SHORTS B2
14th May 2019 7:30 pm - 8:00 pm (UK)
1. Aume – Transmission (Part III) 2. Darja Sharlatova & Manuel Bachinger – klangzeitfiguren22119 3. Jeff Kolar – Music for Phone Booths – 05 No coin 4. Rachel Cattle & Volker Eichelmann – remainder’s rest as reason, tuning / turning
1. Aume – Transmission (Part III)
CQ CQ refers to the shortwave radio abbreviation for “calling any station”. This theme came about from a disillusionment created by the overwhelming amount of information being transmitted. That any individual voice falls on deaf ears in the midst of a maelstrom. That one is never more isolated than when everyone is talking at the same time. CQ CQ is full of vocal transmissions, most of which are indecipherable. They are failed attempts at communication. They are transmissions that lead to the disintegration of human connection and understanding.
Immersive abstract sound and image collaboration between Scot Jenerik (Portland, OR, USA) and Aleph Omega (San Francisco, CA, USA) aume.bandcamp.com
Scot Jenerik: Composer and multidisciplinary artist. Performed, lectured and distributed works extensively in the United States, Europe and Japan for over 30 years. Co-owner of Mobilization Records, has an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, founded 23five Incorporated and co-hosted the No Other Radio Network on KPFA.
Aleph Omega: Composer, multi-instrumentalist and artist. Performed and toured extensively throughout the United States, and Europe as a member of Chrome, Helios Creed, F-Space and pioneering Deathrock band, Altar De Fey. Owner/operator Unicursal Studios.
2. Darja Sharlatova & Manuel Bachinger – klangzeitfiguren22119
The piece “Klangzeitfiguren 22119” is the recording of the sound performance through the play of the so-called “Klangzeitfiguren”. These represent a conceptual work by Darja Shatalova dealing with the spatialization of time. There are four figures welded from round steel, going through different phases of formation and translocation. Contact microphones are attached to the Klangzeitfiguren and they are played only with hands or a violin bow. The sound performance is characterized by a mutual reaction to sound curves and impulses. The sonority reminds i.a. on bells and clocks and brings time, conceptually and materially inscribed into the figures, to sound.
Darja Shatalova – Born 1988 in Russia, studied arts and mathematics at the University of Cologne and since 2014 Transmedia Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her work consists of multi-layered coded graphical notations and set-up systems transformed into different media, such as space based installations, long-durational performances and sound compositions.
Manuel Cyrill Bachinger Born 1988 in Vienna, Austria. Studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the department for Digital Art (Ruth Schnell) since 2017. His work is concerned with acoustic and visual forms of expression and uses frequently transformational processes. Manuel is interested in working in experimental manners with sound and light installations and in various projects as a musical performer.
http://www.darjashatalova.com https://soundcloud.com/user-729490327 https://soundcloud.com/user-601686039
3. Jeff Kolar – Music for Phone Booths – 05 No coin
Music for Phone Booths is a multi-channel audio installation and recorded album intended to defuse the hectic atmosphere of Chicago’s City Hall and County Building. For this site-responsive work, Kolar composed original music for playback inside five vintage abandoned phone booths located underground in the Chicago Pedway. The compositions feature an 1863 S.D. & H.W. Smith pump organ and electronics. The project investigates the style, function, and format of Background Music – music created to be passively listened to. Music for Phone Booths is intended to induce calm and serve as a comfort station for daily commuters.
Performed, Recorded, Mixed & Mastered By Jeff Kolar in Chicago, Illinois, United States Commissioned By: Chicago Loop Alliance, Space p11, The City of Chicago Special thanks to Chris Cunningham at Loupe LLC.
Jeff Kolar (b. Chicago, Illinois, US) is an independent sound artist, radio producer, and curator working in Chicago, United States. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform established in 2009. His work, described as “speaker-shredding” (Half Letter Press), “wonderfully strange” (John Corbett), and “characteristically curious” (Marc Weidenbaum), activates sound in unconventional, temporary, and ephemeral ways using appropriation and remix as a critical practice. His solo and collaborative projects, installations, and public performances often investigate the mundane sonic nuances of everyday electronic devices. He has performed and exhibited widely across the United States, and at international venues and festivals such as the New Museum (New York, US), Museum of Arts and Design (New York, US), Moogfest (Durham, North Carolina, US), The Kitchen (New York, US), CTM Festival for Adventurous Music (Berlin, Germany), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, US), Kino Šiška (Ljubljana, Slovenia), ORF RadioKulturhaus (Vienna, Austria), Radio Revolten International Radio Art Festival (Halle, Germany), Megapolis Audio Festival (New York, USA), LAK Festival of Nordic Sound Art (København, Denmark), among others. His work has been reviewed and discussed in international print publications and online platforms such as The New York Times, The Wire Magazine, Red Bull Music Academy and Architect Magazine, and in an array of art, design and music publications including VICE, Art Slant, designboom, and Rhizome.org.
4. Rachel Cattle & Volker Eichelmann – remainder’s rest as reason, tuning / turning
remainder’s rest as reason, tuning / turning is the first collaboration between Rachel Cattle and Volker Eichelmann. The sound piece uses a recording of Cattle humming and another of her ripping paper as its sole source material. Through collage, extraction and layering these two instances of activity are stretched, truncated and composited to sonically establish moments of intimacy and distance between the two collaborators. This project was originally conceived by Cattle and Eichelmann for a presentation by the research group We Are Publication (Centre for Useless Splendour, Kingston University) at Focal Point Gallery’s Unit Twenty-One in October 2018.
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