============ VITAL WEEKLY ============ number 414 ------------ week 11 ------------ contents: NORMAL MUSIC - A SHORT EXHIBITION OF NORMAL MUSIC (CD by Zeromoon) "BLUE" GENE TYRANNY - TAKE YOUR TIME (CD by Lovely Music) LALI PUNA - FAKING THE BOOKS (CD by Morr Music) ASMUS TIETCHENS - SPAT-EUROPA (CD by Die Stadt) STEVE BRAND - THE QUIVER OF DREAMS (CDR by XZF) KONTAKT DER JUNGLINGE - FRUHRUIN (3"CD by Die Stadt) HYRDUS/KETTEL (LP by Narrominded) BRANDON LABELLE - CONCERT (CD by Sirr-ecords) WEEDS (3"CDR by Time Stereo) ELECTRIC BEAR - WORMS (3"CDR by Time Stereo) PRINCESS DRAGONMON - HAUNTED TUBE 2002 (3"CDR by Time Stereo) PAWEL GRABOWSKI - GLITCH LETTERS (3"CDR by Sine) DEUCE - WE CAN MAKE IT FASTER AND BETTER THAN DEUCE (CD by Mik. Musik) TAPE - OPERETTE (CD by Cubic Fabric) ANDREW CHALK - FALL IN THE WAKE OF A FLAWLESS LANDSCAPE (LP by Three Poplars) ZAVOLOKA - 1 (3"CDR by Zeromoon) ZEROMOON SAMPLER VOLUME 2 (3"CDR by Zeromoon) WANDER (CD-R by XZF) WANDER (7" by Edition...) BRENDAN MURRAY - ANIMATION (CDR by The Naninani Corporation) ORIGAMI MINIMALISTIKA - X12 (CDR by Tib Prod) MOLAR - THE TIME AND MOTION STUDIES (CD by False Walls) NORMAL MUSIC - A SHORT EXHIBITION OF NORMAL MUSIC (CD by Zeromoon) If you paid attention before, you recognize the name Normal Music. In Vital Weekly 373 I reviewed their debut 3" CDR and stated that they deserved a full length CD. Normal Music is Jeff Surak (headhoncho here and also of Violet), Raphael Irisarri (of The Musique Concrete Ensemble) and Thomas Ekelund (of Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words), but their collaborative work, which goes back and forth via mail, goes into a different direction than much of their solo work. Whereas the previous mini-release had hints of Pan Sonic, Goem or Pole, I found here the ambient track to play a big role, alongside of course the rhythms. The funny thing is that Normal Music is not a laptop trio, but use real instruments, synths, bass guitar, autoharp, field recordings and record players. Normal Music uses dubby, clicky rhythms from the best clicks and cuts tradition in combination with the best ambient sections from labels as Chain Reaction. 'Transverse Projection' is directly influenced by Bernd Friedman. Clocking in at 35 minutes this might still not be a full-length, but alas it's fine enough. If this was on ~scape, these boys would be on the cover of The Wire and playing the big festivals. But let's hope that this CD will mean a push forward for them in that direction. (FdW) Address: http://www.zeromoon.com "BLUE" GENE TYRANNY - TAKE YOUR TIME (CD by Lovely Music) There is an interesting article by Julian Cowley about Robert Sheff aka "Blue" Gene Tyranny in the December/2003 issue of The Wire. Robert Sheff has collaborated with more interesting artists like Laurie Anderson (on her album Strange Angels), John Cage, Robert Ashley, Iggy Pop and others... Even though he's not popular as either of them, his music is definitely worth to be discovered and heard. "Blue" Gene Tyranny plays piano and all pieces on this album are piano compositions played by him. But I'm not sure if 'composition' is the right word, because what I figured out from the article in The Wire, "B"GT likes the improvisational approach to his music: "I don't always know where a piece is going. You just follow it to find out what's going on. That's how music teaches me things." He improvises while playing different motifs and he plays the piano as a classic instrument, not like Andrea Neumann for example. The atmosphere on Take Your Time is often loose, dreamy, a little bit absent sometimes but it's not the complete abstraction. Here's what Robert Sheff says: "At some point even my composed music is improvised." I think this is a good explanation of what's going on here, a crossover between composed and improvised piano pieces played by someone who's crafted his art very well. Or as a part of the subtitle from The Wire article says: "...his fervent compositions and piano music mark him out as an audio researcher par excellence." (BR) Address: http://www.lovely.com and http://members.aol.com/bluegenet LALI PUNA - FAKING THE BOOKS (CD by Morr Music) Ah... Lali Puna. They sound even more like a traditional guitar/bass/drums band on their third album Faking The Books. Those instruments are very much pointed out in the front and the electronics are in the background, like a fine ornament to the music. Lali Puna can create amazing songs, that's important here. There are some great songs on this album, the opening intro Faking the books, Small things, Grin and bear... Maybe you already know that some people from Lali Puna are also members of The Notwist, Tied And Tickled Trio, Console and few other great bands from the kingdom of guitar-pop. So, they're obviously very much into it. And they've mastered the skills of making good songs very well. They also make me want to listen this kind of music with more interest. Great music for all indie-kidz and all hardcore fans of the future-pop trio Stereolab/Pram/Laika out there! And also for fans of Ellioth Smith, Too Pure, Morr Music... (BR) Address: http://www.morrmusic.com and http://www.lalipuna.de ASMUS TIETCHENS - SPAT-EUROPA (CD by Die Stadt) The third re-issue of classic Asmus Tietchens deals with the second album in his Sky Records series. In these four albums (previously 'Biotop' and next up 'In Die Nacht' and 'Litia'), Tietchens explores what he thinks is popmusic, and on this 'Spät-Europa', this culminated in the closest approach, I think. It was Tietchens desire to keep the tracks at a maximum length of two minutes, but in these pre-computer days, this seemed not possible, but more or less they are all around two minutes. Another limitation he set himself too was using only an eight-track machine in combination with new gear (Polymoog, EMS vocoder, Ring Modulator, sampler etc.). If you are aware of much of his later stuff, then this release might be a full on surprise, as these are indeed short, witty tracks of popmusic. In each of them Tietchens succeeds in playing around with a few sounds, a rhythmbox and each has a distinct own melody. No two tracks are similar, and that is, given at no less than twenty-two tracks, a big surprise. The two bonus tracks included are from an album that Tietchens never finished, but forecasts the later (late nineties) records of the Aroma Club. In German there is a distinction between 'E' (ernste, serious) music and 'U' (unterhaltung, entertaining) music, and whereas everything after the four Sky album might be regarded as 'E' music, these four albums are definetly 'U' music. 'Spät-Europa' might be your thing if you like wacky popmusic, or if you are distinct follower of the Aroma Club albums. I can imagine it may not be right thing for the true Tietchens lovers, but completists should not miss out. (FdW) Address: http://www.diestadtmusik.de STEVE BRAND - THE QUIVER OF DREAMS (CDR by XZF) Maybe the name Steve Brand doesn't ring the same bell as the one used in the first track of his release, but maybe if you know that Steve Brand is the same person who recorded before under the name Augur, things fall in it's place. Augur has had releases on XZF, Alluvial and A Pyrrhic Victory, to name but a few. Steve dropped the name Augur and now works under his own name. Steve plays traditional instruments, but also objects which he scratches, rubs and puts through effect boxes. And if that's not enough he adds field recordings, such as in 'Gardner', which uses a lot of insect like sounds. It seems to me that Steve has moved on from his previous Augur recordings and that he has opened his sound and moves away from the drone related material. Only a piece like 'Deep In The Dirt' has traces of the old Augur style. Quite an enjoyable release here, except for the piece called 'No Music', which sound like recorded on a piece of wobbly tape and falls out of place with the other, much nicer tunes. (FdW) Address: http://www.pretentious-label.net/ KONTAKT DER JUNGLINGE - FRUHRUIN (3"CD by Die Stadt) A highly limited 3" CD in an oversized box, but if you buy this box you can store the four previously released album in there. As you may know Kontakt Der Junglinge - a pun at Stockhausen' 'Gesang Der Junglinge' and 'Kontakte' - is the ongoing collaboration between Asmus Tietchens and Thomas Köner. The four previous albums were all recorded live, but the two pieces on this 3" is the first studio work by the two that is released. The first one has a low end rumble with on top sounds of stuff washing ashore. The second piece is along similar lines, except that this exists only of low end rumble. This piece is very much along the lines of music by Mirror, Ora and the like, but it's a wonderfully nice piece. These two tracks are most promising for a full length CD by these legendary composers. (FdW) Address: http://www.diestadtmusik.de HYRDUS/KETTEL (LP by Narrominded) On the label that don't live up to their name, the second split LP, following the one they released last year with Accelera Deck and Living Ornaments. Here they go for an all Dutch line up. Hydrus is a duo of Herman Wilken and Almer Lucke who met at the department of Sonology in The Hague, but also played in rock bands and composing serious works. As Hydrus however they digest their influences Autechre and Plaid and loads of other Warp acts, but their pleasant electronic music has lots of quality of its own. From held-back, laidback tunes such as the first piece up to fierce drum and bass in their final piece. The other side is occupied by Kettel, aka Reimer Eising. He is more known for his releases on labels such as Planet U, Neo Ouija, Kracfive and Dub. He has six tracks of very melodic and pleasent intelligent dance music, very much along the lines of music released on the labels mentioned, but that should hardly be surprise. Cheery and funny uptempo music. Personally I enjoyed the Kettel side more than the Hydrus, which seemed to be in a finding their own style process and things have worked out for Kettel already. Kettel's compositions are more worked out, a bit shorter and a bit more funny. But both sides are truely nice, and it's good to hear this kind of music from my own country... (FdW) Address: http://www.narrominded.com BRANDON LABELLE - CONCERT (CD by Sirr-ecords) As you are no doubt aware, a CD is not a concert. In fact it's not an installation either. And an installation is usually not a concert. Brandon Labelle plays around with all these notions on his CD called 'Concert'. This CD contains five pieces of music, which were all part of art installations, and I think in all cases the sounds were derived from the building process of the installations. Each of the installation is described in the booklet, so I will only state that each of these installation has a predecessor in time, like Cage's Black Mountain Event or Vito Acconci's project 'Seedbed'. There is some stuff to read and view in the booklet, but of course the listener is remote: he has no longer a connection to the installation (unless of course he was a visitor and decides to buy the CD), but an outsider, and will probably judge the CD by it self. So will I. Brandon's music is best described as musique concrete: music made out of various small sounds, amplified and extracted from their own environment, and together with Steve Roden (with whom Brandon has worked before), Brandon shares the love of small sounds, the small gesture. Things move in a seemingely random way and each of the track is limited to a few sounds. Were Steve Roden moved into carefully constructed compositions, I think Brandon is still behind - sometimes his music is more like a documentation of events, of social interactions, and the beauty of the compositions is not the main thing. This makes it, at least for me, not always enjoyable. The last piece here, 'Learning From Seedbed', is a mere banging on wood and simply lacks interesting sounds and composition. But that's the weakest brother, other tracks are much nicer, such as 'Automatic Building', with it's gentle moving of sound. (FdW) Address: http://www.sirr-ecords.com WEEDS (3"CDR by Time Stereo) ELECTRIC BEAR - WORMS (3"CDR by Time Stereo) PRINCESS DRAGONMON - HAUNTED TUBE 2002 (3"CDR by Time Stereo) Three small and intimate releases from lovely Livonia (that is near Detroit, in case you didn't learn your lesson), with nicely printed covers and in a first edition of fifteen copies only. Weeds in a trio of Davin (Princess Dragonmom), Warn (Princess Dragonmom, His Name Is Alive) and Hitoko (MSBR). On a warm day in the summer of 2002 they sit in the garden in Livonia, surrounded by weeds, shovels, brushes and cement. They scrape and rub these materials against eachother whilst birds sing their song. Truely ambient music of a highly relaxing nature. The very same Davin was a year before Weeds in The Netherlands and played at the lovely Worm club together with his Dutch noise camp member Ronald Cornelissen. Knowing both their backgrounds, I wouldn't be surprised if one of the guys was dressed up as a bear, but unfortunally the visual element is gone here. Quite a lo-fi noise monster going on here. Something similar can be said of Princess Dragonmon's Haunted Tube actions. Here Davin dresses up with a large noise making tube during halloween and scares the shit out of people. On this recording we can hear people talk and laugh, so it would have been nice to actually see this action (and it's about time that we get 3" CDR DVDs!). If you like noise than of course it doesn't matter, and you can take pleasure out of this recording. Here Princess Dragonmon comes close to the old Ramleh sound: thickly layered with a voice shouting 'The Haunted Tube'. Quite nice lovely little items. (FdW) Address: http://www.timestereo.com PAWEL GRABOWSKI - GLITCH LETTERS (3"CDR by Sine) The young Polish composer Pawel Grabowski now lives in Ireland, and he moved from composing works for his chamber music ensemble to improvising with electro-acoustic music, using computers, field recordings and a broken violin. On this 3" CDR release he offers a live concert from December last year and things move carefully along lines of audibility and static cracks and hiss. In it's kind it's a nice work, but it doesn't overstep boundaries and is not something that wasn't heard before in microsound. But as said, it's not bad either. Just sturdy good improvised music and let's hope he will part of the travelling circus of improvisers. Would love to see a broken violin at work. (FdW) Address: http://www.sine.prv.pl DEUCE - WE CAN MAKE IT FASTER AND BETTER THAN DEUCE (CD by Mik. Musik) Many things happened since Deuce arrived on the scene, with his first release 'Not In The Kitchen' (see Vital Weekly 320): recorded this new full length, real CD release, plus touring in countries as Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. In case you don't know this Polish musician, he combines the best of overground musics like techno and hip hop with best of underground techniques. Deuce's music is distinctely lo-fi in approach, raw and energetic, almost in punk sort of approach. Sometimes this music sounds like recorded through a beatbox, but it adds a strong underground approach. Maybe even at forty-eight minutes this is a sensory overload, but it can be done. Full on force. (FdW) Address: http://www.mik.terra.pl TAPE - OPERETTE (CD by Cubic Fabric) Remixes is of course something you either like or dislike. Some people will think it's a cheap thing to generate more money and never is better than the original, but others, and I am one, like the idea of taking the original sounds and expanding them. And what could be wrong with remixing one of my favourite bands, Tape from Sweden? They are trio of laptop, guitar, trumpet and keyboards. Here their CD 'Opera' gets the remix treatment of ten reknowned artists. Some stay close to the carefully constructed musics of Tape, but others expand the material. Can you image Hazard adding a techno beat (that is two surprises: beats for Tape and beats for Hazard)? Or the expanded glitchy keyboards of Andreas Tilliander? Or an ambient approach to the original by Pita? This remix CD has many surprises and is a good defendent of the whole idea of remixes. It also include such fine works by David Grubbs, Fonica, Oren Ambarchi, Minamo, Josh Abrams, Anderegg (great spacious track there) and Stephan Mathieu, and there is no weak brother around. (FdW) Address: http://www.cubicmusic.com/fabric/ ANDREW CHALK - FALL IN THE WAKE OF A FLAWLESS LANDSCAPE (LP by Three Poplars) Maybe I am not the right person to say something about Andrew Chalk or his music. Usually I judge music by what it is and how it stands in traditions and wether it's something new or shedding new light on tradition it comes from. With Andrew Chalk, or Mirror (the band he's a member of), I can't do that, simply because I like the kind of music very much. The heavy, thick drone loaded music is just very much the thing I like. So I'm not an objective person, in cases like this. What else can I say then? This is Chalk's first solo release since 'Over The Edges' (LP on Streamline from 1999) for instance. That he produces similar great music with Mirror, that he works with Daisuke Suzuki on related material and that I can't tell what he's doing here, instrument wise. There are points on this record where he plays violin bows over guitars, or maybe e-bows, or maybe organs, or maybe... well, I just wouldn't know. It's a long majestic flow of sound, that moves very slowly, patientely, with superb control over the overtone areas. Simply one of the best drone musics around. That's it. (FdW) Address: http://www.diestadtmusik.de ZAVOLOKA - 1 (3"CDR by Zeromoon) ZEROMOON SAMPLER VOLUME 2 (3"CDR by Zeromoon) Kateryna Zavoloka is from Kiev and she offers four tracks on her 3" CDR of highly distorted analogue and digital noise, which is partly inspired by the noise movement, but she cleverly combines it with technoid (android techno rhythms) rhythms. In some of these tracks, like 'Hintintin' she reminds me of Aphex Twin, but in 'Anty.Copy' she lets the noise prevail. Maybe at four tracks only it's hard to say if I like it very much: it's just a bit too short to say something about it. Although the length of the second Zeromoon sampler is considerable longer than the previous sampler (which was pressed on one of those business card cdrs with a length of four minutes), it's still a short thing, but nevertheless a nice taster. Actually only Normal Music is known from their Zeromoon releases, well at least by me. The others may have releases on Zeromoon soon, and they are Dead + Hurt, Origami Subtropika, Critikal and Vultrapia. Still the most interesting piece here is by Normal Music, with their dubby bass. The biggest promise comes from Vultrapia with their lenghty ambient piece. (FdW) Address: http://www.zeromoon.com WANDER (CD-R by XZF) WANDER (7" by Edition...) After Beequeen's transformation into a more pop oriented project, it seems that Frans de Waard and Freek Kinkelaar started missing the long drone pieces that they used in Beequeen. Ergo: Wander. Wander can be described as a completely stripped down version of the earlier Beequeen, it's only the drones and nothing else, mostly from organ or harmonium sounds, maybe a synth here and there. Both pieces of these discs are one track without much development, the sounds getting denser here and there, or aother sounds slowly added. For example, on the CD-R we hear a long track of the same sound origin, somewhere in the high mid frequencies. Only after about half an hour another sound is added: a glissando going up and down. This is nothing spectacular and of course that is exactly the goal. It's not the music that changes much, it's the expectation of the listener. The 7" is alittle different in that respect, simply because it's a lot shorter. There is no time to play with that kind of content. And that is exactly what makes it less interesting, because musically speaking this is not so very exciting. (MR) Address: http://www.the-label-xzf.net Address: http://editionellipsis.hypermart.net BRENDAN MURRAY - ANIMATION (CDR by The Naninani Corporation) Maybe you haven't heard of Brendan Murray? That is sad indeed, because his small output is certainly worth checking out. In 2001 he made a CD for Create-Transmit which was, sadly, largely ignored and in 2003 a CDR for Kissy Records, and was a member of Twin and now a member of The Please. It's probably the most easy thing to say that Murray produces microsounding music, but that sort of doesn't cover it at all. Brendan Murray processes field recordings in his computer and outside electronica, but unlike many others he goes for the somewhat harsher element here, aswell as for the more drone/ambient side of the musical spectrum. Quite a step aside from his previous works. Especially in the lengthy title piece this works quite well here. In these forty minutes, Brendan Murray depicts underworldy, or underground like sounds, sounds from the middle of the earth. A dark and desolate space, and worms chewing the insides of Murray's computer. Let's hope that this finally turns a few people to Murray. If you like drone music as much as you like Mnortham or Roel Meelkop, then this is the place to be. (FdW) Address: http//:naninani.free.fr ORIGAMI MINIMALISTIKA - X12 (CDR by Tib Prod) The name Origami plus something is used by many people, and you not always know who these people are, but in this case, I think it's Tib Prod chef Iversen who is behind the name Origami Minimalistika. One day by accident he made this '20 minute internal recording of a computer doing nothing' and then fiddled about with this recording and created twelve, indeed hihly minimal pieces of music with it. Things buzz, hiss, scratch and tick their way through an endless string of computer plug ins. Sometimes it's minimal in a high end drone manner, something it's quiet, and sometimes it's more rhythmical. I think things work best when things are kept short. Then it seems to make more sense. The seventh track, which consumes no less than about half the discs space, is easily twenty minutes too long. Otherwise it's a nice conceptual work. (FdW) Address: http://www.tibprod.com MOLAR - THE TIME AND MOTION STUDIES (CD by False Walls) The for me unknown name Molar consists of one Jim Goodspeed on guitar, one Matthew Johnson on keyboard, laptop and guitar processing and one Lars Fischer on laptop. They are from New York and from what I understand their material comes together along the lines of improvisation. However they are seemingely not very much interested in careful textures or some such, but rather use crude, sampled beat material and thrown in a whole bunch of keyboard sounds and some distorted guitar and more distorted computer sounds and that's about it. There are exceptions to be noted here, such as 'Pulse', which is somewhat different than the rest, but also doesn't make any distinct impression. Among the ten tracks offered here, I didn't detect much that was really interesting, really good or really something new. It missed one or two point completely. (FdW) Address: http://www.falsewalls.com 1. From: Benjamin Green please note new broadcast slot: every SATURDAY 24:00h from now on..] ...as... airs: every SATURDAY midnight 104.4FM [london, uk] live streams: http://www.resonancefm.com other places/times: http://www.worldtimeserver.com contributions: b@estsoks.demon.co.uk 06.03.04 Yukiko Ito : one hour as Time Travel [1980 and 2003 about her] and that is the sandwich the past her voice and the sounds around her between her recent works using the computer, and they are as follows : 1. bug 2. untitled (improvisation) 3. insects 4. untitled (improvisation) http://homepage.mac.com/cokiyu/ Translation : sawako 13.03.04 Jim Haynes : One Hour [as] the Narcoleptic A contribution to a future collaboration between Steven Stapleton, Matt Waldron, Sigtryggur Berg Sigmarsson, and Richard Karl Fulhaber. Currently, this project is in limbo. "...decidedly annoyed by recent attempts of the psychosomaticists to revive the old idea that narcolepsy is simply a form of escape. This is as daft as the Von Zastrow hypothesis. None the less, the cataplexy is worsening as the bruise on my forehead can attest; and the sleep paralysis is unsettling my nerves. Another day, and another log to fill out. I am so damn tired. Talks in sleep : No Walks in sleep : No Bangs head or rocks in sleep: No Grinds teeth or bites tongue in sleep : No Jerks arms or legs in sleep: No Snores: No Seems to stop breathing during sleep: No Seems to have labored or difficult breathing during sleep : No Wets bed during sleep: No Awakens during night complaining of nightmares and can relate details : Yes Awakens during night screaming in terror, but is difficult to awaken fully : Yes Awakens during night to get a drink : No Awakens during night to be changed or go to the bathroom: No Has seizures or convulsions during sleep : No Awakens looking tired : Yes Awakens irritable and in a bad mood : Yes Difficult to awaken in the morning : Yes" - Victoria Scarsdale's personal sleep journal May, 23 1965 http://www.helenscardale.com 20.03.04 Michael Prime: one hour as the body 1. Piece for heartbeats, brainwaves and stomach sounds performers: Emma O'Bong, Adam Bohman recorded live at the ICA, London 14.07.96 2. Samsara recorded live at 'Dimanche L'impro', Lille, 09.03.03 27.03.04 The Loop Orchestra: one hour as a walk in the very black forest A sustained elucidation of The Loop Orchestra's taxonomy of mould. 'Found' sources provide for a coherent rendering of phonographic decay. http://www.thelooporchestra.com 2. From: Bauke van der Wal MARCH 26 ATROX (D) THE [LAW-RAH] COLLECTIVE (NL) INSTITUTION D.O.L. (AT) @ Fenix in Sittard, NETHERLANDS info: http://www.absinthe-party.tk/ APRIL 10 MILITIA (B) THE [LAW-RAH] COLLECTIVE (NL) KALLABRIS (G) BRAINQUAKE (B) 6th Independent Festival for Music & Arts @ OJC Kompas in St. Niklaas, BELGIUM information: http://users.pandora.be/eetapes/festivals.htm the [law-rah] collective : http://www.darkambient.net 3. From: dean glaister UKN UNION PRESENTS- „Days of noise ˆ The first offering‰ BONGOLEEROS- Noise, Noise, Noise. Possible threat of violence. Demagnetise your Brain. (Leeds) FILTHY TURD- Raw, harsh and crushing noise (Leeds) CULVER BIG BAND- A collaborative effort of three North East drone based projects- culver, marzuraan and trollman. BHHT- Experimental noise from the bowels of Redcar ROMANCE- Fast paced harsh noise Saturday March 20th. The Chillingham Arms, Heaton, Newcastle. 7pm. £3 4. From: extra247@another.com slow sound system lie down and be counted the foundry, 27 march, 5-11pm the slow sound system explores ambient listening, new electronica and pixel manipulation. for our second listening session of 2004, we showcase three heroes of london's electronic underground * LJ KRUZER (ai records, uncharted audio) (uk) (live) Modern master of electropop and melancholy ambience. Once heard, not forgotten. FRED K.U. (dorp, moonpalace, midrange) (fr) (live) Soundscaping, breaks and razor-sharp turntablism from French whizzkid. MINISTRY OF LOUD SOUNDSYSTEM (midrange) (uk, fr) (decks + fx) Mild-mannered South Londoners deliver bass, beats, dsp and white noise. iMAX, ALBERT (uk, fr) (dj) Collage, digitals and audioscapes from resident djs JAY ROPINSKY, iMAX (d, uk) (visuals) slideshow, flashwerks, digital sublime LONDON SOUNDSCAPE PROJECT A slice of the last Foundry show became part of a London Soundscape Project broadcast. The project pulls in audiostreams from across the capital and collages them together. Well worth a listen, here: http://www.londonsoundscape.net/audio/lwsp22_2_04.mp3 DETAILS the foundry 84-86 great eastern st london, ec2 tel: 0207 739 6900 info@foundry.tv info@slowsound.net www.slowsound.net 5. From: "Info @ KuBu" ::: connected ::: International concerts for noise musik part of the Musiktriennale Cologne Programm "connnected" entrance fee = 10,00 Euro open: 20.00h, start: 20.30h Connected #1 : UK, 22.04.2004, Sample-Kunst, Plunderphonics, Sound of Communication concerts: V/VM MATT WAND (Stock,Hausen & Walkman) VOLCANO THE BEAR BARBED ERGO PHIZMZ DJ Wolfgang Brauneis (A-Musik/Tonschacht, Köln) Connected - Special: 23.4.20.00h Formative Studies concerts: Z'EV Institut Für Feinmotorik DJ Gunther Zuckmayr Connected #2: 25.4. France Konkrete Noise Live-Konzerte von: JEROME NOETINGER / Metamkine ULTRA MILKMAIDS TOY BIZARRE DJ Frank Dommert (Sonig/Entenpfuhl, Köln) Connected #3: 28.4. Spain Wireless Folk Tales Live-Konzerte von: ALEJANDRA & AERON UN CADDIE RENVERSE DANS L'HERBE JASON FORREST/DONNA SUMMER DJ Andres Krause (softlmusic, Köln) Connected #4: Sweden/Norway, 29.04.2004 Nordic Landscapes Live-Konzerte von BIOSPHERE COH LEIF ELGGREN HÄPNA LABEL (Tape & Hans Appelqvist) DJ Raphael Smarzoch (KölnCampus Radio, Köln) Connected #5: The Netherlands/Belgium, 04.05.2004 Pulses and found sound Live Konzerte von: KAPOTTE MUZIEK RADBOUD MENS FREIBAND MARTIENSGOHOME DJ Georg Odijk (A-Musik, Köln) Connected #6: Switzerland/Austria, 05.05.2004 Cracked sounds, small & big concerts: NORBERT MÖSLANG BERND SCHURER JASON KAHN RALPH STEINBRÜCHEL Paul Hubweber/Uli Boettcher (Köln) Klanginstallation 21.04. - 5.5.2004 THOM KUBLI (KHM, Köln) kulturbunker muelheim e.v. berliner str. 20 51063 koeln tel.: 0221-616926 fax.: 0221-6160796 url.: http://www.kulturbunker-muelheim.de 6. From: gert-jan prins march 12,13 @ grim, marseille, france, gert-jan prins march 20 @ no fun fest 2004, brooklyn, usa, gert-jan prins march 23 @ tonic, nyc, usa, gj prins & lee ranaldo, pita, giffoni, massimo march 24 @ bard college, annandale-on-hudson, usa, pita/ prins/ schmickler/ lehn march 26 @ mass college of art, boston, ma, usa, gj prins , duo schmickler / lehn march 27 @ hampshire college, amherst ma, usa, gj prins, howard stelzer march 28 @ renseallear polytechnic, troy ny, gj prins, howard stelzer march 29 @ wesleyan university, middlebury ct, usa, gjprins, howard stelzer april 1,2 @ the art institute of chicago, usa, gj prins lecture april 3 @ 6ODUM, chicago, usa, gj prins april 15 @ trondheim, norway, gj prins april 18 @ random system festival, oslo, norway, gj prins http://www.gjp.info 7. From: "rob forman" Non-Event Presents The BSC with Special Guest: Alessandro Bosetti Thursday, March 18th, 2004. 8:00pm. $7 Gallery 108 108 Beacon St, Somerville(at the intersection of Kirkland) upcoming: 3/13-Meehan/Cluett/Fowler-Gallery 108 3/22-Pita w/ Alan Licht-Durrell HallCambridge Family YMCA 3/26-Schmickler/Lehn/Prins-Mass Art(w/ Intransitive) 3/27-Tape/Aero+Anderegg-Zeitgeist(early!) April-AGF May 13-Tone/Hecker May 25-Rowe/Fennesz http://www.nonevent.org 8. From: francisco lopez 'feel' exhibition @ z33 zuivelmarkt 33 hasselt, belgium march 13: live show march 13 - june 6: sound/visual installation 'two blank spirits' with: ANJA KEMPE (D)Loser Raum BJÖRN SCHÜLKE (D)Nervous FRANCISCO LÓPEZ (E)Two Blank Spirits GRANULAR SYNTHESIS (AT)Lux JEFFREY SHAW (AUS)The Legible City MAGALI DESBAZEILLE &SIEGFRIED CANTO (F) Tu penses donc je te suis ROSA BARBA (D)Flugmaschine RYOJI IKEDA (J)Spectra II TOMI GRÖNLUND &PETTERI NISUNEN (SF)Ultrasonic VOLKER MORAWE &TILMAN REIFF (D)Painstation more info -> www.limburg.be/z33 -- Vital Weekly is published by Frans de Waard and submitted for free to anybody with an e-mail address. If you don't wish to receive this, then let us know. Any feedback is welcome . Forward to your allies. 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