2011-12-05

Tim Hecker’s latest work, Ravendeath 1972, album preview,

Released by: kranky

06/12/11 live set di Time Hecker, spazio ‘O artoteca, via Pastrengo 12, inizio concerto 21.00, ingresso con prenotazione obbligatoria scrivendo a on@on-o.org

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Source: SoundCloud / experimedia

2011-11-08

O -ONE CIRCLE

November 2011, Club To Club, Turin

Apparatjik: Arrow + Bow

Live performance during the opening ceremony of the new Deutsche Bank towers in Frankfurt by legendary band Apparatjik, who played from a 3 x 3 metre cube situated in the centre of the foyer, on which video images were projected on.
Founded in 2008, the names of its individual members speak for themselves: Guy Berryman is the bassist of Coldplay, Magne Furuholmen is the keyboarder and guitarist of A-ha, and Jonas Bjerre is a singer and guitarist of Danish group Mew. Completing the Apparatjik quartet is producer and songwriter Martin Terefe.

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ODEI
Surprising by the marriage of various and very diferent musical visions, Odei is a work in progress succesfully completed of three musicians from our action group. On one side, the jazzy and afro-funky drumer Arnaud Biscay and the pianist Maxime Hoarau, both from the conservatoire of music ; on the other side Matthys whose job as an electronic composer has already reflected an assertive style.

First these three artists came together for a project ordered by the festival “La Nuit des Nouveaux Arts Sacrés” in “L’église St Eustache”.Following this fabulous concert, they had been brought together for the original soundtrack of the movie Wonderland by Nathalie Bebholz and now they join themselves for live-sets giving the public a spontaneous union. Except the programations created by Matthys their show is entirely improvised as it prooved to be during the former festivals Baleapop and Usopop. The trio offers a natural and rich wedding between electronic and acoustic sounds. For 40 minutes, the public is elated from organic to chimical atmosphere with consistence and sensuality.
The trio reminds us the famous Aufgang, a reference in the world of hybrid music.

Source: SoundCloud / O D E I

2011-07-14

TEDGlobal: Imogen Heap’s Musical Gloves Manipulate Sound With Hand Gestures

Developed by Dr. Thomas Mitchell, a lecturer and researcher at the University of the West of England, the high tech gloves connect an interface to a live musical production system controlled entirely with hand gestures. Sounds can be recorded, synthesized and manipulated live on stage using intuitive hand movements.

Dr. Mitchell explains:

It is really exciting to launch the gestural music system at TED this summer. It takes improvisation to a new level and frees the artist from interactions with electronic equipment on stage. Imogen’s performance will not make use of any pre-recorded material – the gestures she makes will control the sounds that the TED attendees will hear. For example by making a grasping motion she can ‘catch’ the sound of her voice or any other instrument, she can then filter these sounds by clasping her hands together and then ‘release’ the sound again by opening her hands. She can build layers of music, point and play invisible synthesisers and drums. The creative possibilities are huge and it’s really engaging to watch.

Still much an ongoing research project, it will take years before it reaches store shelves, if ever. But we’ll see the video on TED in few days: http://conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2011/

2011-07-13

2011-07-08

Emeralds live at audiovisiva 2011

The Emeralds are a trio from Ohio, formed by John Elliot, Steve Hauschildt and Mark McGuire. They often play accompanied by self-produced images.
Their music, largely improvised, is based on the sound of old synthesizers, oscillators and electric guitars, with the help of voices and field recordings used to create dynamic between melodic backgrounds and minimal rhythmic structures.

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Mia Zabelka at audiovisiva 2011

Visual by Mia Makela

Mia Zabelka is a composer, electric violinist and vocalist from Vienna. As a pioneer of electro-acoustic performance and composition in Austria, Mia Zabelka developed the process she describes as automatic playing, continuously exploring sound and music as physical phenomena, always pushing back the boundaries in radical and provocative performances and compositions that question established notions and given structures. Her work has been described as “A dark delirium of sounds, a disintegrated vision on a complex world – an acoustic version of William Blake’s poetry”.

2011-06-28

whitetree

Ludovico Einaudi, Robert Lippok, Ronald Lippok

2011-06-15

Jon Hopkins live at VideoSoundArt

1st July 2011, Abbiategrasso - Milan

Jon Hopkins (London) is a British musician and song writer. He started playing the piano at the age of 5 and when he turned 12 he joined the Royal College of Music in London. He made his record debut in 2001 with the album Opalescent, then he published Contact Note in 2004 and The Fourth State in 2008 (which includes a 32 minute long track of ambient music). His latest album, Insides, was published by Domino Records in 2009.
Hopkins hs worked with lots of artists like Coldplay, Imogen Heap, King Creosote, Massive Attack, Chris Coco and Brian Eno. He has recently worked on remixes for FrouFrou, Clarksville and Keane ( using Mr Roque as his pseudonym)
The song Light Through the Veins was used in 2008 as introduction to first track of Life In Technicolor in the album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends by Coldplay. Jon Hopkins ha s also co-produced the album, working on the sounds and especially all the parts involving keyboards.
In 2010 he was hired by Vertigo Films for the sound score of the low budget science fiction flick Monsters by Gareth Edwards.

ww.jonhopkins.co.uk

www.videosoundart.com