sorry for x-posting<br>
<b><br>NK<br>Saturday Sept 24th 2011, Doors 21:30 Concert 22:00<br>Marcus Schmickler / Peter Ablinger / Alberto de Campo / Bill Kouligas / DJ Rumpsti Pumsti (Musik)</b><br>
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Marcus
Schmickler is a composer and performer. He studied composition and
electronic music and since then has worked in the most diverse fields of
composed and improvised music. He has won numerous prizes and honours
and is closely associated with the Cologne label a-Musik. As a composer
along with his many works of electronic music, he works with the
ensemble recherche, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the musikFabrik, the
Paragon Ensemble, the Ensemble zeitkratzer and many more. As a musician
he works with musicians such as John Tilbury, Thomas Lehn, Otomo
Yoshihide, David Behrman, Claudio Bohorquez and Julee Cruise. His
discography so far consists of over 50 titles, and he has been
performing on the world’s stages and at international festivals for
years. He gives lectures and seminars and also works as an author in the
field of theatre, radio plays and film.<br>
<a href="http://www.piethopraxis.org/" target="_blank">http://www.piethopraxis.org/</a><br>
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Peter
Ablinger was born in Schwanenstadt, Austria in 1959. He began studying
graphic arts and was enthused by free jazz, but completed his studies in
composition with Gösta Neuwirth and Roman Haubenstock-Ramati in Graz
and Vienna. Since 1982 he has lived in Berlin, where he has initiated
and conducted numerous festivals and concerts. In 1988 he founded the
Ensemble Zwischentöne. In 1993 he was a visiting professor at the
University of Music, Graz. He has been guest conductor of ‘Klangforum
Wien’, ‘United Berlin’ and the ‘Insel Musik Ensemble’. Since 1990 Peter
Ablinger has worked as a freelance musician. Peter Ablinger is one of
the few artists today who uses noise without any kind of symbolism – not
as a signifier for chaos, energy, entropy, disorder, or uproar; not for
opposing something, or being disobedient or destructive; not for
everything, for eternity, or for what-have-you. As in all these cases of
music deliberately involving noise, noise is the case, but for
Ablinger: this alone. Peter Ablinger has also come a long way in
questioning the nature of sound, time, and space (the components usually
thought central to music), and his findings have jeopardized and made
dubious conventions usually thought irrefutable. These insights pertain
to repetition and monotony, reduction and redundancy, density and
entropy. (Christian Scheib, edited by Bill Dietz)<br>
<a href="http://ablinger.mur.at/" target="_blank">http://ablinger.mur.at/</a><br>
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Alberto
de Campo has studied classical composition, jazz guitar, and electronic
music in Austria and the US. After working at UC Santa Barbara,
designing experimental software instruments with Curtis Roads, he taught
at Media Arts Academy Cologne, the Institute for Electronic Music in
Graz, and at TU Berlin. He held a professorship for Music Informatics at
Music University Duesseldorf, and currently is Professor for Generative
Art at Arts Univ. Berlin.
He plays with powerbooks_unplugged (just in
time programming on mostly unamplified laptops); improvisation groups
with acoustic instruments such as Quiet Noise Quartet, Syntopia
Ensemble, and ad hoc constellations; electronic music with BlippooHazard
(four musicians playing the Blippoo Box, a hardware synth by Rob
Hordijk). Recent projects include creating software instruments and
sound installations with Florian Hecker, e.g. ‘No Night No Day’ at
Biennale Venice, and AuditoryObjects (Bordeaux), and collaborating with
Marcus Schmickler and Carsten Goertz on “Bonner Durchmusterung”, a
project involving sonification und visualisation of atronomical data.<br>
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Bill Kouligas is a sound artist and designer, better known for his
solo project Family Battle Snake. He also runs the label PAN with vinyl
editions of electronic and experimental artists. His music captures a
variety of different sounds and time periods filtered through an
imaginary urban soundscape. Emerging through a noise underground,
ominous like a cloak of whispers, he now floats on a plane ebbing and
flowing between electronic tape music and gluey entropicalia. With the
use of analogue synth, tape manipulation and electronics he employs warm
drones and a musique concrete approach through structured perspectives
on a journey across time. Bill has collaborated with the likes of C
Spencer Yeh, Destroy All Monsters, Sudden Infant, John Olson (Wolf
Eyes), Joseph Hammer (LAFMS), Ralf Wehowsky/RLW, Chris Corsano, Damo
Suzuki, Christian Weber, Anla Courtis, Astro, MV Carbon, Valerio Cosi,
Birds of Delay and Kouhei Matsunaga to name a few.<br>
<a href="http://www.pan-act.com/" target="_blank">www.pan-act.com</a><br>
DJ Rumpsti Pumsti (Musik)
<a href="http://www.rumpsti-pumsti.com/" target="_blank">http://www.rumpsti-pumsti.com/</a><br>
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