I’m really glad to share with you the live recording of my most recent audiovisual concert I C::ntr::l Nature at Pure Data Convention 2009, Sao Paulo, Brasil. The only sonic source is my bass guitar augmented by the self-designed software C::NTR::L v.1.3.

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Many thanks to Henrique Iwao for his efforts during the convention and for being so patient to record and order (all?) the performances at Pd Con.

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You can listen to the concert with the player below. If you want to download it for free check my download page.

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TheSAD – I C::ntr::l Nature Live @ Pure Data Convention 23-07-09 by TheSAD

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Besides you may be interested in visiting the unofficial archive of Pd Convention performances at this address http://sussurro.musica.ufrj.br/pdcon09/material.html.
All the material is kindly hosted by sussurro.musica.ufrj.br – Biblioteca Musical Digital do Laboratório de Música e Tecnologia da Escola de Música da UFRJ.

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Next audiovisual concert coming up in Bologna, Italy.

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On 19th October I will be performing the third version of the performance for augmented bass guitar and butterfly I C::ntr::l Nature during roBOT festival at Palazzo Re Enzo. This will be the italian premiere of the brand new version of the audiovisual performance (recently presented in Brasil at Pure Data Convention), so don’t miss it!
The festival provide an interesting lineup, featuring a pool of selected audiovisual artist from Italy and Europe including Saul Saguatti, Ericailcane, Pixelnoizz, Vj Hash, Ape5 and a party time hosted by some big names of the scene such as Tim Exile, Carl Craig and many others. I will be probably also making a friendly vj set during the club nights at the LINK, enjoying old friends vjs from the italian scene.

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If you’re around.. get a chance to enjoy us.
more infos:

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I C::ntr::l Nature project website: http://www.thesaddj.com/icontrolnature/

Festival:http://www.robotfestival.it/2009
tickets: http://www.robotfestival.it/2009/ingressi/

Online the pictures from the third international Pure data Convention in Sao Paulo, Brasil, where i performed the audiovisual piece ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ and presented the free, open source software C::NTR::L – Pd-based.

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Much thanks to Alexandre, Paloma, Cristiano, Palm, Cybelle and all the staff for the big efforts to make this happen. Great experience for all of us and relevant effort to enhance the free culture in Brasil.

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Check the gallery here: ../pics

More infos: www.pdcon.org

Here you are with a bit of delay the report about S-Block Festival.
The event has been organized by Plattform fuer aktuelle Musik and it took place at Interventionsraum in the very heart of Stuttgart. It has been my second time in the city and also this time i had the pleasure to enjoy a good dose of high quality experimental music.

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Antenna Research opened the event with their concrete concert based on antennas and old radio. Pure noise eclectism and sane irony deadful mixture!

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I definetely love spending days in Germany at experimental music events ’cause i always see things that i’m sure i won’t be able to see anywhere else. Don’t know if it’s all about my “mith” of Germany, but i can assure the”experimental” matter there has really a deep sense and clear imprint. Maybe it’s all about originality and the way to express it…

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Coming next we had the DuoB – free, improvisational jazz duet from United States. They provided a huge concert, impossible to describe it, but just imagine 1.5 hour of free improvisation on drums (played in every way you can imagine) and double-bass, supported by impervious and theatrical readings by Pedro Cofrè from Chile.

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We didn’t have the time to recover our mind from the intuitional free reading/jazz of DuoB, and Christine Sehnaoui started her solo performance/radical improvisation at saxophone. She’s one of the most professional improvisers i’ve ever seen playing live, i highly suggest to check her work. Great presence on stage and awesome confidence with her instrument.

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On the second day of the event, after having a beautiful breakfast with the other artists, we reached again the venue for another session. This time Ezramo opened the night… It has been a lovely experience, from subtle mystic moments to ethnic derivations and electroacoustic breackdowns.

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Following we had Experimentelles Musiktheater:  „The International Besetztzeichen“. An experimental theater/live noise piece for three actors, performed by Oliver Prechtl and Philipp Golm (Stuttgart). Unfortunately i didn’t get any picture of their show.
I had the hard duty to close the festival with the audiovisual work “I C::ntr::l Nature” - solo piece for augmented bass guitar and self-designed software C::NTR::L. It has been a pleasure to play in front of the many people came to see the performance. The tiny and cosy venue of the festival was overloaded of people all around me… lovin’ it!

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Thanks Stuttgart and thanks once again to Ezramo and Wendelin Buechler who organized such an inspirational event, and good luck guys for your future projects!

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LINKS:
http://www.thesaddj.com/s-block-festival-advanced-music-and-live-audiovisual-art/
http://www.thesaddj.com/icontrolnature
http://interventionsraum.de/sblockfestival.html
http://interventionsraum.de
http://www.myspace.com/maxexperimentell

I’ve been invited to participate to the first edition of S-Block Festival - international festival of Advanced Music, Audiovisual Art and Performances - at Interventionsraum in the centre of Stuttgart, DE.

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The festival will take place on 19-20 June and will showcase many different projects of experimental music, live videos and neo-theather, highlighting the soulful artistic local scene plus guest international artists.

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I’ll perform ‘I C::ntr::l Nature’ solo audiovisual performance for augmented E-bass guitar - recently performed at NEMO festival in Paris and Ausklang Festival in Hamburg. The performance is powered by the self-designed software C::NTR::L (released as public beta version with GPL license infos here).

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I’m glad to come back to Stuttgart with this project because last year i performed its first demo version exactly there in Stuttgart during the monthly Max.Experimentell event and it has been an hyper-stimulating experience for the further developments of the performance.

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I highly recomend to join this event since it’s going to be a new important mirror of the most recent researches in Live and Mixed Media.

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Program:

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Friday 19.06

• 20:30 – ANTENNA RESEARCH feat. MOWBLIND (Stuttgart)
  Audiovisuelle Performance
• 21:00 – DUO B. & PEDRO COFRÉ (San Francisco, USA – Concepción, Chile)
  Filmvertonung / Live-Improvisierte Musik / Poesie-Lesung
• 22:00 – CHRISTINE SEHNAOUI (Paris, Frankreich)
  Solo Performance / Radical Improvisation
• 22:45 – ZENIT & NADIR (Stuttgart)
  Multimediale Performance: Quartier Ss – Sinnbild materiellen Prunks

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Saturday 20.06

• 21:00 – EZRAMO (Italien / Stuttgart)
  Audiovisuell Solo Performance: Beats Moar Bambus
• 21:45 – OLIVER PRECHTL, PHILIPP GOLM (Stuttgart)
  Experimentelles Musiktheater: „The International Besetztzeichen“
• 22:15 – THE !S.A.D.! (Rom, Italien)
  Pure Data – Performance: „I C::ntr::l Nature”

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Künstlerisches Rahmenprogramm

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Friday 19.06

• 18:00 – JUSTYNA KOEKE & NINA MÜLLER (Stuttgart)
  Rauminstallation
• 22:00 – RAGANI HAAS (Stuttgart)
  Performance

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Saturday 20.06

• 22:30 – ANJA ABELE (Stuttgart)
  Performance
• MIRIAM HUSCHENBETH (Stuttgart)
  Performance

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You can buy tickets directly at the venue, no reservation needed.
Daily ticket: 8 euro
Two Days ticket: 14 euro

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Venue:
Interventionsraum
Marienstraße 15
Stuttgart-Stadtmitte

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LINKS:
http://www.thesaddj.com/icontrolnature
http://interventionsraum.de/sblockfestival.html
http://interventionsraum.de
http://www.myspace.com/maxexperimentell

On 28th December i will be really glad to perform my work I C::ntr::l Nature (nowave/visual/noise audiovisual live improvisation) at Ausklang Festival at Hoerbar, Hamburg.
The artists invited:

• Felix Kubin (HH)
  (Futuristische Popmusik / Elektroakustik)
• Napalmed (Tschechien)
  (Jazz Noise Free Industrial Improvisation)
• The !S.A.D!
• Trautonia Capra (HH)
  (Elektronisches Kunstlied mit Theremin + Gesang)
• Asmus Tietchens (HH)
  (Elektronische Musik / Klangforschung)
• Bruno & Michelle are smiling (HH)
  (Bös-komischer High-Speed-Pop)

“The Hörbar is the central meeting point for consumers and producers of electronic, electroacoustic and industrial music in Hamburg, every Wednesday from 9 pm to 1 am in the rooms of the B-Movie in Hamburg St.Pauli. Every last Friday in a month there is a concert with different music projects, performance artists, lectures or/and films.

“Since 1995 the Hörbar organizes every year between Christmas and New Year’s Eve the ‘Jahresausklangfestival’ (German for “year’s last notes”). On two subsequent evenings six to eight artists and groups perform in the movie theater. Moreover labels releasing and distributing experimental music are invited to build up their stands and present and sell their products.”

more info: http://www.hoerbar-ev.de/?Ausklangfestival_2008:Weitere_Infos

C::NTR::L AV augmented bass guitar improvisation from TheSAD on Vimeo.

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Live action of audiovisual improvisation.
This work is performed with the electric bass guitar and the custom-made software C::NTR::L, Human-Computer Interface for physical computing i developed in Pure Data.
This was the first time i test the version 1.0 of C::NTR::L (feat. audiovideo modules and efx triggered in real-time by your partiture), and i can say it seems it works pretty good.
But please, share your ideas about it…im trying to develop the software for public use (also for no-pd’r).
for more infos about the soft please visit thesaddj.com/icontrolnature or send me a message here.
I’m not so happy of the compression of Vimeo, a better quality video can be found here:
thesad.blip.tv

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For this first edition, the festival Cinesthesy invest in the new Cultural Center Madeleine Rebérioux in Créteil.

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The programme includes interactive installations and video, ateliers/workshop, performances Audio/Vidéo, vjing and visual art.

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• REP (France)
• INCITE (Germany)
• THE !S.A.D.! (Italy)
• SOLU & ARBOL (Spain/Finland)
• OTOLAB (Italy)
• CINEMASSAKER (France/Belge)
• RAFAËL (Spain)
• SATI (France) ETICHETTADISCOGRAFICA (Italy)
• DEMOLECULARISATION [project singe] (France/Belge)
• G-mO
• LECOLLAGISTE
• BOULEZ REPUBLIC GRAND ENSEMBLE
• JUSTE ALICE 02
• IDUUN
• KSKF
• AUDEROSESELAVY&EMOTYPE
• EILE

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Theme(s) : Multimédia, Music, Contemporary Art, Shows.
Website : www.cinesthesy.com
TEL : 01 41 94 15 65

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Date : 27 october to 1st novembre 2008

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CENTRE SOCIOCULTUREL MADELEINE REBÉRIOUX
27 avenue François Mitterrand 94 000 CRETEIL

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INFORMATIONS & RESERVATION HTTP://WWW.CINESTHESY.COM TEL : 01 41 94 15 65
night ticket 10€ / 6€ et 4€ (young)
PASS WEEK-END 14€ / 10€ Free entry after midnight.

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Métro line n° 8 direction Créteil, stop “Préfecture” ( terminus ) + Bus 281 direction créteil Europarc, stop “Coteaux”  and ten minutes by feet.
FREE PARKING

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The festival is co-organised by les PIXELS Transversaux (Dvds VisionSonic, Résidences d’artistes…) and by the association Maison de Jeunes et de la culture which start to run and manage the Cultural centre Madeleine Rebérioux who has always programmed author of new technologies and of contemporary creation.