„Cutting Spirals“ ist eine tönende Collage maschineller Klänge. Komposition: Angela Anzi, Recherche mit: Lea Kissing und Till Richter, Aufzeichnung: Florian Bräunlich
Angela Anzi erforscht in ihrer künstlerischen Praxis mittels skulpturaler und performativer Arrangements die Agency von Klang. Lea Kissing schafft mit ihren Bühnenbildern transzendierende Räume.
Till Richter untersucht, wie interdisziplinäre Produktionsweisen, Technologien und soziale Räume konzeptionell und handwerklich ineinandergreifen.
Mobile Radio: City of Drizzle
2012 verbrachten Sarah & Knut 100 Tage in dem Pavillion der 30. São Paulo Biennale, in einem Delirium des rundumdieuhr Radiomachens. „City of Drizzle” war der abschliessende Moment dieses Sendeauftrags, produziert für ORF Kunstradio, und enthält Live-Momente, die sich ins Gedächtnis gebrannt hatten: die erfundene Sprache des Malers José Barreto, die unnachahmliche Sitmme der Pädagogin Carolina Melo, ein Trio-Auftritt mit der weltreisenden Japanerin Haco, und Børre Mølstad, der die Ausstellungsbesucher morgens mit Tonleitern begrüßte, mit exklusivem Hall aus dem Hause Oscar Niemeyer.
Matthew Partridge+Carsten Dane+Tobias Levin: „Westwerk Slot Machine – Musical Profits”
Eine flüchtige Stunde mit akustischen Zutaten aus Geschmacksproben, Halbsätzen, Fundstücken, Beobachtungen, Gespinsten, musikalischen Souçons und Raumklang, zusammengetragen und auf spielerische Art verbunden von Carsten Dane, Tobias Levin und Matthew Partridge. Westwerk ist ein Kunst- und Musikraum geübter Improvisateur:innen, von denen die gegenwärtig defekte Gunst der Stunde noch lernen kann und muss und wird. Wir bringen künstliche Glücksgriffe und natürlichen Zufall, vermengt mit einer Prise Klang und Krach, auf Betriebstemperatur. Das ist pure Lust. Steht für Euch bei uns bereit, gleich nach Ende dieser Zeit. Und, was wir in Deutschland ja bisher nicht wussten: Weder Vernunft noch Unvernunft dürfen siegen – sondern müssen zusammenhalten.
Tobias Levin: Musiker und Tontechniker. Er produziert im hausinternen Studio Electric Avenue.
Carsten Dane: Musiker, hat Bücher inszeniert und übersetzt und arbeitet neben dem Westwerk im Studio für Sprachaufnahmen. Mitbegründer des Westwerk.
Matthew Partridge: Musiker, Fotograf und Übersetzer. Er wandert zwischen verschiedenen Medien und kommt manchmal auf den Punkt. Er ist Mitgründer des Westwerk.
Alle drei organisieren Konzerte im Westwerk. In Hamburg.
Kontakt: 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).
Delikatessen aus den Untiefen des 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 im Gespräch mit Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
Live aus der Ausstellung "Something will happen" im 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 Konzert
LIVE aus der Papiripar Radio Funkzentrale im 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
