Paraula clau, which they composed and interpreted together. After recording the album they realized the impossibility of re-interpreting this piece, which is based on the detuning(s) of the guitar, but decided to continue working together and started to search for a common sonoric space. The result of this survey gave shape to their present collaboration, which consists of a duo of acoustic guitar and zither. With their music they investigate the perception of the distinctive timbre of the guitar and the zither alongside the differences and similarities of their string instruments. Their approximation combines the acoustic with the electronic in the sense that they employ frequencies produced by their acoustic notes together with sounds produced by electronic means. Their first album ‘objects sense objectes’ has been released in Etude Records in May 2009, while their second album ‘corgroc’ has been released in April 2011 in another timbre.
Berlin improvisers Dörner (trumpet) and Hawyard (tuba) are joined by Argentinian reedsman Lucio Capece in 2004 to form the trio known as Kammerlärm (chambernoise). Together they create a non-narrative music that evinces a strict reserve with respect to 'self-expression,' an acute awareness of the materiality of their instruments, a sustained exploration of the possibilities of instrumental playing. Their first full-length release as a trio (Azul discografica, 2007) is culled from two recording sessions at Dörner's home in 2005. An intensely disciplined music, within whose spaces, gestures, and silences, unfolds a finely textured sound-world that rewards deep, repeat listening.
Johnny Chang(solo violin + spatial sound amplification) plays Annette Krebs Radu Malfatti
Radu Malfatti's fordan (written for Dan Warbuton) gently and persistently probes the listener's perceptions of time and space, with a minimal of distractions from physically tangible sonic materials. This sense of timing and space is further explored and exploited in Annette Kreb's site-specific composition for solo performer. The sounds associated with Quiet Cue and the Staalplaat environs are considered as viable sonic palette - in a sense, the place becomes the score.
and: a special bulletin by Mat Pogo (actual voice) Nicolas Wiese(virtual voices)
Most people will typically associate the set-up of one man and his guitar with folk music. For Microphonics, however, Dirk Serries, the creative force behind vidnaObmana and Fear Falls Burning, has his mind set to different horizons. Equipped with nothing but a Gibson Les Paul, a few effect pedals and a tube amplifier, he turns clubs, art galleries, unusual performance sites and concert houses into intimate spaces of sonic echoes and shimmering overtones. Allowing for the music to grow from the moment, each performance is unique and makes full use of the ambiance and acoustic characteristics of a venue. You can see Serries 'capturing' his own reflections and sending back replies, twisting and turning his guitar to shape the air around it.
Andrea Parkins is a sound/installation artist, composer, and electroacoustic/interactive electronics performer internationally acclaimed for her uniquely gestural and textural approach to her electronically-processed accordion and customized live sound processing. Described by The New York Times Steve Smith, as a “sound-ist” and beyond category as a performer and musician, she creates with her laptop electronics and Fender-amped accordion an intense and visceral sonic world, full of lush harmonics, noisy concretized disruption, and soaring electronic feedback.
Michael Edward Edgerton, born in Racine, Wisconsin, is a composer of modern classical music. In addition to concert music, he previously had interest in bringing music together with other mediums, such as theater, movement and visual art, often in collaboration with artists from these disciplines — however, in the last 10 years, his work increasingly leans toward complexity and acoustical exploration. Since 2000, Edgerton has been based in Europe and has worked with artists such as Stefan Östersjö, Kairos String Quartet, Ensemble Ars Nova, Stockholm Saxophone Quartet, Gary Verkade, Angela Rademacher, Chor der Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Chatschatur Kanajan, Jeffrey Burns. His compositions have received awards and recognition from the Kompositions- preis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart 2007 (Tempo Mental Rap), 2007 Composition Contest of the Netherlands Radio Choir (Kalevi Matus), 5th Dutilleaux International Composition Compétition, 2003 (1 sonata), 31 Festival Synthese Bourges 2001 (The Elements of Risk in Creation), 1999 Sal Martirano composition competition, Friends and Enemies of New Music (Net/Byrinth), MacDowell Club Award for composition, 1995 (Unspoken Crime), Midwest Composers Symposium, 1988 (A Penny for the Young Guy), 1987 National Federation of Music Clubs Composition Competition (Ai), 1987 National Federation of Music Clubs Composition Competition (Dwellers of the Southwest), Michigan State University Orchestral Composition Competition, 1986 (The Final Diary of a Branch)
Michael received his Doctorate in Musical Arts (DMA) in composition from the University of Illinois, the Masters of Music (MM) from Michigan State University and the Bachelors of Arts (BA) from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. From 1996 to 1999, Michael was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the National Center for Voice and Speech, where he conducted research on voice science for his book, the 21st Century Voice (http://www.scarecrowpress.com/).
Matthias Bauer: Born in Sonneberg / Thüringen 1959. Studied doublebass at the Hochschule für Musik, East Berlin until 1980. Apart from work in music ensembles ranging from contemporary classical to free improvisation, is a central concern with experimental music-theater, dance projects, work with live poetry and his own solo performances incorporating the voice. After lengthy residencies in Lyon (1980-88) and Cologne, he returnd to Berlin in 1991 and has since been active as an improviser, performing with the likes of Shelley Hirsch, David Moss, Tony Oxley, Sven Ake Johansson, Jon Rose, Chris Cutler a.o. He has performed specially composed solo works by Georg Katzer, Lothar Voigtländer and helmut Oehring. He is also active as a composer for improvising musicians.
Workshop:
Michael Edward Edgerton – Extra-Normal Vocal Technique
The workshop will focus on methods of voice production, based on certain aspects of physiology and acoustics, drawing influences from nonwestern music as well as western avantgarde traditions. The training will be focused on techniques to explore the biodiversity of sound production, and to expand the limits of the voice, as not all potential has been reached. No previous experience necessary.
Olivier Toulemonde plays improvised music with acoustic objects or amplified springs. He works on listening, sound research and relationship between sound and space. In 1993, he was a co-founder of "Collectif Ishtar" (in Bourg-en-Bresse) together with 20 other musicians and dancers. A year later, he joined "Collectif et Compagnie" (in Annecy), where he first started working with electro-acoustic music. He has played in several festivals, such as Musique Action (Vandoeuvre), Densités (Fresne-en-Woëvre), Rencontres de musiques Spontanées (Rimouski - Canada), NPAI (Niort), LEM (Barcelona), Glasgow International festival, Re:Flux (Moncton - Canada), Festival des Musiques Innovatrices (St Etienne), Jazz à Luz, Curva Minore (Palermo), Humanoise Congress (Wiesbaden), Sonorités (Montpellier), Musiques Libres (Besançon), Beta Project (Pau), Huis a/d Werf (Utrecht), Minim (Barcelona), Remor (Girona), Troubles (Brussels), Blurred Edges (Hamburg), Contemporaneamente (Lodi)... Olivier Toulemonde plays often with N. Desmarchelier, M. Doneda, C. Sehnaoui, M. Forge, A. Palier, J. Wright...
Swiss accordion player, electronic musician and composer Jonas Kocher was born in 1977. He studied at the Hochschule der Künste Bern with Teodoro Anzellotti (accordion), Pierre Sublet and Georges Aperghis (théâtre musical). He played in various projects by Ruedi Häusermann and Daniel Ott. He currently plays in many improvised music projects in Switzerland and Europe as accordion player and electronic musician. Concerts and collaborations with Urs Leimgruber, Paed Conca, Peter Evans, Michel Doneda, Christian Wolfarth, Christian Weber, Hans Koch, Thomas Lehn, Lukatoyboy, Duo Blank Disc, HarS, Jean Bordé, Ensemble Rue du Nord, Raed Yassin, ... . Initiator and organizer of Swiss-Balkan Creative Music (2007-2008). Self-taught composer, he works in the field of new music theatre. His theatral and/or music compositions have been played a.o. at Biennale Bern’03, Theater Basel, Zentrum Paul Klee, Festival Encuentros Buenos Aires, KlangKunstBühne Berlin, Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel, Festival Concentus Moravie, Biennale Zagreb. He regulary composes music for radio features for the swiss radio DRS2. 2004/05 : 6 month’s residence at the Cité des Arts, Paris, grant of the Canton de Berne. 2005 : Culture prize of the City of Nyon (CH).
Juan Parra Cancino
#1: "KVSwalk_SOLO" Computer and analog electronics. Duration: 20"
KVSwalk_SOLO aims to research the possibilities and limitations of physicality and embodied musicality in computer music performance. The musical structure is centered around the metaphoric imaginary, as well as sonic derivatives of the Karman Vortex Street phenomena. For its ensemble version, a set of 'high-order parameters' were defined for each performer, favoring timbre variation and texture density control over pitch and articulation variety. KVSwalk_SOLO is a solo computer version of a piece commissioned by the Orpheus Institute in Gent and the International Music Council premiered by the ORCiM ensemble and Chris Chafe (CCRMA) the Orpheus Research Centre in Music Festival on September 16, 2010. The Solo version features a mixed setup consisting of an analog/digital sound-generation engine and a custom controller that demands from its performer to use physical gestures derived from a variety of 'traditional' musical instruments.
#2: "PLP_Berlin" Electric Guitar and Live Electronics. Duration: 25"
PLP_Berlin is part of a series of works focusing on new lectures given to traditional music conventions, particularly on the use of a notation system that will help to spawn the exploratory process between traditional and electronic musical instruments. The organizational backbone of these works is derived from the concept of "timbre networks" an overall structural composition strategy devised by the composer, aimed to design high order parameters in live electronic music. The first piece of this series was PLP_I , a collaboration with violinist Mieko Kanno. Furher versions include collaborations with guitarist Santiago Lascurain, Contrabassist Brice Soniano, percussionist Toma Gouband and solo performances with Electric Guitar in Fukuoka, Nagoya (JP), Santiago (CL) and Montreal (CAN).
Juan Parra Cancino (b. Chile, 1979) Studied Composition in the Catholic University of Chile and Sonology at The Royal Conservatory of The Hague (NL) As a guitarist he was part of several ensembles related to Guitar Craft, a school founded by Robert Fripp. He collaborates regularly with artists like Frances Marie Uitti, Richard Craig, KLANG and Insomnio Ensembles. Parra is founder and active member of The Electronic Hammer, a Computer andPercussion Music Ensemble devoted to the creation and promotion of new music and Wiregriot, a voice and electronics duo that seeks to reconstruct the repertoire for this format. He is currently a PhD candidate of the Leiden University(NL) and the Orpheus Institute (BE) focused on performance practice in Computer Music, supported by the Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds, and the Institute of Sonology (NL). Since October 2008, he has been appointed as associate researcher for the Orpheus Institute Research Center in Music (ORCiM).
Duo: 'KRK' George Cremaschi - Contrabass, electronics Matthew Ostrowski - Electronics
Trio with guest/host: 'KLS' Robert Klammer - Analogue synth, zither, objects Gunnar Lettow - Prepared electric bass, electronics Lars Scherzberg - Alto and sopranino sax, cymbals plus Nicolas Wiese - Computer
KRK, founded in 2005 by George Cremaschi and Matthew Ostrowski, has devoted itself to a muscular integration of electronic and acoustic soundworlds, drawing on their more than 40 years of combined experience working in a variety of genres. Their concise, spontaneous compositions unite formal tautness with a fierce yet controlled energy, melding real-time musique concrete with virtuosic extended technique to open up undiscovered spaces in electro-acoustic performance. Building on their experience, with more than 60 concerts in over a dozen countries to their credit, KRK continues to innovate and redefine contemporary improvisational practice.
KLS The musical communication between Klammer, Lettow and Scherzberg is sensitive and fragile. Introverted, almost quiet passages and eruptive moments alternate. The game with different dynamics and volume levels is an important aspect of the joint playing process. [...] Robert Klammer occasionally sends radio or prefabricated MDs through the filter of his analogue synthesizer and mixes electronics with non-electronic sound or noise generators. Gunnar Lettow distorts the sound of his electric bass with preparations, playing techniques and effects to such an extent that one can hardly believe a bass guitar acts as the source. Lars Scherzberg generates a whole microcosm of sounds and noises on the saxophone, which he enhances electronically now and then to make even extremely faint sounds audible.
Michael Renkel: »Errorkoerper« for electric guitar, fx, notebook Thomas Lehn: analogue synthesizer Michael Renkel: acoustic guitar, live electronics Michael Vorfeld: percussion
Krzysiek Cybulski Warsaw Cybulski is a bass player with background in jazz composition and arrangement, but from quite a few years now he's into experimenting with digital sound processing in live context. From his experience in improvisation using traditional instruments, he developed his own live setup (based on Native Instruments REAKTOR custom patch), which allows him to improvise his live sets from scratch. He's still refining his setup, as well as his approach to music. Since 2008 he's a part of Warsaw Electronic Festival society. myspace.com/krzysiekcybulski
Chris Abrahams Dx7 synthesizer BEGOO: Michael Renkel electric guitar, objects, electronics ............: Joerg Maria Zeger electric guitar, effects Nicolas Wiese live projection (stop motion animation)
ASPEC(T) Naples/Italy. SEC_: analog synth, tapes, laptop. Mario Gabola: feedback sax, resonant drums.
»[...] frenetic structures, noise explosions, ancestral cries, an unceasing perversion of the soundscape and the time stream.«
Aspec(t) are releasing their fourth work “Waspnest” on 12” LP and on CD, a coproduction between italian labels Toxo Records, Viande Records and Fratto9 UnderTheSky.
OLAF HOCHHERZ Berlin/Germany. electronics. YAN JUN Beijing/China. electronics.
Olaf Hochherz works as improviser and composer of electroacoustic music. Currently he studies at the SeaM in Weimar. He uses open source software for his music.
Yan Jun works with sound and language. Born in Lanzhou in 1973. Based in Beijing. B.A. of Chinese Literature. Involve to feedback noise, voice, field recording, site-specific sound installation, impro music, writing, publishing and curating. Founder of Sub Jam, which runs weekly event Waterland Kwanyin (2005-2010) and annual festival Mini Midi (since 2005). Had join musical projects as Tie Guan Yin (varied members). Pisces Iscariots (Yao Dajuin, Li Jianhong and Yan Jun). Now member of FEN (Fareast Network, Otomo Yoshihide, Ryu Hankil, Yuen Cheewai and Yan Jun). He has published 5 essay collections about Chinese new music and 3 poetry collections.
duo Martin Küchen: Baritone and alto saxes, things, pocket radio. Lucio Capece Soprano sax, Bassclarinet, preparations,things.
solo Tetsuya Hori electronics and objects.
Saxophone players Martin Küchen and Lucio Capece have been working their instruments in a similar way since several years. Going extreme into the use of objects in contact with the sax, in a way that the saxophone and the object become one thing, The line between the show instrument and the life object becomes unclear, and the music digs in the intensity of perpetual everyday time. Küchen has developed a remarkable solo work, as well as a celebrated trio with Keith Rowe and Seymour Wright, among several other projects. He also works in the area of committed new free jazz .
Lucio Capece has been working in the last years focusing in the developing of minimal improvised music playing in several occasions with Radu Malfatti among other artists, In another vein he is part of a celebrated highly focused visceral work with Mika Vainio. He performs his own solo pieces based in a subtle work in his usual instruments , plus Sruti Box and a few analog electronic devices.
Tetsuya Hori, born in Sapporo / Hokkaido, Japan, started playing the organ at age of four and started composing. At age of 12 began studying the piano and two years later started playing in various jazz ensembles. He started studying composition in Sapporo at the age of 16 war later continued with composition studies at the Showa University of Music in Tokyo. He graduated in 2001 (at the age of 21), winning a special prize from the university. From 2000 to 2003 he was a lecturer for piano, vocal, and orchestra. In 2003 he moved to Berlin where he lives and composes. tetsuyahori.com
CD release listening-party by Schraum
schraum 11: 'Subsurface' Nils Ostendorf / Philippe Lauzier / Philip Zoubek trumpet / alto sax & bass clarinet / prepared piano
Set 1: Nils Ostendorf Solo (live) Set 2: 'Subsurface' (listen to the record)
you.are.here A collaborative sound project from Luke Munn and Johnny Chang, exploring the sounds of spaces with site-specific performance, recordings, and activations.
Johnny Chang: a violinist and composer based in Berlin, Germany, Chang studied composition and experimental music with Michale Pisaro, Mark Menzies and James Tenney. His articulated performances have been featured in numerous festivals and series around the world, most recently Maerz Musik. Influenced by the music of Christian Wolff, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Peter Ablinger, his own compositions explore space, silence, and tone. His Microscore Project is an ongoing work featuring dozens of composers, and to date has been performed in Los Angeles, Vancouver, New Zealand, and Berlin.
Luke Munn is a Berlin based sound-artist whose work incorporates performance, composition, and interdisciplinary projects. His practice centres around re-activating, and re-presenting real world sound - from the architecture of a space, to objects donated from the audience and field recordings. His work has featured in the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and the Venice Biennale Eventi Collaterali, and performances in Berlin, Paris, New York, and Chicago, amongst others.
Semerssuaq are WJ Meatball (Jealousy Party, Sistemi Audiofobici Burp) and JD Zazie (B Unit, Sistemi Audiofobici Burp). The freeform Cut’ n Roll duo was born in Florence at the end of the 90’s at the Soul Limbo Studio based in C.P.A. Fi-Sud. From that improvised, freeform/rock and electronic music scene, they developed their technique manipolating sound using basically dj tools. Collaborations with Brynja Cortes Andrésdóttir (cello), CCMonkey (violin), Edoardo Ricci (wind instruments) and Letizia Renzini (electronics) have been occasions to deveope their language into electro-acoustic and electronic music.
In 2010 they started the parallel project Semerssuaq XL with Agnese Fortuna (text) and Veronica Citi (video).
womenbeings: words in contexts integrates the live act with text and visuals. Sonic distortions and modulations in extemporary processing with short video pieces concerning tales of everyday tensions between affective language and languages of professional context.
Seiji Morimoto - born in Tokyo 1971, studied musicology at the Kunitachi College of Music, graduating in 1996. During this period he began to play the electronic pieces by John Cage and his own sound performances. Since then he has been creating sound performances, installations and videos. In 2003 Morimoto moved to Berlin, has performed and exhibited in many international festivals including transmediale in Berlin (2005/08), Experimental Music in Munich (2004/06/07/09). He is interested in the uncertain acoustic appearances between usual objects, for example water and stones, and the technical medium.
Antje Vowinckel: 1. "Fälle und Vorfälle" ("Toppling and Tumbling") Electroacoustic composition for tops. 2. "Organ and Objects" Improvised composition.
Marc Sabat: "Cucumber Serenades" (2009) for solo violin and violin choir with electronic tones, played by Marc Sabat, violin & guests.
Meta-musical live intervention by Laura Mello - viola & electronics Michael Renkel - guitar & electronics Heidrun Schramm - string samples (ableton) Nicolas Wiese - string samples (reason/akai) (based on an autonomous interpretation of A. Schoenbergs 4th string quartet – concept by Michael Renkel)
part of the festival 48 Stunden Neukoelln with kind support from the Bezirksamt Neukoelln
Nörz (Vienna) Andreas Trobollowitsch: prepared tapes, tape machines and radios, objects Johannes Tröndle: cello, live electronics No Sugar(Berlin/USA/Czech Republic) Electroacoustic duo of Liz Allbee and George Cremaschi (trumpet/electronics/double bass)
Artificial History Museum: »About the value and evolution of aesthetics, tradition vs. progress, individual versus mass perception, and the dialectical struggle between the desire to de-instrumentalize aesthetic signifiers and the desire to re-instrumentalize them. One musician's attempt to answer the question: now that everything has been deconstructed, why construct anything?«
racking: »During the piece's 22 minutes, the right hand marks a very slow metrum, giving an accentuated rhythm, as well as room for resonance. The tuning of the guitar is slighty different than usual, and there are 5 objects of preparation attached. These are exactly determined in their positions. In the course of the piece, the preparation is shiftly and removed in a precise order, and single strings are being slighty detuned. By these alterations, the sound of the guitar becomes slowly more and more "guitar-like" – all done without effects or electronics.«
Los Glissandinos Klaus Filip (Wien) – Sine waves Kai Fagaschinski(Berlin) – Clarinet
Bill Hsu (San Francisco) – interactive computer music and animation
Playing two short audiovisual live sets with special guests Chris Heenan (Berlin/USA) – contrabass clarinet Lothar Ohlmeier (Berlin) – bass clarinet and saxophone
after that: open lecture / discussion. web info: bill hsu Laura Mello – DAILY PRAYERS for piano, voice, live electronics, speaker glasses, speaker lovers
Daily practice – daily prayers not related to any religion prayers because it involves my spirit it´s not a (body) training, but it involves my body diary: my inner music Laura Mello & Alexandre Fenerich – TEXT INVASION for two portuguese-speaking people, live-electronics, live Skype-chatting
Tetsuya Hori music along with a silent film by Yukihiro Ikutani
My pieces do not have a concept. That is the concept. The concept develops in the head of the listener. I get the feedback, and the feedback influences my music and like I see it.
I compose not only for instruments, but for things. The sound of the things is interesting. Not only the natural sound, but also the processed sound. The sources of sound are not necessarily special, but the sound, which results from the arrangement.
Each piece is different. Every time. It is affected by the atmosphere, which is created the area and the public. The piece mostly consists of article + computer program + space + public.
I want to show the listener nonsense. Interesting nonsense.
Nicolas Wiese audiovisual performance based on a piece by Tom Rojo Poller & N.Wiese
»The Garden of Forking Paths is an enormous riddle, or parable, whose theme is time. […] In contrast to Newton and Schopenhauer, [its creator] did not believe in a uniform, absolute time. He believed in an infinite series of times, in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times.« (Jorge Luis Borges: The Garden of Forking Paths)
The Pitch: Koen Nutters: bass Morten Olsen: vibraphone Boris Baltschun: reed organ, harmonica Michael Thieke: clarinet
With the help of several acoustic devices- navigating through sonic territories with a unique approach and instrumentation. The quartet neither plays compositions nor do they improvise - their vehicles used for travelling are combinations of pitch-sets, dimension-sets, superimposition-sets and duration-sets. With the help of these sets they are able to explore thitherto unknown regions of time based events. Navigational tools are the exaltation of a clarinet, the bruteness of a pump organ, the lushness of a vibraphone and the profoundness of a double bass. http://www.michael-thieke.de/eBandDetail/pitch.htm
pan am scan is a collective of artists based in berlin and london. they form their sound simply with acoustic instruments like vibraphone, guitar and drums, and live processing. in their audiovisual concert, rainer kohlberger is adding video works.
Simon Harris: Laptop Masayoshi Fujita: Vibraphone, Electronics Jan Thoben: Drums Kassian Troyer: E-Guitar, Electronics Derek Shirley: Doublebass Rainer Kohlberger: Video http://myspace.com/panamscan
Semerssuaqare WJ Meatball (Jealousy Party, Sistemi Audiofobici Burp) and JD Zazie (B Unit, Sistemi Audiofobici Burp). The freeform Cut' n Roll duo was born in Florence at the end of the 90's at the Soul Limbo Studio based in C.P.A. Fi-Sud. From that improvised, freeform/rock and electronic music scene, they developed their technique manipulating sound using basically dj tools. Collaborations with Brynja Cortes Andrésdóttir (cello), CCMonkey (violin), Edoardo Ricci (wind instruments) and Letizia Renzini (electronics) have been occasions to deveope their own language of electro-acoustic and electronic music. Semerssuaq on Virb Burp Enterprise
Hotelgäste is a Canadian/German trio based in Berlin, drawing upon diverse experiences within their environment to explore a new music created in the moment; sonic densities and vast cold silences are juxtaposed to bring architectural like structural integrity to their improvisations. Population and solitude, traffic jams and back country ways, amplification and quietness, acoustic and electric, exploratory and communication, and of course conversations with the many different guests make this hotel an exciting musical experience. In August 2005, they released their debut album ‘Flowers You Can Eat’, on the Berlin label Schraum. A release of live recordings made on tour in Germany and Switzerland is available now as a limited edition vinyl.
Axel Haller is a bass player from Berlin, Germany. He improvises compositions and composes improvisations. And he listens. Haller plays in different settings and situations, with spontaneous groups, working groups like kainkwatett or Trio Vopá, performs as a soloist, and improvises / composes music for audio-books, theater groups, dance performances. Along with Torsten Papenheim and Merle Bennett he is running the labelschraum. Hotelgäste on Myspace Axel Haller on Myspace
