KERNEL is the project of a small musical ensemble specialised in "live" interpretation of large-scale composed electronic music.This simple phrase already raises the questions and reflexions having generated this desire:
_ Using the computer as a "real" instrument - thus not restitution of beforehand fixed sounds (sound-files, samples, sequences), but real time creation and synthesis of sound. What does it mean to "play" a computer?
_ Composition of a "live" electronic music - thus development of a language, a written one (and one can feel it will be defined outside of the classical solfeggio), which should permit to imagine, define, the electronic music. Real composition and not graphic notation of existing sounds ;
_ Interpretation of such a music - which are the possible variables and limits which can be changed in the course of playing without losing the compositional idea; in other words where is the "essence" of such or such composition?
KERNEL exists since 2007
EVENTS' PROGRAM @ KÜNSTLERHAUS STUTTGART
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5. November 2009, 15 Uhr
Michael Parsons: "Walk" performance somewhere in the city (precise informations will come later)
5. November 2009, 19 Uhr
Keith Rowe: Konzert und Gespräch / at the gallery
7. November 2009, 19 Uhr
The Great Learning - Paragraph 7, Dirigent: Jean-Jacques Palix / at the gallery
Ekkehard Ehlers: "Innocence" Konzert / at the gallery
Video documentation of a performance piece by my friend Nate Kassel who rode around on his bike slapping high-fives to people who were trying to hail taxi cabs in NYC. Enjoy!
