============ VITAL WEEKLY ============ number 379 ------------ week 28 ------------ contents: UNDERGROUND AUSTRALIAN (CDR by Audealism) DANEGREUX VS. IVERSEN - RECONSTRUCTING MECHANICAL BACTERIA (CDR by Tib Prod) ISZOLOSCOPE - AU SEUIL DU NÉANT (2 CD by Ant-Zen) KLAPPER/UHLER/MORGENSTERN - MOMENTAUFNAHMEN (CD by Nurnichtnur) UHLER/PHILLIPP/TURNER - UMLAUT (CD by Nurnichtnur) EMBEDDED (2CDR compilation by Deterrent) GOOD NIGHT - MUSIC TO SLEEP BY (2CD compilation by Tigerbaet 6) CONRAD SCHNITZLER - GOLD (CD by Musical Tragedies) DOC WOR MIRRAN - EDGES (CDR by Mirran Thought/Empty Records) DOC WOR MIRRAN - MOMENTUM 1 (CDR by Mirran Thought/Empty Records) JOSEPH B. RAIMOND - BANANA BOOBED (book by Mirran Thought/Empty Records) TOSHIYA TSUNODA - O RESPIRAR DE PAISAGEM (CD by Sirr.Ecords) STEPHAN MATHIEU/JANEK SCHAEFER/RADBOUD MENS/TIMEBLIND - QUALITY HOTEL (CD by Mutek) HANS APPELQVIST - ATT MOTA VERKLIGHETEN (3" CD by Hapna) JOEL STERN &ANTHONY GUERRA - STITCH (CD by Impermanent Recordings) UNDERGROUND AUSTRALIAN (CDR by Audealism) Under the nicely found name Audealism, a small label from Australia operates. On their website you find many MP3s by their satble artists, such as Dukes Of Acid, Alt SonyQ R & D, Dark Fader, DJ Dope Incredible and Belo. The latter three are also on a CDR, which might be for sale, but maybe just promotes the website. Dark Fader is mainly interested in, as the name suggests, dark music. An ambient mix of sparse percussion and electronics. A lenghty excursion going on here, which works nice. The DJ with that silly name has two tracks of also looseness of various rhythmical records (hip hop, spoken word, techno), but somehow it gets nowhere. The Belo piece is maybe the nicest: a far away rumble that slowly starts rotating, but the rumbles never make a real groove. Instead they leave a spooky atmosphere. The data portion of the CDR contains many MP3s by the aforementioned artists, plus some only in that format. The SonyQ is nice for those who like Autechtre like techno music. Certainly worth checking out some of the stuff on the website. (FdW) Address: http://www.audealism.com/ DANEGREUX VS. IVERSEN - RECONSTRUCTING MECHANICAL BACTERIA (CDR by Tib Prod) Two bands I haven't heard of before. I believe Jan Iversen is from Norway and Guignol Dangereux from Italy. They remix eachothers work here, but I do not know if they were remixes of finished pieces, or a collaboration via mail, sending each other raw sound files to work. What I gather from both their websites, is they like MP3s, so I won't be too surprised to learn that they remixes raw sound files send through the internet. The first seven pieces are by Iversen. His pieces are best described as laptop music, but without falling in any specific category. It's sometimes a bit ambient, sometimes more noisy and drony, and sometimes even a bit rhythmical. Taking the best from various directions, Iversen comes up with some pretty decent tracks. Guignol Dangereux operate in maybe the similar territory, but in his first two pieces more conventional music arise, in this case some sort of analogue electro. However not the best around. The other pieces are more in laptop doodlings area, but overall less refined, more noisy than the stuff from Jan Iversen. Still quite alright material, but nevertheless a little bit less in quality. Overall a well done work, this collaboration. (FdW) Address: http://www.tibprod.com ISZOLOSCOPE - AU SEUIL DU NÉANT (2 CD by Ant-Zen) Even though rhythmic noise as a genre has been on the stage for quite a while, this latest release from Iszoloscope titled "Au seuil du néant" separates from many other albums in that field. Iszoloscope originally began its explorations back in 2000 thanks to its members François Bénard & Yann Faussurier both from Canada. At that time the collaboration project focused on a sort of dark ambient-industrial with the release of debut album "Coaguilating wreckage" out on Belgium label Spectre Records back in 2001. Since then Francois Bénard have left the Iszoloscope ship and Yann Faussurier have established contact with German Ant-Zen Recordings. With this first album on Ant-Zen Iszoloscope have moved in the direction of rhythmic noise with the focus on dark ambient-spheres. Using some quite harsh and powerful rhythmic textures Yann Faussurier still leaves space to some dark subtle drones of claustrophobic isolationism. The drones give a great thrilling atmosphere as they slowly floats on the waves of noisy rhythms. Second disc is an excellent remix-CD of earlier Iszoloscope works from previous album "Le denominateur commun". Despite the fact that many of the remixes have been developed from the same source there is so much vitality and energy in each track. Favourite track comes from Ah Cama Sotz with his heavy percussive treatment of Skotophobique. This is definitely a fine album from Iszoloscope! (NMP) Address: http://www.ant-zen.com KLAPPER/UHLER/MORGENSTERN - MOMENTAUFNAHMEN (CD by Nurnichtnur) UHLER/PHILLIPP/TURNER - UMLAUT (CD by Nurnichtnur) Two CDs of improvisations with one person appearing on both. Birgit Uhler plays trumpet on both discs. I do know nothing about her, or on the five other players on these CD's. The first one is a trio with Martin Klapper on toys and electronics and Jurgen Morgenstern on double bass and voice. In the twelve pieces they show an interest in the use of small sounds. None of the instruments are really conventionally played, but work as sound generators to make basically any type of sound. Sometimes hoovering on the edges of silence, sometimes they burst out in a highly vivid playing. Lots of small events happening in almost each track. That's a wealth for the ear, but at the same it requires a lot of effort to listen too (but that's of course a good thing). Especially funny are the tracks in which toys play a main role. The other trio has a more conventional line up. Again Uhler's trumpet, aswell as Ulrich Phillipp's double bass and Roger Turner on drums and percussion. Here the improvisation is also a bit more conventional. Displaying their improvisational virtuosity on their instruments, they do it rather well. However of the two releases, also the one, at least for me, that is lesser of interest. It's a bit like seen and heard it before. The pieces are played well, but seem to miss a bit of the attention and concentration which must be there to make improvised music so interesting. Maybe the die-hards differ with me. They should not hesitate to check both of these out. (FdW) Address: http://www.nurnichtnur.de EMBEDDED (2CDR compilation by Deterrent) "The push against the limits of memory space, clock speed, restricted functionality and purpose specific infrastructure", that's in a nutshell what 'Embedded' is about. In the hard to read writing in the booklet I figured something out about the use of sounds of video and computer games, embedded systems (phones, aplliances) and circuit bending. Maybe it's about all the things one shouldn't be doing with all things electric, but which make a great sound once you do. This double CD compilation has an 'active' and a 'passive' disc. The 'active' disc is about up tempo rhythm and noise music, the 'passive' one is more in ambient areas. Most of the names to be found here, are names I never heard of before. Bands like Der Einzige, Neutralizing Force, Kwaiden, Skruntskrunt, Gentil Paysen (who has three tracks on the 'passive' disc) but also Logoplasm, Andrea Marutti and Aal, who all are connected to S'Agita Recordings label. The 'active' disc works best if the rude techno elements are used. Music that deals with elements from techno music, but which is recorded on lo-fi equipment and not ment to dance too. The noisy bits here were not well-spend on me. The drifts on the 'passive' disc are nice, but not outstandigely well. Passtime music of an ok kind. Not really good, not really bad. Overall a compilation that is nice. (FdW) Address: http://www.deterrent.net GOOD NIGHT - MUSIC TO SLEEP BY (2CD compilation by Tigerbaet 6) Glitchmusic might have the name for being cold and distant. So a thematic double CD with lullabys is of course something of a surprise and certainly so on a label such as Tigerbeat6, not really always the home for sweet music. But take for instance the three pieces here by Stephan Mathieu, and you can't be wrong. 'A Drinking Song' has nothing to do with sleeping, but the mild synthesizer tones and the occassional glitch wave together perfect a perfect late night, pre-sleep piece (despite the subtitle, I don't think you should be playing music when sleeping). Three other highlights here are the lenghty rumbles of Main, whose soundmaterial is so unrecognizable that it doesn't matter - would it, when you are asleep anyway and the lenghty piece by Oren Ambarchi. A study of one note guitar and sustained sounds. Very trance and maybe also sleep inducing. The last highlight are the warm crackles by Pimmon. All of these are great pieces and worth alone getting this CD for. But there are some weaker brothers too. One of the pieces I didn't like was 'Circumvent' by Kid 606, which is a rather hasty and chaotic piece of ambient sounding electronics, but would nerve me, before going to sleep. Something similar goes for the two pieces by Electric Company. The rhythm elements brought in here are much sparser and more under control, but still maybe not so the music to sleep by. Don't get me wrong: these tracks are quite alright, I'm merely thinking why they are on this compilation. This double set is one that is filled with overall nice music, but of which only some will fit the thematic approach. (FdW) Address: http://www.tigerbeat6.com CONRAD SCHNITZLER - GOLD (CD by Musical Tragedies) I like re-reading books on music. One of them is a book on Conrad Schnitzler. It's weird to have such a book, since I don't think I have that many records or CDs by the man. And those that I have aren't really the big things in my collection (well, maybe with the exception of 'Con Repetizione', which is a nice minimal piano CD). But I find the man and his work fascinating. Working for so long, outside the music industry, cut away from hypes, building a large body of his own work. The so-called 'non-keyboard electronics' is one of the phases I am always most keen on. Using synthesizers not as common instruments, but rather the VCO, the LFO and the oscillators to make music that is as yet unheard. From the period when he was most active with this, the middle seventies, a whole series of records was released, all dealing with colour, 'Rot', 'Blau' and 'Schwarz'. 'Gold' is now added, with recordings from the same period, but being on a compact disc, it may be around for some longer (the 'colour' LPs from the seventies were released in small editions, and are now much sought after). The fifteen tracks on this CD are a wildly varied bunch. Some of them really fit the idea one may of somebody randomly turning knobs, but for the most part it's a pretty decent affair. Rhythmboxes play a big role here, and trigger the wildest sounds inside the oscillators, with, as a prize winning track '3' (herr Schnitzler never uses many titles): a pre-techno piece of a 4/4 rhythm, and space disco synths. Sometimes a genius is ahead of it's time - or sometimes time will tell when a genius was at work. (FdW) Address: http://www.empty.de DOC WOR MIRRAN - EDGES (CDR by Mirran Thought/Empty Records) DOC WOR MIRRAN - MOMENTUM 1 (CDR by Mirran Thought/Empty Records) JOSEPH B. RAIMOND - BANANA BOOBED (book by Mirran Thought/Empty Records) Just like the elsewhere mentioned Conrad Schnitzler, I sometimes have problems with the vast output of Doc Wor Mirran. Musically they have been in so many places, that I think it's hard to find a die-hard fan with the complete works at hand. Doc Wor Mirran's label is Empty Records, which is likewise a hotchpotch of musical styles. But it's also the home of Doc Wor Mirran, who started to release CDRs on their own label, in the series 'Mirran Threat'. All of these releases are handmade, and contain sometimes multi-media parts. These two releases are by the hardcore duo of Doc Wor Mirran. 'Edges', recorded by Jeandra Raimond and Joseph B. Raimond, was recorded in 1999 using one Korg MS 20 synthesizer and has one short and one long track. It's mostly a noise thing that is going on here, a bit like Merzbow (but less layered) and a bit cosmic. White noise, white space and white heat coming out of one of the more nicer synths in the world. A pretty rough recording, but one that is well suitable for a small scale release on a CDR. I don't know who recorded 'Momentum 1' (the line up by Doc Wor Mirran is an ever changing affair), but the music here goes into more Schnitzler like areas. Processed chanting, synth notes and dark synths create music that is quite dark, vaguely modern classical (especially the first piece) and has an overall mystical, atmospherical cloud to it. The CD is quite, short, only 10 minutes for these tracks, but in the meantime you can watch all the paintings on the CD extra part. Joseph B. Raimond is also a painter for expressionistic paintings, in which men and animals play an important role. If this is not enough, there is also a poetry book by Raimond (which makes you wonder: does this guy ever sleep? I am told he also has a day-job). The dadaistic poetry is not well-spent on me, certainly not too read. But to recite: that's another thing. I read parts out loud for a not entirely objective four year old, and she enjoyed it and started to interact with some language of her own. If you really insist on understanding some of this poetry, I advise you to study both english and german, because much of the language is what Raimond picked up from the country he was born in and where he lives now. (FdW) Address: http://www.empty.de TOSHIYA TSUNODA - O RESPIRAR DE PAISAGEM (CD by Sirr.Ecords) If you have been a close reader of Vital Weekly, and I have no reasons to believe otherwise, you heard the name Toshiya Tsunoda before, and you are aware I like his music very very much. Tsunoda is a sound artist of a most radical kind. Not in the sense that he produces harsh edged music, but in his simplicity working with sound. He takes a couple of microphones or contact microphones and tapes his environment. His role as a composer is to select the right piece from presumably a larger set of recordings. His recordings are detailed on the cover. "A pair of microphones were set in the road between two big warehouses. You can hear the mechanical sound of a cargo ship, echoing regularly. There was a person practicing trumpet in the distance" - is for instance a description of 'Road Between Warehouses' (as you can see: no messing about with titles either). It sounds like a drone captured outside, with distant motor hum, birds, cars and indeed a distant trumpet. Fourteen of these beautiful pieces, all in varying areas, both human made and natural, are presented here. It sounds, if I read this back, like it's all so simple, but it's not. Tsunoda captures the right space, the right recording angle and knows exactely when a piece has the right length. Not a dull moment in sight here. Next to Chris Watson's work, Tsunoda belongs for me to the absolute top of sound environmentalists. Another masterpiece! (FdW) Address: http://www.sirr.ecords.com STEPHAN MATHIEU/JANEK SCHAEFER/RADBOUD MENS/TIMEBLIND - QUALITY HOTEL (CD by Mutek) For many Mutek is Sonar's little sister in North America. Similar music, but because of the smaller size, maybe a more friendly approach. In 2001 Goem played there, and they took the chance to work on their 'Abri' CD in their hotelroom. Other artists from the festival shared rooms next to Goem, and dropped by to see what they were doing. After some explaining, some of the artists used the Goem set up to do their Goem (re-?) mixes. A CD was released later on, 'Gast' on the Mutek side label. This idea of using hotel rooms for artists in transit was further explored in 2002, when Radboud Mens, Stephan Mathieu, Janek Schaefer and Timeblind decided to do some music together which is now released as 'Quality Hotel' (just like 'Abri' a name of a hotel in Montreal). It's a bit different then the Goem CD, in that respect that 'Gast' still sounds like Goem, but in the hands of others. 'Quality Hotel' is the result of editing the finest moments from probably several hours of improvising music together. It's hard to tell who did the final selection, but my guess it's Stephan Mathieu having a big hand in this. I don't hear Radboud Mens crazy minimal techno, Timeblind's hip hop inspired rhythms and from Janek we hear his turntable, but it's very much incorporated in the total. Leaves the warm crackles of Mr. Mathieu, still one of the more refined musicians when it comes to warm glitches, and it seems to me that he has a firm hand in editing this album. It's subdued ambient like music, with occassional crackles and hiss, maybe even an odd bang here and there (although rhythm is altogether not a theme here). Held back and refined, warm and glitchy. There is a lot of improvisation going on between people with laptops, but it not always reaches great height. Here's one that matters. (FdW) Address: http://www.mutek.ca HANS APPELQVIST - ATT MOTA VERKLIGHETEN (3" CD by Hapna) I am not sure if Hans Appelqvist released anything else between this and the previously reviewed 'Tonefilm' (Vital Weekly 321), but it's a take-off from that CD. This is more like a radioplay with voices in Swedish, English, Chinese and German. Spoken word open up a piece, then start to sign, accompanied by piano, mandolin and flute. Each of the pieces, three in total, have female voices. It's hard to grasp what these stories, if they are in fact stories in a traditional sense at all, are about, certainly when it comes to languages I haven't mastered in full, like Swedish or Chinese. So, it's hard to judge this in terms of joyous or sadness, but it's indeed a very personal thing, like coming into someone's living room and hearing people speak and you don't understand a word what is said. There is only one reference I can think of, and that is the work of Dominique Petitgand. It has the same sort of private, intimate atmosphere but in a very musical context. Compared to 'Tonefilm', about which I had mixed feelings, this is a big big step forward. And damm, this is another fine release on Hapna, a label that has been consistentely bringing quality along - I don't think I discovered a bad release in their catalogue so far. (FdW) Address: http://www.hapna.com JOEL STERN &ANTHONY GUERRA - STITCH (CD by Impermanent Recordings) I believe Joel Stern and Anthony Guerra are originally from Australia, but now living in London, so it may not be a total surprise to see their first real CD (they had a couple of CDRs on their own Twothousandand label before) on an Aussie label. They play 'electronics, field recordings, electric guitar', according to the cover. The guitar is played in the best fashion of prepared guitar, sometimes with an ebow, something by placing objects on the strings. The sounds produced are fed through a bunch of electronics, maybe even a computer and the field recordings are almost on a similar level as the prepared guitar: cracking and buzzing. Waving these three elements together it becomes a multi but closely layered field of electronics, with occassional guitar sounds arising out of the mass of swirling sounds. The best piece of the untitled lot is the final, ninth, piece, which takes up almost a quarter of the entire CD. Starting with picking strings, it slowly evolves in to laptop processed guitar playing, almost like a sweet lullaby. It may be so that much of this music is not exactely new or anything like that, but it worked out really well. A strong and coherent work. (FdW) Address: http://laudible.net/impermanent 1. From: Neon Gallery Brösarp CONCERTS THIS SUMMER AT NEON GALLERY July 12th TRÄD, GRÄS OCH STENAR Admission 150 SEK Starts at 8 pm August 1st HRVATSKI & GREG DAVIS Admission 75 SEK Door opens at 8 pm Club neon (Membership necessary) WELCOME! Neon Gallery Brösarp Vägstationen 277 50 Brösarp Sweden T +46-414-73100 F +46-414-73031 www.neongallery.nu 2. From: TIME-STEREO Saturday, JULY 12: at LEOPOLD BROTHERS in Ann Arbor, MI. BROWN RICE, SATURDAY LOOKS GOOD TO ME, CYRIL LORDS BROWN RICE is WARN's new band!!! This is their first ever show!!! Nobody knows what might happen at this show!!! Also playing: SATURDAY LOOKS GOOD TO ME (everything happens to me mope-town all stars) and CYRIL LORDS (formerly BLOODY HOLLYS). More info at http://leopoldbros.com/ Monday, JULY 14th: at DETROIT ARTSPACE EMIL BEAULIEAU, WOLF EYES, PRINCESS DRAGONMOM, PUTRIENT, IMMACULATE GROTESQUE, CLEANSE The funniest guy in noise is coming back to Detroit!!! Of course it's rrron as EMIL BEAULIEAU, the NEIL HAMBURGER of noise-comedy. WOLF EYES and PDM insisted that they were the opening acts for this important show at DAS. JULY 18-26: at CPOP in Detroit TIME STEREO FAMILY artshow All of your TIME STEREO favorites have put together an artshow at CPOP!!! It runs from July 18-26, and has lots of nice artwork from DAVIN BRAINARD, WARN DEFEVER, DION FISCHER, RONALD CORNELISSEN (Holland), MOG (Florida), IDA PEARLE (NYC), SARAH LAPINSKI, KOJI TANO (Japan), IAN MASTERS (UK/Japan), JAMIE EASTER, AKIFUMI NAKAJIMA/AUBE (Japan), KERRY BIERNOTT, more. Check it out on the web at http://www.timestereo.com/pix.php or at http://cpop.com Saturday, JULY 19 at the 4TH STREET FAIR: THE WOLFMANBAND and lots of other bands It's a super-fun ghetto street-fair at 4th st. Neighborhood north of Wayne State in Detroit. All-free, all-day&nite, three stages, THE WOLFMAN BAND will play on the "porch" stage at 10:pm. Saturday, JULY 26: TIME STEREO's 9th annual NOISE CAMP at CPOP gallery (NOISE CAMP info coming soon!!!) Please email if you have any questions... 3. From: Benjamin Green _one hour as..._ *airs EVERY FRIDAY* broadcast times: 16:00-17:00 h (UK):: resonance 104.4FM other times: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/?h=4&mn=00&ap=pm&mo=07&d=11&y=2003&f=GB real media/mp3 streams: http://www.resonancefm.com next:::: ........ 11.07.03 Artificial Memory Trace "one hour as transitions" "...short snap-shots in fragmented river of cut-up, sometimes inter-linked, sometimes opposed by contrasts; avalanche of moments, perceptual changes in variations..." [slavek kwi] constructed by slavek kwi from fragments of recordings from sound-archives of A.M.T. collected during years 1988-2003, various projects. (april 2003) ........ 18.07.03 RLW "one hour as an archivist's nightmare" "..i will read the titles of the last (i guess about 1000 should fit into hour) records i got. selected, insofar as i'd leave out those i found not worth listening to anyway. no criteria of order otherwise (therefore the title). imagine a future archivist interested in experimental/avantgare/underground - however you will call it - sounds of the past 21st and 20th century, trying to find a path..." (rec: april, 2003) [ralf wehowsky] http://www.selektion.com ........ 25.07.03 Ian Nagoski "one hour as all your good intentions go kerflooey" "Recorded the afternoon of Sunday June 22nd, 2003 in my room on North Calvert St, Baltimore, Maryland. An aproximation of my live performances, utilizing a cross-section of material recorded over the past few years. There are too many people to thank for their help in loaning me equipment or space (mental or physical) to create the source material, but special salutations have to go to Dan Conrad of beloved Baltimore for the use of his original instrument, Wild Wave, which dominates the middle section of the piece. Since the piece came up two minutes short of one hour, I have included, for Ben Green's convenience, a two-minute filler track recorded from a post-WW II, American 78 rpm record of a Ukrainian wedding song, which I include by way of aesthetic explaination. May all our weddings shine from the future into the past and back. (for Jack and Laurie.)" [ian nagoski] 4. From: festival garage -------------------------------------------------------------- 7TH GARAGE FESTIVAL STRALSUND FROM 25 JULY TILL 16 AUGUST 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------- N o C o n c e p t -- A State of Being Pocket-earthquakes and underwater-phenomena, muezzin singing from church steeple, a brass orchestra at half speed, digestion sounds out of Polish synthesizers, building instructions for home security cameras, heavy bass concerts by low-riders, swaying pillars of bridges, mobile phones that cause entire walls to vibrate, cooking as a means of self-defence... not enough? Do you sometimes feel an inexplicable bothersome vibration in the stomach area? Have you ever asked yourself why an apple sounds better than a peach? Are you sure that no one is interested in your deleted data? Have you always wondered what the insides of a computer corps look like? Can you imagine what happens when a rowdy Finn meets an Icelander with an unlimited tolerance to alcohol? Have you suffered from persecution mania? Nothing puts you off? Are you sure? Trial and error as a strategy of the future? Insecurity as creative force? Change as generating mechanism? The 7th annual garage festival, which will take place from the 25th of July until the 16th of August, seeks to explore the methods and points of view of the creative process by looking at the principles and manifestations of insecurity and disorientation. The festival presents exhibitions, installations, concerts/ performances, lectures, films and workshops over the course of three weeks. with: - Mark Bain: Trembling Structures (NL) - Alex Davies: Heterodyne - multi-channel sound installation (AUS) - Christian Engler: Sonic Maze - sound labyrinth (D) - X.v.Wersch/D.Krooshof/T.Scheele: Fruit Power - juicy sound installation (NL) (tbc) - Robot Software/Paul Webb: Garbage In/Garbage Out - data trash installation - Hans Lotz/Alexander Döbler: Eiscafé - the world ascardboard model (D) - Gudrun F. Widlok: Adopted - project (D) - Aniko Szövenyi: Self-Trigger Keys, installationen in the public space - triPhaze: DIY:CCTV - whatch who's whatching - installation (D) - Matthias Fitz: MobileMinder - installation for mobile phones (D) - J.Tieke/E.Falat/K.Clysters: Wir-AG/application - project (D) - Dick El Dermasiados, IBW / Geert-Jan Hobijn, Staalplaat Soundsystem: Jumpy Germanyness - concert for brass orchestra and vacuum cleaners (NL) - Kevin Blechdom - banjo-laptop-electro-trash-performance (USA/D) - Anchortronic 5.1 Dolby Surround with: m9 (A), nt (A), Alex Davies (AUS), Michael Strohmann (A) - space sound installation, project presentation - Peter Bosch/Simone Simons: Krachtgever - 2,5x12 m sound machine (NL/E) - reformat c(lub) I: Poil: Bavarian yodels digital - performance (D) + Andrey Kiritchenko: microwave music from Ukraine - performance (UKR) + triPhaze (D) - Richard Chartier - music on the edge of the perceivable (USA) (tbc) - Hans W. Koch: explosion sketch for a computer corps (D) - Thom Kubli / Sven Mann - 5.1 performance (D) - Christian Cordes / Daniel Funke: m.u.g.*shop - project/workshop (D) - Kein Babel - Don't do this with records! (D) - Radboud Mens / Sasker Scheerders: Boom Car Concert (NL) - De Bar: Meeuw (NL), Helgi Thorrson (ISL), Felix Kubin (D), Paska (FIN) - Jason Kahn - Sine Field, sine waves sound installation (CH) - Kotra + akuvido: obscure, bizarre, extremely noisy - performance (UKR) - club transmediale on tour: bug button - the repelling: Marc Weiser + Lillevän / Oliver Baurhenn / Datenreport / Miko Mikona / Cécile Bbabiole / Jan Rohlf - Metaflexes: Realtime Remix No. 3 - Ignaz Schick + Perlonex (D) + Jacek Staniszewski: remixing metaflex - performance (PL) - Survolt: Christof Migone / Martin Tétreault (CAN) + Retro*Sex*Galaxy (PL) - Panel "Instable Systems": cooking without recipes or art as speculation: Andreas Broeckmann (D), Antye Greie (D), Simon Waters (UK), EricHobijn (NL), Thilges3 (A), and others - Trial and Error - short film festival g-niale with international competition programme, special screenings, short films for kids and many more… updates and detailed information: http://www.garage-g.de garage is a platform for contemporary art and culture. The festival is a field for experimentation for new concepts in production, presentation and discussion of cultural content. Every year artists, musicians and theorists from Germany and abroad are invited to develop and realise innovative projects. The focus lies on the search for possibilities of art and culture to contribute to a social and cultural developing process. 5. From: Christina Kubisch "Sounding Spaces - 9 Sound Installations" July 11 - September 28, 2003 NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo, Japan Richard CHARTIER & Taylor DEUPREE David CUNNIGHAM Christina KUBISCH KUBOTA Akihiro Alvin LUCIER Alejandra SALINAS & Aeron BERGMAN Superseat (INADA Kozo, MARUTANI Koji and KAI Kenji) Rafael TORAL Edwin VAN DER HEIDE http://www.ntticc.or.jp http://www.ntticc.or.jp/Press/2003/06/0609_01.html 6. From: Ignaz Schick RAUM P4C, VOL.3 ANNE LAPLANTINE SEMUIN ALVIN LUCIER'S I AM SITTING IN A ROOM Sunday, 13.07.03 >20:00 Pettenkoferstr. 4C S/U-Bhf Frankfurter Allee http://www.zangimusic.de upcoming: 17.07.03, 22:00 IGNAZ SCHICK playing jazz records DONNERSTAGSBAR @HOTEL LUX Pettenkoferstr. 4C Berlin 24.07.03, 21:00 -25.07.03, 9:00 ERASE & RESET INT. NIGHT OF EXPERIMENTAL & ELECTRONIC MUSIC a 12 hours conference of nonstop cutting edge fringe music with Thomas Ankersmit (NL) Xavier Charles (F) Werner Dafeldecker (A) Phil Durrant (GB) David Galbraith (USA) Dominik Kowalcyk (PL) Ignaz Schick (D) Jacek Staniszewski (PL) @STAATSBANK BERLIN Franzoesische Strasse 35 25.07.03, 21:00 AFTER EVENT ERASE & RESET FACIAL INDEX (PL) WOLFRAM (PL) @CLUB OF POLISH LOOSERS Torstr. 66 08.08.03 IGNAZ SCHICK & PERLONEX (METAFLEXES, REALTIME REMIX NO. 3) + JACEK STANISZEWSKI (PL) remixing metaflexes @ GARAGE STRALSUND check: http://www.zangimusic.de http://www.garage-g.de http://www.polnischeversager.de 7. From: mattin@mattin.org This summer I will be doing a residency at Museums Quartier 21 in Vienna http://mqw.at/ Gigs: 4th July 21:00 4* Dean Roberts, Radu Malfatti, Klaus Filip, Mattin. Amann Studios. neustiftgasse 68/23b a-1070 wien tel: +43 1-5235887 http://www.amannstudios.com/ 5th July Martin&Mattin. EKH. Vienna http://www.med-user.net/ekh/ 15th July DD Kern, Dean Roberts, Mattin. Rhiz.guertelbogen 37&38 - 1080 vienna - austria / phone: +43 1 409 25 05 / contact: rhiz@rhiz.org http://rhiz.org/ Vienna Sat. 19th July The Golden Quintet Kurzmann/Dafeldecker/ Jeck/Mattin/Siewert. konfrontationen 2003 ~ 18.-20. juli jazzgalerie nickelsdorf untere hauptstr.13 a-2425 nickelsdorf fon: 02146 2359 fax: 02146 2776 jazzgalerie@konfrontationen.at 30th July Dean Roberts, Christof Kurzmann, Mattin. Cafe Bratislava. karlsplatz 5 a1010 wien fon +43.1.587.96.63 fax +43.1.587.87.36 office@k-haus.at http://www.kuenstlerhaus.at/ Vienna 8. From: Beequeen two upcoming concerts: Wander (Freek Kinkelaar & Frans de Waard) plays at Heeresbaeckerei (Westflügel 2. OG - Köpenicker Str. 16 - 10997 Berlin/ Kreuzberg) on July 11th, starting at 21:00. Part of a presentation of the En/Of label. Also playing are Jan Jelinek and Stephan Mathieu see also: http://www.heeresbaeckerei-kultur.de/ Beequeen plays at De Valkhof (Nijmegen open air concert in the ruins of a castle) as part of the summerfestival on July 16th. Starting at 21:45. Entrance: free see also: http://valkhofaffaire.fol.nl/ (although wrongly announced on the frontpage as Wander, the programm itself lists correctly Beequeen) -- 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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