Angela Anzi + Lea Kissing + Till Richter: Cutting Spirals
"Cutting Spirals" is a resounding collage of machine sounds. Composition: Angela Anzi, research with: Lea Kissing and Till Richter, Recording: Florian Bräunlich
Angela Anzi explores the agency of sound in her artistic practice through sculptural and performative arrangements. Lea Kissing creates transcending spaces with her stage designs. Till Richter investigates how interdisciplinary modes of production, technologies and social spaces intertwine conceptually and in terms of craftsmanship.
Mobile Radio: City of Drizzle
In 2012 Sarah & Knut spent 100 days in the pavilion that housed the 30th São Paulo biennial, making 24/7 radio like Duracell rabbits. "City of Drizzle" was the final production made for ORF Kunstradio, fusing together memorable live moments such as the garbled outbursts of painter José Barreto, the husky voice of educator Carolina Melo, a trio performance with Japanese travel addict Haco and Børre Mølstad's tuba, playing scales for the masses with cutting edge reverb by Oscar Niemeyer.
Matthew Partridge + Carsten Dane + Tobias Levin: "Westwerk Slot Machine – Musical Profits"
A fleeting hour with an acoustic potpourri of scraps of good taste, broken promises, uncut gems, clues, chimeras, musical soupçons and resonant space, assembled and ludically blended by Carsten Dane, Tobias Levin and Matthew Partridge. Westwerk is a home, generator and venue for art and music propelled by inspired make-shifters whose art of improvisation can, should and will stimulate others during this currently unpropitious climate. We dish up artful flukes with slices of serendipity, mixed with a pinch of sound, noise, babel and pandemonium, simmered at operating temperature. Simply sheer delight. Available here for you as soon as this period is over. And something previously unheard of in Germany: staying either rational or irrational is not the point – be both at once.
Tobias Levin: musician and sound engineer. Produces music in Studio Electric Avenue.
Carsten Dane: musician, stages books, translates, runs a voice-recording studio. Co-founder of Westwerk.
Matthew Partridge: musician, photographer, translator, wanderer between different media, occasionally gets to the point. Co-founder of Westwerk.
All three organize concerts and music events in Westwerk. In Hamburg.
Contact: slotmachine@westwerk.org
Johnny Haway + Kim Laugs: WOW! FLUTTER
An hour long dive in the DIY cassette culture of Brussels, sometimes even crossing its border, to discover some shiny pearls on the muddy bottom, grabbed by mechanical octopi tentacles and bitten by harsh noisy teeth on the way back up.
Jonathan and Kim are 2 cultural entrepreneurs that emigrated to the European capital chaos some years ago to nestle in that vibrant scene like pigs in the glitter mud by organizing events, residencies and radio emissions. Oh, and a tape label (IKI GAGA).
Delicacies from the depths of Herrengrabenfleet
Aksak Maboul: Scrapbook
Wandering across Aksak Maboul’s broad stylistic gamut (avantpop to electronica to jazz to poetry to soundscaping), and weaving together a series of found objects, this mix contains fragments of work-in-progress, experiments, old & new demos, field recordings, as well as copious excerpts from one of the only two live performances - so far - of music from the “Figures” album, which took place in the autumn of 2020, between lockdowns. The program closes with the most recent AM release, a self-remix. Featuring performances by Véronique Vincent (voice) and Marc Hollander (keys, woodwind, electronics, collage, mix), as well as Lucien Fraipont (guitar, synth), Faustine Hollander (keys, bass, vocals), Erik Heestermans (drums, vocals), Bob Hermans (live sound), Aquaserge’s Julien Gasc (synth, electric piano, voice) & Benjamin Glibert (guitar), Sebastiaan van den Branden (synth) and, on a couple of fragments (excerpts from live recordings from 1978), Vincent Kenis, Chris Joris, Frank Wuyts & Denis van Hecke.
Playfully mixing and deconstructing various genres to create its own sonic world, the seminal band hasn’t stopped changing shape and form throughout its existence, which started in 1977 (the only permanent member being its initiator, Crammed Discs boss Marc Hollander). Aksak Maboul now revolves around Hollander & Véronique Vincent. After a gap of several decades, they’ve written & recorded a brand-new double LP, 'Figures', which was enthusiastically received when it came out in May 2020. A series of remixes is currently in the making, and Aksak Maboul are working on a new album scheduled for 2022.
ALKU: Anna Irina Russell
Anna Irina Russell in conversation with Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
Live broadcasted from the exhibition "Something will happen" at Westwerk.
Anna Irina Russell (Barcelona, 1993)
Anna Irina’s artistic practice is based on the notion of game as a tool to
investigate codes and forms of communication and interaction.Through the disconcerting and
the unusual, she aims to decipher established social constructions by articulating structures or
actions, whose activation envisions the public playing an essential role.
Anna Irina is one of the long-term resident artists at Hangar and part of the Ràdio Web Macba
Working Group. She has recently done a solo exhibition at Bombon Projects gallery (Barcelona)
within the Art Nou 2020 framework. She has also shown her work at the exhibition
FEMINISMES! in CCCB (Barcelona), at Osmosi in Cityart (Milan) and Fundació Suñol
(Barcelona). She has participated in various artistic residencies such as GYCF 2019 in Jeju
(South Korea), BCN> TNS> ALG from Jiser (Barcelona), Reitir (Iceland) and Sketch'm Up
(Marseille).
ALKU: Albert Tarrats
Albert Tarrats introducing A FOLDABLE PINYAO, his foldable circuits for Something Will Happen
Albert Tarrats’ (Barcelona, 1988) work revolves around sound and mowgli-electronics, mostly
through improvisation ensembles, construction of sound objects and devices and exploration of
alternate formats of listening and relating to space. Albert Tarrats is part of the Ràdio Web
Macba Working Group.
ALKU: EVOL live
LIVE from the Papiripar Radio Station at Westwerk.
EVOL / Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros (Barcelona, 1975) is an artist. He is part of the computer music group
EVOL together with Scottish artist Stephen Sharp. Roc’s work explores processes of
deformation, both literally and metaphorically, in graphical pieces, light installations, essays and,
especially, music. His recordings have been released by labels such as Diagonal, Editions
Mego, Presto!? or iDEAL amongst others. His music, both solo and with Sharp, is based on a
drastically reductionist approach to musical palette, focusing on very few sound objects at a
time. An assemblage of flexing, flexible bass lines and asymmetric beats which makes use of
analogies about bending and twisting to stretch some of his favourite cultural icons, from
hardstyle arpeggios to 80s house music –– he calls it Acid Mereotopology.
ALKU: Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros unfolding folds: “Let’s call this song exactly what it is”
Why do we fold things? Folding is one of the simplest methods of transforming things around
us. Think of a simple sheet of paper. By folding it, you can divide it into new segments, alter its
rigidity, change its volume, modify the information contained in it. Folding implies mutation, but
not just at a physical level. The latin flectere , from which it derives, points at a more
metaphorical bending, curving, bowing. Every time we imagine the impossible, we bend, curve
and bow that which we know to be possible. Every time we modify our notion of reality, we
perform a folding operation on it.
Something will happen is a small collection of pieces and micro-events related to folding. From
pliable materials used as warped screens, to folding electronic circuits, short films, corrugated
light beams and fortune cookies.
Reni Hofmüller
Artist, activist, and director of the esc media art lab in Graz, Reni Hofmüller’s artistic practice
has spanned over many decades, moving between the mundane and the structural. Her
work focuses on technology and new media, and their influence on our everyday lives, but
she also questions infrastructures and sophisticated systems – from water treatment to the
internet – that affect entire communities. Her practice and activism, often embodied
collectively, have led her to experiment with assembling antennas and nanosatellites, to
explore phytoextraction, and to find out what buildings sound like. In this occasion, we will be
showing and listening to Reni Hofmüller’s “Resonating Sculpture III”, a hand-made antenna,
inspired in the folded antennas she used to use in the 90s for the pirate transmissions of
Radio Dauerwelle in the hills of Graz (Austria).
Anna Ramos (Barcelona, 1973) is the director of the online radio project Radio Web MACBA, based at MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. A radio-beyond-radio that dwells in the folds and intersections of critical thinking, contemporary art, artistic research, activism, knowledge transfer, sound… and everything in between; producing podcasts, texts and essays, on the verge of filecasting. Together with Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, she has curated lecture series, concerts and installations at MACBA, Sónar, Espai Cultural Caja Madrid and Cosmocaixa, among others, and she has presented her work internationally. Since 2017, Anna also curates Lorem Ipsum, a concert series held at MACBA and teaches a module on radio and its intersection with artistic practices at the Sound Art Master at the University of Barcelona.
ALKU night programme
23:30 EVOL Battle Trax Mix
01:25 Goodiepal “The Official Mort Aux Vaches Ekstra Extra Walkthrough”
02:47 Judy Dunaway “Globos”
03:20 Gullibloon “MUH”
04:20 Dave Phillips “Agitated unfilled extended geometric figure made of ersatz substance”
04:28 Anna Ramos, Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, bat echolocation calls, Parc de la Ciutadella, Barcelona, 23-09-2011
