DISK / CTM has been invited to contribute to the concert program of ISEA2010 RUHR, the International Symposium on Electronic Art and one of the most important festivals for digital and electronic art.
For the Konzerthaus Dortmund on August 26th, our pick is Mudboy, who will perform a specially composed piece on the organ in collaboration with Petter Schuette. The second concert of the evening will be a solo performance of the exceptional guitarist Fennesz.
Following his fantastic organ-concert in Berlin's French Cathedral during CTM.10, we invited Charlemagne Palestine for a solo concert on the Seifert organ of the St. Maximilian Church in Duisburg-Ruhrort on Saturday August 28th.
And of course we will be also visiting ISEA personally between August 26th and 28th. So if you want to meet-up, don't hesitate to get in touch.
MUDBOY /w PETER SCHUETTE, FENNESZ Date: August 26, 20:30
// Venue: Konzerthaus Dortmund Mudboy, the "doctor of organology" as he calls himself, creates music from all kinds of everyday noises and sounds. Field recordings of croaks and the twitting of birds are as much part of his repertoire as narrative performances and surround sound. The organ offers him further experimental ground. An expanded and modified church organ became his hallmark. Mudboy places emphasis on repetition and turns his audience with elements of noise, drone and psychedelica into a state of trance. In a sense, calling himself a doctor thus relates not only to his musical experiments. In Dortmund he will, together with collaborator Peter Schuette, perform a newly composed piece, which he wrote especially for the organ of the Konzerthaus Dortmund. Mudboy released innumerous albums under as multitudinous labels, including the highly acclaimed This is Folk Music (Last Visible Dog, 2005) and Hungry Ghosts (Not Not Fun/Digitalis 2007). This year he released the album Impossible Duets: Collaborations Across the Void (Hundebiss records), assigning the duet its very special place within electronic music. Peter Schuette is an american keyboardist who plays with a.o. Silk Flowers, Soiled Mattress and the Springs, or USA is a Monster. > www.mudboymusic.com
> www.myspace.com/silkflowersnyc The evening will proceed with Fennesz. The composer who wanders between the worlds of club culture and New Music is known for his compelling musical quality and abstract sound design. His typical reverberating guitar sound is interwoven with expansive electronic sound layers, which creates a very characteristic kind of music. The captivating electronic compositions go far beyond sterile computer arrangements and fascinate even sceptics of experimental electronic music. His long musical pieces are highly dynamic and full of suspense. Fennesz searches for the beauty of noise and dissonant elegance. For the concert at ISEA – like on his recent album Black Sea (Touch Music) – a whole range of instruments will be brought into action: acoustic and electric guitars, synthesizers and other electronic devices, and a computer.
Fennesz releases on Touch Music. After Venice (2004, Touch Music) his latest
record Black Sea was released in 2009. Over time he worked with
Keith Rowe, Sparklehorse, David Sylvian, Ryoichi Sakamoto and many other artists and was a member of the trio Fenn O'Berg with Peter Rehberg and Jim O'Rourke. > www.fennesz.com
CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE // Date: August 28
// Venue: St. Maximilian Church in Duisburg-Ruhrort Charlemagne Palestine creates intense, ritualistic music, which he refers to as 'resonant music', in contrast to the 'minimal music' of his peers, Phillip Glass, Michael Nyman, Terry Riley and Steve Reich. With his piano and organ works, he has developed a highly individual aesthetic centred around layered overtones, and electronic drones, which build and change gradually, gently harmonising. His performances are overtly spiritual in nature. Palestine's pieces consist of stratifications marked by an absence of linear progression by an transcendent timelessness. What we hear seems to be an excerpt from a continuum that may well ring for eternity, an infinitely extended present that makes past and future fade away. > charlemagnepalestine.org
ISEA2010 RUHR 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, visits the borderland of electronic and electro-acoustic music. On three evenings from 23 to
27 August 2010 the Konzerthaus Dortmund will turn into a site of musical
experiments. During ISEA2010 RUHR artists of several generations will present
their recent compositions: Apart from Mudboy and Fennesz, the program presents concerst by the pioneer of electronic music Éliane Radigue, the Japanese avant-gardist Keiichiro Shibuya, and the subtle cellist Hildur Guđnadóttir.
ISEA, International Symposium on Electronic Art, has been held at different cities worldwide since 1988: 2009, the venue was Belfast, 2008 the ISEA was being held in Singapure. Being one of the projects of RUHR.2010 European Capital of Culture, the symposium will be for the first time in Germany this year! Apart from the ISEA2010 RUHR Concerts, a comprehensive conference program with more than one hundred speakers, keynotes, two exhibitions, the E-Culture Fair, performances, club as well as partner events with the Academy for Media Art Cologne, the Folkwang University, Essen, and the Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl form part of ISEA2010 RUHR. > isea2010ruhr.org
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