============ VITAL WEEKLY ============ number 365 ------------ week 13 ------------ Editorial note: there won't any Vital Weekly in the weeks 15 and 16 (april 5-20). Announcements for that period should reach us before wednesday the 2nd. thanks KATHERINA KLEMENT - CONCERT TROUVE (CD by Kalk) BURNT FRIEDMAN & THE NUMB PLAYERS - CAN'T COOL (CD by Nonplace) HUBSCH & VAN BEBBER & BLONK - IMPROVISERS (CD by Kontrans) SKULLPTURE/DESTROY ALL TIE FIGHTERS (CDR by Mir) GELSOMINA - RAUTAVAARA (CDR by Mir) VINCENT BONDET & CEDRIC LEROULEY - ASPHODELES (CDR by Comma) TAMING POWER - FOR ELECTRIC GUITAR AND CASSETTE RECORDERS (10" by Early Morning Records) PETER FROHMADER - ANUBIS DANCE (CD by Nekropolis) VEGETABLE MAN (CD compilation by Oggetti Volanti Non Identificati) JAVIER HERNANDO - HYDRO PARHELIA (CD by Geometrik/Microgamma) VAN OEHLEN - ROCK & ROLL IS HERE TO DIE (CD by Blue Chopsticks) DELPHIUM - DEAD ON THE INSIDE (CD by Hibou Records) PHASMID - THRIFT SHOP (3" CDR by Piehead Recordings) YUKO NEXUS6 - JOURNAL DE TOKYO (CD by Sonore) HAGEDORN - HOME GROWN (CD by Kompakt) TIM HECKER - RADIO AMOR (CD by Mille Plateaux) WARMDESK - GUERO VARIATIONS (CD by Deluxe) BENYTT DENNE GLIMRENDE... (2CD compilation by Humbug) ASTRO - ACID BEACH (CDR by Alienation) MIJIM - TOTAL CARE (CDR by Alienation) PLANK - CETUS, PING (CDR by Alienation) KATHERINA KLEMENT - CONCERT TROUVE (CD by Kalk) Piano ala future days. Surely a decendent of John Cage, Katharina Klement has a stunning view of the instrument. Studying in Graz and Vienna she has released a studio recording of 12 tracks at just over one hour that is like a treasure trove of experimental playing. Her four-piece includes e-guitarist Armin Pokorn, and engineers Gearl Schreilechner and Florian Prix. They work as a unit on all aspects of Concért Trouvé bringing about electro-acoustic passages just off center. Recorded in 2000 this disc is just starting to make the rounds. Made with an assortment of found objects, tubes and other materials these improvised compositions have a weight based in curiosity and tonality. The happenstance of object vs. instrument questions the making of the final product as noise, as opposed to music, which equals a balance of white noise, harmony and all extras. By fusing analogue with electronic technologies the blur is passionately made here. At times eerie, the pacing dramatizes the stalwart approach of Klement's key rambling - at the same time there are brief hiccups of Sunday solace in the final mix. This being my first exposure to this work which was commissioned for the Musik und Medien series in Vienna, I can only hope that there will be a follow-up soon. As the final, tiny clanging chimes play so sweetly and fade the piece goes quietly into the night. (TJN) Address: BURNT FRIEDMAN & THE NUMB PLAYERS - CAN'T COOL (CD by Nonplace) Salsa! It's a big blend of funky hip-hop with lounge vibes and strange electronically contorted vocals. Friedman has brought together a collision of 70s dub with the techno of latter day poltergeists. Herein we are fed the encoded vocalese of Abi, Patrice, Theo Altenberg and even His Name is Alive (welcome back) ala vocoder. Oh, I feel a fever coming on. This is an unusual spin among current directives in contemporary genre melding, but someone has to start pioneering somewhere. This seems to me like an emergence of something more urban, more soulful, yet a glimpse, perhaps too close into the pop realm. Alongside AOR funky divas and other charades this is one of those turns you always hope can be avoided in the world of experimental electronics. Friedman takes his troupes just right of center for a few moments in between obscurity. I find myself being teased by the everyday familiarity of tracks like 'Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth" and the kitcshy latin jazz dramatics on 'Designer Groove' complete with bongos and hints of brass. I get pulled in for moments along the way. Maybe I am just jolted by the inclusion of vocals that don't seem totally unique and compete with the funky bass lines being layed out? Vocal-free tracks 9-12 could almost be a mini ep. The vibes set a blissful funky and fresh sound. The magic is all in the editing and most here is quite playable sans some tongues. (TJN) Address: http://www.nonplace.de HUBSCH & VAN BEBBER & BLONK - IMPROVISERS (CD by Kontrans) Three improvisers at work here. Carl Ludwig Hubsch plays tuba (and for me he's the guy I never heard of), Claus Van Bebber on turntables (and he's been doing that since most DJs were not even born) and Jaap Blonk, the famous voice artist. This CD is, much to my surprise, not the documentation of a live concert, but it contains ten pieces recorded in a studio during a two day improvisation session in the studio, with subsequent mixing afterwards. It is really possible to tell that these boys spend time on their work. Multi-tracking and mixing the material afterwards pays of. The material has great depth, as opposed to maybe 'just' a live recording. Blonk recites (?) sings (?) moans (?) in his usual fashion and is probably one of the more wilder characters in this kind of music. His elastic voice seems to be capable of just doing anything with it. It works really nice along the strange sounds produced on a tuba and the turntables. In a track like 'To Ilpehu' (the love of strange words is extended to the titles as you can notice) it's hard to go back to whose doing what there. It's a frantic mess of sounds, but it's virtually impossible to say oh that's the turntable and that's a tuba and the voice is doing that. This CD is maybe as much a work of improvisation aswell as a work of composition - the post-production in the studio certainly added to that. If the real die-hard improvisations are not y'r cup of tea, then this more controlled action might be. (FdW) Address: http://www.toondist.nl SKULLPTURE/DESTROY ALL TIE FIGHTERS (CDR by Mir) GELSOMINA - RAUTAVAARA (CDR by Mir) Two releases from Finland. On the first we find two bands I never heard of. Skullpture are Navaro, PT and Wikgren. Their eight tracks are all recorded by means of improvisation at the Echo Chamber. They play a variety of string instruments (bass, guitar) and percussion, be it drums or metal. Skullpture do not go over the top, but rather do the proceedings in a somewhat intellegent mode. The work their work through the material in a held-back way. They don't differ that much from the other band on the disc, the Destroy All Tie Fighters. This band however has lengthier improvisations based around guitar sounds. Their tracks also much longer and denser in built up. The lo-fi based improvisations by both bands have strong roots in labels like Corpus Hermeticum, but are maybe even more abstract and weird. More conventional are The Human Neutron Missile Squad, using guitars, drums, bass and noise, they don't sound of course like the average alternative guitar band, but mainly due to their lo-fi recording methods, they sound raw and untamed. Recorded maybe straight away in a garage in some Finland backyard, the Human Neutron Missile Squad take their inspiration from punk aswell as more traditional forms of rock music (or maybe all rock music is conventional? - hmmm I just think about this some more). Nice stuff, bringing back good memories of 1980 when I got my homemade recorded punk 7"s which sounded likewise naive and fresh. Gelsomina's release takes as source material the work of "the late singer, songwriter, actor, athlete and man of the people Tapio Rautavaara", who in Gelsomina's view, was the greatest example of Finnish 'iskelma' music. Gelsomina takes original music by this Tapio guy and adds a whole bunch of harsh noise effects to it. So among the wall of feedback, which shows more depth then many other in this genre, I must say, we hear the original music and singing of Tapio. Even when this release is not very long, I think it's a bit long. For an idea such as this, one could easily record a nice twenty minute work and release it as a CDR. The homogenity of the material and the singlemindedness of the concept makes it not good enough to hold the attention throughout. (FdW) Address: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/musically_incorrect VINCENT BONDET & CEDRIC LEROULEY - ASPHODELES (CDR by Comma) A while ago (Vital Weekly 362) I reviewed some CDR releases by Vincent Bondet and Cedric Lerouley. Somehow I ignored the release 'Asphodeles'. This release is not really different from the previous one. One very lenghty piece and one a bit shorter of droning pieces with small, amplified sounds of contact microphones. Carefully constructed cracklings somehow in a dark atmosphere. Like said, this release is not really much different then the other ones, but it would sad to ignore this. (FdW) Address: TAMING POWER - FOR ELECTRIC GUITAR AND CASSETTE RECORDERS (10" by Early Morning Records) Behind Taming Power we find one Askild Haugland from Norway. Since 1997 He releases his music on his own Early Morning Records mostly on vinyl and CDrs. I am told that his previous works included "radio ready-mades" and electro-acoustic music, but also solo stuff for electric guitar and piano. On this most recent 10" we find works for electric guitar and cassette recorders (no reel to reel - keep in mind!). The side long Side A, entitled '26-3-02' has a rather metallic sounding guitar. Notes are played, not as continuos chords, but in flageolet style. Normally this would result in a rather harmonius guitar tinkle, but by the use of ordinary cassette players and the gradual 'lo-fi' sound, the whole thing is as said more metallic - cold. But it's a strangely minimal fascinating sound. On the b-side he works also with guitar and tape-distortion. Here however not in a long piece, but six short pieces. Here there is no tinkle, but short pieces of drone music. It seems as though the music has disappeared in the process of working with cassettes, and is covered by an immense mass of dirt (hiss). But Askild plays around with the various forms and stages of decay of the hiss, which makes this into a well enjoyable record (both sides!). The a-side dwelling on various influences from the lo-fi guitar scene, and the b-side with Troum inspired ambient-industrial outings. (FdW) Address: PETER FROHMADER - ANUBIS DANCE (CD by Nekropolis) Egypt has fascinated rock musicians to varying degrees over the years: Agitation Free, Nik Turner, Anubian Lights, Amenophis, Pink Floyd, Cosmic Jokers, Dissidenten, Gong, and Hawkwind to name a few. Now the master of dark, sepulchral, electronics, Peter Frohmader, presents an entire CD based on Anubis, the Egyptian god of the dead. Anubis Dance integrates Peter's throbbing bass lines, Egyptian samples and motifs, and his dark vision. Though recorded in 1997 and released in 2003, it is a precursor to Peter's previous electronica influenced release "2001". Personally, I prefer Peter s abstract work to this new musical direction. I find the two bonus tracks, which are second versions of Anubis Rising (track 2) and No Panic (track 6), more to my liking. I could be wrong, but the other seven tracks seem to be the same tempo, and though there are lots of interesting little things happening all over the place, the music can be a bit mind numbing. Make no mistake, Anubis Dance is difficult music that takes electronica to the eXtreme. (HS) Address: http://www.Dbeau-Arts.de/Nekropolis VEGETABLE MAN (CD compilation by Oggetti Volanti Non Identificati) "In my yellow shoes I have the blues - Vegetable man where are you?". This release might be the first introduction for many to the bizarre mind of Pink Floyd-singer Syd Barrett. "Vegetable Man" was planned as a Floyd single in 1967. For the record company it was obvious that by then Syd was a serious acid-casualty and that the bizarre single (inspired by Frank Zappa's "Call any vegetable") would never see the light of day. Pink Floyd dumped Syd shortly afterwards and became the merry corporate entrepreneurs we all love/hate. "Vegetable Man" was lost in obscurity and that was that. And now we have this CD with no less than 20 versions of the song. The nucleus of the acts are unknown to these ears and hail from Italy (15 of the 20 actws no less). These sort of releases immediately beg the question if one song is interesting enough to warrant the listener pleasure for 70 minutes. I can imagine a Syd Barrett collector drewling over this, but what does it offer to the more casual listener? Is "Vegetable Man" (basically a 60's popsong with strange lyrics) interesting enough to offer its interpreters the possibility to create something NEW? It is a shame the original was not included, giving us no reference to the Floydian version. However, Gastel Etzwane manages to come up with a highly original version: he sings the song whilst taking a shower. The version by Castemore, who turn the song into a 30's calypso swing, is also a treat. But then we also have to listen to 18 other versions as well and it does not take long before you get weary of the pop-rock versions of the song. This makes the CD a tough listen. Basically there is not enough variation in the various versions and the song is too thin to offer the listener a very pleasant 70 minutes. Perhaps a nice listen for once, but I would challenge everyone to play this CD at a frequent basis. (FK) Address: www.oggettivolanti.it JAVIER HERNANDO - HYDRO PARHELIA (CD by Geometrik/Microgamma) Hernando's previous CD, Luz Nacarina, was reviewed in Vital Weekly 215, so there is a serious gap in releasing music for him. He's been actively involved in the Spanish music scene since the early 80s. His previous CD had tendencies towards ambient, with maybe a touch of Oval, but still ambient in the more classical sense of the word. Here on his new CD he takes his Oval influence a bit further into the more abstract territory of ambient music. The ambient influence is still a strong influence here, but Hernando rejects now the use of digital synthesizers in favor of computer processed music. Overall he does this in a rather soft mood, no harsh overtones (or maybe it is because it seems to me that the overall volume of the CD is rather soft? - I don't know). This makes the CD into an overall pleasure to hear for sure, but also something I heard before; not necessarily better or worse, but of the same quality. This is neither good or bad - just maybe a well-throdden path. (FdW) Address: http://www.geometrikrecords.com VAN OEHLEN - ROCK & ROLL IS HERE TO DIE (CD by Blue Chopsticks) This is my first encounter with Van Oehlen, the two brothers Albert and Markus. Besides being visual artists, they do music; Albert played before with the Red Krayola and runs the Leiterwagen label. Markus played with Mittagspause, one of the first bands to intergrate analogue synths in their punk/new wave (I'm talking very 80s here) and recording as Don Hobby for his brothers label. Quite a reference. But their CD 'Rock & Roll Is Here To Die' takes the procedures even a bit further. These eleven tracks are all over the place. Analogue synths, Oval-esque melodies, slowed down techno and a free jazz saxophone playing in 'Unhappy' or 'In Dus Tree', which is overall free playing. This is craxed out, weird stuff. It hints towards almost everything in music - not just popmusic - from the last hundred years - but in a very analogue matter. Synths broom, drums sound like recorded in the garage and the vocals sometimes sound like drunk crooning. Mayo Thompson - of Red Krayola fame - takes a guest vocal on 'R & R', including an orchestral sample (maybe Peter & The Wolf? maybe something else by Prokovjeff?) and obviously the title track winner. My favourite however is 'Child' with it's Oval influences and again Mayo singing, which makes this almost into pleasing popmusic. Great CD, which seems free of hypes and filled with influences, but coming up with something very much of their own. For those who love Leiterwagen or Meeuw Muzak. (FdW) Address: http://www.bluechopsticks.org DELPHIUM - DEAD ON THE INSIDE (CD by Hibou Records) It's been a while since we last heard from our man Delphium. We have to hark back to Vital Weekly 235 when we reviewed his previous CD on Moloko+. I have no idea why there are such lenghty gaps between his releases, but maybe it's better to have quality over quantaty. All of the elemnets found on his previous CDs (and even more 7"s and other vinyl), are present here. Sampled drums from records, sauced with his own blend of orchestral samples, dark synths and bass playing. Like I wrote before, I don't know what I should appealling of his music, as it contains all sorts of things one would normally see my digust, but maybe it's naivety of the music of Delphium. He doesn't want to make the perfect beat, the perfect drum & bass, breakcore or what have you got, but rather he wants to shred your ears to pieces with monotonous blasts of ongoing noise, that happen to take the ideas of drum & bass and breakbeat but loaded with orchestral samples and heavy guitars (like on 'Deepwoundsbleedthorns' which also carries far away female vocals). There are three tracks with female vocals, which are among the most worked out on this CD. Maybe it's even a pun on real popmusic. Seeing that this CD was already recorded three years ago, I wouldn't be too surprised if these pieces are the forecasts of a new musical direction and the other nine tracks a close down of his older style, because it carries too much similarities with his previous releases. (FdW) Address: http://www.perso.wanadoo.fr/hibou-records PHASMID - THRIFT SHOP (3" CDR by Piehead Recordings) Kell Simon is the guy behind Phasmid and his first release was a double CD on Sklylab Operations. One CD with his own music and one disc with remixes by a whole bunch of friends. This mini CD in the Piehead 2003 series contains four reworkings of tracks found on his double CD debut release. I must admit I haven't heard this, but if this serves as an appetizer for that, I think I should. Kell works exclusively with analogue synths and a drummachine. He works on this kind of music since he was eight years old (and I have no idea how old he is now, but it's sounds pretty worked out, so let's assume there is some experience). Quirky uptempo electronic music, that is both raw and fresh, maybe in a bit of old-school fashion, such as in the acid inspired 'There's Ghosts In Here, There's Ghosts!'. Alltogether it's very pleasent music to forgot one's worries and simply enjoy life. (FdW) Address: http://www.pieheadrecords.com YUKO NEXUS6 - JOURNAL DE TOKYO (CD by Sonore) This CD has been playing the house a couple of times already, and it's a hard one to just review. Yuko Nexus6 is a female sound artist from Japan who has a couple of works already available. Like the title of the CD already says, this is a sort of diary of life in Tokyo. We hear whispering, street sounds, singing, sometimes poetry like reading. The work was originally recorded in 45 minutes on a DAT tape and then re-corded over it. Just like the old days when you could re-record a cassette but still could hear the original sound that was previously on the tape. This CD works in the same way. It's a continous work, but it changes and was layered with additional sounds. This is very a very intimate production, like you are almost listening to a private diary of somebody. Then it's still remotely far away, since the language used (Japanese) is of course a barrier. It's a puzzling release. But it has beauty in it, which one can always re-discover when playing it again. New things seem to pop then and again and again. Strange music. (FdW) Address: http://www.sonore.com HAGEDORN - HOME GROWN (CD by Kompakt) Microfunk. Ambi-groove. Whatever you want to call it, it's sweet and sexy. Hagedorn is Cologne-based with Wolfgang Hagedorn (Computerjockeys) at the helm. For some unbeknownst reason this disc transports me back to the days of Fiorucci, chiseled cork heels and long feathered blonde locks. Through the twists of punky funk Hagedorn indulges his listener with pop hooks and electronic pumping heart beats. 'Electronic Music Machine' has the build up of any track by Underworld or Crystal Method but keeps you poised for that blast of exhilarating bass and effects, but hovers at the building point which creates a brilliant tension. Complete with some short track interludes, the freeflowing spirit of Home Grown dares to intergrate the electronic minds of experimental dance sounds with paler vocal tracks like 'Inquieta' which seems a tad predisposed to the illuminated world of Björk. A pretty piano-based conclusion comes on 'Oblidow' complete with a generous helping of crunchy static and sunshower sparkle. This is a midnight record for joystickers and dayglo splattered urbans. Plenty of cool attitude, with a west coast sensibility. (TJN) Address: http://www.onitor.de/ TIM HECKER - RADIO AMOR (CD by Mille Plateaux) Austere and sensitive, Tim Hecker is a shape shifter of highest caliber. On Radio Amor he has presented an intensely crafted communication device that combines mysterious tones and harmony. Treated electronics with a sensitive side, very sensitive. This could be a space lullaby to some standards, bearing the vague resemblance to other like micronaughts. Though this has nothing in common with any known dancefloor, it is a profoundly atmospheric earful. In ten seamless tracks that are pretty much a long playing continuum, there are moments of industrial tension weighted evenly by divine stretches of ambient drone. From the static filtered opening 'Song of the Highwire Shrimper' to the muted feathery vibes and masked of hum on the final cut, 'Trade Winds, White Heat', Hecker creates a cyclical impact that courts us all the way through the final wavering seconds. (TJN) Address: http://www.force-inc.com WARMDESK - GUERO VARIATIONS (CD by Deluxe) Guero Variations is drenched in cryptic metallic timbre and hypnotic percussion. Warmdesk (William Selman) has just released a recording that bears light, fusing it with a speckled foray of contained trill and bounce. These nine tracks are akin to a colorfield of infinite tones. Based on composer Helmut Lachenmann's piano piece 'Guero' in which the composer exclusively plays the interiors of his upright. This is Selman's attempt to de/reconstruct musique concrete making for an interesting approach of modernizing the traditional instrument and daring to split genre boundaries to make techno from a source with less commercial potential. These Variations are silky smooth on the trained ear. (TJN) Address: http://www.deluxerecs.com/ BENYTT DENNE GLIMRENDE... (2CD compilation by Humbug) Norway is, at least to some people, one of the more exciting countries for new music, be it electronic, noise, rock or improvised. This double CD collects only partly the areas outside rock and improvised and more electronic and noise side, but offers a wide variety of stuff in everything. With no less then thirty eight tracks, one can only short mention the winners: Lasse Marhaugh's simple yet effective drone piece, Duplo's controlled environmental soundscapes, HOH's near silence, Bogus Blimp's naive take on singer songwriter and Arm's musique concrete. But as said, these are just highlights of 38 tracks, and there is so many to discover in there: This Is Music Inc., Duo Kanel, Fredrik Ness Sevendal, MBD, Waffelpung, Anders Gjerde, Continental Fruit, Cosmic Jinx, O. Melby, Fibo Trespo, Fusel Music, Sindre Andersen, Two Shot Sons, Origami Arktika and many more. A lot of these artists have CDRs on Humbug also, so let this be a good advertisement. (FdW) Address: ASTRO - ACID BEACH (CDR by Alienation) MIJIM - TOTAL CARE (CDR by Alienation) PLANK - CETUS, PING (CDR by Alienation) A whole bunch of new releases on Alienation, the fine noise label run by the same guy who is also behind Third Organ. Astro is the solo project of Hiroshi Hasegawa, who was once a founding member of C.C.C.C., a band which no longer exists. In his solo works he takes the noise of C.C.C.C. to a more psychedelic, cosmic level. 'Acid Beach' is one long track, almost fortytwo minutes in total. Layers of analogue synths and feedback noise stumble and bubble over eachother. Everrything seems to be taking a long course, but hey, this is the world of cosmic noise. It's actually quite a nice release, because it has something of it's own and not y'r typical jap noise. Recentely we reviewed a CDR by Powerbooks For Peace (Vital Weekly 361) and one of the members, Jim Brouwer has a solo outing under the monniker of Mijim. The music he is working with here, is very different from Powerbooks For Peace. Even when this is made on powerbooks no doubt, the overal impression is that he is borrowing ideas and sounds from techno music. The result is quite minimal. One hears the basic dance rhythm per track being fed into several plug ins and it usually stays there throughout the track. Nice but maybe per track a bit long. Six minutes tracks could have easily been three minute tracks. Another member of Powerbooks For Peace calls himself Jozepf Plank (his parents call him Joe Gilmore). He too does music that is related to the band project, but also a bit different. Again, powerbooks do the work here, but Plank's more hoovers on the edges of quietness and almost ambient music - that is, unless you crank up the volume so loud and find the high pitched tones irritating. But played a medium volume - say the volume that I also used for the other releases - this is a nice ambient laptop kind of release. (FdW) Address: http://www.ops.dti.ne.jp/~thirdorg/ 1. From: "TJ Norris" Hello All - I have missed many of you at Soundvision has been closed since early February. But we will re-open with a great show of contemporary photographic work called STARTUM: 5 Photographers as seen on the newly design website here: http://tjnorris.net/CURRENTS.htm. Hope to see you on April 3, 4 and 12! - TJ PS: http://titaniumcounter.com/temp/emergency/ (I couldn't help myself) _____________________________________________ TJ Norris, Gallery Director SOUNDVISION 625 NW Everett St #108 Portland, OR 97209 USA Phone: 503-238-7007 Fax: 503-210-7812 Hours: Fri + Sat 12-6PM + by Appointment; First Thursdays 6-9PM Event Schedule: http://www.tjnorris.net NEXT EXHIBITION: STRATUM: 5 Photographers Dan Burke | Donald Jones | Barbara Loomis | Julie Orser | Martina Verhoeven April 3-26: Opening April 3, 6-9PM ((( soundbytes ))): Illusion of Safety (April 4, 8PM) vidnaObmana (April 12, 8PM) $5-10 Suggested Donation for each show SOUNDVISION: One of the Top 10 New Places in Portland (The Oregonian) [ If you wish to be added to our mailing list please let us know ] 2. From: "gaya donadio" + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SPECIAL MALEDICTION NIGHT ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ H x M a l e d i c t i o n : Saturday 17th. May 2003 Very Special event! Kirlian Camera first ever gig in UK! http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kirlian/ + Naevus http://www.naevus.co.uk/start.htm more acts T.B.C. @t Slimelight London MORE infos coming shortly . ------------------------------- This is a Termite club event A very Special event! June - 6 - Leeds England - THE NEW BLOCKADERS (1st show in 20 years/only show they're doing) GREY WOLVES - CON-DOM - ANOMALI Brudenell Social Club, Queens Road, Leeds 6. 800-1200. Tickets - prices tbc. info: mike.dando2@btopenworld.com or check Termite club - http://www.qubik.com/termite/termite.html ------------------------------ H x M a l e d i c t i o n Friday May 09 - 2003 C o s t e s prepare yourself for the inferno! http://costes.org/ S t a n i e r - B l a c k - F i v e stanier_black5@hotmail.com "A defect of the understanding perhaps, which only began to vibrate on repeated solicitations, or which did vibrate, but at a lower frequency, or a higher, than that of ratiocination... pure sounds, free of all meaning" more acts are to be confirmed please check the hagshadow web page. more info coming very soon 3. From: apo33 =Apo33= http://www.apo33.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONCERTS * april Sunday the 20th : OTOMO YOSHIHIDE & MARTIN TETREAULT (Jp/Can) FRAC Des Pays De La Loire (Instantané) Carquefou - 4pm - free * may Saturday the 17th : TOY BIZARRE (Fr) Médiathèque de St Herblain - free ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ TEMPORARY ESSAY ZONE = sound experimentation workshop *april Friday the 4th : ZET of MANU HOLTERBACH & SOPHIE DURAND (Fr) 3 rue Bias - 8.30pm - 5 euros/free for members * april Sunday the 6th : ZET of CREMASTER (Spain) Oxymore - 8.30pm - 5 euros/free for members * april Friday the 25th : ZET of QUINTETAVANT (Fr) Blockhaus DY10 - 8.30pm - 5 euros/free for members * may Friday the 9th : ZET of DAS SYNTHETISCHE MISCHGEWEBE (Fr/Ger) Oxymore - 8.30pm - 5 euros/free for members * may saturday the 10th & Sunday the 11th, all the day : ZET of PASCAL BROCHOLICHI (Fr) Circuit in the city (the different listening point will be show at 3 rue Bias) * june Tuesday the 10th : ZET of TETUZI AKIYAMA (Japan) 3 rue Bias - 8.30pm - 5 euros/free for members * june Sunday the 15th : ZET of JEFFREY ALLPORT & TIM OLIVE (USA) Oxymore - 8.30pm - 5 euros/free for members ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ VISUAL PROJECT * april Wednesday the 2nd : The Yellow room invite FABRICE GALLIS (Fr) - Salle Coligny - free * during june : painting exhibition of Keith Rowe at 3 rue Bias (not confirmed) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OPEN WORKSHOP thinking & transmission workshop of Philosophy « the technic's question » by Sophie Gosselin * april Monday the 28th - 7pm - 3 rue Bias - free * may Wednesday the 28th - 7pm - 3 rue Bias - free april Wednesday the 30th : THE SOUND MACHINE " thema : without 22OV" - 6pm - 3 rue Bias Bring your machine, plug it and play!! the thema of this workshop is without 220V, bring your batteries!! 4. From: Benjamin Green "one hour as ...." *airs EVERY FRIDAY* broadcast times: 16:00 - 17:00 h (UK) 15:00 - 16:00 h (CET) others chk: http://www.worldtimeserver.com real media/mp3 streams: http://www.resonancefm.com ........ 28.03.03 Phil Mouldycliff/Colin Potter "one hour as shellfish in kettleblack" philmouldycliff@hotmail.com colinpotter@another.com http://www.i-c-r.freeserve.co.uk ........ 04.04.03 Seth Nehil "one hour as a rumpled sheet" s_hehil@yahoo.com http://www.kaon.org/seth_nehil/index.php# ........ 11.04.03 Francisco Lopez "one absolute hour" http://www.franciscolopez.net ........ 18.04.03 blaat "one hour as shifting blanks" 257 sound files including 100 'sound' files which has 'no sounds (silence)' of different length, will be played randomly by Benjamin Green (for this occasion) with mp3 software (like iTune.. i don't know which program Benjamin would use.) The 257 sound files will occupy 43 min. 47 sec., leaving 16 min. 13 sec. for possible recurrence &/or reshuffling of some files. Each file will work as tiny component of the whole. The silent parts (blanks - i would say) will give the cuts and momenta in between the regular 'audible' sounds. I would never be able to make a good guess what Benjamin Green (and the software he decides to use), will end up playing out of the sound/no-sound components. This is a piece where composition does not end when composer finishes whose products. This piece was specifically created for resonanceFM program. [Keiko Uenishi/blaat] oblaat@attglobal.net ........ 25.04.03 Michael Northam "one hour as the agitation of atoms" http://www.radiantslab.com/mnortham/ mnortham@preg.org ........ 02.05.03 EVOL "one hour as 0.0000011407955261548605 centuries" http://personal.ilimit.es/principio http://www.mego.at/evol.html ........ 09.05.03 j.frede "one hour as a barren landscape" http://ritualdocument.com/jfrede jfrede@ritualdocument.com ........ 16.05.03 Yannick Dauby "one hour as a moving shadow" http://www.kalerne.net/ yannick.dauby@free.fr 5. From: fages costa monteiro cremaster: Ferran Fages (feedback mixing board, pick ups) Alfredo Costa Monteiro (objects on electric guitar) next gigs: .april 2nd. Milano A+M Bookstore .april 5th. Montreuil Les Instants Chavirés .april 6th. Nantes Z.E.T. for further information: elec@cremaster.info 6. From: Arie van Schuttterhoef " T I M B R A L I N T E G R A T I O N " http://www.xs4all.nl/~schreck/html/inter.html On invitation of the Empresa Publica de Programas Culturales (EPGPC), part of the Cultural Board of Junta de Andalucía - regional government of Andalucía-, the Schreck Ensemble will play the concert program "Timbral Integration" http://www.xs4all.nl/~schreck/html/inter.html in the Contemporary Music Concert Series 2003 in Theatro Central in Sevilla and during the XIV Contemporary Music Days 2003 in Teatro Alhambra in Granada, Spain. Date: April 1st. Place: Teatro Alhambra, Molinos 56, Granada, Spain http://www.teatroalhambra.com Date: April 2nd. Place: Teatro Central, Jose de Galvez, Isla de la Cartuja-Sevilla, Spain http://www.teatrocentral.com Program: - Hans van Eck -'assumptio' (1997/2002) for amplified bass clarinet and live-electronics; - Jean-Claude Risset -'invisible' (1996) for soprano and tape; - Kaija Saariaho -'...de la terre.' (1991) for violin, tape and live-electronics; - Luigi Nono -'a pierre, dell'azzuro silenzio, inquietum' (1985) for contrabass clarinet, contrabass flute and live-electronics; - Ton de Leeuw -'mountains' (1977) for bass clarinet and tape Performers: Caroline Erkelens -soprano, Tiziana Pintus -violin, Hein Pijnenburg -bass clarinet/contrabass clarinet, Lesley Olson -contrabass flute Hans van Eck -sound diffusion, Colin McClure -sound technique, Pieter Suurmond -computer applications. For the performance of the live-electronics extensive use is being made of SuperCollider for signal processing and synthesis purposes and Max is doing the quadraphonic spatializationon a Yamaha digital mixer. The Schreck - Ensemble is an ensemble for electro-acoustic music; music which takes instruments as well as 'live'-electronics, computers or tapes for performing. To give you an idea, we perform music of composers as Luigi Nono, Kaija Saariaho and Jean-Claude Risset next to own compositions and works from lesser known composers. Besides specifically projectbound research, the ensemble is also busy developing new instruments, of which the Stratifier can be regarded as a succesfull example. Also new signal processing applications are written within the program SuperCollider. This will allow the musicians to have a far directer control over the electronics then previously before possible, leading towards a new way of performing music. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..................................................................... ` |Schreck Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . + ` |# -laboratory for live electro-acoustic music- # | | http://www.xs4all.nl/~schreck/ | ` *===========================================================++ ` |Compositions http://www.xs4all.nl/~schreck/html/compo.html | ` |Samples http://www.xs4all.nl/~schreck/html/samp.html | ` |Patches http://www.xs4all.nl/~schreck/html/pat.html | ` |Videos http://www.xs4all.nl/~schreck/html/video.html | ` |Scores http://www.xs4all.nl/~schreck/html/scores.html | *===========================================================++ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..................................................................... 7. From: "martijn.comes" .......................................................: March 29 : 20.00-00.00 The Little Glass Room gettogether!! Verwulft, right across the V&D | Haarlem center,NL Come into the Glass Room to have a drink, recline, and tune in to some sweet eclectronics. .......................................................: March 30 : 16.00-23.00 Opening of the Redundant Technology Initiative Exposition Nieuwe Vide | minckelersweg 6 | Haarlem | http://www.nieuwevide.nl http://www.bip-hop.com | http://www.lowtech.org genres: electro, ambientism, minimal tech, idm, cinematic soundrays LIVE: Kassen [Cr=E8me records] Turntables, cd's and laptops: IP@Bip-Hop.com [BiP_HOp FR] No Pan [Headroom USA] Moniker [Headroom USA] Dirty D Nimrodpower Video: Videotroopers + Special Guest Eye&I+Sims Extras: Cocktails and a crockodile wrapped in tape. .......................................................: March 31 : Earational Festival Den Bosch | http://www.earational.org | http://www.twinesound.com | http://www.phasefour.org | http://www.bip-hop.com genres: minimal tech, idm, noise LIVE: Twine [BiP_HOp/Ghostly int./Headroom USA] LIVE: Pan*sonic [Sahko FI] Cd's and laptop: IP@Bip-Hop.com [BiP_HOp FR] is also doing a dj-set on the 1st of April. Video: Phase4 [BiP_HOp/Piratetv.net/Headroom USA] .......................................................: sleep {[(-_-)(-_-)]} together :^)v""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" +---------+ * Get your own Jmail account.|URL= http://www.jmail.co.jp |--jmail--| * Get your own home page. |URL= http://www.servance.jp +---------+ * Get your own domain. |URL= http://domaintorou.com """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" 8. From: gert-jan prins The Nozart Festival 2003, Koeln , Germany : Friday, 28th March: Electronic Four : E. Hirt, P. Behrendsen, J. Nies, HW. Koch Fallen Angels : J. Liebezeit, A. Jaroschek, P. Worringer Boom Box : T.Borgmann, T. Buck, J. Williamson Steamboat Switzerland : M.Pliakas, L.Niggli, D. Blum DJ Wolfgang Brauneis Saturday, 29th Köln Konzert : A. Vert Neue Heimat : C.Winckel, W. Kellers, O.Rupp, T. Borgmann E-RAX : P. van Bergen, GJ Prins, T. Lehn, P. Dolleman The Earthieves : D. Subik, Magnussek, Havlicek DJ Frank Dommert LOCATION : BASEMENT - Live-Music Club Unter der Christus-Kirche / Herwartstr. / Nähe Stadtgarten -- gert-jan prins news and info on: http://www.gjp.info 9. From: IrmAmmer@aol.com Extrapool Welt & Wemelt www.extrapool.nl March 29 - May 2, 2003 Standortausstellungshalle Allerheiligenstr.7 60313 Frankfurt/Main Germany Art opening: 7 pm Saturday, 29.03.03 Brombron performances: Frans de Waard Jaap Blonk Roel Meelkop Radboud Mens Ekkehard Ehlers 10. From: "gregg kowalsky" osso bucco upcoming Primavera Dates: ...//does Germany mini tour. .///.does the Online Flash Film Festival March 28 at the Hoerbar. www.hoerbar-ev.de (Hamburg) March 29 at KuLe with Alex Dorner, Burkhard Beins, Sven-Ake Johannsson and Greg Kelley (Berlin) www.echtzeitmusik.de April 4 at New Berlin Initiative with Static (City Center Offices). www.neueberlinerinitiative.de (Berlin) May 1 at the Online Flash Film Festival with Taylor Dupree, Stephan Mathieu, Rip-Off Artist and others. www.offf.org (Barcelona) www.nosordo.com/ossobucco email: imossobucco@hotmail.com -- Vital Weekly is published by Frans de Waard and submitted for free to anybody with an e-mail address. If you don't wish to receive this, then let us know. Any feedback is welcome . Forward to your allies. 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