on FRIDAY 17 APRIL 2015
bar opens 21:00 / show starts 22:00
UCHIHASHI KAZUHISA SOLO
VOUTCHKOVA / THIEKE DUO
photo: Lora Vasileva
Biliana Voutchkova - violin/voice
Michael Thieke - clarinet
This duo has worked intensively since 2011 and developed a strong interest in exploring reduction and micro elements that increase the sensitivity of perception for themselves as well as their audiences. The music focuses on microtonality and intimate, slow moving soundscapes. As an active performer-composers the two musicians are intrigued by real time composition and improvisation, as well as by contemporary composition. The duo has performed in Italy, Austria, Bulgaria, Serbia, Czech Republic and Germany, and has released their first album "Already there" on the Swiss label Flexion Records.
flexionrecords.net
Duet Biliana Voutchkova & Michael Thieke from Carlos Bustamante on Vimeo.
ARTIST INFO
UCHIHASHI KAZUHISA
electric guitar & daxophone player + composer for film, dance, theatre
since 1983 - started to play improvised music with hundreds of musicians
in 1989 - organised the band "ALTERED STATES"
since 1990 - played in many festival in Europe - solo + with Altered States & Ground Zero
in 1995 - started workshop for young improvisers
in 1996 - started annual international music festivel "Beyond Innocence"
in 1998 - started to play daxophone as his main instrument as guitar
in 2002 - started to organize alternative club "BRIDGE" in Osaka
in 2005 - started to live in vienna
in 2006 - started multi speaker project
in 2013 - started to live in Berlin
innocentrecord.com
MICHAEL THIEKE
The Berlin-based clarinetist/composer/performer Michael Thieke is equally at home across a broad range of musical environments, such as experimental song forms, collectively composing projects, improvising collectives, and music on the fringes of jazz. He is exploring the minutiae of sound, timbre and noise, with a particular interest in microtonality and related sound phenomena, and with a preference for long-term collaborations and collective work. Concert tours took him all around Europe and also to China, Canada, Lebanon, Japan and the USA. His work has been documented on over 40 releases on such labels as Staubgold, Ftarri, Leo records, Erstwhile and Another timbre. Some of his current projects are: The International Nothing, The Magic I.D., The Pitch, Splitter Orchester, Hotelgäste and Der Lange Schatten, as well as duos with Biliana Voutchkova and Olivier Toulemonde.
michael-thieke.de
BILIANA VOUTCHKOVA
Biliana Voutchkova studied classical violin, in her college years she develops a strong interest in contemporary composed and improvised music. Since then she is active in both fields as a performer/composer, her work spans a wide possible range of music and sound. Biliana is a Berlin based soloist and ensemble musician with very strong individual voice involved in many different collaborations with artist such as Matthias Bauer, Audrey Chen, Frances-Marie Uitti, Hans Peter Kuhn, Michael Thieke, Ute Wassermann, Axel Dörner, as well as the Berlin based Splitter Orchestra, Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, Ensemble Modern and Mozaik, KNM, Sasha Waltz & Guests and others. In recent years Biliana started working intensively with dancers and expanded her interest into real time composition of sound and movement, co-founded her group Grapeshade and developed the idea of OSM - open sound & movement collective with partner Louise Wagner leading into curating their own series at Radial System V and HZT Ufer studios Berlin.
bilianavoutchkova.net
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***COMING UP IN AMSTERDAM ***
AUXXX night with Kang, Microseq & Enka
@ OT301 - Overtoom 301 - 1054 HW - AMSTERDAM
on THURSDAY 23 APRIL
show starts 21:00
KANG - heavy, empowered, detailed noisy environment using a variety of media including handmade analog devices, acoustic instruments and computer
MICROSEQ - electrifying electronic music and visuals - "rush hour traffic inside electric wires”
ENKA - electronic textures and soundscapes evolving into an emotional sonic experience
this evening is supported by the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts
amsterdamsfondsvoordekunst.nl
ARTIST INFO
KANG
KANG (aka Ji Youn Kang, Seoul, Korea) is a composer and sound artist based in The Hague. Her act leaves nothing to be desired on the need of the mental void by offering a heavy, empowered, yet detailed noisy environment using a variety of media including handmade analog devices, acoustic instruments, and computer.
jiyounkang.com
MICROSEQ
Microseq creates electronic art music, combining elements of electroacoustic composition, sound design and pop music. He uses a complex network of algorithms and digital signal processors to manipulate, deconstruct and decompose sounds, creating an immersive sonic world described as “…rush hour traffic inside electric wires”. His debut album "Green" was released by Bigo & Twigetti label (London, UK) in September 2011 and re-released, by Linn Records in hi-resolution for the audiophile. A new full-length album is scheduled to be released this Spring under the title “False awakenings”.
microseq.info
Enka is an electronic sound artist based in Amsterdam. His work is a blend of electronic textures and soundscapes evolving into an emotional sonic experience, engaging the audience into experiencing a different perspective of electronic music. ENKA is active as a DJ, producer, sound designer and composer for contemporary dance and film.
soundcloud.com/enka
ot301.nl/auxxxx
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*** MORE IN APRIL ***
TWO SHOWS @ ACKERSTADT PALAST - Ackerstr.169/170 10115 BERLIN Mitte
reihe ACKER DEUX MI und AUXXX präsentieren:
AUXXX OUT
on WEDNESDAY 29 + THURSDAY 30 APRIL 2015
SHELLEY HIRSCH - voice
UCHIHASHI KAZUHISA - guitar, daxophone
AXEL DÖRNER - trumpet
RICHARD SCOTT - modular synthesizer
MICHAEL VORFELD - percussion
MANUELLA LUCIA TESSI - dance
ackerstadtpalast.de
*** COMING UP IN MAY ***
KONZERT @ K77 (lichtblik kino) - Kastanienallee 77 - 10435 BERLIN prenzlauerberg
on FRIDAY 8 MAY 2015
bar opens 21:00 / show starts 22:00
IAN DOUGLAS-MOORE - guitar
PAUL ROTH - saxophone
"soundwalls that process textural distortions, microtonal manipulations and other sound curiosities"
PAUL ROTH / IAN DOUGLAS MOORE from Liebig12 on Vimeo.
soundcloud.com/paulnroth/pnr-ian-douglas-mooreSUPERIMPOSE
MATTHIS MÜLLER - posaune
CHRISTIAN MARIEN - schlagzeug
www.matthiasmueller.net/html/superimpose
