Filed under: concert, occultofest | Tags: Berlin, Concert, How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?, ill winds, muran humanos, Noisekolln, noisekolln tapes, Raum, unur
Thu May 24 at Raum Berlin (Ziegrastrasse, S bahn Sonnenallee)
Unur (US), HMWWAWCIAWCCW? (IT), Ill Winds, Tomas Nochteff (mueran humanos)
Unur : “minimal, dystopian, post-something” drum machines // synths // guitar // voice made in chicago.
HOW MUCH WOOD WOULD A WOODCHUCK CHUCK IF A WOODCHUCK COULD CHUCK WOOD?: “apocalyptic folk” guitar/voice/drums made in Turin
ILL WINDS guitar, bass, drum machine, wave from Berlin
TOMAS NOCHTEFF
Filed under: concert, occultofest | Tags: altes finanzamt, awe processing sitar, Berlin, concern, digitalis, drone, DuChamp, filipe dias de, francesco tignola, giuseppe esposito, joy de vivre, live, matan dolores, Noisekolln, occulrofest 2012, OccultoFest, oscillating innards, the zone
La gioiosa macchina da guerra, Occultofest and Noisekölln are delight to present:
Concern + Matar Dolores + DuChamp (w/Filipe Dias De) @ The Zone Berlin
live Sun May 13th @ The Zone, Reuterstrasse 95 starting from 8.30 sharp!
Concern is the recording project of Portland-based Gordon Ashworth, who in a previous incarnation (as Oscillating Innards) delivered an altogether more brutal take on experimental music before planting his feet firmly in the world of shimmering, layered drones. His brother, Owen Ashworth, works under the Casiotone for the Painfully Alone banner. Gorden has often worked with his sibling in that project. Under the Concern moniker, Ashworth “proceeds to completely obliterate the vast majority of what passes for contemporary drone with a colossal shimmer that sounds like Tim Hecker reconfiguring classic Raga structures into something almost unspeakably beautiful. Amazing music” (Boomkat). Full-lengths releases on Digitalis and Peasant Magik have acted to establish Concern as a key figure in the field of contemporary drone explorers.
Matar Dolores is a collaborative effort consisting of Francesco Tignola and Giuseppe Esposito, active in Naples, in the south of Italy. Their sound research is based on a massive use of field recordings in a strict compositional perspective and clever breaks of “music”; their gigs usually hit audience for depth and dynamism. First official release, a c20 tape dedicated to philosopher Karl Polanyi, will see the light in early 2012 through the italian label Joy De Vivre.
http://soundcloud.com/matar-dolores
DuChamp is an Italian scientist, musician and curator based in Berlin, religiousely devoted to drone. In her semi-improvised compositions, she uses accordion, baritone guitar, keyboard and voice. She performed here and there in Berlin, in Italy and Turkey. She´s currently working on her first solo album. In this very unique occasion, she will perform a piece baritone/sitar with Filipe Dias De from Awe Processing Sitar
http://duchampdrone.tumblr.com/
Filipe Dias De is a founding-member of Altes Finanzamt, musician and writer. After graduating in economics in Lisbon, moved to Asia (i.e. India, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia) where he lived from 2006 till 2008. There he learnt sitar (Indian classical music), various Gamelan instruments (Balinese music) and Gender Wayang (Balinese xylophone used for shadow puppetry). After moving to Berlin (mid 2008), Filipe started exploring sitar in the context of experimental improvised music, developing new melodic constructions and also using objects.
http://soundcloud.com/filipediasde
Filed under: occultofest | Tags: 2012, apex predator, Boring Machine, DuChamp, fabio orsi, fausto maijstral, frisk fruit, How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?, ill winds, moon wheel, Nadja, Noisekolln, Occulto Magazine, OccultoFest, occultofest2012, sun worship, supermelle, valentina besegher, will gresson
Occulto Fest 2012: Music Program
The Armageddon Edition will take place in Kottbusser Tor, Berlin Kreuzberg, on May 25th and 26th.
Now, this is what we call a LINE-UP.
25 May/ 9 pm – open end
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Fabio Orsi w/ videoperformance by Valentina Besegher
26 May/ 9 pm – open end
Filed under: concert, occultofest | Tags: armageddon, Berlin, Concert, doom, drone, fabio orsi, fausto maijstral, How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?, Kreuzberg, music, Nadja, OccultoFest, program, sun worship, valentina besegher
Occulto Fest 2012: Music Program
The Armageddon Edition will take place in Kottbusser Tor, Berlin Kreuzberg, on May 25th and 26th.
Now, this is what we call a LINE-UP.
25 May/ 9 pm – open end
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Fabio Orsi w/ videoperformance by Valentina Besegher
26 May/ 9 pm – open end
An amazing band based in Berlin TBA
Filed under: occultofest | Tags: 2012, apocalypse, armageddon, Berlin, Concert, Festival, Kreuzberg, music, Occulto, OccultoFest
Occultofest 2012 is coming, thank God. Save the date and book your flights/trains/car lifts: Occultofest 2012 Armageddon Edition will happen in May 25th and 26th in Berlin Kreuzberg.
More info on concerts program very soon here!
This year we will have a series of talks instead of a workshop, and there is a call for talks, we warmly invite all to submit ideas!
And, as always, a manifesto!
“Let it be a giant asteroid hitting the earth, the ultimate economical crisis, the third world war, the return of the big reptiles due to the Earth overheating, or a bunch of helicopters dropping napalm accompanied by Wagner’s The Ride of the Valkyries: Apocalypse is indeed not just a specialty number of religious fanatism and more or less articulated esoteric discourse. One or more of its possibile declination…continue reading“
John´s "Apocalypse", fragments
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Filed under: occultofest | Tags: Angela Melitopoulos und Maurizio Lazzarato, animismus, Anna und Bernhard Blume, Berlin, bossa nova, brazil, Candida Höfer, carnival, conference, Daria Martin, Didier Demorcy, Dierk Schmidt, Erik Steinbrecher, exibition, haus der kulturen der welt, HKW, Istvan Orosz, J.J. Grandville, Jimmie Durham, Ken Jacobs, Lars Laumann, León Ferrari, Len Lye, Marcel Broodthaers, marcel camus, Martin Zillinger a.o., mindpirates, orfeu negro, Paulo Tavares, rio de janeiro, Roee Rosen, Rosemarie Trockel, screening, Tom Holert, Vincent Monnikendam, Walt Disney, Yayoi Kusama
[#] Open Thu 15th the exibition Animismus, in Haus der Kulturen der Welt HKW! Aside of the exibition, there will be a conference!
“How do we distinguish things from beings? The exhibition “Animism” examines the delineation between life and non-life on the basis of aesthetic symptoms.
The scientific positivism of modernity was based on the categorical separation of nature and culture, of the subjective and objective world. Animism stood for the counter-image of this self-concept. It is at this juncture that the exhibition intervenes. With works by some 30 international artists, curator Anselm Franke transforms the Haus der Kulturen der Welt into a self-reflexive “anthropological museum of modernity”.
With works by: Adam Avikainen, Agentur/Agency, Anna und Bernhard Blume, Marcel Broodthaers, Didier Demorcy, Walt Disney, Jimmie Durham, León Ferrari, J.J. Grandville, Candida Höfer, Tom Holert, Ken Jacobs, Yayoi Kusama, Lars Laumann, Len Lye, Daria Martin, Angela Melitopoulos und Maurizio Lazzarato, Vincent Monnikendam, Istvan Orosz, Roee Rosen, Dierk Schmidt, Erik Steinbrecher, Paulo Tavares, Rosemarie Trockel, Martin Zillinger a.o.
program of the conference here
and brochure, here
[#] and tonight, in Mindpirates the screening of “Orfeu Negro”, a tale of love, loss, magic and music. Oh the music!
Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fi across America spinning.
‘A riotous, rapturous explosion of sound and color’ – (The Washington Post).
Mindpirates
Schlesische Strasse 38
Haus F (3rd Hinterhof)
XBerg
Screening starts at 20!
Filed under: concert, Uncategorized, weirdness | Tags: avantgarde, dream house, dream light, drone, La Monte Young, maerz musik, Marian Zazeela, pandit pran nath
The Just Alap Raga Ensemble
Three evening concerts in the Raga Darbari
In the light installation by
Marian Zazeela
Dream Light
European Premiere
La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela / Jung Hee Choi, voice
Naren Budhkar, tabla
The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath, pre-recorded
Jim Conti, lighting
Bob Bielecki / Ben Manley, sound
20 March – 1 April 2012
Sound-Light-Installation
Villa Elisabeth, Invalidenstraße 3 Mitte
daily 3 p.m – 8 p.m. / free entrance
In collaboration with DAAD: Berlin Artists-in-Residence progra,,e, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Kunst im Regenbogenstadl Polling, Angelica Festival Bologna, Fondazione Mudima Milano and Kulturbüro SOPHIEN Berlin. Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation
In the 1960s, he began working onThe Well-Tuned Piano using just intonation, compositions with octaves, fifths and natural sevenths. Together with his wife, Marian Zazeela, he developed numerous sound-light installations and performances, among them the legendary Dream House, which appeared at the documenta in Kassel in 1972.
For two weeks, MaerzMusik will see the grand hall at Villa Elisabeth transformed into a »Dream House«. La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela invite you to spend time in a magical sound and light installation in which slowly changing drones and intensive magenta lights seem to stall time. On three evenings, La Monte Young will perform with The Just Alap Raga Ensemblewithin the installation, concert evenings that La Monte Young dedicates to his Indian music guru Pandit Pran Nath – a unique, sumptuous and sensual event.
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BEWARE! THE ALL-GIRLS BOMB CONCERT SCHEDULED FOR WED 29TH HAS BEEN PREPONED TO TUE 28TH FEB @ THE ZONE, REUTERSTRASSE 95 ! THE CONCERT WILL BE FROM 20.00 TILL 22.00, DUE TO NOISE RELATED TROUBLES SO DON’T COME LATE!!
Tue Feb 28th at The Zone (Reuterstrasse 95, Neukölln) enjoy a special night of hypnagogic, droney sounds made by three girl artists, Biblo from Istanbul, and then Svet and DuChamp from Italy/Berlin! Plus feed your eyes with a special visual performance of Saiko Ryusui and shake your soul with an amazing music selection by dj Nanabianca!
Concerts starts at 8 sharp, entritt spende
Biblo aka Pinar Üzeltüzenci is a young musician from the growing experimental, hypnagogic and lo-fi music scene in Istanbul. In her music you feel the intensity again and again in an almost painful way when it peeps through the curtain of drones and noise. She is a sister in mind for acts like Inca Ore, Pocahaunted and Kuupuu, who amalgamate folk traditions, vanguard experiments, improvisation and outsider art. Her record “On Ugliness” was released in a limited edition of 200 pieces as the first ever record on Quetzi Records in may 2010.
http://biblo.bandcamp.com/
Duchamp is an Italian scientist and musician based in Berlin, religiousely devoted to drone. She’s mainly inspired by the sound of the hairdryer, drone superheroines such as CC Hennix, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros. She had her debut as solo on the Aug 22 2010 and since then performed in many galleries/clubs in Berlin. She’s currently experimenting with different instruments (bass guitar, baritone guitar, keyboard, accordion) and will have her debut on tape in May/June 12. As curator, she organize gigs for artists she love and she is the co-curator of Occultofest.
http://duchampdrone.tumblr.com/music
Svet is the solo project of Susanna Trotta, keyboard player of the Berliner indie/shoegaze band I have no mouth and I must scream. In her tracks, she mix field recordings, ethereal key sounds and rhythms to create a aching aural landscapes.
http://selektivehoerenarchiv.bandcamp.com/album/svet-palatial-crave-loophole-november-24-2011
DJ Set by NANABIANCA!
Live VJ by Saiko Ryusui
Filed under: occultofest | Tags: drawning, exhibition, HLG, Idrawalot, Martin Helge, Neukolln, ornAMENTAL
‘ornaMENTAL’ – an eleMENTAL decoration
Together with Idrawalot Gallery & Showroom in Berlin, HLG happily invites you all for some ornaMENTAL stimulation.
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Releasing a Special Edition Artist Book – Signed and Limited Edition at the Exhibition Opening!
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HLG is the mononymous spiritual alias for Swedenís multifarious artist Martin Helge, currently residing in Berlin. His artistic expression is baptized in the name of Reversed Sami Magickal Dreamcatching and has many variables and personalities. It is a puzzle without words, a pyramid without angles and a crooked straight line. He is influenced by sublime alchemy, reversed psychology, abstract mental images, fluent semi-nomadic thoughts and subconscious force fields. Improvisation, rightful wrong-doing and mega productiveness , this is something he thrives on.
The power of thinking out loud and speaking without words; the equally electric and eclectic supernatural force of just being climactic and smart; the constant pushing and pulling of thinking about doing vs not doing is the strongest motivation behind his art.
He specializes in drawings, but sometimes he paints or prints. He also enjoys the mental bending of the Self that comes from free-form chaotic collaborations with other like minded artists, but simultaneously also seeks to fill all the negative space in space, as well as the holes in time, by closely intertwining his imagery with the darker aspects of the bright side of life in darkness.
For More Info:
http://www.hlg.se/ - Martin Helge
http://www.idrawalot.com/ - Idrawalot
Filed under: occultofest | Tags: Berlin, Biblo, Concert, drone, DuChamp, electroacoustics, female artists, field recordings, hypnagogic, istanbul, loophole, Svet
Wed Feb 29th (quite special day this year, uh!) in Loophole (Boddinstrasse 60, NK) enjoy a special night of hypnagogic, droney sounds made by three girl artists, Biblo from Istanbul, and then Svet and DuChamp from Italy/Berlin! Plus feed your eyes with a special visual performance of Saiko Ryusui and shake your soul with an amazing music selection by dj Nanabianca!
Concerts starts at 9.30 sharp, entritt spende
Biblo aka Pinar Üzeltüzenci is a young musician from the growing experimental, hypnagogic and lo-fi music scene in Istanbul. In her music you feel the intensity again and again in an almost painful way when it peeps through the curtain of drones and noise. She is a sister in mind for acts like Inca Ore, Pocahaunted and Kuupuu, who amalgamate folk traditions, vanguard experiments, improvisation and outsider art. Her record “On Ugliness” was released in a limited edition of 200 pieces as the first ever record on Quetzi Records in may 2010.
http://biblo.bandcamp.com/
Duchamp is an Italian scientist and musician based in Berlin, religiousely devoted to drone. She’s mainly inspired by the sound of the hairdryer, drone superheroines such as CC Hennix, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros. She had her debut as solo on the Aug 22 2010 and since then performed in many galleries/clubs in Berlin. She’s currently experimenting with different instruments (bass guitar, baritone guitar, keyboard, accordion) and will have her debut on tape in May/June 12. As curator, she organize gigs for artists she love and she is the co-curator of Occultofest.
http://duchampdrone.tumblr.com/music
Svet is the solo project of Susanna Trotta, keyboard player of the Berliner indie/shoegaze band I have no mouth and I must scream. In her tracks, she mix field recordings, ethereal key sounds and rhythms to create a aching aural landscapes.
http://selektivehoerenarchiv.bandcamp.com/album/svet-palatial-crave-loophole-november-24-2011
DJ Set by NANABIANCA!
Live VJ by Saiko Ryusui
