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FLUX Festival: Eine Woche elektro-akustischer Musik aus Berlin

admin — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 07:58:06 +0000

Unter dem Motto “Contemporary Electro-Acoustic Music from Berlin” findet vom 13. bis 19. August im Berliner Spektrum das FLUX Festival statt. Mehrere Dutzend Musiker aus Bereichen von Freier Improvisation und Neuer Musik über Noise und Soundart bis hin zu tanzbarer erxperimenteller Elektronik treten auf, im Vorprogramm wird es einige Artist Talks geben. Zu den teilnehmenden Musikern zählen Rashed Becker, Liz Albee, Faranaz Hatam, Joke Lanz, Rieko Okuda, Felicity Mangan, Korhan Erel, Ignaz Schick, Andrea Belfi und Marta Zapparoli.

“In the last 20 years an incredibly multi-faceted & adventurous experimental music scene has evolved in Berlin. The scene currently consists of several generations of protagonists and a vast stylistic spectrum ranging from Improvised Music, Free Jazz, Echtzeitmusiik, Electronica, Noise, Sound Art, Electro-Acoustic Music to composed Contemporary Music with fluent crossovers into the vital club scene (Electronica, Techno, Dubstep, Breakcore, Ambient).

Many musicians of this younger Berlin generation are working with electronics or electro-acoustic devices. The working methods of these musicians/composers are as multifarious as the stylistic results of their music. There are artists who focus on improvisation, others are composing or building installations. Some work with complex and precisely elaborated (custom programmed) software, others rely on analog synthesizers and old oscillators. Some are using self-made objects or instruments while others work with pre-produced field recordings or base their work entirely on found materials like old vinyl records or sampled sound archives. Another characteristic of the Berlin scene is its strong international interconnection and attraction. In recent years, musicians and composers from all over the world have been moving to Berlin with the aim of engaging with and enriching the vital musical discourse.

FLUX Festival will present a one week festival of new pieces and works from some of the most important players of this vibrant music scene. Each afternoon invited artist will give a short lecture talking about their working methods and musical approaches. Evening concert sets follow where artists present new pieces commissioned especially for the festival. With 4-5 sets nightly and a maximum duration of 25 minutes per performance, the festival surveys a mosaic-like overview of the current experimental electronic music scene in Berlin. We aim to present the scene in all its complexity with the intention to build evenings of diverse, contrasting music. As a venue we have chosen Spektrum in Neukölln – a rather small and compact room with an intimate and concentrated listening situation.The program can be seen as both inventory and retrospective of 20-25 years of electro-acoustic music in Berlin. All concerts will be recorded and we are planning to release a CD-Box of the entire festival.”

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12047 Berlin

Braided SOUND: Gruppenimprovisation elektroakustischer Musik im Spektrum, Berlin

admin — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 15:19:36 +0000

Am Sonntag, denn 22. April treffen sich fünf Virtuosen elektroakustischer Musik im Berliner Spektrum zum gemeinsamen Jam mit unterschiedlichen Klangerzeugern wie Gitarren, Tapes, analoge und digitale Elektronik. Mit dabei sind die auf diesen Seiten bereits vorgestellten japanischen Musikerinnen Midori Hirano (MimiCof) und Sayaka Botanic (vom Duo group A), desweiteren der Berliner F.S.Blumm und Mitglieder der amerikanischen Formation Sontag Shogun. Dem Titel der Veranstaltung entsprechend sollen die unterschiedlichen Klänge wie Stränge in einem Zopf verflochten werden, ohne je ganz eine Einheit zu bilden. Den Auftakt bestreitet der an traditioneller japanischer Musik geschulte Multiinstrumentalist Maxwell August Croy mit einem vermutlich weniger traditionellen Solo-Set.

Sonntag, 22. April 2018
Einlass: 19:30
Beginn: 20:00
Donation: 6-10 €

Spektrum Berlin
Bürknerstr 12
12047 Berlin

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Alphawave #2: Marta de Pascalis und LINDA im SPEKTRUM Berlin

admin — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 12:46:39 +0000

Am 17. Dezember findet im kleinen Kinokeller des Berliner SPEKTRUM ein Konzert der beiden Musikerinnen Marta de Pascalis und LINDA statt, beide rangieren im Grenzbereich zwischen Electronica, Ambient und Ritualismus. “Both performers decline old-as-humankind practices, as mantras, repetitions and polyrhythms, with our modern closeness to machines. Marta de Pascalis creates old ritual sounds out of modern synthesizers, while LINDA is self-proclaimed devotee to a mechanical shamanism.

From 2007, Marta De Pascalis explores the world of sound using analog and digital techniques, spacing from algorithmic audio collage that combines polyrhythm, acid bass lines and sampling, till the recreation of vast sonic ambiences that breathe of a warmth analog sound. Today she brings on stage synthesizer and tapes, weaving a sonic environment that evolves gradually in polyphonic mantra with a typical Kosmische Musik style. Synth, ambient, ritualistic, oniric kraut.

LINDA is a sound entity. Mechanical shamanism worship sounds that conjure up the futuristic goddess LINDA. By using electronic devices and futuristic instruments of the past LINDA is summoned and will transcend the congregation and shamans through time and space.”

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