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Four AKATOMBO films taken from the recently completed UNCONFIRMED REPORTS audio/visual project; namely - "Cypher", "SSRI", "Hikikomori" & "Friend for Hire" - have been chosen to be shown at the prestigious Festival Filmer la Musique in Paris which takes place over the space of 5 days - from Tuesday, June 5th `07 through to Saturday, June 9th `07. The four AKATOMBO films will be shown daily at the Point Ephemere & also in The Noise Box auditorium. For more information & programme details, please go to - filmerlamusique.com
This year`s line-up includes many unseen or new works from the likes of Faust, Genesis P. Orridge, Flying Nun Records, the Bad Brains, Sun Ra, Ecstatic Peace Records, Car Park Records, Sonic Youth, Television, No Wave - to name but a few.
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6 Nights of Experimental Music and Electronic Sounds at the Shunt Lounge
June 13-15 and June 20 - 22, 2007
13: Unsound experiments by Goldsmiths EMS, details tba.
14: Ben Drew, Phil Durrant, John Lely, Sebastian Lexer & Mattin; Tom Arthurs & James Allsop
15: Assembly; Icarus; Badun; Karsten Phlum; Eg0
20: Evan Parker, Marcio Mattos & John Edwards; Rhodri Davies, Ross Lambert & Matt Samson; Seymour Wright, Ben Drew & Louisa Martin.
21: Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios performances, details tba.
22: Vektormusik; Cracktux; ClaudiusMaximus; Slub; Krgn; Frey; Robert Atwood, Mikkel Meyer
Installations by Squidsoup and Paul Adderley & Michael Young.
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The 6 nights result from the joint efforts of Shunt, Not Applicable, Interlace, Goldsmiths Electronic Music Studios, Lurk, Rump Recordings and ONGAKU:enjoy_sound.
£5 entry, free for Shunt members.
See www.shunt.co.uk for venue information and www.not-applicable.org for updated event information.
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PostEverything is pleased to welcome along Rump Recordings. This Denmark based label is home to the likes of Badun, Karsten Pflum, Rumpistol and they will soon be realeasing the next album from PE friends Icarus.
The label has a busy summer ahead of them with plenty of tour dates in both the UK and Europe.
RUMP RECORDINGS CONCERTs Spring/Summer 2007:
02 Jun 2007 Rumpistol @ Sunrise Celebration Festival-UK.
02 Jun 2007 Karsten Pflum @ Libertalia Festival, Derby - UK
03 Jun 2007 Badun & Vektormusik @ Golden Pudel, Hamburg-DE
05 Jun 2007 Karsten Pflum @ The Volks, Brighton-UK
14 Jun 2007 Rumpistol @ L´Umbracle, Valencia-ES
15 Jun 2007 Badun & Karsten Pflum @ Shunt Vaults, London-UK
15 Jun 2007 Vektormusik RELEASE @ Christianshavns Bådudlejning, Cph-DK
16 Jun 2007 Vektormusik @ Vesterbro Festival, Cph-DK
22 Jun 2007 Vektormusik @ Shunt Vaults, London-UK
23 Jun 2007 Badun, Karsten Pflum & Rumpistol @ Fusion Festival, DE
24 Jun 2007 Karsten Pflum @ Sonic Arts Expo, Plymouth-UK
07 Jul 2007 Bjørn Svin @ Roskilde Festival, DK
08 Jul 2007 Rumpistol @ Antiworld Festival, UK
09 Jul 2007 Badun @ Roskilde Festival, DK
12 Jul 2007 Badun @ Copenhagen Jazz Festival, DK
13 Jul 2007 Vektormusik + Rumpistol (DJ) @ Forma Nova Festival, Fredericia-DK
19 Jul 2007 Elektronisk JazzJuice, Musikcafeen/Gyngen/Pakhuset, Århus-DK
20 Jul 2007 Elektronisk JazzJuice, Musikcafeen/Gyngen/Pakhuset, Århus-DK
21 Jul 2007 Elektronisk JazzJuice, Musikcafeen/Gyngen/Pakhuset, Århus-DK
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Electronica's bright new spark Robert Logan continues to promote his album, Cognessence performing with his trio at label Slowfoot's monthly bash. Support comes from melancholica outfit Raf+O.
Friday 1st June
The Adelaide,
143 Adelaide Rd, Chalk Farm,
London NW3 3NL
Tube: Chalk Farm
Bus: 31 & C11
Tickets £5
Doors 7.30pm - 12pm
Info: 0207 722 3777
www.slowfoot.co.uk
Tickets - www.wegottickets.com
He has also been booked as support for Cibelle at the Luminaire, London
CIBELLE
+ Robert Logan
+ SonVer
+ Tunng DJs
Wednesday 25 July
Doors 7.30
£6 via WeGotTickets
£7 door
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We are please to welcome Poeta Negra to shelves at PE.
Poeta Negra Records originated as a label in the 90s in Thessaloniki, Greece, where it is still based. Up until the year 1999, the label made its mark through a series of sporadic and selective releases. Throughout the 90s, the label captured the interest and respect of a local and musically agile audience via its sparse releases. It reappeared in the year 2000 with the prospect of a more stable, organized and dynamic presence.
In the beginning of the new century, Poeta Negra Records aims to detect the latest trends of musical evolution in terms of form and function within the boundaries of electronic and, in a broader sense, contemporary music, where sound and form accompany the new realities of a continually evolving urban environment.
Home to artists like Peekay Tayloh, Dani Joss, Spyweirdos and 2 By Bukowski, recent releases have been mastered by Bola and Murcof.
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Following her recent, highly successful tour with Triosk, Colleen returns to the UK and Ireland this summer for a further five shows, covering cities in which she has not previously appeared, along with two festival appearances.
Colleen’s mesmerising show will include material from her third album, Les Ondes Silencieuses. The viola de gamba, classical guitar and the clarinet, all of which feature heavily on the new album, will be performed at the concerts.
Saturday 9 June
Faster Than Sound Festival,
Bentwaters Airbase,
Suffolk
with Murcof and others
Monday 11 June
Oxford Contemporary Music Festival,
The Jam Factory,
Oxford
Tuesday 12 June
Sacred Trinity Chapel,
Chapel Street, Salford,
Manchester
with Nancy Elizabeth & Gnac
Thursday 14 June
Holy Trinity Church,
Hull
Saturday 16 June 2007
CrawDaddy,
Dublin,
Ireland
Wednesday 20 June
Panopticon (Britannia Music Hall),
Glasgow
with John Cavanagh & Nalle
Reviews of Les Ondes Silencieuses:
“Colleen’s beautifully tranquil third album is a paean to a naked Renaissance sound that exists in its own eerie space. A softly shimmering mirage of an album”
Susanna Glaser, The Wire, May 2007
“We love Colleen… Les Ondes Silencieuses will floor anyone with with a taste for classical or ambient music”
XLR8R, April 2007
“Refined, meditative and genuinely lovely”
John Mulvey, Uncut, May 2007
“Closer to Bach than blues or Beatles”
Andy Gill, Independent Music
“Minimalist chamber pop strokings of a very sensual kind”
Rob Fitzpatrick, The Word, June 2007
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Scanner Newsletter May 2007
Stories from Scannerworld
Hello
May 1st, or Giorno dei Lavoratori in Italy, Loyalty Day in the USA, Labour Day, Walpurgis Night in Northern Europe, and most fun of all National Love Day in Czech Republic where couples tend to flock to the memorial of the poet Karel Hynek Macha in Prague and kiss. Book your flight immediately!
April was a month spent jetting from city to city, country to country, beginning in Lille France with the debut of 'Switch,' my collaboration with choreographer Thomas Lebrun, via The Sugar Factory in Amsterdam for the 10th anniversary for Steamin' Soundworks, for a discotastic night with Vector Lovers and ice queen Lilian Hak. Hanging up my dancing shoes I was off to Parma Italy, Milano, Paris for the Pixelache Festival, through the markets of North Paris to shop and ending up in tiny Kitchener Canada for the Open Ears festival, where I presented my new adaptation of Jean-Luc Godard's 'Alphaville' to a contented crowd, and had the opportunity to browse the dusty book shelves of several second-hand book stores.
Given all my travel adventures I'd decided to finally open them up to a wider world and have begun publishing images at flickr.com and in tandem have begun the process of uploading my archive of videos to youtube. So enjoy these at your leisure.
It's also been a busy month developing other projects. I soundtracked the introductory film to a groundbreaking exhibition of some of the world's earliest surviving sacred texts at the British Library in London. Sacred: Discover What We Share features some of the most exquisite and rarest sacred books and manuscripts presented and explored, side by side, in a major UK exhibition for the first time. It's a free show where there are remarkable items such as a fragment of the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as a Koran written a hundred years after Prophet Mohamed's death in the 7th century and the Lindisfarne Gospels, which illustrate the richness of Anglo-Saxon art. I'm also just completing work on a new film for the Venice Biennial in collaboration with British filmmaker Steve McQueen, more of which I can reveal in June.
The fruits of my labours of collaboration with London based design group FutureAcoustic are now available to public exposure too. FutureAcoustic's a3 is a new system able to create intelligently adaptive and generative sound environments and I was commissioned to compose material that could respond to the world around us. FutureAcoustic works with composers, sonic artists and visionaries of design and architecture to research and develop architectural sound experiences that extend our understanding of sound as a malleable material of everyday environments.
In the future there will be an opportunity to use these systems within your own domestic and work situations too, but for the moment have fun this link. I'm responsible for the 2nd and 5th fa_avantgarde spaces.The 5th responds to the microphone input of your computer so the more noise you make the more it will respond to you!
We are also back into rehearsals for new Githead live shows, following the release of our second full-length album this month, Art Pop. Three years after our debut it's possibly our most realized work to date. Opening with 'On Your Own' ("a pop classic for the disenchanted"), via the PiL-style loping avant-dub of "Drop", through the spiky angularity of the Pixies-esque "Drive By", to the baggy dance-rock of "Rotterdam" and the electro-psychedelia of "Space Life", it's a celebratory record of a pop group in fine spirits. Reviews have been consistently complimentary too:
"Simultaneously brooding, lush, aggressive and lyrical, this is a reclamation of pop and rock music at their most atmospheric and beguiling" (The Wire), and "Art Pop is a finely balanced record that seamlessly fuses familiarity and inventiveness" (All Music Guide).
To coincide with the release of Art Pop we Githeads have printed up a special Art Git shirt. These black shirts, available with designs in "classic" CMYK yellow and RGB red and "Matisse" orange & blue are available to purchase separately or can be combined with the new album for a special price of £20 (plus p&p). The original Git-shirt is also available to purchase as part of this special combo deal.
Our shirts are not only designed for Kate Moss waif-like figures either - we've added a very small quantity of XXL to the range, so if enjoy your cake and eat it and you've added a few inches then these are ideal to maintain that sexy comtemporary Art Pop look.
This month I'm off to Barcelona for the Storung Festival, Montreal for Elektra Festival with TeZ for our Blindscape presentation, Wroclaw Poland for Light Turned Downwith D-Fuse, and Vienna to perform a live soundtrack to Slomo:100 Minutes of Slow Motion, created by 85 visual artists from all over the world.
I'll also be celebrating my birthday at the Throbbing Gristle concert at Tate Modern in London as part of this UBS/The Long Weekend at the end of the month. It's four days of live performances, art installations, events & activities, including installations by artists Matthieu Briand and Marepe. Highlights include NYC based musician Ikue Mori performing live soundtracks to seven experimental films by legendary avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, and the supremely demanding Sleep is Obsolete: Warhol/Cage Satie with performances by Gavin Bryars, Michael Nyman and John Giorno. This is an all-night affair where Andy Warhol's first film, Sleep (1963), will be screened throughout the night accompanied by a re-creation of the 18-hour musical performance that inspired it. Bring a mixture of sugary snacks and a sleeping bag!
See you next month when I'm a little older and perhaps a little wiser!
Best wishes
Robin Rimbaud
::: listen :::
Erik Satie: Cubist Works 1913-1924 (LTM)
David Toop: Sound Body (Samadhisound)
Opsvik & Jennings: Commuter Anthems (rune grammofon)
Matt Rogalsky: Memory Like Water (XI Records)
::: read :::
Soundscape: School of Sound Lectures (Wallflower)
Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint Vol IV (JMc & GHB)
Jennifer and Kevin McCoy: Tiny, Funny, Big and Sad (BFI)
Alain de Botton: The Architecture of Happiness (Penguin)
::: film:::
Renaissance, Christian Volckman, France
Thieves Like Us, Robert Altman, USA
Ae Fond Kiss, Ken Loach, UK
The Alibi, Matt Checkowski, USA
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::: Diary Dates :::
2007
05 May-Störung Festival Barcelona Spain
12 May-Blindscape at Elektra Festival Montreal Canada
20 May-Light Turned Down with D-Fuse at Wroclaw Poland
24 May-Slomo:100 Minutes show Radiokulturhaus Wien Austria
02 June-Girona Spain
17 June-Githead Bar Music Hall London
19 June-Githead La Maroquinerie Paris France
23 June-Riff Ipswich UK
22 July-Tonspur 21 Launch Vienna Austria
27 July-Live at Fluc Vienna Austria
20 August-Duet with DJ Olive Chapelle des Brigittines Brussels
31 August-Duet with David Rothenberg, Kristiansand Norway
26 Oct-Museum of Garden History London
10 Nov-William S Burroughs event Paradiso Amsterdam
16 Nov-Blindscape with TeZ at La Casa Encendida Madrid Spain
2008
16 Feb-Night Haunts, Stockholm Sweden
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Exhibitions
Night Haunts
By Sukhdev Sandhu
Design Mind Unit
Sound Design Scanner
Artangel Interaction invited writer and historian Sukhdev Sandhu to write a nocturnal journal unfolding over the course of 2006. His postings will appear sequentially at this microsite specially designed by Mind Unit. Sandhu's forays see him prospecting in the London night with the people who drive its pulse, from the avian police to security guards, zookeepers and exorcists. Acclaimed artist and musician Scanner has collaborated with Sukhdev and Ian Budden of Mind Unit to compose the sound for the site.
www.nighthaunts.org.uk
www.artangel.org.uk
Bittersweet Songs for the Sleepless City
Artangel Interaction
NightJam is the latest project in Artangel Interaction’s Nights of London series of artist-led collaborations with people who have a special view on a hidden side of the nocturnal city. Scanner invited young people at New Horizon Youth Centre in King’s Cross to collaborate on a creative project that expresses how the city at night looks and sounds to their ears and eyes. Through music and voice workshops they explored the sense of freedom and fear, celebration and solitude of the concealing darkness. Meanwhile, they captured their nights on disposable cameras, taking images that are at times eerie, startling, contemplative and funny. NightJam presents two elusive visual and musical journeys through the city’s ‘quiet’ hours.
NightJam presents two music tracks, a film, photographs, that can be experienced and freely downloaded. A limited edition CD is also being distributed for free through the website. Now featuring remixes of NightJam by Stephen Vitiello, Hakan Lidbo, Troy Banarzi, Si-cut.db and Pete Lockett.
www.nightjam.org.uk
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