URBSOUNDS COLLECTIVE (The mutant electronic offspring of Bratislava, Slovakia's punk scene) was established in 2001 as the outcome of friendship, common interests, shared views and love for music. Since then it has become a platform for exchanging experience and supporting creative and unusual electronic and media events, distributing DIY materials, organizing experimental electronic music events and releasing mostly CD-r recordings. It played their first concert in November 2001 at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. From that time on they have been performing at various galleries, clubs, squats and festivals [Digitopia/Slovakia, Multiplace/Slovakia, Next/Slovakia, Alternativa/Czech Republic, Electric Rain/Ireland, Resistance Festival/Great Britain, RX-TX/Slovenia, Grim Electronicitt_/France, Firmanent/Poland] in Slovakia as well as abroad [Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Italy, France, Great Britain and Ireland].
[http://urbsounds.sk]
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JAMKA [Monika Subrtova & Daniel Kordik //digital deconstructed// sequence remixer, 3 synthesizers, drum machines, sampler, self designed Pure Data software instrument> Electro beats stride into Jamka's landscape of crunchy clicks and jagged breakdowns, only to be stretched and segmented themselves, sacrificed to the duos digital-analogue dialogue.
[http://www.myspace.com/jamkaurbsounds]
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RBNX [Tobias Potocny //plug&don’tthink-core//analogue, mostly selfmade, devices] Modern, liberated, contemporary, of a broad spectrum, intelligent, obscure, experimental, unique, quality, original, extraordinary & These are words that most often characterize electronic music production. With rbnx things
are different.
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URBANFAILURE [Michal Lichy //lo-fi rythms & structures // 2 synthesizers, drum machine] "My synthesis of feelings endeavors to transform rooted images. The realization of this concept is also a way to use sound as opinion. Your TV digital pudding raisins as an analog paradox deforming reality? Try not to think about what the past will be like!"
15 May FRI: live on Chomutov Industrial Festival together with Reconstruction (pl), Kotel #26 (cz), Einleitugszeit w. Sangredans (sk/cz), ... www.myspace.com/chomutovindustrial
16 May SAT: Wroclaw (pl) live on Bez Kontroli Festival together with Obszon Geschopf (fr), Syntax Error (pl), RBMK (pl), Baum Electronic (pl), ... www.bezkontroli.com
Nuit d'Hiver - VENDREDI 12 DÉCEMBRE - Montévidéo - 20h30 Rova Saxophone Quartet Maîtres des approches polyphoniques et de la synthèse entre composition et improvisation. Ces quatre musiciens de San Francisco ont su imposer une vision novatrice du saxophone inspirée d'un large spectre musical de Varèse à Cage en passant par Coltrane. Dark Matter La « matière noire », une rencontre fulgurante entre deux musiciens travaillant aux confins des musiques urgentes d'aujourd'hui, contemporaine, minimaliste, nouvelle musique électronique, noise. Une expérience non seulement auditive mais aussi physique de l'abandon dans le son.
Nuit d'Hiver - JEUDI 11 DÉCEMBRE - Montévidéo - 20h30 Loco Une formation non conformiste, extraordinairement mobile, une architecture musicale hors des schémas attendus. Manuchello Septet Sans frontières stylistiques ou culturelles. L’intemporalité du septet explore la recherche sonore.
