From May 20 to 22, in the villages of Oliveira, Macieira, Fujaco e Sul, in S. Pedro do Sul, Portugal.
This festival is organized by Binaural/Nodar and the Associação Aldeias de Magaio and among other events will present @c (Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais), Suzanne Barnard and Pierre Gauvin, showcasing the result of their work at the “Magaio Voicescapes†artistic residences.
The full program can be found at Binaural’s website.
Architecte majeur de la scène electronica des dix dernières années, l’Australien Lawrence English ne cesse de nous passionner, tant et plus, Qu’il aiguise ses lames de patron du label Room40 en hébergeur impliqué des excellent(issime)s DJ Olive, Tim Hecker et Tujiko Noriko, qu’il diffuse ses oeuvres frémissantes au contact des maisons 12K ou Touch, le musicien from Down Under colorie les brumes ambient souvent trop moroses d’une inventivité forçant le respect.
Aujourd’hui abrité dans la magnifique officine portugaise Crónica (Mathias Delplanque, Gintas K, Ran Slavin), le producteur aussie rejoint à distance l’Américain Stephen Vitiello en une collaboration transpacifique absolument splendide. Tout en démarrant sous des auspices familiers aux oreilles, à la condition expresse d’avoir fréquenté Taylor Deupree ou Christian Fennesz,‘Acute Inbetweens’ évolue très progressivement – lisez subtilement – vers une déclinaison amoureuse où la lenteur dévoile ses charmes inattendus. Pièce maîtresse de l’ensemble, le second morceau ‘Soft Plastic Shell’ s’imprègne d’une volupté sereine extrême-orientale, elle n’est toutefois jamais noyée dans des clichés zen pour touristes occidentaux en mal d’exotisme cheap. D’un tout haut niveau, la suite s’inscrit dans les mêmes traces, nous les suivons langue pendue et pavillons grands ouverts. Fabrice Vanoverberg
Nicolas Bernier is presenting a new sound installation called “L’usure du clocher†(Wear of the Belfry) at FIMAV Festival. May 19 to 22 in Victoriaville, Québec, Canada.
nicolas bernier | l’usure du clocher from Nicolas Bernier on Vimeo.
L’usure du clocher (Wear of the Belfry) is a sound installation where an aluminum structure holds horns speakers whose movements are driven by motors. In this sound diffusion structure, the speakers are facing down, strangely evoking church bells, the main sound material used in the audio.
° Music & concept : Nicolas Bernier
° Technical direction/production : Francis Laporte
° Premiere : FIMAV, Victoriaville, 18-22 may, 2011
° Curator : Érick d’Orion
May 14, in a shared bill with Datashock and Black to comm.
More info at bitsteam.de
Tomorrow, May 13th, Mosaique performs at Blurred Edges.
The work that Pedro Tudela will present at EMPTY CUBE in 12 May was especially conceived and developed in two separate occasions for the unique and unrepeatable event of its presentation. Over the last decade, this author’s work has branched out into areas of artistic creation that are akin to the publishing activity, be it in his work as a musician or as phonographic publisher, sculptor and performer, in the sense that his sound installations activate the performativity of the space in which he works: his action becomes the context in which the work takes place.
“Sus-penso-em-pac†is a piece that began while preparing the physical space of EMPTY CUBE for hosting a work by another artist. This allowed Tudela to combine the taxonomy of the exhibition space with its links to the artistic practice, while recontextualising the whole memory of the work demanded by this exhibitive and curatorial project to present that memory as a compacted correlate, a retrospective glance that is a recurring and updated factor in each moment of this project.
Created in 2007, EMPTY CUBE is an independent non-commercial project. It has as its objective the presentation of visual arts projects that respond to a specifically closed, empty and reduced space over the course of an evening.
The spatio-temporal dimension of this project is crucial in that it not only conditions the artist’s production, but the articulation between the work of art, its presence in space and its relationship to the viewer, who sees the work during the course of a one-time only, evening presentation of four to five hours. EMPTY CUBE may eventually be held in other sites or locations deemed of interest to its continuity.
Following our nomadic profession, as of March 2009, Empty Cube will be located within Appleton Square contemporary art gallery – Rua Acácio Paiva, 27 R/c, 1700-004, Lisbon, Portugal.
Next Tuesday, May 10, @c and André Rangel will present the audiovisual performance “OAV†at Ar.Co in Lisboa. This presentation is part of a series of performances curated by Granular and will include a short talk by the artists.
May 10, 21h30. Ar.Co — Rua de Santiago 18, Lisboa. Free entrance.
Die Zusammenarbeit der beiden Klangkünstler English und Vitiello bewegt sich irgendwo zwischen bearbeiteten Fieldrecordings und elektronisch erzeugten Klängen. Ihre Musik ist sehr harmonisch, entspannt und ruhig, trotzdem wäre es schade, sie einfach nur nebenbei zu hören. Atmosphärisch, ambient und eingängig sind die Klänge, trotzdem wird “Acute Inbetweens” nicht langweilig oder belanglos, funktioniert auch beim konzentrierten Zuhören gut und bleibt über die komplette CD-Länge spannend. asb
