All Ears @ Wolfart Charlois Rotterdam
ALL EARS
WOLFARTmuziek.Charlois.Rotterdam
www.wolfart.nl
One.Night.Band solos, duos, trios, quartets, quintets, sextets
As the opening of the cultural fall season we want to invite your to this very special evening: Electronic as well as acoustic improvisations played by star musicians from New York and Rotterdam coming together for this singular occasion, accompanied by Linton’s “Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System”
Kato Hideki/ NYC [bass guitar]
Pierre Bastien/ R’dam [trombone and other acoustics]
One Man Nation/ [laptop, electronics]
Nina Hitz/ R’dam [cello]
Lukas Simonis/ R’dam [electric guitar]
David Linton/ NYC [visuals & electronics]
DJ J [surprise act]
Location………..WOLFART PROJECTSPACES / Wolphaertstraat 25c / Rotterdam Zuid/ Charlois
Date……….. Friday, 4 September 2009
Time……………..20:00 hours / 20:30 start program / 22:00 DJ J
Entrance…………4 Euro (2 Euro for NAC members)
KATO HIDEKI (Kato:family name; Hideki: given) is a Japanese-born composer/bassist/multi-instrumentalist, who lives in NYC. He is the co-founder of Death Ambient with Ikue Mori & Fred Frith. His other groups as a leader are: Green Zone with Otomo Yoshihide & Uemura Masahiro; OMNI wtih Nakamura Toshimaru & Akiyama Tetsuji. His compositions include: solo bass piece Turbulent Zone, Mystic Ship of Life, (commissioned by the Kitchen, NYC) and Tremolo of Joy for his quartet with Charles Burnham, Briggan Krauss & Calvin Weston. As a bassist, he has worked with Eyvind Kang, Karen Mantler, Zeena Parkins, Marc Ribot, Jim Pugliese, John Zorn among many others. Besides his own projects, Kato collaborates with Nicolas Collins and James Fei. He is also a member of analog synthesizer collective, Analogos.
http://www.katohideki.com/
DAVID LINTON is multiple media artist traveling the vectors of sound and signal flow. He has been active in the downtown NYC experimental arts community for 30 years. With his “Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System” (2004) David aims to make vibrational wave induced perceptual energy states manifest by deploying interconnected measures of electric sound & light in live action with hand manipulated objects in physical (live camera) space. He employs an integrated recursive audio & video feedback system of his own perversely simple design modulated by freehand intervention to deliver vigorous eye, ear, and – sometimes – body shaking realtime audio visual performances from which a kind of retro-tech animist ritual “medicine show” emerges where subject and object blur. Thematically David likes to consider that since the late days of the 19th century 60 Hz alternating electrical current gradually came to function as the primary Prana of the mass bio-energetic body/culture of human life in North America.
http://www.unitygain.org
PIERRE BASTIEN is a French musician, composer, and instrument builder living and working in Rotterdam. Surprisingly he hardly appears on Dutch stages, although having a brilliant international carreer. He began building mechanical-based musical instruments at an early age, using items such as metronomes, cymbals, and pulleys. In 1977 he began collaborating with Pascal Comelade and composing music for dance companies. He performed in ensembles such as Operation Rhino, Nu Creative Methods, and Effectifs de Profil. In 1986 he formed his own orchestra, Mechanism, comprised of Meccano machines which play various instruments, such as Chinese lute, Moroccan bendir, Javanese saron, koto, and violin. These machines were often driven by the rotation of old turntables. By the 1990s Mechanism consisted of up to 80 machine ‘musicians’, and toured various art and music festivals, including events in Norway, Australia, Japan, Canada, Poland, and the United States. Bastien has collaborated with artists such as Robert Wyatt, Karel Doing, Jack Breach, Jaki Liebezeit, Pierrick Sorin, and fashion designer Issey Miyake. He has released material on record labels such as Lowlands, Reflex, Tiger-sushi, and Alga Margin. He has also completed a doctorate on 18th century French literature, his thesis being on pre-surrealist Raymond Roussel.
http://www.pierrebastien.com/
Swiss born NINA HITZ is currently living in The Netherlands where she finished her graduate studies in Baroque cello at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. An active, questing spirit who seeks the unknown in life and in music, Hitz is active with experimental music, film-music, improvisation and theatrical performances in addition to baroque music. She is part of the contemporary music ensemble ‘the barton workshop’ (NL), performance ensemble ‘daswirdas’(CH), ‘Jargon’ (NL) en ‘uiuiui koo’(NL).
www.myspace.com/ninahitz
LUKAS SIMONIS is has his roots as an instrumentalist and musical ‘activist’ in the industrial music and noise rock of the Eighties (Throbbing Gristle, the Residents, Pere Ubu, Sonic Youth and beyond). Being a part of the Rotterdam jazzbunker scene (a collective that consisted of heavy drug induced punk rockers, freejazzers, early electronic musicians and pre-post-rock combo’s) he discovered the delimited world of improvisation. In the meantime & after he played in bands like Dull Schicksal, Trespassers W, Morzelpronk, AA Kismet, Liana Flu Winks, VRIL and Coolhaven. At the same time he was organizing concerts, events and films, first at the Jazzbunker in Rotterdam later on the Dissonanten festival, the Dissidenten festival, Popifilm, Dodorama and finally WORM, a multimedia centre for experimental art. Nowadays he collaborates with lots of people from different backgrounds. For instance; Apricot My Lady (with Ann La Berge and the Bohman Brothers), Vril (with Bob Drake, Pierre Omer and Chris Cutler), Goh Lee Kwang (Kuala Lumpur), Jim Whelton (London). Pierre Bastien(Paris/Rotterdam), Dave Brown (Melbourne), The static Tics (with Henk Bakker and Steve Beresford), Eugene Chadbourne (USA), and lots of other people. He’s still involved with WORM, mostly working in the electronic studio and making radiophonic pieces. It’s only since apr. 3 or 4 years that Simonis started to play solo-concerts, after (and before) the release of his first solo album, STOTS, which got a good reception.
http://www.xs4all.nl/~lukas/
ONE MAN NATION His work is best described as a seamless mix of computer music, performance art and improvisation, transmitting a deep narrative feeling of geopolitical disenchantment, ingrained into dark textures. This disenchantment exists on more levels than purely narrative, it is exorcised by the use of every part of his body as a whole, that presence with the inclusion of the sounds produced by the intended or accidental gestures and physical actions – everything is technology making anything and everything potentially an instrument, a source of sound, a critique – the avoidance of a priori drawn ways, ontologically reinventing the possibilities of life, and as a living performer/artist, exploring all the possibilities in the here, in the now.
http://www.onemannation.com/
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Daniela Swarowsky // cultural producer
Wolphaertstraat 27B // 3082 BK Rotterdam
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