Archive of Encounters

2010-02-20T06:35:00.000-08:00

ACTIVITY CENTER
Michael Renkel, guitar, electronics, objects
renkel.org
Burkhard Beins, percussion, objects, electronics
burkhardbeins.de

DUO
Axel Dörner, trumpet
de.wikipedia.org/axel_dörner
Noid, violoncello
noid.klingt.org

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.

grapeshade.weebly.com
bilianavoutchkova.net
ingoreulecke.de

Steffi Weismann (Berlin/CH)
»LapStrap« -
Solo for voices and portable audio devices
(Version Flughafenstraße 2011)
www.steffiweismann.de

Nathan Bontrager (USA)
Cello
www.nathanbontrager.com
Solo, and with special guest
Simon Jakob Drees (DE)
Violin

Ryu Hankil (Korea)
Matija Schellander (Vienna)
Duo for Electronics, Typewriter and Double bass
www.ftarri.com/festival/hankil-e.html
www.matija.klingt.org

Mitsuaki Matsumoto (Japan)
Solo for Prepared Sitar
www.4-em.org

»Twilight Claps & Thunders«
Kate Donovan & Ryan Karolidis
Analogue Light & Sound Performance
accompanied by Simon Redfern, Electric Piano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phI8wUuuXmc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpL3j_MAjFU

»Best Before Unu«
Antonis Anissegos - Audio
Andreas Karaoulanis - Animation
http://www.bestbefore.gr

George Cremaschi / Kai Fagaschinski Duo
George Cremaschi – Double Bass / Electronics
Kai Fagaschinski - Clarinet
http://www.georgecremaschi.com
http://kylie.klingt.org

Duet:
Dario Fariello (Berlin/Italy) - Alto Sax
Eren Ileri (Vienna/Turkey) - Alto Sax Samples, Turntable

Solo:
Rui Faustino (Berlin/Portugal)
»For Unaccompanied Drums«

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

Duo
Agnes Palier (Paris) – Voice
Olivier Toulemonde (Berlin/France) – Acoustic Objects

www.agnes-palier.net
www.olivier-toulemonde.com

Trio
Anat Cohavi (Berlin/Israel) – Bass clarinet
George Donchev (Berlin/Bulgaria) – Double bass
Andrea Sanzvela (Berlin/Spain) – Viola

www.anat-cohavi.com
georgedonchev.weebly.com
www.myspace.com/andreasanzvela

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.

http://soundcloud.com/lukemunn/sets/youarehere

Duo:
Okkyung Lee (NYC) – Cello
Matija Schellander (Vienna) – Double bass

Trio:
»Telling Stories About Trees«
Renato Ciunfrini (Rome) – Clarinet
Guro Skumsnes Moe (Olso) – Double bass
Håvard Skaset (Oslo) – Guitar

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

Trio
Massimo Falascone (Milano) – Saxophone & Electronics
http://www.massimofalascone.com
John Hughes (Hamburg/USA) – Double Bass
http://soundcloud.com/john-hughes-bassist
Nicolas Wiese (Berlin) – Electronics
http://www.nicolaswiese.com

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.

Solo - Bilwa
Duet - KAMAMA (Audrey Chen / Luca Marini)
Trio - Bilwa / Audrey Chen / Luca Marini

perpetualmvmtsnd.org/bilwa
myspace.com/audreychen
myspace.com/lucamarini

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...
Bilwa works in both the performing 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—sonic relics through which he
pulls elements of specific spaces, times, and interactions into his work. He is interested
in sensory perception and subjectivity, and his work documents those acts of decipherment.
He often uses multiple speakers placed throughout a space, generating a sensory
environment rich 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

Ignaz Schick - turntable (rotating surface)
zangimusic.de
Seijiro Murayama - drums
seijiro.murayama.name
Martin Kuechen - saxophone
martinkuchen.com

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.

margrietkicks-ass.nl

OLGAR (DE/NL)
Stefan Schäfer (live graphic design, overhead projector)
Christoph Scherbaum (guitar, effects, laptop)
Daniela Petry (double bass)

christophscherbaum.com/live-projects

Rheibüko + Gschlössl : »Freies Fluten«
Mischa G. Esch ( s,t,bs-sax)
Gerhard Gschlössl (trombone)
Daniela Petry (double bass)

rheibueko.wordpress.com

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

http://lsd.klingt.org

MEK (Mobiles Einsatzkommando - Berlin)
www.burkhardbeins.de : Live electronics
www.renkel.org : Guitar & Electronics
www.soundimplant.com/derekshirley : Bass synthesizer

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)

MEK: online release for free download:
http://www.homophoni.com/homo043.html

solo:
Lin Chi-Wei (Beijing, China) - balloon music
http://linchiwei.com

duo:
Lin Chi-Wei - voice
C-drik (Berlin) - computer
www.syrphe.com

trio:
Gerhard Uebele - violin
Ernesto Rodrigues - viola
Nathalie Ponneau - cello

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.

Trio:
Michael Vorfeld (Berlin/DE) - percussion
Lou Mallozzi (Chicago/USA) - electronics, voice, tapes
Chris Heenan (Berlin/USA) - contrabass clarinet

vorfeld.org
loumallozzi.com
chrisheenan.com

Duo
Olaf Hochherz (Berlin/DE) - book
Robin Hayward (Berlin/UK) - microtonal tuba

shwobl.de
robinhayward.de

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 (Greece/Spain)
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga - zither, objects
Ferran Fages - acoustic guitar, radios

Ap´strophe + Kammerlaerm:
(Greece/Spain/Argentina/Germany/United Kingdom)
Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga - zither, objects
Ferran Fages - acoustic guitar, radios
+
Lucio Capece - bass clarinet, saxophone, objects
Axel Doerner - trumpet
Robin Hayward - tuba

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.

apstrophe.net
ferranfages.net
robinhayward.de
luciocapece.blogspot.com
ausland-berlin.de/axel-dorner

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)

johnnychchang.blogspot.com
sberk.info
wandelweiser.de/malfatti
burpsystem/mat-pogo
nicolaswiese.com

NYX (Hamburg)
Audiovisual Trio:
Katrin Bethge - analogue projections
Sascha Demand - electric guitar
John Eckardt - electric bass, live electronics

katrinbethge.de
saschademand.tk
myspace.com/eckhardtjohn

Ed Osborn (San Francisco)
plays:
»Stone North« (2009)
for flat guitar and custom electronics

roving.net

Solo:
Keir Neuringer (USA) – saxophone
keirneuringer.com

Duo:
Tetsuya Hori (Berlin/Japan) – electronics and objects
Izumi Ose (Berlin/Japan) – voice and face
playing songs by T. Hori
tetsuyahori.com

Welt am Draht
(Berlin)
Thorsten Bloedhorn: guitar
Claudia Risch: sax, fl
Thomas Gerwin: live electronics, perc
inter-art-project.de

D'Incise
(Geneva)
acoustic laptop and objects
dincise.net

Faustino/Voutchkova/Williams
(Portugal/Bulgaria/USA)
Rui Faustino: drums
Biliana Voutchkova: violin
Christopher Williams: double bass
rui-faustino.com
bilianavoutchkova.net
nauchristopher.thenthis.org

Microphonics
(Dirk Serries, Antwerp)
microphonics.be
dirkserries.com

Electric Guitar

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.

Mecha/Orga
(Yiorgis Sakellariou, Greece)
mecha-orga.com
Sonata Rec
(Heidrun Schramm, Germany)
heidrunschramm.net
Asmus Tietchens
(Germany)
tietchens.de
Evapori
(Oliver Peters, Germany)
evapori.virb.com
Gregory Buettner
(Germany)
tausend-fuessler.de
Hanna Hartman
(Germany/Sweden)
hannahartman.de

Andrea Parkins (New York City)
electric accordion, objects and electronics
andreaparkins.com
myspace.com/andreaparkins
solo
and trio with
Okkyung Lee (New York City)
cello
okkyunglee.com
Andrea Neumann (Berlin)
info a. neumann

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.

Liz Allbee (Berlin/USA)
trumpet
lizallbee.net

Magda Mayas (Berlin/Germany)
electric piano
magdamayas.blogspot.com

Gino Robair (San Francisco/USA)
percussion and electronics
ginorobair.com

OBLIQ & Matsumoto

Pierre Borel (Berlin/France)
alto saxophone
umlautrecords.com/person/pierreborel

Derek Shirley (Berlin/Canada)
double bass / bass synth
soundimplant.com/derekshirley.html

Hannes Lingens (Berlin/Germany)
snare drum & objects
hanneslingens.de

Mitsuaki Matsumoto (Tokyo/Japan)
electronics
4-em.org

Burkhard Beins - percussion and strings
Rhodri Davies - harp
Michael Renkel - strings and percussion

www.rhodridavies.com
www.burkhardbeins.de
www.renkel.org

DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE & GUEST
Guido Huebner - Self built electroacoustic devices, objects, amplification
Yref - Self built string instruments, objects, amplification
Hui-Chun Lin - Cello

http://dsmischgewebe.over-blog.com/
http://www.linhuichun.tk/
http://www.myspace.com/linhuichun

Michael Edward Edgerton – Extended vocal techniques
Matthias Bauer – Contrabass

http://www.myspace.com/michaeledwardedgerton
http://www.myspace.com/mikeedgertonvoice
http://www.bauerbass.de

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.

View / download full information here:
PDF LINK

final performance/presentation will be streamed live.
participation fee: 45 Euro

Olivier Toulemonde: Acoustic sound objects
olivier-toulemonde.com
Jonas Kocher: Accordeon
jonaskocher.net

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).

juanparrac.com

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

http://www.ostrowski.info
http://www.myspace.com/krkelectric
http://www.myspace.com/gunnarlettow
http://nicolaswiese.com

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.

Solo:
Sangtae Jin (Seoul) - Live electronics (cracked harddisc drive)
http://popmusic25.com
http://dotolim.com
Solo:
Utku Tavil (Torino/Istanbul) - Sound manipulation and video
http://www.myspace.com/utkutavil
http://soundcloud.com/utkutavil

EDITION BLECH

Solo:
Samuel Stoll - Horn
myspace
Solo:
Robin Hayward - Tuba
robinhayward.de
Duo:
Paul Hubweber - Trombone
hubweber.eu
Christian Wolfarth- Percussion
ch.wolfarth.ch.vu

Michael Renkel: »Errorkoerper« for electric guitar, fx, notebook

Thomas Lehn: analogue synthesizer
Michael Renkel: acoustic guitar, live electronics
Michael Vorfeld: percussion

thomaslehn.de
renkel.org
vorfeld.org

Olaf Rupp (Berlin): electric guitar
audiosemantics.de
Ricardo Tejero (Spain/London): saxophone and clarinet
myspace.com/ricardotejero
Julian Bonequi (Mexico/Berlin): drums, voice & electronics
julianbonequi.com

Rinus van Alebeek - tapes and more
zeromoon.com/rinus
Haarmann - ukulele, computer and more
klangkunstlabor.de
De Drones - the sum of the both and more
myspace.com/dedrones

Martin Lorenz - turntables & prepared vinyl records
martinlorenz.ch

Thomas Rehnert - modular synthesizer system
Lars Scherzberg - alto & sopranino saxophone
fmp-online.de/musicians/scherzberg

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

Steve Heather percussion
Mike Majkowski bass
Matthias Müller trombone
Berlin/Australia
myspace.com/steveheather
myspace.com/mikemajkowski
matthiasmueller.net

Audiovisual quartet:

Chris Abrahams Dx7 synthesizer
BEGOO: Michael Renkel electric guitar, objects, electronics
............: Joerg Maria Zeger electric guitar, effects
Nicolas Wiese live projection (stop motion animation)

ausland-berlin.de/joerg-maria-zeger
thenecks.com/bio
myspace: begoo
renkel.org
nicolaswiese.com

Teatro sonoro:
BARBABLU
von und mit:
Luca Venitucci: accordeon, objects
Ezramo: voice, prepared zither, electronics

Acoustic Duo:
Luca Venitucci (Rome)
Michael Renkel (Berlin)

ezramo.com
myspace Luca Venitucci
renkel.org

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.

myspace.com/aspecttt
toxorecords.com
vianderec.info

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.

yanjun.org
shwobl.de

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.

luciocapece.blogspot.com
martinkuchen.com

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)

http://schraum.de

Tony Dryer (San Francisco): double bass
Jacob Felix Heule (San Francisco): drums
Guro Skumsnes Moe (Oslo): double bass
Haavard Skaset (Oslo): guitar

www.conradsound.com
www.myspace.com/tonydryerbass
www.myspace.com/jacobfelix
www.myspace.com/gurosmoe

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.

johnnychchang.blogspot.com

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.

lukemunn.com

you.arehere.eu

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.

burpenterprise.com

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.

seijimorimoto.com

Werner Dafeldecker:
reel to reel tape recorder // tape delay
and
Lucio Capece:
bass clarinet, preparations, branches

http://www.dafeldecker.net
http://www.luciocapece.blogspot.com

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.

Rolf Sudmann:
new compositions for trautonium.

Homepage Antje Vowinckel
Info Marc Sabat
Info Rolf Sudmann

Début de Siècle

Installation by Nicolas Wiese and Laura Mello

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

http://48-stunden-neukoelln.de

Okkyung Lee - cello
Magda Mayas - keys
Michael Renkel - guitar
Nicolas Wiese - electronics

okkyunglee.com
magdamayas.blogspot.com
renkel.org
nicolaswiese.com

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)

myspace.com/noerznoerz
myspace.com/nosugar1
lizallbee.net

AMP2 (Italy)
Gandolfo Pagano:
Prepared Guitar, Electronics
Dario Sanfilippo:
Laptop/Live Electronics
Antonino Secchia:
Percussion Set

http://tirriddiliu.net/

Felicity Mangan & Olaf Hochherz
Fake fieldrecordings

http://www.shwobl.de/
http://felicityamaliamangan.blogspot.com/

Das Synthetische Mischgewebe
Guido Huebner / Rainer Frey
( Caen / Berlin )

Installation_performance with mulitple object noises.
Tea party with slide show and german-french history lesson.
dsmischgewebe.overblog.com

Chris Heenan ( Berlin/USA ) - Contrabass clarinet
Annette Krebs ( Berlin ) - Guitar / Electronics
Christoph Schiller ( Basel ) - Spinet
Michael Vorfeld ( Berlin ) - Percussion
chrisheenan.com
sberk.info
christophschiller.net
vorfeld.org

Axel Dörner - trumpet
Nils Ostendorf - trumpet
Kim Myhr - acoustic guitar, objects
Michael Renkel - acoustic guitar, percussion
myspace.com/nilsostendorf
kimmyhr.com

Michal Szostalo ( Kołobrzeg, Poland / USA )
"The Artificial History Museum"
New work for Accordion, Violin, Electronics and Voice
masmusic.org

Torsten Papenheim ( Berlin )
"racking"
New work for Guitar and Objects
myspace.com/torstenpapenheim

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

losglissandinos.klingt.org

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

lauramello.org
myspace.com/alexandresperandofenerich

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.

tetsuyahori.com

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)

nicolaswiese.com
trpoller.de

Dave Bennett - guitar
Axel Haller - bass
Matthias Mueller - trombone
http://www.davebennett.de
http://www.myspace.com/herrhaller
http://www.matthiasmueller.net

Rhodri Davies - harp
Helena Gough - laptop
Andrea Neumann - inside piano
rhodridavies.com
helenagough.net

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

Pasquale Napolitano (Naples)
»An Italian Tale« new video work
http://www.myspace.com/lemaldarchive

Woody Sullender (NYC) & Seamus Cater (UK/Amsterdam)
banjo & harmonica duos
http://www.deadceo.com/unclewoody
http://www.seacater.com

Robin Watkins (Stockholm/Berlin)
»The Luminiferous Aether« audio screening
http://www.canellwatkins.org/

Chesterfield
Angélica Castelló (Vienna/Mexico) recorder, tapes, electronics
www.castello.klingt.org
Burkhard Stangl (Vienna) guitar, electronic devices
www.stangl.klingt.org

Angélica Castelló recorder, tapes, electronics
Burkhard Stangl guitar, electronic devices
Mario de Vega (Berlin/Mexico) turntables, electronics
www.mariodevega.info

Takuro Mizuta Lippit aka dj sniff (Amsterdam/Japan) : turntable & computer
www.djsniff.com
Mario de Vega (Berlin/Mexico) : turntables, objects & electronics
www.mariodevega.info

Chulki Hong
(South Korea) turntables
accompanied by a video screening by Lee Hangjun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcpIKTt_TOU&feature=player_embedded

Axel Doerner – Trumpet

Mathias Forge – Trombone

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 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 label schraum.
Hotelgäste on Myspace
Axel Haller on Myspace

Axel Dörner - trumpet / electronics
Adam Linson - double bass / electronics
Michael Renkel - guitar / electronics
Info Axel Dörner
Adam Linson Homepage
Michael Renkel Homepage

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