The name of Jos Smolders should say something to many followers of the most hidden recesses of electronic and experimental music, as you could have met it as the signature of some articles on well-known Vital magazine or less recently on EARLabs.org, a label he made that turned into a proper webzine and one of …
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Next Saturday, in Bilbao, @c (Pedro Tudela & Miguel Carvalhais) will perform at La Escucha Errante, an event organized by the KLEM Laboratory of Electronic Music (Bilbao) and the UPV/EHU University of Basque Country. The evening at Espacio ZAWP – hACERIA will be one of a long series of performances and installations spreading from December …
Alsof je het galmende instrument van een trap laat kukelen. Alsof je de naakte klank daarvan buitelend kwinkelerend met een onvast vibrato componeert – trede voor trede – alsof de gamelan met een bruuske schop de hemelen uitgeknikkerd wordt. Alsof een bewust onscherpe foto daarvan liefdevol realistisch geschilderd is op doek door een pietje precies… …
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Modulation was op het vorige Le Guess Who?-festival misschien wel de leukste plek. De gekke, kuilachtige zaal maakte het mogelijk om van bovenaf op de tafels met apparatuur te kijken. Daarop: spaghetti aan kabels, effectapparaten en vooral: modulaire synthesizers. De oase van rust ter plaatse werd geruggensteund door tactiele klanken, analoge texturen en de fascinatie …
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It’s that wonderful time of the year once again, when we gather and celebrate the winter with an evening of live performances at Passos Manuel in Porto. This year, the program of Natal dos Experimentais will feature five performances and DJs, as well as the usual freebies. In the main stage we’ll have performances by …
Ob so etwas im Berliner Schloss auch noch möglich sein wird? Der litauische Klangkünstler Arturas BumÅ¡teinas hat für sein Album „Gamelan Descending a Staircase“ im Jahr 2013 die Archive des Ethnologischen Museums Dahlem nutzen dürfen, um auf Perkussionsinstrumenten des traditionellen indonesischen Gamelan-Orchesters das Material für sein Titelstück, eine fünfzigminütige Großkomposition, einzuspielen. Als Inspiration diente ihm …
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Gamelan Descending a Staircase by Arturas Bumšteinas
Besides performing at this year’s Natal dos Experimentais, Christian Faubel will also present a lecture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. In this Faubel will present an overview of his work, including robotic installations, participatory workshops and live performances. Central to his work is the use of robots as philosophical …
Christian Faubel is an interdisciplinary researcher and artist. He is currently working at the laboratory for experimental computer science within the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering and has completed research on autonomous systems at the Institute for Neural Computation from 2002-2012. In 2002 he founded derstrudel a collective …
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Hugo Paquete (b 1979) Intermedia and sound artist, which in his research uses concepts about space, noise, error, glitch and micro-tonality as a visual and audible ecosystem according to spatial and Post-digital conditions. In his works he uses technical elements and practices from the field recording to computer generated sound synthesizing and audio spacialization. Denoting …
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