Friday - 17th july - K77 - Salon Bruit

start - 22.00
This Friday we host two excellent acts.

Odeya Nini is a New York based composer/ improviser/ chanteuse. Her music is characterised by skillful experimentation, integrating improvisation, acoustic composition and electroacoustic sounds in x-ra/ray-ted works of both intentional and indeterminate quality. She will be joined by her voice, her mind, looper, ipod and some friendly plastic, metal and light blinking toys.

www.myspace.com/odeyanini

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James Edmonds originates as a painter who works closely with photographs and processes that describe a kind of mediated human consciousness. A residue of the real world is flattened by the recording medium to produce a mysterious other reality/material existence. Through exploring sound recording and improvisation, his work has formed a coexisting musical language which reveals a similar atmosphere and resonance to these images. Recordings become part of an ongoing archive of an imaginary world. Personal memory is ingrained in the abstract language of sounds and fragile traces of melodies. This ongoing journey through images, sounds, practices and archives, suggests a constantly shifting film-like perspective that is channelled into performances, exhibitions and daily life alike.

www.myspace.com/jamesedmonds


So thats this friday at k77 - Salon Bruit. Special guest dj Please God will entertain with some satanic sounds in the front bar. Hope to see you there. Kastanienallee 77, Berlin-Mitte
U2 Eberswalderstrasse or Rosenthaler Platz, Tram Schwedterstrasse

Friday 26th June at ACUD in the Kantina

This coming Friday in ACUD we'll be using the front bar, upstairs in the Kantina. This time it's not a drill, it's definitely going to happen there, unlike last time, when it didn't. Hopefully you can find out where we end up playing and see the two performances we have for you, which are:


Matthew Meade, is a composer, improviser and Sound Artist living in New York City. He works mostly with live improvisation, sound sculptures and most recently Dance. The focus of this music is to spontaneously compose electronic pieces with musical sensibilities, using LapTop (MSP) and Dobro. He has been described as anti-phonic as well as a rejection of minimalism... No drones, Minimal abstracted Repetition, and a musical arch are the main elements of this work.


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BLIN, consisting of Luca Marini and Jasper Stadhouders, is an exciting band consisting of big sound spectrum layers, concrete rhythmical noise, sweet and surprising songs and a constant sparkling energy drive. All music is improvised and during the years that Jasper and Luca have been playing together, they developed a strong common language disregarding any styles and genres. Exploring the sound possibilities and the limits of the instruments is a constant challenge and including toys, various objects and found stuff to their sets enhances the impressive dynamic range that BLIN has to offer.


Friday 26.06.09 at 22.00 in ACUD Upstairs at the kantina (not K77) - Veteranenstraße 21, Mitte -- U Bahn - RosenthalerPlatz

iD festival, Gorzow, Poland

*iD – a collaborative project examining the creation and expression of artistic identity*

here some photos and here some more

iD is an international site-specific project taking place in Gorzow, Poland, from 5-12th June 2009. Organised by Cork-based artist Bartek Nowak with SKART (Cork), Salon Bruit (Berlin), and Association Strefa Sztuki (Gorzow), and hosted by the Municipal Centre of Art (MOS) Gorzow. The project will bring together over 20 artists from Ireland, England, Germany, Poland, U.S., Switzerland, Netherlands, France and Japan for a week-long series of exhibitions, events, talks, and presentations addressing the issue of artistic identity.

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Project ‘iD’ is the effect of conversations held between artists during ArtTrail ’08 in Cork. ‘iD’ is an attempt to outline artist’s identity and how it’s connected with their place of work? We are moving to learn, live, experience, fulfil. Some participants live abroad or often meet people from other countries. Multiculturalism is common. What factors influence artist’s practice like geography, social surround, economics, culture, history, politics, climate, etc.

Participating artists and groups include: Agata Janicka, Agnieszka Kowalska, Agnieszka Krupienczyk, Andrzej Janczewski, Bartosz Nowak, Beata Stanek, Daniel Adamski, Daniel Weiss, Dawid Szafranski, Dr. Nexus, Ewa Bone, Ewa Wawrow, Farah Hatam, fastandhot, Froggy Burger, Graeme Walker, Hubert Winnik, Jo FRGMNT Grys, Kevin Tuohy, Krzysztof Matuszak, Krzysztof Zimmermann, Le Code and guests, Les Enfants Bendible, Mateusz Puchaiski, Michel Rajchemba, MISIETUPODOBA, Pawel Zimmermann, Peggy Sylopp (generative.org), Sara Buame, Petite Musique Apocaliptyque, Schmacke, Seamus O’Donnell (LifeLoop), Sharon McCarthy, Slawomir Kusnierz, Stephanie Hough, Takahiro Suzuki, Tomasz Kalitko, Tomasz Madajczak, Zie Nietoperze

The formation and development of artistic identity is a very complex and never-ending process, influenced both consciously and sub-consciously by a wide range of factors including social, economic, and political context; climate, family, media; deliberate choices and concidences such as location, nationality, religion. The main exhibition venue for the project in Gorzow is a former orphanage, and though not deliberately selected we feel it is a particularly relevant building in which to explore the creation and expression of individual and collective artistic identity.

This project is, hopefuly, the first in a series of collaborations and exhanges between Berlin, Cork and Gorzow to be organised by this group.

full details eventually at http://www.terminal08.org/

Salon Bruit’s participation looks something like this

live friday:
fastandhot – http://www.myspace.com/fasthot
Froggy Burger – http://froggyburger.awardspace.com/index.php?page=music
schmacke – http://www.facebook.com/inbox/readmessage.php?t=1010556880037
generative.org – http://www.generative.org
le code and guests – http://keyframed.org/PDF/Le_Code_2009_eng_light.pdf
les enfants bendible – http://www.kasparkoenig.com/

live tuesday:
lifeloop – http://lifeloop.org/
frgmnt – http://tob.de.vu/
Farah Hatam – http://www.myspace.com/schriftfisch
les enfants bendible – http://www.kasparkoenig.com/
petite musique apocaliptyque - http://www.myspace.com/petitemusiqueapocaliptyque

installations:
dr. nexus – http://www.myspace.com/drnexus
generative.org – http://www.generative.org
frgmnt – http://www.tob.de.vu
lifeloop – http://www.lifeloop.org
daniel weiss – http://www.freeside.eu/danielweiss/

presentations/workshops:
farah hatam – presentation of the project NK – http://www.myspace.com/enka52
frgmnt – workshop (Breaking the law of electronics) – http://www.tob.de.vu
nexus presentation of “noize machine tour truckers” project – http://www.myspace.com/noizemachines

Friday 29 May at ACUD (front bar)

This coming Friday we have a night in the front bar of ACUD (that's upstairs at the Kantina, the bar to your left as look on from the street!). We have a trio of performers for you on this evening who have a focus on both concrète and synthesis. So there should be something there for everyone, I should imagine.

The trinity of musical intrigue includes:


Preslav Literary School focuses on creating something new and personal out of found sounds and dull, everyday happenings. A sense of wonder and amazement is conveyed through the sounds, and a sense of otherworldly significance is given to the simplest of actions. Thomas succeeds in making something fragile and exquisite out of tedium and monotony, and that is where the art of Beautiful Was The Time lies. This time truly is beautiful not unlike William Basinski with his Disintegration Loops.


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Dominique Vaccaro is mainly focused on collage in a broad meaning of the term, extending the field of action from the visual to include sound. As a sound artist, he has experimented for years with the various possibilities of magnetic tape mixing short waves, field recordings, voice, guitars and other instruments, objects, feedback and all kind of residual sound. His approach to all of these is emotive, intimate and instinctive, flowings of sonic improvisation alternating frenetic phrases with calm, delicate moments. He has composed music for videos, performances as well a s the theatre.


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Mario de Vega is a sound artist from Mexico City currently living in Berlin. His work includes sound and site-specific projects, sculpture and improvisation with electronic devices. As sound improviser his work is a blend of glitch sampling and drone ambiences with analog electronics, circuit bent devices, modified records and custom software in different combinations. Also as _memo (b side project) his sets are mainly composed of multi-layered mixes of avant-garde classics, free jazz and breakcore with a black sense of humor.



So, the details are: Friday 29.05.09 at 22.00 in ACUD Upstairs at the kantina (not K77) - Veteranenstraße 21, Mitte -- U Bahn - RosenthalerPlatz

Friday May 22nd 2009 in K77

We present you this Friday a very exciting pair of acts coming from U.S.A., Germany and Poland respectively. We are hoping to see you come along down and enjoy this musical festival for the ears which we have. On this evening shall be performing for your listening pleasures the following....



Furtur (USA/D)

Fritz Welch (percussion, voice)
Guido Henneboehl (electronics)

Two men reel out of a cantina and pull nasty little 25 automatics from inside belt holsters and empty them into each other at a distance of four feet. Smoke flashes light the sneering macho faces, suddenly gray with the realization of death. They lurch and stagger, eyes wild like panicked horses. Pistols fall from nerveless fingers. One is slumped on the curb spitting blood. The other is kicking the soles of his boots out against a wall.


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Kurort (Poland)

Improv Del Mar for out-of-season beaches & bitches

Pawel Bukowski - acoustic & bass guitars
Patryk Lichota - saxophone with preparations
Piotr Tkacz - objects

Kurort is a polish trio which plays freely improvised music evoking dolce far niente atmosphere. Our playing is inspired (among other things) by riding a bike in a forest, swimming in a lake, sun-bathing, color of fresh strawberries, smell of the sea, feeling the sand under feet, sound of the wind in the morning.

After the performance there will be a possibility to do a barter exchange - give us something from you and we will give you some cds with our sounds.



So that's, this Friday 22/05/09 at 22.00 in Kastanienallee 77, Berlin-Mitte
U2 Eberswalderstrasse or Rosenthaler Platz, Tram Schwedterstrasse

Friday the 24th in Acud

This Friday the 24th of April we will be trying out the events space above the Kantina in the front house of Acud at 22.00
Veteranenstraße 21, Mitte -- U Bahn - RosenthalerPlatz


Lining it up will be ...

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LiFeLooP
http://lifeloop.org/

Although Arran Handully is the most popular lifeloop actress on the planet Capitol she is sick of acting and wants to retire. Her manager tells her of an idea that for one last lifeloop that will make her rich enough to quit. She suggests that Arran do a nonstop loop from the time she wakes up from suspended animation to the time she goes back to sleep using the fictional drug Somec twenty-one days later. Arran reluctantly agrees to this because she really wants to quit. On the last day of filming a famous lifeloop actor named Hamilton Ferlock comes to her apartment. Shortly after arriving he breaks character, tells her that he loves her and asks her to marry him. She assumes that he is just doing this to play a trick on her and rejects him very coldly before going to the Sleeproom to be put under Somec. When she wakes up she finds out that Hamilton committed suicide a week after she went to sleep. She also discovers that she really cared for him.

Return to Sender (LiFeLooP)
Three or four radio receivers and four mini-FM transmitters, each transmitting on a different frequency what it is being fed or what it picks up from the near field chaos surrounding it. The transmission between the devices is affected by what frequency the receivers are tuned to, the immediate electro-magnetic field, human presence and furniture. The signal is not a sound loop travelling in the area of intervention, but a spontaneous event, resulting from collective action in perpetual movement.

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Revolver
http://www.myspace.com/revolverduo

Kim Johannesen and Fredrik Kirkevold have played together in different constellations for several years, and have, after a lot of practising and searching, found a musical world of their own with a high level of communication. Musically, the duo is in constant change. The duo is a breathing space for both musicians, where they can play with their highest personal expressions, and develop new expressions through improvisation. The music is very dynamic and varies from total silence to total noise.

REVOLVER! was in 2008 chosen out of 51 Norwegian bands to participate in JazzIntro, Young Norwegian Jazztalents of the year, where they made it to the finals at Molde Int. Jazzfestival as the only band playing totally improvised music. Furthermore the duo has played at MaiJazz in Stavanger and toured Scandinavia and England, where they amongst others played at the well known jazz- and improv-venue The Vortex in London. They have also collaborated with the great Norwegian freejazz saxophonist Frode Gjerstad.

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ObliQ
http://www.myspace.com/obliqtrio

Pierre Borel - as
Clayton Thomas - b
Hannes Lingens - dr

OBLIQ richtet die Aufmerksamkeit auf feine Nuancen, scheinbar nebensächlichen Details, die unter mikroskopischer Betrachtung lebendig werden.

Pierre Borel wurde 1987 in Paris geboren. Er beginnt mit 7 Jahren Saxophon zu spielen und studiert Klassik und Jazz im CNR de Paris und dann im CNSM de Paris (conservatoire national superieur de musique), wo er Unterricht in Arrangement, Komposition und Improvisation bekommt. 2006 zieht er nach Berlin, studiert im J.I.B und interressiert sich immer mehr für improvisierte Musik. Er spielt im Trio "Luc Tonnerre", im Sextett vom Bassisten Andreas Waelti "Transit room" und gründete sein eigenes Septett, das "Pierre Borel Septett".

Clayton Thomas is a double bassist and grass roots organiser working in the broad spectrum of improvised and experimental music. He is Australian, but lives in Berlin. I'm trying to work out a physical activity equally engaged in electronic and acoustic music aesthetics, while maintaining the kind of transitional and transformative energy of the music that changed my life. I draw inspiration from creative music of all eras, happily learning from and engaging with improvisers, sound artists, composers and thinkers alive and kicking in the 21st century. I have been inspired and pushed by many great musicians, but would especially thank my first teachers Wilber Morris and Peter Kowald, and Jon Rose, Jim Denley, Andrew Meisel, Cooper-Moore, Tony Buck and Hollis Taylor for doing some real work on the topic.

Hannes Lingens (*1980 in Hamburg) studierte Schlagzeug bei Michael Griener und Günter "Baby" Sommer. Ausserdem spielt Hannes Lingens chromatisches Knopfakkordeon und veröffentlichte 2004 die Soloakkordeon CD „Hands up“ mit ausschliesslich eigenen Kompositionen. Er bewegt sich mit beiden Instrumenten im Spannungsfeld zwischen neuem Jazz und improvisierter Musik. Dieses Interesse führte ihn nach Berlin, wo er seit Sommer 2006 lebt. Er spielt u.a. mit den Bands Schulbus, Cassis, Obliq und arbeitete mit Künstlern wie Christof Kurzmann, Matthias Schubert und Ken Vandermark zusammen.

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Finishing you all off will be JD Random with a pocket full of posies for the inner ears residing in the background.

Friday 17th April @ K77

This Friday 17th April Salon Bruit has a short (but sweet) bill to entertain you. It consists of ...



KRISTUS KUT (Netherlands)

With elements form voodoo rituals, porn movies and lots and lots of low noises most of them created life. LSB was called a mad voodoo priest, a sex magician, this resulted in a full length on SkullLine called Music For Sex rituals. Split cdrs were made with Norss, Disciplina Urbana, Zieltogend, Al Qaeda, Gaad, Mystified, Mixturizer (for the series Harsh Music for Hot Nurses), Phalanx feat the White Rabbit, Frbz, Wolfsduister on various labels all around the world.

Also Kristus Kut made some very famous netreleases, Dadaistic Dances of Sorrow on Fronha records Brasil (broadcasted on NTNS RADIO), For the Love of the Black Queen (broadcasted on Aural Apocalypse LA-USA) and Kiss of the Black Queen on Okkulth records (Netherlands). And the split with Gaad and Phalanx on Abandonment records (Bulgaria)

in 2009 Kristus Kut is signed by Quartier23 an label specialized in ritual music and books. The first release will be Kiss of The Black Queen. First an netrelease on the Okkulth netlabel, but will now be released as an deluxe cdr. the track -take me-i'm yours- has already been played on Aural Apocalypse. The performance at the K77 in Berlin on april 17th will be the presentation of this release.

All recordings on the cdrs were done in a live setting! No overdubs! Kristus Kut believes in capturing the moment. The present at that time. A ritual is not a ritual if it is done with extra adding. It was there. It is there!

But - Kristus Kut is a project to be seen live. It is full of energy. Controlled energy exploding energy. Burning candles. Mystic projections. Rage lust anger.. it is all there. With vocals, (sex)loops, bass drumming, and other onorthodox instruments.

It is an experience you will never forget.



Friday 17.04.09 at 22.00 in Kastanienallee 77, Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg/Mitte
U2 Eberswalderstrasse or Rosenthaler Platz, Tram Schwedterstrasse