Filed under: concert, weirdness | Tags: Berlin, Biblo, black tar jesus, borgata boredom, Concert, drone, DuChamp, field recording, filipe dias de, frgmnt, hypnagogic, jaff surak, live electronics, loophole, mademe claude, Mario De Vega, marta zapparoli, martin howse, martin kuentz, mushy, nika son, rinus van alebeek, scott sinclair, sitar, synth wave, topmodel, west germany, yannick frank
Wed Jan 9th @ Loophole, Boddinstrasse 60 NK
NIKA SON + BIBLO + DUCHAMP w/FILIPE DIAS DE
NIKA SON makes music with fieldrecordings, voice, analog and electronic instruments. Her music is composed of manipulated field-recordings, combined with instrumental fragments and sparse vocals. Playing live, her tracks are stretched and extended, using a groove box, varying instruments and contact-microphones. Sounds coming from somewhere deep down, circling, spinning and hovering between dark blue, red and grey. Some of her tracks have been released on compilations on m.mlabel, Alrealon Music and Wir rufen zurück (Demo-Dandies). As a DJ (Nikae) she plays records on a regular basis, mainly at the Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg, where she hosts, together with Ratkat, a monthly music and exhibition night.
https://soundcloud.com/nikacis
BIBLO Istanbul based artist Biblo, has been creating music out of everyday noises, field recordings and lazy, confused pieces of beats for a while now. Her record “On Ugliness” was released in a limited edition of 200 pieces as the first ever record on Quetzi Records (a-musik/Cologne) in May 2010 and her latest album ’Projection’ isreleased in April 2012 through her bandcamp.
DUCHAMP is an Italian scientist, musician and curator based in Berlin, religiously devoted to drone. She’s mainly inspired by the sound of the hairdryer, drone superheroines such as CC Hennix, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, a long series of dronester lovers and by the lack of God. Her debut album will be release on vynil in January for Boring Machines (IT).
https://soundcloud.com/duchamp-1
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
Thu Jan 10, @ West Germany, Skatlizer strasse Xberg
jeff surak (US)
mario de vega (DE/MX)
yannick franck (BE)
frgmnt (DE)
marta zapparoli (IT)
scott sinclair (AUS)
martin howse & martin kuentz (UK/DE)
topmodel (DE)
Mario de Vega – born in Mexico City, 1979 his work overlaps relations between stability, failure, simulation and ambiguity with site-specific interventions, sound events, process-oriented projects, sculpture, modified electronics and sound improvisation. As an improviser, his practice explores the value of fragility & in-determination involving a wide range of customized objects, analog and modified electronics, turntables and computer based interfaces in different combinations.
http://www.mariodevega.info/
Jeff Surak – operates in the netherworld between composed and improvised music, moving between musique concrete, drone, noise, & free improvisation using whatever sound implements at hand. He has collaborated with such artists as Alexei Borisov, Zan Hoffman, Rinus Van Alebeek, Frans De Waard, and Michael Gendreau.
http://zeromoon.com/violet
In 2006, Programmer, writer, performer and explorer Martin Howse co-founded xxxxx, organising one large-scale conference and concert series in London (xxxxx) and publishing the acclaimed xxxxx [reader].
Heavily improvised, playing with the collapse of massed, barely functional salvaged equipment and software systems made manifest in sound/noise and image, Howse presents a complex, process-driven constructivist performance; the symphonic rise of the attempt to piece together fugal systematics is played out against the noise of collapse and machine crash at the deserted border of control.
http://1010.co.uk/org/
Scott Sinclair – is an audiovisual artist, performer, and programmer. Largely self-taught, and with no allegiance to any single scene, he usually creates work that involves harsh and humorous collages of different media, from computer music and video art to vocal improvisation and custom-made costumes. Sinclair has a long history in improvised music, and is known for his brutal and unpredictable performances mixing more ‘serious’ and ‘difficult’ elements with ‘low brow’ trash, which has found audiences strangely entertained on many tours in Europe, Australia, Japan, Russia, and North America.
http://soundcloud.com/halftheory/lloyd-honeybrook-and-scott-sinclair-live-in-melbourne
Musician, performer and founder of Idiosyncratics Records, Yannick Franck has developed an increasingly personal style that combines sharp acoustic research and abrasive walls of sound. Often described as trance-inducing, his music is based on the treatment of sources such as instruments and non-musical objects, voice, radio signals and field recordings. It ranges from fundamental acoustic explorations (The Staircase Continuum) to more stylistic-expressionistic searches (Memorabilia); two fields of investigation that tend to collide in his latest works.In the past, Yannick Franck has collaborated with Pietro Riparbelli / K11, Craig Hilton (Gauchiste, Loincloth), Phil Maggi, Alan Trench (World Serpent, Temple Music, Orchis) and Esther Venrooy among others and his music has been released on several labels including Silken Tofu, Young Girls Records, Sylvain Chauveau’s concept record house Onement and Italian label Silentes.
http://yannickfranckchronicles.blogspot.it/
Topmodel – was Magnus Schaefer and Rinus van Alebeek on various keyboards and Mireia Guzman who made up spontaneous songs in spanish,german, english and gibberish. To some blind listeners their music reminded them of Malaria or the early Tödliche Doris. In the last years of the first decade of the new century, they were Momus’ preferred supporting act.After Magnus Schaefer`s decision to leave the group, topmodel continued, but mainly spend their time looking at a glass of milk. Now they are back. With a brand new idea. Tarot – Singing!
http://evivatopmodel.wordpress.com/
Fri Jan 11, @ Madame Claude
Mushy + Black Tar Jesus
MUSHY Italian artist directly from the underground experimental scene. Started in 2003. She’s got a double sided synth-wave slash kraut-psychedelic soul. Her sound reveals a charming world, made by the mixture of analog drum-machine loops, burgeoning cold drones, tempestuous noises and spectral chants which rise at the surface.
BLACK TAR JESUS
http://blacktarjesus.bandcamp.com/
Filed under: occultofest | Tags: Concert, loophole, marrow Mandler, Neukolln, Noisekolln, Talibam!, urge
Noisekölln and Loophole present:
Talibam! live in Loophole
Boddinstrasse 60 NK
Talibam! (US)
Previously known for their avant-jazz, experimental rock leanings, Puff Up the Volume sees Talibam! turning their considerable talents towards an album of synth-pop-infused, comedy-soaked “No School Rap”.
Marrow Mandler(DE)
Urge(RU)
Filed under: occultofest | Tags: Aidan Baker, Berlin, Concert, Felix-Florian Tödtloff, loophole, Nadja, Neukolln, Noisekolln, noveller, sarah lipstate, sferics, sun worship
beloved Noisekölln + julie tippex presents:
Noveller + Aidan Baker + Sferics
Mon 15 Oct in Loophole (Boddinstrasse 60 NK) at 21
Noveller is the solo project of Brooklyn-based guitarist and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. Handling the electric guitar as her muse, Lipstate summons a sonic palette so rich as to challenge the listener to conceive of how it’s housed in a single instrument manipulated by a solitary performer. Lipstate has collaborated with several renowned musicians, including live improvised duo performances with Carla Bozulich (Evangelista, The Geraldine Fibbers), David Wm. Sims (the Jesus Lizard, Scratch Acid), and Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth).
Sferics is Felix-Florian Tödtloff (of Petethepiratesquid, Sun Worship, etc.) on solo electric guitar. Eccentric shredding to a stereo delay, Kraut-influenced improvisation, if you know what you’re doing it’s not experimental!
on the decks:
SFT(r)STPS
http://www.mixcloud.com/nicholas-houde/
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http://www.facebook.com/Noisekolln
http://julietippex.com/tourdates/
Filed under: concert, occultofest, weirdness | Tags: alpha couple, avant avant, ddr radio station, funkhaus grunau, INeed radio, jakob kirkegaard, lafidki, leap berlin, loophole, radio, zabo chabiland
Upcoming events in the land of milk and honey…(you were missing it, isn’t?)
[#] Danish sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard presents in LEAP Berlin his new sound installation called “Pivot”, created from video and sound recordings from Alexanderplatz’s tv tower (Fernsehturm). Jacob Kirkegaard was granted a special permit to access the machinery that keeps the globe in its constant pivoting motion. Using vibration sensors, he recorded the sounds emerging from the heavy mechanical engineering – a striking contrast to the slowly and silently revolving look-out above. For the installation at LEAP video is projected onto a curved white canvas that stretches from floor to ceiling. The curved canvas reflects the shape of the Fernsehturm’s dome and panoramic view of Berlin revealing a view of the city as seen from within the dome. Simultaneously the view from Leap’s windows reveals an up close sight of the colossal landmark, allowing for a double perspective of the city to take place.
Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance
(Berlin Carré 1. Stock)
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 13
10178 Berlin
http://alphacouple.tumblr.com/
http://soundcloud.com/alpha-couple
http://lafidki.free.fr/
http://soundcloud.com/lafidki/
http://djaubrey.tumblr.com/BLACKBLACKGOLD
http://soundcloud.com/goldecahedronIn Loophole Boddinstr. 60, 12053 Berlin
Regattastraße 277 Grünau
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
Filed under: concert | Tags: Berlin, Concert, drone, DuChamp, electroacustic, Experimental, fausto maijstral, Izanami's Labour Pains, loophole, Neukolln, noise, Tatsumi, Tatsumi Ryusui, ugly potato, will gresson
La gioiosa macchina da guerra proudely presents:
THU Dec 15th, at Loophole, Boddinstrasse 60, Neükolln (at 21.30)
Fausto Maijstral (NZ/IT) Electroacustics, drone, post something, saddness…
http://fausto-maijstral.bandcamp.com/album/demos-2010-2011
Izanami’s Labour Pains (DE) Noise…
http://chindogu-products.blogspot.com/
Ugly Potato a.k.a Tatsumi Ryusui (JPN/BE) Noise, ambient, drone…
http://soundcloud.com/tatsumi-ryusui
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 | 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, weirdness | Tags: avantgarde, Berlin, dream, drone, DuChamp, Experimental music, fausto maijstral, Harmony Molina, impro, Johnny Chang, loophole, minimalism, nap, Olivier Di Placido, olivier netwon johnny, sleeping concert, trance, will gresson, zabo chabiland
Nap Concert on Wed June 22 @ 21 in Loophole Berlin….
Bring your pillows! Long night of lethargic drones…(I´m serious! it will be a sleeping concert, so whatever you need to sleep!)
Fausto Maijstral (drone, saddest music in the world, IT/NZ/DE)
Fausto Maijstral is a multi-faceted band formed around the core duo of Italian scientist and musician DuChamp and sound artist Will Gresson of New Zealand. The band explores the middle ground between their mutual interest in experimental music, improvisation and the practice of field recording, performing largely improvised soundscapes with various instruments heavily processed during live performances. Individually both Rossella and Gresson have been involved in various solo and group performances, as well as contributing to several festivals in Berlin.
Olivier Newton Johnny (minimalism, NZ/FR/DE)
… sometimes you will be screaming your heart out , sometimes you are softly whispering – often you are delicately accompanied by our electric guitar / viola noise. other times your voice is actually supporting us, and quite constantly the three of us are battling each other – no one gives way and yet everyone shares a presence. We are Olivier Newton Johnny.
Olivier di Placido: electric guitar
Harmony Molina: voice
Johnny Chang: violin
Zabo Chabilant (drone, FR)
Zabo Chabiland is a French Berlin based artist working with various mediums.
She has never been trained as a musician and uses it as an advantage to create timeless soundscapes. Her favorite instrument is the
piano board she plays with electronic massagers. Zabo will perform “Piano Coude en C Majeur” a musical composition generated by the action of falling asleep on a keyboard. She is currently doing a Sleepy Tour….
Filed under: concert | Tags: Berlin, Concert, drone, Experimental, iku sakan, In Zaire, loophole, noise, Noisekolln, Raum 20, Ruf Reaktor, Strange Forces, Tatsumi, the history of colour TV, Utku Tavil
# Wed 18th May @ Ruf Reaktor, Landsberger Allee 54
IN ZAIRE (IT)
In Zaire is a psychedelic tribal quartet involving the memers of the italian duo G.I. Joe, Claudio Rocchetti and Stefano Pilia. Their performance is able to bring the audience into a psychedelic trip. But their music is not only psychedelic. They mix dub-funk drum rythms, tribal and african percussions, electrical-indian bassguitar melodies, arabic and psychedelic voices, and minimal-introspective electronic sounds.
http://www.myspace.com/inzaire
# Thu 19th May you choose:
@ Raum 20 Ziegrastrasse 20 NOISEKOLLN
Strange Forces-The History of colour TV-Proto Hills-Basedeck-Addictiv
Back from their European Tour Strange Forces are living healthier than ever. With Space Punk sonatas and mind dwelling psych-out jams they will bring the 4th dimension down your pants. www.strangeforces.net/
Gameboy Turntable Destruction and Breakcore Master. We are stoked about his performance because Baseck soon moves back to LA and he’s gonna tear it up for us!
http://baseck.net/
The History Of Colour TV: these Post-Gazers enjoy listening to the Baywatch Soundtrack while listening to Slowdive. They accumulate every 90’s Reference you can think off and mash it together into a casscade of overdriven guitars.
www.thehistoryofcolourtv.tumblr.com/
Additiv:Michigan’s finest in Beat Destruction and Frequency-Texture-Banging Mayhem delivers straight to your guts. His EP is out now on Void Tactical Media.
www.soundcloud.com/additiv
Proto Hills: A three piece group comprised of members from berlin based bands I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Fausto Maijstral and The History Of Colour TV.
+ Reuben Bonner and his best buddy Kenny Powers of An Emerald City will be spinning a fine selection of tasty interplanetary treats
www.myspace.com/anemeraldcity
@ Loophole Boddinstrasse 60: Iku Sakan / Tatsumi Ryusui / Utku Tavil AV / Kakawaka
Iku Sakan: Japanese sound artist and DJ, catapulted in Berlin, creates impressive sound textures with his voice and devices.
www.myspace.com/ikusakan
Tatsumi Ryusui Electric guitar, pedals, toys… They might sound quite boring until they meet Tatsumi’s hands and become the foundation of a noisy sonic experiment.
http://www.myspace.com/tatsumiryusui
Utku Tavil AV An homeless improviser and sound artist expands his expression techniques with purely greyscale images; his sounds become visible by all means.
http://vimeo.com/utkutavil
Kakawaka Kakawaka makes noise. Often with a fork.ca. 1987: ‘Seahorse’ badge for swimming 25m at Rosdorf public pool.Since 2001: noise on the internet. Since 2005: live performances.
http://www.chproductions.de/kakawaka/index.htm
And, yes, on Fri whoah! Animal Collective @ Astra!
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