club transmediale Newsletter #03:

FURTHER EAST
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CLUB TRANSMEDIALE.04 [FLY UTOPIA!]
festival for electronic music and related visual arts
30. jan - 07. feb 2004 | Maria am Ostbahnhof
clubtransmediale

In cooperation with transmediale - international media art festival berlin

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CORRECTION !!!

OPEN JAM AT CLUB TRANSMEDIALE.04 WILL TAKE PLACE IN FEBRUARY!

[SHARE MOBILE BERLIN 1] - Tuesday 03.02. | 22:00 | MAO

[SHARE MOBILE BERLIN 2] - Wednesday 04.02. | 21:00 | MAO

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1. FURTHER EAST

Electronic Music from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe

The CTM-Special programme [Further East] is conceived as a sequel of last
years´ programme focus [GO EAST!] and presentes a range of electronic music
from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and associated audio-visual projects.
Furthermore, a screening and a panel discussion will provide information concerning the
situation of artists and the artistic production in these countries.

Partcipating artists are featured in various programme parts during the
whole festival. With:

8 BIT (RU),
AKUVIDO (UA),
ALEXEJ BORISOV (RU),
BELGRADEYARD SOUNDSYSTEM (YU),
EIRENAH VISUAL GIRLBOT FACILITY (HR),
EVERY KID ON SPEED & MASSACCESI (MK/US),
GNU/GIRL POWER LOUNGE COLLECTIVE (HR),
ILIOS (GR),
ANDREJ KIRITCHENKO (UA),
BOJAN MANDIC (HR),
SCSI 9 (RU),
JACEK SIENKIEWICZ (PL),
SOLAR X (RU),
TIGRICS (HU),
ZVUKBRODA (HR), a.o.

And Installations by:
SEJLA KAMERIC (BA) and MAGDALENA PEDERIN (HR)

2. [EMANCIPATE !]

Panel Discussion MON 02/02, 20:00

The rapid restructuring of the dominant socio-political order in the
formerly socialist East European countries led to brisk transformation on
all fronts. How is this reflected in artistic and curatorial practice?
Have East Europeans developed new strategies, or merely copied Western patterns?
How might emancipatory models look?

LEJLA HODZIC (CCA Sarajevo, BA)
SABINA SABOLOVIC (curators collective What, How and for Whom/ WHW, HR)
KATARINA ZIVANOVIC (director Rex Cultural Centre, Belgrade, YU)
INKE ARNS (independent curator, DE)
WOJT3K KUCHARCZYK (Mik Musik, PL)
Moderation: SUSANNA NIEDERMAYR (journalist, author, AT)

3. [RADIO ACTIVITY]

Panel Discussion TUE 03/02, 20:00

Radio has never been so boring - commercial radio is completely out of
touch with local (sub)- cultures. Independent initiatives ­ when left in
peace to get on with it ­ demonstrate how radio can be a forum for local
artistic and political interaction. In Berlin the fight¹s been on for
years for a free frequency. The radio project reboot.fm, calls now for a
complete fresh departure. Particularly in former East Block countries, independent
radio played a significant role throughout the 90s, supporting the
democratisation of politics, cultural life and the media. Which strategies
were tried out there? What are the respective cultural backgrounds, which
pushes towards the development of alternative radio formats - here and
elsewhere?

RAITSI SMITS (e-lab, rixc, radio ozone, Riga, LV)
BALASZ WEYER (Radio Tilos, Budapest, HU),
PIT SCHULTZ (reboot.fm, Klubradio, DE)
WOLFGANG HAGEN (Deutschlandradio, media scientist, author, DE)
JASON FORREST (WFMU, New Jersey, US)
HENK BAKKER (RadioWORM, Rotterdam, NL)
Moderation: SABINE BREITSAMETER (Audiohyperspace, curator, author, DE)

4. [KLIPZONA RELOADED]

Screening WED 03/02, 20:00

Screening Programme with music clips from Eastern Europe produced between
1980 and 2004. With works by: LAIBACH (SI), OCTEX (SI), BORGHESIA (SI),
ZVUKBRODA (HR), ECSTASY OF ST.THERESA (CZ), ZBIGNIEW RYBCZYNSKI (PL),
ALEXEJ SHULGIN (RU) u.a.

5. [TERRITERROTORIUM]

Live Audio Play WED 03/02, 21:00

Live audio-play in the tradition of gang warfare, DJ Battle and
disputation. Two audio-terrorists spring back and forth over the Polish-German border,
with no regard for customs regulations. Regional statement and cultural
³poses² in a catapult exchange give rise to coarse cacaphonic slaughter
between neighbouring cultures, which approach each other without
diplomacy, or false etiquette. A racing musical ball-game somewhere between
Musique-Concrète-Collage and Dadaistic lecture.

by WOJT3K KUCHARCZYK & FELIX KUBIN (PL/DE)

6. [EUROPEAN MERIDIANS]

Book released by Susanna Niedermayr and Christian Scheib

The first volume of Susanna Niedermayr´s and Christian Scheib´s audio
journey through the Eastern
European electronic and electro accoustic scenes is continued in this
second volume through Lithuania, Romania, Serbia-Montenegro, Estonia, Latvia and Czech Republic.
In their reports Niedermayr and Scheib describe musical and aesthetic currents as they relate to social
changes, portraying organisational power centres of the new movements that were shooting up: From
Internet platform composers to composers´ associations, and are also telling stories of cases where art
and politics clash. For the rich varied scenes - electronic music, contemporary composition, improvisation, the club scene - not only react to social conditions, but sometimes determine those conditions further development as well.

European Meridians - New Music Territories
Reports from Changing Countries
is published by PFAU 2003, dt./engl.
http://www.pfau-verlag.de
http://lineinlineout.underground.hu

JOIN THE SCAPES - mini tour 2004

[sic] CANADA squirrelgirl
triPhaze GERMANY privatelektro
benn schipper GERMANY privatelektro

DATES SO FAR:

23. 1. 04 Bruxelles @ Digitales [sic] solo

25. 1. 04 Berlin @ laptop.battle v 3.1 : automatenbar

27. 1. 04 Hamburg @ Schilleroper with c:/

29. 1. 04 Berlin @ Ausland

30. 1. 04 Kassel @ Haus (tba)

31. 1. 04 Dresden @ minikino

01. 2. 04 Leipzig @ Ilses Erika with dj: nanobot / repertoire

06. 2. 04 Berlin @ transmediale [sic] solo

07. 2. 04 Nijmegen @ extrapool http://www.extrapool.nl/Images/2004Welttraum.jpg

08. 2. 04 Rotterdam @ WOHLFAHRT

08. 2. 04 Amsterdam @ overtoom qt 301

upon returning to Montreal, [sic] will close the RIEN a VOIR event
15. 2. 04 Montreal @ Casa del Popolo
• [sic]
• Holzkopf (CAN)
• Knar (CAN)
• 833-45 (CAN)

the 15th annual RIEN a VOIR festival in Montreal presents...

[sic] live@ Casa del Popolo
Sunday, February 15, 2004 8pm

* [sic]
* 833-45 (alias Kevin M Krebs)
* Knar
* Holzkopf

details: http://www.rien.qc.ca/show.f/r15-008,0.html

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the entire rien a voir festival program:

Thursday, February 12, 6pm, espace GO:
Magali Babin + I8U, «Peak» (2003)
Félix Frédéric Baril, «Ellipse» (2002)

Friday, February 13, 6pm, espace GO:
Martin Leclerc, «À l’horizon du silence» (2001-02)
Kevin M Krebs, «Absolutely Ignorant» (2004)
Kevin M Krebs, «As Red as Rubies» (2004)
Aimé Dontigny, «Warmestod» (2002)

Saturday, February 14, 6pm, espace GO:
Shane Turner, «Katana» (2003), création
David Turgeon, «Camp socialiste» (2001-02)
David Turgeon, «Reflower» (2002)
Mathieu Marcoux, «Une théorie sur le sommeil paradoxal» (2003)

Sunday, February 15, 8pm, casa del popolo:
[sic]
833-45 (alias Kevin M Krebs)
Knar
Holzkopf

Listen to ’Blacked Out Again’ by The Sleazy Listeners
click on the track @ NMC

Cheers,
Aiden

BBC review by Olli Siebelt

[sic] live at Les Digitales in Lausanne, Switzerland

Les Digitales de Mon Repos (Lausanne, parc de Mon Repos) Jeudi 28 juin 2007 de 16h à 22h avec

Iria Flavia

Collectif I+

Effedege

Radon

Tokoloten

Bacalao

[sic]

Consor

Larytta

POL

À faire se retourner Edison dans sa tombe, voici en première mondiale le pivophone, dont la performance sera retransmise en direct sur plus de 20 radios publiques européennes, dans le cadre du Art’s Birthday organisé à Lausanne par Espace 2 au Cinema Bellevaux.

Tournant dans la tête de Jen Morris depuis des lustres et réalisée avec Micheal Egger, cette nouvelle machine pourrait s’inscrire comme la cerise sur le gâteau d’une histoire des machines à bruits. Des Intonarumori futuristes aux tubes robotiques des frères Decoster, c’est toute une généalogie glorifiant la virilité agressive, la force, le pouvoir, l’industrie et la guerre que révèle le pivophone. Le pivophone met en doute ce qui jusqu’à son arrivée faisait autorité dans les arts du son. Alors, s’agit-il d’écouter des pives comme John Cage désirait entendre l’âme des cendriers ? Non, mais on se rapproche. Et oui il faut se rapprocher. On est dans l’art de la miniature. Miniature d’un gros show télévisé où les pop stars sont des pives. Miniature d’une scène faite miroir. Miniature d’une patinoire d’Holidays on Ice, où les danseurs-hockeyeuses sont finalement grandeur nature. Alors déjà assité à un ballet de pives majestueuses sous speed ? Déjà écouté le fracas d’une pive contre une autre ?

Jen Morris est une artiste sonore de performances électroniques, radicales et troublantes. De renommée internationale sous le pseudo [sic], Morris communique rarement avec l’espèce humaine. Mais lorsqu’elle le fait, à travers, aussi, la vidéo, l’installation, la bande son de films et son label Squirrelgirl, c’est frontal et désarçonnant.
http://squirrelgirl.com/releases/SIC/

Michael Egger est un artiste vidéo, bricoleur-inventeur, programmeur, musicien et pédagogue.
anyma.ch/about/michael_egger/

Et aussi au programme de la soirée:

Thomas Tilly, Abstral Compost, Louis Schild et Antoine Läng, Raphaël Raccuia.