J E F F W I T S C H E R (SALON / PAN) 👥 E R I C F R Y E (ANOMIA / SALON ) 👥 A V S L U T A 👥 + G U E S T S
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„Jedna z najzásadnejších postáv sound art scény tejto dekády.“ Takto pekne píše Resident Advisor o Jeffovi Witscherovi. Kto je Jeff? Poviem ti o Jeffovi. Jeff občas sám seba volá Rene Hell. Jeff spravuje vlastnú upratovačskú firmu. Ak Jeff neupratuje, Jeff hrá šach. Jeff hrá šach v sprche, v autobuse, na pohrebe… Viď napr. pesničky This is Chess a The Cheess Sickness z albumu Vanila Call Option (PAN).
Jeff nehrá šach len vtedy keď okresáva zvuk do tekutých mikrotonálných svetov, ktoré môžu byť ako ideálny soundtrack vašej kvantovej reality (ktorá je dosť pravdepodobne… o šachu). Sonické objekty vznikajú, vibrujú na niekoľkých miestach naraz a zároveň miznú. Všetko sa deje podľa Jeffovej čudnej logiky, ktorá z nejakého dôvodu funguje.
Slovami Billa Kouligasa z PANu: „Jeff je skúsený zvukový ojebávač a estét zároveň, živý príklad toho ako môžu nuansy experimentálnej hudby ladne cestovať medzi klubom a galériou.“
Okrem svojho magnum opus Vanilla Call Option má Jeff na konte niekoľko konceptuálnych albumov a spoločný album s Oneohtrix Point Never. Ako často chodí do BA niekto, kto robí s OPN? Malo! Pred pár rokmi ste Jeffa mohli zažiť V A4 v rámci one-time festivalu Mindwarp. Ak ste tam neboli, tak prídite. Ak ste tam boli, tak prídete. Šachovnica je ready!
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Nežné praskanie reprákov doplní Eric Frye. Frye pracuje na pomedzí zvuku, filozofie, matematiky a umenia. Jeho provokatívna halucinogénna psychoakustika a pointilistické mikromontáže nemajú ďaleko od veteránov akými sú Luca Ferrari či Horacio Vaggione. Alebo od Lorenza Senniho (keby robil viac pre galérie ako rave svätostánky). Fryeove kompozície a inštalácie sa pohrávajú s témou (ne)materiálneho, dočasného. (Con)temporary sound par excellence. Frye má na konte extenzívne koncertovanie naprieč kontinentami. Hral s ľudmi ako Rashad Becker, Beatriz Ferreira či Ben Vida na pekných miestach ako Berghian Kantine, Cafe Oto či Issue Project Room New York. Fuga je na rade.
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Avsluta je projekt českej, v Londýne usadenej sound artistky Lucie Štěpánkovej. Avsluta existuje medzi ambientom a elektronikou s rytmickým nádychom a melancholickým tepom. Hutné cinematografická atmosféry a tajuplné incidenty sa prepletajú cez elektroakustické kompozície. Lucia pracuje s analogovou syntézou, terénnymi nahrávkami, samplingom a necháva si otvorené dvierka pre subtílnu improvizáciu.
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Jeff Witscher was born in 1983 in Long Beach, California and currently manages his own cleaning company Vincent’s Expert Cleaners in Portland, Or. He has recorded under a few different names, Rene Hell perhaps being the most known. He is an avid chess player & spends most of his time working, cleaning, & reading. He focuses on making sound composition with his computer, merging organic field recordings with computer generated synthesis, attempting strong narratives for his live performances. Recent solo recordings include Bifurcating a Resounding No!, 2014; Meclu, 2013; Vanilla Call Option, 2013.
Witscher works minimally and sonically with hyperactive gestures, long streams of transforming material and pointillist events. Space, volume, timing and movement are all treated with equal importance to the material used, resulting in constantly moving, sliding activity.” – FACT
„One of the most important figures in sound art of this decade.“ – Resident Advisor
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Eric Frye is a composer, artist, and curator. Exploring non-orientable sonic surfaces, Frye operates between the disciplinary boundaries of sound, philosophy, linguistics, and mathematics. His live performances and installations are focused towards a recalibrated layering of multi-channel diffusions. Simultaneously dissociative and palpable, Frye’s compositions activate an interplay between material and immaterial. His latest recording, On Small Differences in Sensation, which includes texts by Fernando Zalamea, Inigo Wilkins, Andrée Ehresmann and Mathias Béjean, was released by Copenhagen-based imprint, Cejero.
Frye’s work has been shown at Hangar Art Centre, Barcelona; Audio Visual Arts, New York City; Rochester Art Center, Minnesota; Variform Gallery, Oregon: and more. He has performed extensively in the US, UK, Europe, and Asia alongside artists such as Beatriz Ferreyra, Rashad Becker, Curtis Roads, Jeff Witscher, Ben Vida, at venues including Berghain Kantine (DE), ISSUE Project Room (NY), Cafe OTO (UK), Les Instants Chavirés (FR), WWWβ (JP). In October 2016 Frye was artist in residence at EMS Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm. He has forthcoming releases on Anòmia, and Further Records.
„Frye’s Seattle set was one of the most mind-bending I’ve seen since Ryoji Ikeda ca‘ 07.“ – The Stranger Seattle
„Frye presents a suite of uncompromising, fractured electronics at once recalling the spattered tangle of Keith Fullerton Whitman’s recent generations, the chess-like stratagem of Rene Hell, and the incisive freakiness of Florian Hecker.“ – Boomkat
„I feel like I’ve been subjected to some form of clinical trials / research on how sound can alter one’s spatial awareness. Unless you happen to have a deathwish – do not attempt to listen to this whilst driving.“
– Norman Records
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“On the verge of ambient, progressive electronic and gently beat infused, avsluta explores dense cinematic atmospheres, slowly emerging layers of repetition and haunting sonic incidents in emotionally charged electro-acoustic compositions. This intimate project merges analog synthesis, field recordings, sampling and improvisation with objects to create an absorbing sonic universe which is at the same time fragile and melancholic.”