23 июн. 2013 г.

Combative Alignment



A mysterious duo of Arnolt Heise and Ulrike Baum. I can't found any information about this project in whole internet. They created music that exists between what was, what is, and what it could be. Industrial-ambient music fused in a meditative dance with slow repetitive rhythms and clear sparkling crystals by some mysterious chemistry. Memories, dreams, and troubled souls urged the depth and extremely thoughtful, slow, atmospheric disturbances, panic junkie ritual percussion and vocal samples.





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10 июн. 2013 г.

Mem1




Mem1 seamlessly blends the sounds of cello and electronics to create a limitless palette of sonic possibilities. In their improvisation-based performances, Mark and Laura Cetilia's use of custom hardware and software, in conjunction with a uniquely subtle approach to extended cello technique and realtime modular synthesis patching, results in the creation of a single voice rather than a duet between two individuals. Their music moves beyond melody, lyricism and traditional structural confines, revealing an organic evolution of sound that has been called "a perfect blend of harmony and cacophony" (Forced Exposure).

Founded in Los Angeles in 2003, Mem1 has traveled extensively, performing at Issue Project Room, Roulette, REDCAT / Disney Hall, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Electronic Church (Berlin), the Laptopia Festival (Tel-Aviv), the San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, and the Borealis Festival (Bergen). They have taken part in residencies at Harvestworks in New York, STEIM and Kunstenaarslogies in the Netherlands and USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway. In 2009, they created Visiting Hours, a site-specific installation for the Museums of Bat Yam (Israel); in Winter 2012, they travelled to London to create Visting Hours II, a site-specific installation for the Sonic Arts gallery SoundFjord. Their collaborative works with media artists Liora Belford and Kadet Kuhne have been screened and installed at venues including the Institute for Contemporary Art (London), the Hordaland Kunstsenter (Bergen), the Sundance Film Festival, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco). Throughout their career, they have collaborated with a variety of artists including the Penderecki String Quartet, Steve Roden, Jan Jelinek, Frank Bretschneider, and Stephen Vitiello. Age of Insects, a full-length album with Vitiello, is now available through Dragon's Eye Recordings. Together, Mem1 curates the experimental music series Ctrl+Alt+Repeat and the record label Estuary Ltd. 

Laura Cetilia
Born and raised on the east side of Los Angeles, Laura Cetilia leads the life of a cellist riding the line between performer, composer, and sound artist. Classically trained, Laura graduated with distinction from the School of Music at Indiana University and received her Master's degree in cello performance from Wichita State University where she was awarded a position with the Graduate String Quartet. She has traveled extensively, performing and attending artist residencies in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Peru, Italy, and Norway. In Spring 2011, she worked with composer David Behrman during a residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts. During this time, she also collaborated with video artist Naho Taruishi on the audiovisual piece Corner Projection No. 6, which will be installed at RK Projects in Providence, RI in Fall 2011. In addition to her solo performance and installation work, she is a member of the electroacoustic ensemble Mem1 with partner Mark Cetilia, and performs experimental chamber music with violist Robin Streb in their duo Suna No Onna. Suna No Onna has premiered works in Los Angeles and New York by composers such as Andre Cormier and Jorg Frey from the Wandelweiser Group. In January 2012, the group will make its European debut, premiering a work composed specifically for them by Antoine Beuger. Laura is the Executive Director of Community String Project in Bristol, RI and a Media Lab Teaching Artist and Associate Resident Musician at Community MusicWorks, a non-profit organization that provides free after-school music education programs for children in urban neighborhoods of Providence, RI. More at: laura.cetilia.org 

Mark Cetilia
Mark Cetilia is a sound / media artist working at the nexus of analogue and digital technologies. Exploring the possibilities of generative systems in art, design, and sound creation, Cetilia's work is an exercise in carefully controlled chaos. Over the past decade, he has worked to develop idiomatic performance systems utilizing custom hardware and software, manifesting in a rich tapestry of sound and image. Mark is a member of the electroacoustic ensemble Mem1 and the experimental media art group Redux, recipients of a 2006 Creative Capital grant for their Callspace project, a monumental sound installation utilizing cell phone technology to network ambient sound from inaccessible spaces. He received his MFA with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, and is currently pursuing his Ph.D in computer music and multimedia at Brown University. He has taught classes and workshops on programming, sound and video art at the Rhode Island School of Design, TELIC Arts Exchange (Los Angeles), and Spullenmannen (Amersfoort, the Netherlands). In August 2008,he was selected to work with a collaborative group led by Camille Utterback as part of an artist residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. During this time, he also collaborated with video artist Deborah Johnson, sound artist Cory Allen, and media artist Blake Carrington on a night of screenings and performances curated by Carsten Nicolai. Cetilia's work has been screened and installed at such galleries and festivals as Laptopia (Tel-Aviv), the Sol Koffler Gallery (Providence, RI), the 1912 Gallery (Emory, VA) and SoundWalk (Long Beach, CA). He has performed at venues such as St. Patrick's Cathedral (NYC), Spectacle (Boston), Issue Project Room (NYC) and the Knitting Factory (Los Angeles). His solo sound works have been published by Iynges, Anarchymoon and Quiet Design. More at: mark.cetilia.org




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9 июн. 2013 г.

Anne-James Chaton


French sound artist Anne-James Chaton (October 31, 1970, Besançon) "has developed a multipolar body of work, based on a close study of the textual materials which make up the everyday life of contemporary society".

Chaton co-runs the "Sonorités" festival in Montpellier with Carole Rieussec, Enna Chaton, Didier Aschour, Jean-Christophe Camps, Yann Granjon, Mireille Nell, Christian Déric and Isabelle Deltour.

Anne-James Chaton has developed a multipolar body of work, based on a close study of the textual materials which make up the everyday life of contemporary society.
This “poor’ literature, known as «ephemera», comprising a multitude of documents printed out by innumerable machines - bank slips, shopping receipts, promotional flyers, customer loyalty cards, business cards, bus, train and metro tickets, etc. – is the source of Anne-James’ quests into sound, poetry and visual art, which he develops through solo projects and in collaboration with artists from diverse fields.
This continuous focus on ‘low intensity literature’ has accompanied Anne-James during his trips abroad for numerous performances on the literary, rock and électronic music “scenes”.
This polyglot dimension to his work has led him to collaborate with foreign artists like the Dutch rock group The Ex, the English guitarist Andy Moor (The Ex) and the German electronic musician Carsten Nicolai – aka Alva Noto. Recently, he created the trio ‘Décade’, performance with Andy Moor and Alva Noto.
In 2005 Anne-James Chaton received the grant ‘Encouragement’ from the Centre National du Livre in Paris and in 2006 he won the support of the ‘Mission Stendhal’ from the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères (the French Foreign Ministry) for his literary project on the city of Naples (Italy). In 2008 he was awarded an artistic residency at the Villa Kujoyamo in Kyoto, Japan, by the French Ministry of Foreign and Cultural Affaires. Since 2009 Anne-James Chaton has been a Board Member of the poetry commission at the Centre National du Livre (National Center for Books).



See also Chaton's guest appearances on Alva Noto Univrs album.


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8 июн. 2013 г.

Raoul Hausmann - Poèmes Phonétiques



Raoul Hausmann, born in 1886 (12 July) in Vienna (Austria), lived in Berlin beginning in 1900, and deceased in Limoges (France) in 1971 (1 Feb.), is counted among the most important artists of the historical avant-garde of the 20th century.
He was one of hte founding members of Dada Berlin in 1918 together with Richard Hulsenbeck and Frantz Jung. During this period of intense activity he contributed to the review "Die Freie Strasse" and to the "Club Dada," a special issue of the same. He founded and ran, together with Joannes Baader and Richard Hulsenbeck, "Der Dada," the most celebrated review of the Berlin dadaists.
The Dada revolt demanded a fundamentally new art form and Hausmann turned towards new means of expression such as "phonetic poems" and photo-montages.
The process of the photomontage, of which Hausmann could be considered the father, was also to be taken up by Hanna Höch, Johannes Baader, John Heartfield, and Georges Grosz. Yet for Hausmann, Dada had implications well beyond the realm of the artistic, and one can see that he was more attracted to the anarchist Baader and the militant communists Grosz and Heartfield than to Tristan Tzara.
After the Dada movement, he undertook research in optophonetics, and in 1926 he began his autobiographical novel, "Hyle," which he finished around 1955 in Limoges. At the beginning of the 1930s, photography became his preferred means of expression, with views of the Baltic Sea, the island of Sylt, and numerous nudes on the beach.
From 1937-38, he lived in Czechoslovakia, where he began more research on photography. He began a study on that subject and hoped to publish his research on optophonetic works with Moholy-Nagy.
In 1944 he moved to Limoges and, thanks to a parcel of photographic paper sent by Moholoy-Nagy, he made his first photograms. Then he returned to work in photography, photomontage, and sound poetry.
From 1959 to 1964 painting became one of the most important aspects of his artistic production, which he later transformed into pictographic writing.



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