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