Filed under: occultofest | Tags: EnKA, gamelan, Gelegenheiten, Improvisation, Isak Edberg, live electronics, Mats Erlandsson, nk, Stockholm, Victor Lisinski
Edberg/Erlandsson/Lisinski are exploring ways of blurring the boundaries between composition and improvisation.
Edberg/Erlandsson/Lisinski was formed in 2010 at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm where Isak Edberg, Mats Erlandsson and Victor Lisinski studied composition together. The group is exploring ways of blurring the boundaries between composition and improvisation. Edberg/Erlandsson/Lisinski are constantly developing new material and new software solutions to find ways of incorporating live-electronics and gamelan instruments. For example with synthesis based on the harmonics of the instruments and by live-processing the instruments.
Isak Edberg – live-electronics
Mats Erlandsson – live-electronics
Victor Lisinski – Balinese gamelan instruments and live-electronics
http://soundcloud.com/edbergerlandssonlisinski/edberg-erlandsson-lisinski
Gelegenheiten e.V. Berlin
Weserstrasse 50 NK concert starts at 20.30
and tonight, artist presentation at NK!
Filed under: concert, occultofest | Tags: Alternative, Archaic Blues, BeMyDelay, Blake/e/e/e, Blues, Boring Machine, drone, Ethernal Zio, Experimental music, Frankin Delano, HBC, Improvisation, Italy, la gioiosa macchina da guerra, loophole, Massimo Volume, Occulto Magazine, OccultoFest, psychedelia, Rella the Woodcutter
La gioiosa macchina da guerra, Occultofest, Occulto magazine and Boring Machine are very proud to present:
RELLA THE WOODCUTTER
BE MY DELAY
two amazing, dreamy psychedelic live act from Italy, both issued on Boring Machine…live this week end in Berlin!
Rella The Woodcutter, is an Italian musician and songwriter. He has been associated with the underground ensemble The Rotten Wine Company
for many years and released many albums and EPs on a variety of labels exploring different styles, some focused on traditional songcraft, others more experimental, based on a variety of subgenera as drone, free-rock and folk music, as the CD trilogy “Desire, Death and Rebirth/Ode to Makarashyiu/Excerpt from the Blue Bible”. He is also part of Eternal Zio, psych-drone project with Roberto Maggioni, Valla and Maurizio Abate, the latest known for his collaborations with Jooklo Duo and releases from Troglosound Records.
A fully devotion and understanding of the song dynamics makes Rella one of the most interesting musicians to continue the tradition that goes from psychedelic folk to blues to more experimental territories. Rella’s singing is rich, intense and perfumed, sometimes plunged into deep trance. Instruments and voice which rise together in a psichedelic unison building from country-like openings or dissolving from a noisy cluster into a static chord strumming.
BeMyDelay is the solo project of Marcella Riccardi (Blake/e/e/e, Franklin Delano, Massimo Volume), singer and guitarist. Her interest in archaic 
blues and adventurous music is the ground for building a song collection which tastes of experimental blues, vocali drones, acoustic pareidolia.
BeMyDelay takes the listener to a soft voyage, letting the mind flow gently, a cosmic singalong where melodies come and go circularly, immersed in a muffled and ethereal atmosphere. Voice is used as an instrument, following the guitar loops and delays. The new album, entitled “ToTheOtherSideΔ” is based around manipulation of two loop stations, a couple of old wha-wha tibetan bells and some percussions, which togheter with the voice create circular vortex where the mind can loose herself into thousand echoes floating inside the songs. Marcella Riccardi aka BeMyDelay has played and sung with: Blake/e/e/e, Franklin Delano and Massimo Volume. With Franklin Delano she recorded three albums, of which “Like a smoking gun in front of me” (2004, mixed in Chicago by Brian Deck) and “Come Home” (2006, mixed at John McEntire’s Soma Studios and produced by Brian Deck) with the partecipation of musicians like Jim Becker, Ben Massarella, Tim Rutili from Califone, Fred Lomberg-Holm, Nick Broste, Josh Berman and Brian Deck himself. In 2008, with her new band, Blake/e/e/e, she started her collaboration with Vacuum Studio’s Bruno Germano, fine soundmaker and great musician (played with Settlefish among others). Blake/e/e record, “Border Radio”, has been released in US by Freefolk Records and in Europe by Unhip Records. In 2011 she worked again with Bruno Germano to record and mix her new album as BeMyDelay “ToTheOtherSideΔ” which has been mastered by Carl Saff in Chicago. Marcella/BeMyDelay loves to play live and from 2004 until now she played three coast-to-coast tour in US, two european tours and more than one hundred gigs in Italy with her bands or alone.
http://soundcloud.com/bemydelay
SAT Nov 5th @ .HBC Karl-Liebknecht Straße 9 Berlin Mitte
MON Nov 7th @ LOOPHOLE Boddinstrasse 60 Berlin Neukölln
Filed under: concert, occultofest | Tags: bandcamp, Berlin, drone, DuChamp, fausto maijstral, Improvisation, will gresson
Check it out!
http://fausto-maijstral.bandcamp.com/album/demos-2010-2011
Filed under: concert | Tags: Berlin, Blue Sork, drone, HAU, High Wolf, impro, Improvisation, Indias Indios, loophole, lucky dragons, Luke Fischback, Noisekolln, not not fun, san francisco, Sarah Rara, skeletons, Strange Forces
[#] A sudden crush for the New World
Sun Oct 16th @ HAU 2 ( Hallesches Ufer 32 Kreuzberg)
The duo LUCKY DRAGONS, consisting of the multi-instrumentalists Sarah Rara and Luke Fischback , has been performing for more than ten years now, and counts numerous releases. In their artistically arranged, mostly meditatively floating, and then again percussion-accentuated soundscapes they blend electronica, folk and ambient music, familiar sounds from everyday life and “exotically” coded sounds of diverse ethnic origin to become a new and highly reflected form of world music. During their concerts the LA-based group puts an end to the conventional division of stage and public, integrating the concertgoers into the plot. Likewise the trio SKELETONS conveys a similar versatility of artistic influences. It was founded ten years ago by the musician and film director Matt Mehlan. On album releases like “Money” or “Lucas” their artistic range stretches from pop in the style of Prince via free jazz and Afro-funk up to uncommon interpretations of artrock, folk and R&B. On their latest work “People” the band from New York translates their musical voyages around the world into incredibly precise, flowing and emphatic songs. Never before have the Skeletons sounded so compelling as on this album, which was co-produced by the well-known sound expert Rusty Santos.
Tue Oct 18th @ Loophole (Boddinstrasse 60, Neukölln) …main bands are from France, but from Not Not Fun !! Event organized by Noisekölln
High Wolf (FR, Not Not Fun) //
High Wolf makes music like no one else on the planet. He claims to be from the Amazon and all his activities are shrouded in mystery. Sometimes he is just one man, other times High Wolf is a duo. In either case he conjours mystic tropical clouds of repetition and build that, while complex, are never hard to listen to. The music seems to tap into a primal frequency and demands listeners to dance. A contemporary of James Ferraro (of The Skaters), Oneohtrix Point Never and Ducktails.” France’s High Wolf previous released records on Not Not Fun, Bathetic and his own Winged Sun imprint.
Blue Stork (DE) //
Droning Vocals, Distorted Preset Beats and Maracas is the dreamy stream of sounds by Blue Stork. First a straight ambient/drone solo-project called A Blue Stork Is Born By A Moonlight Tower, he decided to keep his drone aesthetics and put them together with a nostalgic tropicana feeling in which the organic Maracas played by his girlfriend and personal shaman, bring the right ethno-spiritual feeling to get high between stars and lovely creatures from the past.
Indias Indios (Chile)//
Indias indios is the name that Benjamin Altermatt gave to a collection of drawings and found images during the summer of 2006, an archive mostly related to landscapes and their people, as well as abstract forms, vertical miasma and so on. During the years the archive has expanded itself to sound collections, as well as to music collaborations with friends. Benjamin.A started to perform as indias indios in the early 2009 around europe. He is based in Berlin, and is currently working on a lo-fi movie and the soundtrack.
// DJs //
Desmond & Lunar Goon – http://strangeforces.wordpress.com/goons
Filed under: concert | Tags: altes finanzamt, anti art, avantgarde, bei roy, catherine christen hennix, concept art, der tapeman, drone, electronics, Experimental, field recording, fluxus, francesco cavaliere, grimmuseum, helge meyer, henry flynt, Improvisation, jeremy labelle, limbus europeae, man from uranus, marcel türkowsky, martin kuentz, penelopex, pink milk, preslav literary school, rinus van alebeek, tape music, uktu tavil, unmapped, whistle minotaure!
[#] Mon July 11th @ Limbus Europae
Candelight performance/installation. A ritual performance to inaugurate a mutual piece of art. The piece itself will be done and – in this way – happend from that very moment on. Coded upon an idea by an art space called “woofer ten” (hong kong, china), done by I00I SqAR and brent SqAR.
8pm-midnight (performance times 9.30pm, 10.30pm, 11pm) in (kienitzer/weisestrasse) U8-Leinestrasse by artists Rinus van Alebeek, Der Tapeman, Pink Milk
http://www.limbus-europae.de/index.php?id=524
[#] Wed July 13th @ Bei Roy (Ziegrastr.11) : Ohrengala
Preslav Literary School+Man from Uranus +Helge Meyer
Helge Meyer is an experimental electronic musician from Hamburg, Germany. Using a varying array of analogue Synthesizers and Boutique Pedals he tries to articulate his relations to musical subgenres such as Drone, Ambient or Noise.
Since 2009 he presented his improvisations in a number of concerts and came to share a stage with people like Eddie135, Balz Isler, Felix Kubin and Feine Trinkers Bei Pinkels Daheim.
As Preslav Literary School, Adam Thomas makes live tape collages using sounds drawn from an ever-growing archive of self-generated or discovered outsider noise, found sound and spoken word cassettes. A process of transference, overdubbing and live manipulation reworks these source materials into compelling, ambient broadcasts. Adam has released three albums, numerous live CDrs and played at venues and festivals throughout Europe.
Man From Uranus is a one man band from Cambridge, UK. His main influences are Science Fiction movie soundtracks from the sixties as well as the music of Sun Ra and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He has toured all across europe and released his music on several independent labels.
[#] WHISTLE, MINOTAURE! 08 Catherine Christer Hennix with Henry Flynt: Concept Art 50 Years Anniversary
The 8th episode curated by Francesco Cavaliere & Marcel Türkowsky will feature drone music legend Catherine Christer Hennix with Henry Flynt!
Opening/Lecture by C.C. Hennix: Concept Art 50 Years Anniversary”
15 July 7 – 11 pm
Featuring: weekend concerts during the show:
The Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage performs
Blues Dhikr al- Salam (Blues al-Maquam)
by Catherine Christer Hennix
16.07.2011 (6-9PM) ( saturday )
23.07.2011 (6-9PM) ( saturday )
31.07.2011 (4-7PM) ( sunday )
06.08.2011 (6-9PM) ( saturday )
14.08.2011 (4-7PM) ( sunday )
20 eu
12 eu (students)
limited seating (reservation recommended)
for booking and more informations
Grimmuseum Fichte Strasse 2 10967 Berlin http://www.grimmuseum.com/ centonze@grimmuseum.com 0049(0)15112412524
Catherine Christer Hennix (C.C. Hennix) (born 1948) is a Swedish-American composer, philosopher, scientist and visual artist associated with drone minimal music. Hennix was affiliated with MIT’s AI Lab in the late 1970s and was later employed as research professor of mathematics at SUNY New Paltz. She currently lives in Berlin. C.C. Hennix began her musical studies in the 1960s by exploring the music of the art music composers Iannis Xenakis and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Hennix met La Monte Young and Hindustani raga master Pandit Pran Nath at the Nuits du Fondation Maeght festival in 1970 and pursued studies with both men during the 1970s. Hennix also drew inspiration from the Japanese Gagaku music and early vocal, thirteenth-century music of Perotinus and Leoninus. Hennix frequently worked together with the American anti-art philosopher, composer and violinist Henry Flynt.
http://www.ubu.com/sound/hennix.html
Henry Flynt (born 1940 in Greensboro, North Carolina) is a philosopher, avant-garde musician, anti-art activist and exhibited artist often associated with Conceptual Art, Fluxus and Nihilism. Henry Flynt violin´s style fuse avant-garde noise music (particularly the hypnotic aspects of minimalism) with free-jazz and hillbilly country music. Some of his more dissonant violin performances can be compared to the no wave noise music violin performance art of Boris Policeband.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Flynt
[#] Unmapped festival @ Altes finanzamt Schönstedtstraße 7 – EG
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Friday and Saturday,
July 15 and 16. Two nights in Berlin with Unmapped collective and guestsUnmapped is a french collective and is coming in july to berlin to present its work. It combines accoustic instruments, real-time processing, electronics and video bringing musicians oscillating between very distant universes (classical and contemporary, electronic, jazz, rock, traditionals) and artists, which are to meet for an originalproject. And hazardous experiment, sailing between improvisation and writing, instruments and machines, tradition and present, simplicity and complexity. Friday, July 15 Concerts by: Doors open at 21:30 Saturday, July 16 Various constellations of this collective members and its guests: Instruments by: Electro-acoustic processing by: Dj set by Jérémy Labelle Doors open at 21:30 |
Filed under: concert | Tags: Avant, Avantgarge, Berlin, drone, Experimental, Experimental music, impro, Improvisation, noise, Underground
A new blogstar is born. Selektive Hören Archiv is an online site for documenting various elements of the live music scene in Berlin, Germany. There you will find photographs, videos and recordings from some of the small shows and events which take place every week in particular venues across the city.
Many of the artists are from outside Germany, and play in a multitude of different projects. The focus of this community is always on collaboration and improvisation, and as such many of the artists will appear numerous times in this archive as part of different ensembles. First post, about Italian noisester Torba and Japanese sound artist Tatsumi Ryusui, with pictures and an except of their live in Territorium 91. To get in touch with the blog runner, click here!
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