Sound art, experimental, drone, noise and hardcore/metal music, urban intervention, reality engineering, field recording, sound+architecture, mail art, radio waves, naïve electronics, the tao of physics, outsider magicians, dark shamans, serious pranksters, deserts, glaciers, rainforests, caves, bunkers and post-Soviet landscapes
The end times are near...
Music
13, 1349, Amen Ra, Asunder, ASVA, Bernard Parmegiani, Birchville Cat Motel, BJ Nilsen, Black Boned Angel, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Bohren and Der Club of Gore, Boris, Burning Star Core/C. Spencer Yeh, Burzum, Carpathian Forest, Celtic Frost, Coffins, Coil's "Timemachines", Corrupted, Crash Worship, Crossed Out, Daniel Menche, Deathspell Omega, Dystopia, Earth, Edgard Varèse, Eliane Radigue, Fela Kuti, Hatewave, Hawkwind, Iannis Xenakis, Isis, Jazkamer, John Fahey, Johnny Cash, Jorge Ben, Keiji Haino, Kevin Drumm, Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat, KK Null, Leviathan, Man is the Bastard, Misfits, Motorhead, Napalm Death, Neurosis, Om, Oren Ambarchi, Painkiller, Peter Wright, Phil Niblock, Pig Destroyer, Pink Floyd, Rosy Parlane, Skullflower, Slayer, Sleep, Sogar, Stephan Mathieu, Sunn O))), Swans, Techno Animal, The Angels of Light, Throbbing Gristle, Ulver, Venom, Von, Weakling, Wolf Eyes, Wolves in the Throne Room, Xasthur, Yellow Swans, Zeni Geva, ethnographic recordings, mumbly front porch blues, hillbilly freakouts, Soviet Avant-Gardists, insects, bats, singing wolves, crackling ice, roaring fires, underwater bioacoustics, wax cylinders, scratchy 78's...
Movies
Aki Kaurismaki, Akira Kurosawa, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alexander Sokurov, Andrei Tarkowski, Andrzej Zulawski, Bill Viola, Chan-wook Park, Chris Marker, Claire Denis, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Dusan Makavejev, Emir Kusterica, Ingmar Bergman, Jan Svankmeyer, Jess Franco, Jim Jarmusch, Kenneth Anger, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Matthew Barney, Michelangelo Antonioni, Nicholas Provost, Peter Greenaway, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Richard Kern, Roman Polanski, Roman Signer, Stan Brakhage, Stanley Kubrick, Steina & Woody Vasulka, Takashi Miike, Takeshi Kitano, Vera Chytilová, Walerian Borowczyk, Werner Herzog
C.G. Jung, Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, Elias Cannetti, Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Georges Bataille, Hakim Bey/Peter Lamborn Wilson, Hermann Hesse, Joseph Campbell, Kathy Acker, Leif Elggrin, Luis Borges, Martin Amis, Milan Kundera, Peter Carroll, Phillip K Dick, Robert Anton Wilson, Roland Barthes, Sir James Frazier, Stuart Home, Thomas Pynchon, Victor Pelevin, William Faulkner, William S. Burroughs, William T. Vollmann, Yukio Mishima, the Whole Earth Catalog, the AMOK Catalog, Tesla biographies, too many electronics spec sheets for my own good, mythology/anthropology texts, contemporary art and cultural studies, books on music theory (still unopened), my English/German dictionary plus assorted phrasebooks in Russian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Dutch, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Serbian, Latvian...
"... the collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event."
---Iannis Xenakis, Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition
Lately, all this hype about minimalism has gotten to be such a bore. Let's talk about maximalism. Iannis Xenakis' bird swarms and hail storms alongside Dave Lombardo's blast beats and double kicks... Right now, in this moment, I want to make sounds from these kind of ingredients, as live as possible, and not to justify anything with cheap intellectualization. Only to be overwhelmed by raw energy and unfathomable complexity. Nothing more, nothing less.
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BIOGRAPHY
Derek Holzer (1972) is an American sound artist living in Berlin, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, sound art, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and heavy metal music. He has played live experimental sound as Macumbista or Derek Holzer--as well as taught workshops in Pure Data and electronics--across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand. He has released tracks under the Nexsound, Sirr, and/OAR, Mandorla, Frozen Elephants Music and Gruenrekorder labels.
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Who I'd like to meet: Idiosyncrists, alarmists and animists. Extraterrestrials or those in contact with them, the dead or those in contact with them. Myself 10 years ago, you ten years from now. Fakers, charlatans and bunko artists of all stripes and colors. Chaos magicians, ex-KGB agents and anyone who has traveled outside the earth's atmosphere. Owners of any single piece of the True Cross. Anthropophagists and the women who love them. Prophets of the (metaphysical, ecological, technological...) apocalypse. Snake handlers and polygamists. Time machine operators. The ghost of Nikola Tesla.
A new night for music like no other : where the rules of the West no longer apply, where the sound of voodoo and santería is mixed with raw electricity : where we have the secret, you have the dilemma, and we have the solution : now welcome to CUT HANDS!
sound by William Bennett, live visuals by Nick Herd
Joke Lanz aka SUDDEN INFANT creates an unique blend of physical sound-poetry and dadaistic vocal expressions, using contact microphones, prerecorded soundloops and noises. Member of the infamous SCHIMPFLUCH collective, singer of the notorious CATHOLIC BOYS IN HEAVY LEATHER and long time accompanist of Rudolf Eb.er, he's presenting his work since more than 20 years all over the world. Born in Switzerland, now based in Berlin, Joke Lanz has collaborated with the likes of Z'EV, Carlos Giffoni, Peter Kowald, Christian Marclay, Norbert Möslang, DJ Olive, G.X. Jupitter-Larsen, Christian Weber, Charlotte Hug, Jorge Sanchez-Chiong, Roger Rotor, Strotter Inst, Evil Moisture, Astro, Small Cruel Party and many more. Music for contemporary dance, theatre, sound-installations and films. Innumerable releases on international labels e.g. Entracte, RRR, Tochnit Aleph, Blossoming Noise, Artware, Klanggalerie, SSSM. Artist residencies in Berlin (1999) and London (2004). Composition assignment by Pro Helvetia Arts Council of Switzerland (2006).
Findars space, Lot2.01 The Annexe Central Market, Jalan Hang Kasturi, Kuala Lumpur.
ADMISSION FREE, SEE YOU THERE!!
CV:
Goh Lee Kwang is probably one of the most exciting Malaysia sound / new
media artists in the scene. He has travelled around the world creating
sound installations, sonic-visual interactive installation, single /
multichannel video, appeared in electro-acoustic improvised music
performances as well as worked on radio broadcasts and soundtracks for
theater / dance / indie films. His work has been showcased at festival,
galleries and privates spaces in Europe & Asia.
selected exhibitions:
2005
"n desir" Fluctuating Images media gallery, Stuttgart, Germany.
"Artist in the box" National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
"Sound, video, media,interactive, installation" Rumah Air Panas, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
2007
"Good Vibrations" Reka Arts Space, Subang Jaya, Malaysia.
"Good Vibrations" Annexe, Central Market, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Next Monday, the 15 th of the month June will be the date on which mweiooje will go in it's fifth edition. You'll again find us at loophole, Boddinstraße 60, Berlin Neukölln. You are again very much invited to join us this time. There are no rules as such about how or what to play - the ability of spontaneous expression in a group consisting of strangers is the only requirement, performing interesting and unique music. en plus: please bring all equipment you have with you, there will be some on location, but since i this time don't know what and how much, please make sure you have something yourself (mixers, mics, instruments)
OUT NOW on Idiosyncratics Records : Phil Maggi - Blue Fields in Paramount CD
..Blue Fields in Paramount is a very personal and fascinating opus, a beautiful introduction to the style of this talented artist, that could be qualified as 'dark psychedelia for daydream believers'. It has been mastered by James Plotkin (Khlyst, Khanate, Old, Phantom) and is out now as a stricly limited to 300 copies ekopack edition with a fantastic artwork by czech artist Jan Karpisek...
Please join us on Wednesday (10 June) for the opening of »Black Box«, a room-filling installation containing works by Benjamin Laurent Aman (FR), Sébastien Maloberti (FR) and Marcel Türkowsky (GER).
Benjamin Laurent Aman invited the two other artists to help him actualize the as-of-yet theoretical conception of the »Black Box«.
The three artists approach the multi-layered subject »Black Box« as experimenters, thereby creating a system of tests in which events can be followed, but which also lends itself to substantiating different modus operandi. Oscillating between possible and impossible implementations, they transform notions of reality and illusion into a dimension of functional describability, while revealing the character of the exhibition space as an in-between place.
The artistic media used in this range from photographs and drawings to installation and sound. Not least of all, the exhibition is marked by a moment of ignorance, in which none of the artists are aware of each other’s intentions and strategies.
We're looking forward to see you at the Opening Reception on Wednesday, 10 June.
Hey Just a reminder that we put up new tracks by Wäldchengarten & Lars L. Hansen. Fierce ambient and blasting noise for your listening pleasure! We updated Wäldchengartens tourschedule and posted a link for more free music. Hope you'll enjoy. Noisejihad.
mweiooje
- open stage for free music will take place in it's fourth edition on
June the first, next Monday! After last time's success we
are heading for the next great evening of improvised music
where we'll once again try to make the border between artist and spectator
vanish, at least make it appear vaguer than usual. So if you got any musical
ideas you think you could share with us, perform at ours, come along next
Monday for another great Open Stage! (But you of course are as well welcome as
a spectator, maybe it will get you)
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