MUSIC - Performance- und Konzertprogramm

Stevie Wishart

The Edith Russ Site for Media Art concert and performance series, succinctly entitled MUSIC, is devoted to exploring contemporary music and its links with the visual arts. Current positions in electronic music are presented with distinguished artists from Germany and all over the world participating.

Sound installations and concerts plumbing the repertory of contemporary art are presented on two evenings. This concert series has been conceived by Jens Brand, artist and composer, who held a bursary at the Edith Russ Site for Media Art in 2007. He is presenting artists who are internationally renowned and with whom he has close personal ties as well as professional and philosophical links.
The musical positions selected cover a diverse range – from Minimal Music to investigations of medieval musical forms and contemporary interpretations of them. Each of the artists invited views and makes music with different methods: it may be invented, dissected, put under the microscope, obstructed, destroyed, bent or transformed and must ultimately meet eyes and ears in order to come into being.

MUSIC: Part 115 February 2008, 7.30 - 10.30 p.m.

Sabine Schäfer & Joachim Krebs

Sonic Lines n’Rooms (1999)
4-canal spatial composition with microacoustic animal (amphibia and birds) voices and sounds from human everyday life.

TopoSonic Tunnel (2005)
4-canal spatial sound composition with microacoustic animal voices (insects, amphibia, mammals), natural sounds (water, air, etc) and sounds from human everyday life.

Sukandar Kartadinata

Die By The Sword (2007)
Music for 2 computer systems, video game, forced feedback joystick and live electronics

Phill Niblock

Hurdy Hurry (1999)
hurdy gurdy, recorded samples by Jim O’Rourke

Harm (2003)
for cello, recorded samples by Arne Deforce

Zrost (2004)
soprano saxophone, recorded samples by Martin Zrost

Sethwork (2003)
acoustic guitars played with E-bow, recorded samples by Seth Josel

and films from the Movement of People Working series (Peru, Mexico, Hong Kong, Hungary, China, Japan)

Sabine Schäfer and Joachim Krebs

Sabine Schäfer and Joachim Krebs have been collaborating since 1998 on joint projects in the field of spatial sound art. They place the audience in a microscopically defined and constructed sound space. The pieces presented are from a series featuring spatial sound bodies in concert and spatial sound bodies that can be entered.

Sukandar Kartadinatas

Sukandar Kartadinata's audio-visual work ranges from fragmenting two computer systems communicating with one another via Ego Shooter software to music played only on an E bass.Die By The Sword is based on a computer game, with the game employed in changing roles: it is used at times to generate music; at others, the music emerges during the course of the game, so to speak as a by-product.

Phill Niblock

Phill Niblock is a leading light in Minimal Music. In his compositions combined with films, he confronts the audience with the physical reality of the concert hall. Without harmony, melody or rhythm and transgressing the laws of montage, he generates a new, unique acoustic situation with each performance.

MUSIC: Part 222 February 2008, 7.30 - 10.30 p.m.

Please bring a laptop with you on this evening.

hans w. koch
circle_of_fifths (2007)
Installation

Guy De Bièvre
And Above All (2007)
for lap steel guitar and active electronics (developed at the STEIM Foundation in November 2007)

hans w. koch
computers as musical instruments I - IV (2007)

Stevie Wishart
Solos for Hurdy Gurdy: Strings, Wheel, and Fingers (2007)

hans w. koch

hans w. koch lets the public in on listening to how it sounds when a computer is dissected: on a quest for recondite aspects of mundane utilitarian appliances (and traditional musical instruments), he causes sounds and musical structures to emerge by ‘abusing’ those appliances and instruments – until the current no longer flows and the sound is no longer forthcoming.

Guy De Bièvre

Guy De Bièvre's deconstructivist compositions are based on experiments in which instruments, microprocessors, live electronics, acoustics and classical musical arrangements are combined. They are part of a metamorphosis, a fusion of all sorts of sound sources.

Stevie Wishart

Stevie Wishart moves along the continuum between the extremes of 'early music' and 'contemporary electronic music'. In Solos for Hurdy Gurdy, the composer, singer and player (specialising in early instruments), who was born in Australia, uses a Hurdy Gurdy.