Dafne Vicente­-Sandoval 20.02.15


Dafne Vicente­-Sandoval is a bassoon player, who explores sound through improvisation, contemporary music performance and sound installations. Her instrumental approach is centered on the fragility of sound and its emergence within a given space. In a concert situation she seeks to create a parodoxal presence of vulnerability and strength by testing the limits of control and unstability. The deconstructed usage of her instrument is another central aspect of her practice. Dafne amplifies fragments through miniature microphones distributed within the instrument. This exploded version of her sound sometimes meets more conventional bassoon playing to generate aural discontinuities between the exterior and the interior, the whole and the parts, wood and electricity ­ a reverse­engineered emergence.

 Dafne Vicente­-Sandoval (Paris, 1979) currently lives in Paris and works mainly everywhere else. She favours long term face­to­face collaborations within which her work keeps an integrity while holding a dialogue with that of others (current projects with Klaus Filip, Bonnie Jones, Pascal Battus, Jakob Ullmann, Éliane Radigue and Klaus Lang). Her work has been shown in contemporary music festivals (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, England; Blurred Edges, Hamburg; Visiones Sonoras, Mexico), as well as in improvised music (Konfrontationen, Austria; No Idea, Texas) and sound art (Tsonami, Chile) festivals.

 https://soundcloud.com/dafnesandoval




Bill Dietz - 5 Years of Tutorial Diversions - 12.02.15




5 Years of Tutorial Diversions
Performing Listening with Bill Dietz

After a century of artists' experimentation with sonic materials and at a moment when the means sonic manipulation and distribution are more readily available than ever before, what else can we do with music? For the past ten years, Bill Dietz has been working through various methods of composing listening itself, without sound. Imagined as indetermining interventions into our everyday experience of the sonic (at home, via headphones, etc), Dietz's series of Tutorial Diversions (2009­2014) are models for dynamic, spatial listenings that can be applied to any sounds whatsoever. In advance of Edition Solitude's March 2015 release of a monograph collecting the performance materials of eight Tutorial Diversions, Dietz will present a survey of these works, never before presented in Italy. Attendees are asked to bring an audio file of their choice to serve as material for listening performance. At the end of the evening, the listener generated playlist will be made available for home performance.

Bill Dietz, born in 1983 in Bisbee, Arizona, studied composition at the New England Conservatory of Music and Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota. He has lived and worked in Berlin since 2003, initially as a student and assistant of Peter Ablinger. Since 2007 he is the artistic director of Ensemble Zwischentöne, and is currently the Co­Chair of Music/Sound in Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. From sounding the facade of Le Corbusier's Unité d'habitation in Marseille to orchestrating echoes across city blocks in Manhattan to projecting sonified architectural models onto audiences, Dietz’s work examines the genealogy of the concert and the performance of listening. His broad engagement with sound’s sociality in artistic, curatorial, and theoretical work has brought him to festivals such as MaerzMusik, through museums such as the Hamburger Bahnhof, to podiums at academic symposia such as the International Congress for Music Research, and into the pages of magazines such as Performance Research Journal and the catalogue of the 2014 Whitney Biennial. In 2011 he was the recipient of a working fellowship at the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop and a residency fellowship from the Goethe Institute in New York; from 2012 to 2013 he was a resident fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart; in 2013 he was artist­ in residence of the Cité radieuse in Marseille, as well as gmem ­ centre national de la création musicale. 

http://tutorialdiversions.org/





Dear Friends,
our season continues in February 2015 with two new, exciting events:
Bill Dietz's survey on his five year long investigation of the methodologies to compose listening –
his series of Tutorial Diversions – and Dafne Vicente­-Sandoval's bassoon solo.
Both events will be held at Raum (via Cà selvatica 4/d, Bologna), in collaboration with Xing.
Save the dates and see you soon!
February 12, 10 pm

 5 Years of Tutorial Diversions
Performing Listening with Bill Dietz

 After a century of artists' experimentation with sonic materials and at a moment when the means sonic manipulation and distribution are more readily available than ever before, what else can we do with music? For the past ten years, Bill Dietz has been working through various methods of composing listening itself, without sound. Imagined as indetermining interventions into our everyday experience of the sonic (at home, via headphones, etc), Dietz's series of Tutorial Diversions (2009­2014) are models for dynamic, spatial listenings that can be applied to any sounds whatsoever. In advance of Edition Solitude's March 2015 release of a monograph collecting the performance materials of eight Tutorial Diversions, Dietz will present a survey of these works, never before presented in Italy. Attendees are asked to bring an audio file of their choice to serve as material for listening performance. At the end of the evening, the listener generated playlist will be made available for home performance.

 Bill Dietz, born in 1983 in Bisbee, Arizona, studied composition at the New England Conservatory of Music and Cultural Studies at the University of Minnesota. He has lived and worked in Berlin since 2003, initially as a student and assistant of Peter Ablinger. Since 2007 he is the artistic director of Ensemble Zwischentöne, and is currently the Co­Chair of Music/Sound in Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. From sounding the facade of Le Corbusier's Unité d'habitation in Marseille to orchestrating echoes across city blocks in Manhattan to projecting sonified architectural models onto audiences, Dietz’s work examines the genealogy of the concert and the performance of listening. His broad engagement with sound’s sociality in artistic, curatorial, and theoretical work has brought him to festivals such as MaerzMusik, through museums such as the Hamburger Bahnhof, to podiums at academic symposia such as the International Congress for Music Research, and into the pages of magazines such as Performance Research Journal and the catalogue of the 2014 Whitney Biennial. In 2011 he was the recipient of a working fellowship at the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop and a residency fellowship from the Goethe Institute in New York; from 2012 to 2013 he was a resident fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart; in 2013 he was artist­ in residence of the Cité radieuse in Marseille, as well as gmem ­ centre national de la création musicale. http://tutorialdiversions.org/
February 20, 10 pm

 Dafne Vicente­-Sandoval (F), solo

 Dafne Vicente­-Sandoval (Paris, 1979) is a bassoon player, who explores sound through improvisation, contemporary music performance and sound installations. Her instrumental approach is centered on the fragility of sound and its emergence within a given space. In a concert situation she seeks to create a parodoxal presence of vulnerability and strength by testing the limits of control and unstability. The deconstructed usage of her instrument is another central aspect of her practice. Dafne amplifies fragments through miniature microphones distributed within the instrument. This exploded version of her sound sometimes meets more conventional bassoon playing to generate aural discontinuities between the exterior and the interior, the whole and the parts, wood and electricity – a reverse­engineered emergence.
Dafne currently lives in Paris and works mainly everywhere else. She favors long term face­to­face
collaborations within which her work keeps an integrity while holding a dialogue with that of others (current projects with Klaus Filip, Bonnie Jones, Pascal Battus, Jakob Ullmann, Éliane Radigue and Klaus Lang). Her work has been shown in contemporary music festivals (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, England; Blurred Edges, Hamburg; Visiones Sonoras, Mexico), as well as in improvised music (Konfrontationen, Austria; No Idea, Texas) and sound art (Tsonami, Chile) festivals. https://soundcloud.com/dafnesandoval
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Tomoko Sauvage 4.12.14



Tomoko Sauvage, Japanese musician/sound artist based in Paris, has been working on waterbowls, porcelain bowls of different sizes, filled with water and amplified with hydrophones (under­water microphones)*. She plays with different forms of water – drops, waves and bubbles resonating in the bowls as well as audio feedback creating waving drones and natural overtones. Her work is about the delicate balance between controlled and uncontrolled with random percussion of droplets, acoustic characteristics of the space and the fragile tonality created with the fluid materials constantly evaporating and moving.
Sauvage has been giving performances, exhibitions and workshops in Europe, US, Canada and Japan, often in solo but also in collaboration with musicians and choreographers. Her works have been released by and/OAR (US), aposiopèse (BE), dokidoki editions (FR). In 2011, a new set of porcelain bowls was created during her residency at La Pommerie (FR) in collaboration with Ceramic Research Center in Limoges (CRAFT).

 o­o­o­o.org

*H2a­XLR/Aquarian Audio

Emiliano Romanelli - 333 LOOPS - 20.11.14


Emiliano Romanelli (b. 1979) is an Italian electronic musician and composer who lives and works in Città Sant'Angelo, Italy. During the 1990s, he studied photography and graphic design at Istituto Statale d'Arte in Pescara; and in parallel, he studied organology and electronic music for computer privately.
In 1998, he co-founded the multimedia duo Tu m', where he worked as musician, visual artist, graphic designer and curator until 2011. The duo's compositions have been released for labels including Line (USA), Headz (Japan), Dekorder (Germany) and others. Their audio-visual works have been exhibited in various museums and galleries including Castello di Rivoli (Torino, Italy); Arnolfini (Bristol, UK); Oboro (Montreal, Canada) and others.
In 2012, Romanelli began an ongoing project focused on the generative systems and the perceptual relationships between sound and space. His works are published by Terziruolo (Italy).


Pär Thörn 30.10.14


Pär Thörn (born 1977) is a Swedish live­electronic musician, writer and conceptual artist.
He wants to emphasize the mechanical and material aspects of the taperecorder and the unsecure element in the use of radio. The music moves between sinewaves, circuitbending, clicking stroboscopes, metallic sounds, chanting sound poetry and brutal screams that get juxtaposed with the found material of the radios. Thörns record "Schöneberg/Stammheim/Gärdet/Rågsved" (Treffpunkt) got nominated as the best Swedish experimental music record during 2008. Currently he is active in projects with the dancer Takako Suzuki, the turntablist Ignaz Schick, the saxophone player Martin Küchen and the trumpet player Axel Dörner.

 http://www.storno.wordpress.com





Dear Friends,
we are very happy to announce our next season!



30 October, 10 pm
Pär Thörn (S)
Pär Thörn (born 1977) is a Swedish live-electronic musician, writer and conceptual artist. He wants to emphasize the mechanical and material aspects of the taperecorder and the unsecure element in the use of radio. The music moves between sinewaves, circuit bending, clicking stroboscopes, metallic sounds, chanting sound poetry and brutal screams that get juxtaposed with the found material of the radios. Thörn's record Schöneberg/Stammheim/Gärdet/Rågsved (Treffpunkt) got nominated as the best Swedish experimental music record during 2008. Currently he is active in projects with the dancer Takako Suzuki, the turntablist Ignaz Schick, the saxophone player Martin Küchen and the trumpet player Axel Dörner. http://www.storno.wordpress.com

20 November, 10 pm
Emiliano Romanelli (I), 333 LOOPS
Emiliano Romanelli (born 1979) is an Italian electronic musician and composer who lives and works in Città Sant'Angelo, Italy. During the 1990s, he studied photography and graphic design at Istituto Statale d'Arte in Pescara; and in parallel, he studied organology and electronic music for computer privately. In 1998, he co-founded the multimedia duo Tu m', where he worked as musician, visual artist, graphic designer and curator until 2011. The duo's compositions have been released for labels including Line (USA), Headz (Japan), Dekorder (Germany) and others. Their audio-visual works have been exhibited in various museums and galleries including Castello di Rivoli (Torino, Italy); Arnolfini (Bristol, UK); Oboro (Montreal, Canada) and others. In 2012, Romanelli began an ongoing project focused on the generative systems and the perceptual relationships between sound, light and space. His works are published by Terziruolo (Italy). www.terziruolo.com, www.emilianoromanelli.com

4 December, 10 pm
Tomoko Sauvage (J/F)
Tomoko Sauvage, Japanese musician/sound artist based in Paris, has been working on waterbowls, porcelain bowls of different sizes, filled with water and amplified with hydrophones (under-water microphones)*. She plays with different forms of water – drops, waves and bubbles resonating in the bowls as well as audio feedback creating waving drones and natural overtones. Her work is about the delicate balance between controlled and uncontrolled with random percussion of droplets, acoustic characteristics of the space and the fragile tonality created with the fluid materials constantly evaporating and moving. Sauvage has been giving performances, exhibitions and workshops in Europe, US, Canada and Japan, often in solo but also in collaboration with musicians and choreographers. Her works have been released by and/OAR (US), aposiopèse (BE), dokidoki editions (FR). In 2011, a new set of porcelain bowls was created during her residency at La Pommerie (FR) in collaboration with Ceramic Research Center in Limoges (CRAFT). o-o-o-o.org
*H2a-XLR/Aquarian Audio


All the events will be held at Raum (via Cà selvatica 4/d, Bologna), in collaboration with the network Xing.
Save the dates and see you soon!


Sant'Andrea degli amplificatori

Xing is a cultural network operating in Italy and abroad, with the purpose of planning, supporting and promoting products and events characterized by an interdisciplinary approach toward the issues of contemporary culture, with particular attention to generational tendencies linked to new languages. Since 2003 Xing curates a continuing program of research at their own space, Raum.

Xing/Raum
via Ca' Selvatica 4/d - Bologna
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Matthieu Saladin - Evaporation d’une certaine quantité d’eau - 7.03.14




Matthieu Saladin

Evaporation d’une certaine quantité d’eau

 Climatic pièce

with Esteban Ayala, Federico Cataldo, Mario Guida, Valerio Maiolo, Amirabbas Mohammadi, Matthieu Saladin.

Evaporation d'une certaine quantité d'eau is an experimental score for an undetermined number of performers. A collective climatic pièce whose duration is determined by the time of evaporation of water. The performance will be realized at Raum for the first time with the collaboration of young artists and musicians involved in a workshop on the aquatic dimension of sound practices.

Matthieu Saladin’s practice results from a conceptual approach, which reflects upon the history of forms, of creative processes and social constructs, as well as on the relationships between art and society from an economic and political perspective. He is editor­in­chief of the journal TACET, on experimental music and sound art. He is also a member of the editorial board of Revue & Corrigée and Volume! He has got PhD in Aesthetics (Panthéon­Sorbonne University) and he teaches philosophy of art at the Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR). He is researcher at Institut ACTE, Panthéon­Sorbonne University / CNRS. 





A.TYPIST 26.02.14

A.TYPIST (Hankil Ryu, lo wie, Taeyong Kim)

A. Typist is a project group formed in 2011 by Korean musician Hankil Ryu and writers lo
wie and Taeyong Kim. The group is interested in the unusual and sudden results of acts
of writing, exploring if writing  can be another way of producing music/non­music works.
Investigating an unknown area between text and sound, they apply sound technology to
old  typewriters  and  their  own  mechanisms  so  that,  in  addition  to  the  original  sound,  a
sound derived from writing is produced. A.Typist's first works – Beckett's Typist, Profile,
and Descriptions for Other Things – have been released as three CD+Book sets in 2011
by The Manual and Mediabus. 

http://themanual.co.kr

 

Hankil  Ryu is a musician  interested  in finding  an alternative  musical  structure  in
abandoned  objects  like  clockworks,  typewriters  and  telephones.  After  discovering  the
instrumental possibilities of a typewriter, he started to collaborate with writers lo wie and
Taeyong Kim. Since 2005, he organised a monthly event called RELAY and established
The Manual, his own publishing office.

lo wie has written screenplays and text for video works and now collaborates with other
musicians in making sound by writing text.

Taeyong Kim is a novelist born in 1974 in Seoul, South Korea. He majored in creative
writing  at  the  Graduate  School  of  Soongsil  University  and  currently  is  Professor  of
creative writing at Seoul Institute of the Arts. He has published two books of short stories,
Pig on the Grass (2007) and Pimp Story (2012), and a novel, Straight Out (2010), that
examines the fate of man in a world where language invariably betrays intention, yet there
is  no  choice  but  to  use  language  to retain  thought.  One  of  his  short  stories  has  been
published in France under the name J'etais un Maquereau (2011, Cartouche). In 2008, he
won The Korea Times Literary Award and in 2012 the Moonji Literary Award. 
 

Antoine Chessex - MULTIPLE 30.01.14


Born in Vevey in 1980, Antoine Chessex is a composer and sound artist whose works assume a wide diversity of forms spanning compositions for ensembles, solo performances, sound installations and transdisciplinary projects. His compositions are characterized by textural density and address the physical dimensions of sounds and spaces. The works of Antoine Chessex have over the years crossed the boundaries between noise, modern composition, improvisation and electronic music. His background as a saxophone player saw him performing extensively in different experimental music contexts during the past decades.

http://www.soundimplant.com/achessex






..

Dear Friends,
we are glad and proud to announce our next events!
Our season continues with three performances embracing different disciplines, formats,
and  dispositifs  through  heterogeneous  approaches  to  music  making  (and  thinking):  a
solo   by composer and saxophone player Antoine Chessex, a live set for typewriters by
Korean  project  group A.Typist (Hankil  Ryu,  lo  wie,  Taeyong Kim),  and  a  performance
conceived  for  this  occasion  by  French  artist  and researcher  Matthieu Saladin.  All  the
events will take place at RAUM (via Ca' Selvatica 4/d, Bologna), in collaboration with Xing
(http://www.xing.it/).

 
We hope to see you soon.
In the meanwhile, have a good time!


 

30 January, 10.00 pm

ANTOINE CHESSEX
"Multiple, composition for tenor sax and backtape"

Born in Vevey in 1980, Antoine Chessex is a composer and sound artist whose works
assume  a  wide  diversity  of  forms  spanning  compositions  for  ensembles,  solo
performances, sound installations, transdisciplinary projects and crossing the boundaries
between  noise,  modern  composition,  improvisation  and  electronic  music.  His
compositions are characterized by textural density and address the physical dimensions
of sounds and spaces. After relocating to Berlin in 2002, Chessex took parts in a broad
range  of  artistic  projects  while  developing  solo  performances  playing  his  horn  through
electronic devices, guitar amps and PA systems resulting in intense live actions. In recent
years, he has departed from a purely instrumental activity focusing on compositions and
transdisciplinary  projets.  Recent  commissions  include  DUST  for  three  violins  and
electronics, Chute for the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Schichten & Ritournelle
Fulgurante  for  the  oh  ton  Ensemble,  Metakatharsis  for  the  Phoenix  Ensemble
and Furia for the Ensemble Werktag in Zürich. Since 2013, he is the  co­director of the
research  institute  A/positions  in  Lausanne  together  with  historian  and  anthropologist
Thibault Walter. He is also a founding member of the noise band MoNNo with whom he
recorded 4 albums and toured extensively.
Chessex  performed  at  numerous  international  festivals  and  venues  worldwide.  Past
performances include: Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Cafe OTO (London),
Transmediale  festival  (Berlin),  Ultima  contemporary  music  festival  (Oslo),  Videotage
(Hong Kong),  Diapason Gallery (New York),  Issue Project  Room (New York), The  Lab
(San  Francisco),  The  Compound  (San  Francisco),  Tuned  City  festival  (Berlin),  Sonic
Protest  festival  (Paris),  Unsound  festival  (Krakow),  Archipel  festival  (Geneva),  Women
(Los  Angeles),  Ultra  Hang  festival  (Budapest),  Parnassos  concert  hall  (Athen),  Vaal
Gallery (Tallinn), Dom (Moscow), Corsica Studios (London), Sound Forest festival (Riga),
Urban Guild (Kyoto), Urga (Tokyo), Ochiai Soup (Tokyo), Namba Bear (Osaka), center of
contemporary  arts  (Warsaw),  Fundacion  Serralves  (Porto),  Palace  Akropolis  (Prague),
Mezzo  Cielo  Festival  (Roma),  Audio  Art  Festival  (Krakow),  LUFF  festival  (Lausanne),
Ruin Festival (Wien), Echo festival (Belgrade), Sendesaal Bremen, DNK (Amsterdam).

http://www.soundimplant.com/achessex

 

26 February, 10.00 pm

A.TYPIST (Hankil Ryu, lo wie, Taeyong Kim)

A. Typist is a project group formed in 2011 by Korean musician Hankil Ryu and writers lo
wie and Taeyong Kim. The group is interested in the unusual and sudden results of acts
of writing, exploring if writing  can be another way of producing music/non­music works.
Investigating an unknown area between text and sound, they apply sound technology to
old  typewriters  and  their  own  mechanisms  so  that,  in  addition  to  the  original  sound,  a
sound derived from writing is produced. A.Typist's first works – Beckett's Typist, Profile,
and Descriptions for Other Things – have been released as three CD+Book sets in 2011
by The Manual and Mediabus. 

 http://themanual.co.kr

 

Hankil  Ryu is a musician  interested  in finding  an alternative  musical  structure  in
abandoned  objects  like  clockworks,  typewriters  and  telephones.  After  discovering  the
instrumental possibilities of a typewriter, he started to collaborate with writers lo wie and
Taeyong Kim. Since 2005, he organised a monthly event called RELAY and established
The Manual, his own publishing office.

lo wie has written screenplays and text for video works and now collaborates with other
musicians in making sound by writing text.

Taeyong Kim is a novelist born in 1974 in Seoul, South Korea. He majored in creative
writing  at  the  Graduate  School  of  Soongsil  University  and  currently  is  Professor  of
creative writing at Seoul Institute of the Arts. He has published two books of short stories,
Pig on the Grass (2007) and Pimp Story (2012), and a novel, Straight Out (2010), that
examines the fate of man in a world where language invariably betrays intention, yet there
is  no  choice  but  to  use  language  to retain  thought.  One  of  his  short  stories  has  been
published in France under the name J'etais un Maquereau (2011, Cartouche). In 2008, he
won The Korea Times Literary Award and in 2012 the Moonji Literary Award. 
 

7 March, 10.00 pm

MATTHIEU SALADIN

Matthieu Saladin’s practice results from a conceptual approach, which reflects upon the
history  of  forms,  of  creative  processes  and  social  constructs,  as  well  as  on  the
relationships between art and society from an economic and political perspective. 
He  is  editor­in­chief  of  the  journal  TACET  on  experimental  music  and  sound  art,  and
member of the editorial board of Revue & Corrigée and Volume! He completed a Ph.D. in
Aesthetics (Panthéon­Sorbonne University), teaches philosophy of art at the Haute École
des  Arts  du  Rhin  (HEAR)  and  is  researcher  at  Institut  ACTE,  Panthéon­Sorbonne
University/CNRS.

www.g20song.net (optimized for mozilla firefox)

STEPHEN CORNFORD 5.12.13



Stephen Cornford (born 1979, London) is an installation artist and improvising musician. His work stems from an abiding fascination with consumer audio electronics: the way these devices that we are sold to consume music increasingly frame our engagement with the auditory world at large. Reconfiguring these media from the inside, re-imagining their functionality, defying their obsolescence and searching for their intrinsic poetry are for him strategies with which to challenge normative use, social conformity and the myth of technological progress. His work inhabits both gallery and gig, taking the forms of kinetic installation and process-based performance by turns, always searching for situations in which the material; whether solid, spatial or sonic; controls the outcome as much as he does.

Stephen is currently a Research Fellow at the Sound Art Research Unit of Oxford Brookes University where he co-curates the Audiograft Festival. He initially studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art before completing an MA at Dartington College of Arts. He has established ongoing collaborations with Samuel Rodgers (with whom he runs the Consumer Waste label), Ben Gwilliam and Patrick Farmer.

Recent exhibitions include solo shows at Lydgalleriet (Bergen), Campbell Works (London) and Permanent Gallery (Brighton). Stephen’s work has been included in a large scale retrospectives namely: Sound Art at ZKM Centre for Media & Art and Urban Sounds at the Haus der Elektronische Künste in Basel. Stephen’s audio works have been published by Senufo Editions, Accidie Records, Another Timbre and Cathnor.

http://www.scrawn.co.uk/




DUANE PITRE 8.11.13


Duane Pitre is an American avant-garde composer, performer, and sound artist. His work often focuses on the interaction between electronic sound and acoustic instrumentation, chaos and discipline, as well as site-specificity. The composer also utilizes alternate tuning schemes that focus on microtonality, enabling him to explore unaccustomed intervallic relationships. He has created works for various instrumentation configurations such as string orchestra, his own bowed harmonic-guitar ensemble, string/wind ensembles, as well as solo works (including for himself).
He has presented and performed his live works across the U.S., U.K., and Europe at spaces such as Café OTO, Roulette, The Stone, Muziekhuis Utrecht, MoMA’s P.S.1, Les Ateliers Claus, St. Ann’s Cathedral, and ISSUE Project Room (where the Jerome Foundation provided funding for his spring 2009 Artist in Residency). He has received commissions for new works by ISSUE Project Room, the String Orchestra of Brooklyn, and Roulette, among others. More than 100 unique musicians from around the world have taken part in the performances of his works.
Pitre’s sound installations have been included in visual art group shows in Geneva (2013's Prosthetic Measures at the Skopia Gallery) and New Orleans (as a part of the 2012 NOLA Now show at the Contemporary Art Center). Pitre has also performed live in gallery settings such as New York’s Phillips de Pury & Co., San Francisco’s Eli Ridgway Gallery (as reviewed in ArtForum as a part of James Sterling Pitt’s 2012 showOn a Clear Day We Were Lightening), and New Orleans’ Antenna Gallery.
Pitre has been featured in publications such as The Wire, Foxy Digitalis, Pitchfork,Dusted, and NewMusicBox. His work has been released by various labels includingImportant Records, Root Strata, NNA, and Quiet Design, and he has appeared on soundtracks with Dinosaur Jr., Battles, and Animal Collective. In 2009 he curated and contributed a track to a Just Intonation compilation, alongside Pauline Oliveros,Ellen Fullman, Charles Curtis, and others.
He has performed at festivals such as the 2011 Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, NC (alongside the Flaming Lips, Earth, Swans, J. Mascis, Guided by Voices, Rhys Chatham, and more) and the 2012 The Wire's Adventures in Modern Music Festivalat The Empty Bottle in Chicago.
Pitre’s 2012 album, Feel Free, received critical acclaim and was included on several ‘best of’ lists, including being named #37 on The Wire’s ‘2012 Rewind’ (out of their top 50 releases); #34 on The Wire’s ‘Subscribers’ Releases of the Year’ list; and #8 onUncut Magazine’s ‘Wild Mercury Sound Top 112 of 2012’ list. In addition, “The Out Door,” Pitchfork’s experimental-minded column included Feel Free on its ‘Best of 2012: The Big Four’ list. The album was also included in several year-end lists forDusted Magazine and many other blogs.
In 2013 Pitre will release several new albums including his follow-up to Feel Free, titled Bridges, which is due out on Important Records in June; a debut LP from a new collaboration with electronic minimalist Eleh (under the moniker PITRELEH)

 http://www.duanepitre.com/


h. 22:00

Xing/Raum
via Ca' Selvatica 4/d - Bologna  


RIE NAKAJIMA 16.10.13












Rie Nakajima is a Japanese artist, living and working in London. Nakajima works with installations and performances that produce sound. Her works are most often composed in direct response to unique architectural spaces using a combination of audio materials and found objects which develops out of sculptural questions.
She is the current associate artist at Café OTO, London. She has collaborated with David Cunningham, David Toop, Miki Yui and some other musicians and artists. She studied art history and aesthetics at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (BA), sculpture at Chelsea College of Art and Design (BA) and Slade School of Fine art (MFA). She has exhibited widely, both in the UK and overseas.
http://www.rienakajima.com/



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