THESADDJ.COM new media art and open source culture » stuttgart http://www.thesaddj.com A blog around free and open source art works and tools, shared knowledge, constructive criticism, sci-tech innovations and net behaviours. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:47:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Report S-Block Festival http://www.thesaddj.com/report-s-block-festival/ http://www.thesaddj.com/report-s-block-festival/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:20:26 +0000 Marco Donnarumma http://www.thesaddj.com/?p=865 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.

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

Antenna-Research_S-BlockFest_Stuttgart2009

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…

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.

DuoB_S-BlockFest_Stuttgart2009

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.

Christine_Sehnaoui_S-BlockFest_Stuttgart2009

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.

Ezramo_S-BlockFest_Stuttgart2009

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!

TheSAD_S-BlockFest_Stuttgart2009

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!

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

]]> http://www.thesaddj.com/report-s-block-festival/feed/ 0 S-Block Festival – Advanced Music and Live Audiovisual Art http://www.thesaddj.com/s-block-festival-advanced-music-and-live-audiovisual-art/ http://www.thesaddj.com/s-block-festival-advanced-music-and-live-audiovisual-art/#comments Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:07:20 +0000 Marco Donnarumma http://www.thesaddj.com/?p=663 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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Program:

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
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”
Künstlerisches Rahmenprogramm

Friday 19.06

  • 18:00 – JUSTYNA KOEKE & NINA MÜLLER (Stuttgart)
    Rauminstallation
  • 22:00 – RAGANI HAAS (Stuttgart)
    Performance
Saturday 20.06

  • 22:30 – ANJA ABELE (Stuttgart)
    Performance
  • MIRIAM HUSCHENBETH (Stuttgart)
    Performance
You can buy tickets directly at the venue, no reservation needed.
Daily ticket: 8 euro
Two Days ticket: 14 euro

Venue:
Interventionsraum
Marienstraße 15
Stuttgart-Stadtmitte

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

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This is how started my two days experience at Max.Experimentell, monthly review about experimental music, noise, live improvising and multimedia in Stuttgart & Ludwigsburg (DE) who have already hosted such great musicians as Gino Robair (US), Polvere (IT).
On the first night of this 5th edition of the review Ezramo&Büchler duo invited me and others german artists at their atelier in Stuttgart to have a jam session all night long. The atmosphere was great…

Setting up for jam improvising session at Atelierhaus, Stuttgart DEAll in a circle we played toghether improvised soundscapes, sound texture, music for several hours, and a close, hyper-interested public has contribute to create a familiar, but warm and professional situation. Soon i should be able to upload the live recordings from that night.
The day after was even better…


We moved to Ludwigsburg, a small nice town really close to Stuttgart, and after a semi-italian breakfast and some stimulating and passionate conversations we arrived to Max.Strasse, wonderful bar and exhibition space in Maxstrasse eins in Ludwigsburg.
I started to setup everything for my audiovisual improvising performance I C::ntr::l Nature in the gallery, and after a while arrived also Jörg Koch, Barbara and Mark Kysela, great improvised music trio from Stuttgart.

At nine and a half the show began!
Kysela&Jörg Koch trio let us taste their sound research at the borders between noise-music, spoken words, concrete poetry and Wintermächen. For me it was one of the best concerts i’ve ever seen. A great tension during all the liveset, sonic gestures, real-time processing of prepared harp, saxophone and objects, plus a great and brilliant auto-irony.
Not a simple performance but they made it human, funny and intensive… public was amazed.

Mark Kysela performing with Kyselas&Joerg Koch trio@Max.Experimentell #5, Max.Strasse 1, Stuttgart DE

Then it’s my turn!
I was a bit anxious about this performance cause public was totally formed by experienced artists and also ’cause i had to fix some technical problems due to my last performance in Paris at Vision(’R)Sonic.
In the end i sitted on the floor, among my bass, laptop and sound objects and all the people came to sit close to me. The space was great and contribute in a relevant way to the success of the performance. After few minutes of uncertainty i started to feel the positive tension grow in me and in the public’s eyes and i started to C::ntr::l my butterflies.
Half an hour later people was clapping hands in one of the warmest way that i have ever felt arond my gigs. I explained the whole project around I C::ntr::l Nature, the custom made software i want to publish for free and so on, and people get so interested!
When i finished my brief speech people was so excited that i was asked to play some more music… so i abandoned myself to an intimate, noisy and melancholic introspection…

S.A.D - I C::ntr::l Nature playing@Max.Experimentell, Max.Strasse 1, Stuttgart DE
S.A.D - I C::ntr::l Nature playing@Max.Experimentell, Max.Strasse 1, Stuttgart DE
S.A.D - I C::ntr::l Nature playing@Max.Experimentell, Max.Strasse 1, Stuttgart DE

After i ended the performance four, five people (among them Rue- german musician) came to me asking more infos about the project and we had some really constructive conversations… it was such a great satisfaction for me, and i learned a lot from the words that were flowing that night.
In the end we had some more beers, exchanged Max and PD patches with Jörg Koch, connected people with Kyselas, Ezramo, Wendelin and myself, talked a bit more with Joanna, the amazing person who also run Max.Strasse and finally got home for my last night in Stuttgart.

Special thanks to all the people who made this days amazing… i think it was one of the best situation i will remember… professionality, humanity, good feelings and a lot of ideas.

Links:
www.myspace.com/maxexperimentell
www.maxstrasse1.de

www.kyselas.de
www.elektrominibarklingelton.de
www.joergkoch.de

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