Up next: Rewire at Sonic Acts (line up complete)
19 Feb 2015
We are very proud to announce the second show ever of The Sprawl, a new collaboration between Mumdance, Logos, and Shapednoise. Only a couple of weeks ago this new project premiered at CTM Festival. The Sonic Acts Festival line up is now complete. Previous confirmations for the programme in Paradiso on Saturday 28 February include: John Foxx & Steve D’Agostino, Shxcxchcxsh, Jaki Liebezeit & Burnt Friedman, Shackleton, Le Révélateur, Robert Curgenven, Grischa Lichtenberger, Jacaszek & Kwartludium,Kode9, Mumdance & Logos and Visionist, Shapednoise with sYn visuals.
Saturday February 28 | 22:00-05.00 hrs | Paradiso, Amsterdam | Tickets €13,50
Main hall:
22.00-22.45 Jacaszek + Kwartludium + Maia + backline
23.00-23.30 Robert Curgenven a/v
23.45-00.15 Le Révélateur a/v
00.30-01.20 John Foxx & Steve D’Agostino & Karborn visuals a/v
01.25-02.15 Visionist
02.15-03.30 Mumdance & Logos
03.30-05.00 Kode9
Small Room
22.15-23.00 The Sprawl
23.00-23.45 Jaki Liebezeit & Burnt Friedman
00.00-00.45 Grischa Lichtenberger a/v
00.45.01-45 Shapednoise with sYn visuals presents Metaphysical a/v
02.00-03.15 Shackleton
03.15-04.15 SHXCXCHCXSH
Jacaszek & Kwartludium: ‘Catalogue des Arbres’
Instrumental and voice improvisations by the Kwartludium ensemble are set against an organic drone of outdoor recordings by Jacaszek, resulting in subdued and sparse electroacoustic soundscapes. The piano, clarinets, violin and percussion parts are performed by the Kwartludium ensemble, and are electronically processed into a collection of eight soundscapes. Jacaszek calls them ‘forgotten songs performed secretly by my beloved trees’. Pedro Maia provides ghostly visuals.
Robert Curgenven: They tore the earth and, like a scar, it swallowed them
A very physical negotiation of territories voided by history, rendered via field recordings gathered over ten years in over 30 remote locations in Australia, alongside new work with pipe organ, guitar feedback, dubplates, turntables and low frequency oscillators.
Le Révélateur: live
Started in 2008 as a solo venture of Montreal-based electronic musician Roger Tellier-Craig (Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Fly Pan Am), Le Révélateur (CA) has expanded into an audiovisual duo with the inclusion of video artist Sabrina Ratté. They use a broad array of digital and analogue technologies to explore their fascination with combinations of electronic image and sound.
John Foxx and Steve D’Agostino: ‘Evidence of Time Travel
A sound and video investigation into the terrors and pleasures of temporal displacement, combining the sinister sonic architecture of drum machines and analogue synths with haunting visuals by Karborn.
Visionist: live
London producer Visionist (aka Louis Carnell) is perhaps best known as the Lit City Trax and PAN Records affiliate who makes music inspired by grime. What makes his music so interesting is the fact that he’s not a classicist; grime may be at the center of his artistic vision, but his tracks often bare traces of hip-hop, future garage, dubestep, R&B, footwork, and other urban sounds from across the Atlantic.
Mumdance & Logos: live
Both Mumdance and Logos, two of grime’s best, have soared over the last two years. Mumdance, aka Jack Adams, has been releasing music for some time, but appeared reborn on his Twists & Turns mixtape. Logos, production alias of James Parker, released his debut album Cold Mission last year. Their collaboration resulted in energised and stripped down tracks, true to their non-conformance. They recently launched a new ambient label Different Circles.
Kode9: live
London-based electronic music artist, DJ, and owner of the Hyperdub record label Kode9 is one of the founding members of the early dubstep scene. His DJ sets and radio shows helped spread the early dubstep sound internationally, but his sets now weave together a bass heavy mix of house, garage, dubstep, grime, footwork and hip hop. He is also author of the book Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear (2009).
Shapednoise, Logos & Mumdance: The Sprawl
The Sprawl is the new collaborative project between Berlin-based noise and techno artist Shapednoise and London producers Logos and Mumdance, merging UK sound design with European and US noise and drone influences. The improvised, live-only concept premiered in Berlin in early 2015 and is set to be an ongoing and evolving project for all three artists, sitting as a companion piece to their solo work.
Jaki Liebezeit and Burnt Friedman: ‘Secret Rhythms’
Liebezeit and Friedman have been collaborating on the Secret Rhythms series for over fourteen years, generating umpteen records and countless live performances. Central to the secret rhythms concept is Liebezeit’s radical drum code in unison with Friedman’s range of archaic metal percussion and synth instruments.
Grischa Lichtenberger: live
The aggressive tonality of Grischa Lichtenberger’s (DE) sound design, which resembles the force of material heaviness, has its counterpart in the emotional depth of the musical structure: a hermetic idiosyncrasy of rhythm and melodies that create an intimate narrative. He is praised for his ‘constructivist compositions and refined sounds’. Lichtenberger released his debut EP ~treibgut on Raster Noton in 2009, followed by iv (inertia) in 2012.
Shackleton: live
Noted for its intense atmospheric gloom, and a sense of tension and paranoia, the music of Shackleton (UK) includes a variety of genres such as dubstep, garage, and techno, while drawing from a wide range of world music, including African, Arabic, and Indian music. He emerged during the early days of dubstep, running the now-defunct label Skull Disco together with Appleblim. His third album, Music for the Quiet Hour / The Drawbar Organ EPs, was released in 2012.
Shapednoise & sYn: ‘Metaphysical’
World premiere of Metaphysical, the audiovisual show by the electronics, noise and speaker-ripping techno producer Shapednoise (IT) plus video artist and experimental noise musician sYn (IT).
Shxcxchcxsh: live
The once industrial city of Norrköping in eastern Sweden may not be the world’s throbbing techno heart, but the two members of Shxcxchcxsh find their hometown a perfect place to focus on music. Their sound is a deadly serious techno born out of the elements of noise, drone, glitch, broken beats, pounding industrial, and much more.