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Beats&Bytes pt.III
let the sound become flesh
Sonic performances, visual assault & turntable culture
Sounds from the outermost edge of the organless body of the music and the view into the voidMusical Acts Ji Won
There is a sound. People’s emotions are compressed into that sound.
I collect adjectives.
I collect other emotions.
I mix those emotions together.
Did those emotions disappear?
Are the emotions hiding within the mixture of adjectives?
Musical Acts
Horace
noise never sleeps
A Sound & Visuals Performance
In the visual-auditory blend of video works, no preference is granted to the picture. The image is not played out before the acoustic background. The work’s tonal dimensions expand the visual information and, conversely, the graphic components endow the tonal traces with depth. The fragile pulsing of the living creature is perhaps the determinative figure in the acoustic impression made by the works. And these continually endangered life-movements lie protected in a bed of sound that is in turn extremely vulnerable.
Aka Tell
filtered leaf
Aka Tell is one of the people behind the temp~records label (http://www.temp-records.net/) and the Backlab artists collective (http://www.backlab.at/). His live set works with a highly reduced variation of house music studded with pieces of experimental electronic scenery. Within the framework of the program, he will also act as DJ accompanied by MC Wan.
The Bitles
They come, they do, they leave without cleaning up. Expect the unexpected, nobody knows what’s going to happen. A mecha-electronic mélange.
Parov Stelar
The freedom of jazz with the groove of house and nujazz is the stylistic listing of Parov Stelar and his personal label, Etage Noir Recordings. Fanciful experiments with sounds from bygone days that lodge a claim to functionality addressed to both club audiences and listeners chilling at home.
http://www.etagenoir.com
Cherry Sunkist
age delay (nuit)
Cherry Sunkist, former rock singer/guitarist and a part of the Linz artists collective a.s.a.p, will make her electronic debut tonight on the Stadtwerkstadt stage. For the performance entitled age delay (nuit) she playfully processes electro, vocals and video projections into a skin-osmosing, hydrating mixture that protects cellular nuclei from the effects of harmful environmental influences.
http://www.asap-lab.org
http://www.karinfisslthaler.co.nr
Katharina Blei
Golden
Inefficient electronics from multicolored plastic instruments, an old mixing console (feedback loop modulation), keyboards, walkmen, contact mikes, clarina, dulcimer, bass ... Music-making locations to date have included the Graz sewer system, the stairwell of the building at Brockmanngasse 93 in Graz and, occasionally, live on Radio Helsinki (free radio in Graz).
http://ekw1490.mur.at
Washer
this noise is a language
Washer worked together with Zimmer & the Guitar People on the recently released ambient album eat your friends but is also pursuing other directions as a solo act. Numerous coarsely modulated samples stack up to variation-rich beat-and-rhythm structures and blend together into a sort of absurd techno.
http://www.keplar.de
Stefan Siebenschlaf
Escapist Consequences of Multi-Year Walkman Use
… Another time, it starts with the confusion produced by the crackling of the protective wrapper of a pouch of tobacco. To ease the tension, a cool beer is opened. In search of a glass, a dusty old xylophone appears. Beneath it lies a golden harmonica—magnificent. The telephone rings yet again—one of the world’s last non-cell phones is making its last stand here. From the street below, the droning of motors. Enough already. Retreat. At this point, the processing of the individual impressions begins. The landscapes of the acoustic events are microscopically examined and reconnoitered. Playing with the fragments; color and form allow for variation; it’s fun …
Joko13
The live performances of netaudio artist Joko13 represent a well selected blend of crackles, sampled snippets, glitch, moving groove patterns and a de-constructive approach when it comes to translating artistic vision into musical performance. The specific sound aesthetic is based on the use of digital artifacts, whereas tight and repetitive beat structures supply the necessary framework.
http://www.comatronic.net
DJ Elwood
DJ Elwood is one of the founding fathers of the Linz DJ and free party scene, where, together with FLAVOUR FORCE, URAN-C and KPSS (KAPU PIRATEN SOUND SYSTEM), he celebrates unpredictable and unclassifiable sounds.
Revolver Dogz
invasion of creatures
Rap-Vocals / Electronic Sounds / Visuals by Doris Prlic
People used to believe that ghosts rule our world. This is a rumor spread by the riot katz & the revolver dogz. At night, there are no ghosts and gods but katz & dogz who celebrate the delusions of human beings.
http://www.feedbackanddisaster.net
beans
presents to you his new Style Bento Mix, aromatically underpinned with broken—and occasionally intact—beats. Ripened in sunny Urfahr, it will hopefully be ready for harvest in September to nourish your dance-hungry bodies with music. Beans—with each piece of fruit, a musical toot.VISUALS VJs Marcin Gajewski
looped dailyness / linz romantics
The semi-romantic video loops made by Marcin Gajewski could actually have been shot anywhere in the wide world. They show in a subtle way some of the modern aea systhetics of everyday life. These loops will be shown and synchronized to Joko13’s musical performance.
http://www.marcingajewski.com
Wolfgang Hauer
Curiousity Show
At last, we’re permitted to lose ourselves in details today. It’s OK to take the ballpoint pen apart and play with the ink tube and the spring. Yes, you’re allowed to admire the solutions with respect to functionality and aesthetics you discover thereby. Now, if you could only get the thing back together again.
Karo Szmit
Portrayed (image) search in the Internet, strolling in the form of an associatively steered keyword entry, implied possibility of interactive participation. The view into the void, intimated by a minimum of perspective and detail.
GRABEN 12
The Graben 12 video collective plays with visual modules—arranges, synchronizes/dubs them, and rocks them against one another—associative graphic building blocks in modular variations.video installation Marcin Gajewski
linz romantics
Marcin Gajewski shows the spectator Linz in all its beauty and glory before, during and after the festival. (finalcut, max-msp-nato, possibly a computer and sensor)
beats&bytes is a project of the Sound Lab (Fadi Dorninger) at the Institute for Graphic Arts – Experimental Design (Linz University of Art)
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