04/01 @ 8:00pm - Alexander Schubert’s Laplace Tiger + Ignaz Schick with Maria Chavez, Chris Forsyth, Sean Meehan, Aaron Moore, Aki Onda & Nate Wooley
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Zangi Music Special:
Ignaz Schick (Berlin) – turntables, objects in duo with
Maria Chavez – turntable
Chris Forsyth – guitars
Aaron Moore – pipes, cymbals, 4track
Aki Onda – cassettes, electronics
Nate Wooley – trumpet
Ignaz Schick – turntables
Berlin sound artist & turntablist Ignaz Schick, who devolped a unique turntable set-up called “Rotating Surfaces” which is based entirely on objects curates an exceptional event for Issue Project Room, a 90 minute mini-marathon concert. He will be performing short duo sets of each 10-15 minutes with an outstanding and supreme selection of New York City experimental sound performers from the younger generation. A continuous stream of music and a kind of miniature version and twin event to his triannual and legendary Erase & Reset festival which he has been organizing since 2003 in Berlin.
This is his first reappearance in NYC in amost 10 years since he last performed several nights with Berlin electro-acoustic allstartrio Perlonex in 2001. Within the last two years in his new projects has mainly focused on duo collaborations with artists from completely different geographical and stylistic backgrounds. Ignaz (Berlin) [turntablist, sound artist, curator] In his youth he studied the saxophone and performed in free jazz and avant rock bands. At the same time he was getting obsessed with multitrack tape machines, record players and effect boxes and he started experimenting with many different instruments and sound making devices. After college he briefly studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and worked for several years as an assistent for the contemporary composer Josef Anton Riedl.
Since the late 1995 he works and lives in Berlin where he became an active and integral force of the so-called “Berlin Nouvelle Vague” and the blossoming “real time music” scene. From the middle of the nineties onwards his interest and activities almost completely shifted towards live-electronics and after testing various instrumentations (hard- & software samplers, signal processing, contact mics, field recordings, …) he developed his own and quite unique electro-acoustic set-up which he calls “rotating surfaces”. Various objects and materials (from wood, metal, plastic, paper or violin bows and cymbals) are played directly on the rotating metal plate of the turntable and the vibrations are simply amplified with a small condensator microphone. With this set-up he covers many different styles of contemporary experimental music – ranging from extreme reductionism via ambient, industrial, musique concrete, electronica to harsh noise.
Besides his favorite setting – the direct duo-confrontation with the likes of Chris Abrahams (AUS), Andrea Belfi (I), Alexei Borisov (RUS), Sebastian Buczek (PL), Phil Durrant (GB), Gunnar Geisse (D), GX Jupitter-Larsen/The Haters (USA), Mat Pogo (IT), Sven Ake Johansson (S/D), Andrea Neumann (D), Dawid Szczesny (PL), Martin Tetreault (CAN), Marcel Türkowsky (D) or Sabine Vogel (D) – he is member and founder of many different ensembles like Perlonex, Snake Figures Arkestra, Phosphor, Tree People, Decollage, Berlin Sound Connective, N.I.E.,…
He has collaborated with numerous international artists (most notably Don Cherry & Charlemagne Palestine) and toured and performed clubs & festivals all over Eastern and Western Europe, Australia, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand, Russia, Ukraine & the USA. He released many albums on labels like Zarek, Edition Zangi, edition x, Irrah, Potlatch, Bad Alchemy, Charhizma, Staalplaat, Nexsound, Non Visual Objects, Improvised Music From Japan, Absinth or Ambiances Magnetiques and he was part of radio/television broadcasts and productions on Arte, ORF-Kunstradio, ORF-Zeitton, BR2, DLR, DLF, WDR3, DRS2, SR, HR or Radio Copernicus (…)
Furthermore he has been curating festivals of experimental music from the early 90s onwards (FAM, Erase & Reset, Time Shifts & T.I.T.O., …) and has been realizing with increasing intensiry sound installations and conceptual works since 2005.
http://www.myspace.com/ignazschick
Maria Chavez
Born in Peru, avant-turntablist Maria Chavez currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. With a collection of new and broken needles that she calls “pencils of sound” and a selection of records, she creates electro-acoustic sound pieces. Chavez made her New York City debut in a duet with Thurston Moore, collaborated with Otomo Yoshihide as part of the 2007 Wien Modern Festival, and recently shared the stage with Pauline Oliveros and Lydia Lunch during Vienna’s Phonofemme Festival 2009 and the NY Sound Festival at CAPC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France with Phil Niblock and Alan Licht.
http://www.myspace.com/mariachavez
Chris Forsyth
Guitarist Chris Forsyth is known for his hypnotic compositions and solo performances. He is also a founding member of post-everything gothic junk folk expressionists Peeesseye, and a member of the elusive experimental group Phantom Limb & Bison. Other notable collaborators have included guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama, trumpeter Nate Wooley, and choreographers Miguel Gutierrez and RoseAnne Spradlin. His most recent LP, Dreams, came out in late ‘09 on on Evolving Ear. Other recent and upcoming releases include the Dirty Pool LP, with Farfisa organist Shawn Edward Hansen, on Ultramarine, and a long list of Peeesseye projects, including the Peeesseye + Talibam! collab record on CD (Invada) and 2XLP (Smeraldina-Rima), as well as their forthcoming studio LP Pestilence & Joy. He is the caretaker of Evolving Ear and lives in the City of Philadelpha, USA.
Aaron Moore
Aaron Moore is an improvisor and composer who plays music with instruments and devices. Drums, vocals, trumpet and tapes are his main instrumentation but anything that makes a sound that can be manipulated, rhythmically or melodically, is of equal importance to him. He is a founding member of the English group Volcano The Bear, now in their 15th year together. Other current musical projects include NYC based Amolvacy, Courtis/Moore, a duo with Alan Courtis and the Paris based Textile Orchestra. Aaron has appeared on over 25 albums, toured Europe and the USA on many occasions and collaborated/performed with Jeremy Barnes, Tom Recchion, Boredoms, Thierry Muller, Steve Mackay, Paul Dunmall, Michael Snow & Mats Gustaffson. Born in Market Harborough, England he now resides in Brooklyn, New York.
http://www.myspace.com/aaronmooretheaccidental
Aki Onda
Aki Onda is an electronic musician, composer, and photographer. Onda was born in Japan and currently resides in New York. He is particularly known for his Cassette Memories project – works compiled from a “sound diary” of field-recordings collected by Onda over a span of two decades. Onda’s musical instrument of choice is the cassette Walkman. Not only does he capture field recordings with the Walkman, he also physically manipulates multiple Walkmans with electronics in his performances. In another of his projects, Cinemage, Onda produces slide projections of still photo images set to live guitar improvisation. Onda has collaborated with artists such as Michael Snow, Ken Jacobs, Alan Licht, Loren Connors, Oren Ambarchi, Noël Akchoté, Jac Berrocal, Linda Sharrock, and Shelley Hirsch.
Nate Wooley
Nate Wooley (b. 1974) grew up in a Finnish-American fishing village in Oregon. He has spent the rest of his life trying musically to find a way back to the peace and quiet of that time by whole-heartedly embracing the space between complete absorption in sound and relative absence of the same. He began playing trumpet professionally at age 13 with his father. He currently resides in Jersey City, NJ and performs solo trumpet improvisations as well as collaborating with such diverse artists as Anthony Braxton, Paul Lytton, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Marilyn Crispell, Joe Morris, Steve Beresford, Wolf Eyes, Akron/Family, David Grubbs, C. Spencer Yeh, Daniel Levin, Stephen Gauci, Harris Eisenstadt, Taylor Ho Bynum and Peter Evans. He has been called an “iconoclast” by Time Out New York and “exquisitely hostile” by Touching Extremes.
Alexander Schubert’s
LAPLACE TIGER (2009) 12′
For drum kit, arm-sensors, live-electronics and live-video
The use of sensors at the forearm of the player allows the complete control of the live electronics and the structuring of the piece. Furthermore the player’s movement is the exclusive material for the live video. Based on these technical possibilities I tried to realize a piece that works like a huge convolution. The acoustically played material is temporarily shifted, processed and then interweaved through the motions of the performer. Apart from this sound synthesis is playable with the sensors to extend the musical language of the drum set. But the idea is that both the processed sounds and the additional elements are all controllable by and hence linked to the movement of the player – focusing the generation of sound as much on the physical presence of the player as possible. The pyramiding of sound shreds, live-electronics and the percussion itself aims at a highly condensed performance somewhere between contemporary classical music and electronica.
Alexander Schubert was born in 1979 in Bremen and studied computer science and biology in Leipzig focusing on neuroinformatics and cognitive science. During his studies he has worked as a musician and composer in a variety of different environments. In addition to this, Schubert worked for one year at the ZKM (Centre for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe at the Institute for Music and Acoustics. In 2007 he started a degree in multimedia composition at the Hamburg Academy for Music and Drama which he finished with a concert exam at the end of 2009 with a grade of 1.0.
Schubert’s research interest explores cross-genre interfaces between acoustic and electronic music. Musical pieces for audio tapes and the formal notation of compositions for live electronics belong just as much to his work as the design of software-setups and manipulation / design of instruments for an intuitive handling in an improvised context (see “Weapon of Choice”). A permanent focus of his work is the combination of notated and improvised music – both in aesthetics and structure. His technical training is the basis of a differentiated utilization and individual design of sound synthesis and controllers (e.g. in the installation “A Set of Dots“).
Apart from working as a composer and solo musician Schubert is also playing in the ensembles “Schubert-Kettlitz-Schwerdt,” “Trnn“ and “Ember”. Schubert has contributed to a variety of different projects as a musician, composer and programmer (e.g. for the Wiener Festwochen and Staatsoper Berlin).
Alexander Schubert curates the music festival contemporary electronic music in Leipzig and runs the publishing company “Ahornfelder-Verlag” for experimental audio and book releases. He’s an organizing member of the VAMH – a collective maintaining a broad network for contemporary music and organizing an annual two-week long festival.
In 2009 he was awarded with a Bourges residency prize and was a prize winner in the international competition JTTP and received an ICMC scholarship in Montreal. In 2010 he is a residency guest at the University of Birmingham and stipendiary at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. In 2008 he was a guest artist at the ZKM in Karlsruhe.
