Get ready and go too see them live

JD Zazie, Farahnaz Hatam and Kim Laugs will perform a combination of sets Wednedsay September 8th at Sowieso, Neukölln – Berlin

Farahnaz Hatam is a sound artist and runs the NK project in Berlin

Kim Laugs is a sound artist, curator and independent organizer for experimental arts.
He’s a member of rec/play, mekanorganic and Feedbacksociety .

Mat Pogo at NK 29.05.10 from julian bonequi on Vimeo.

the 8th of September Pokemachine will play at the Numusic festival in Stavanger (Norway) sharing the stage with Staer.

Later in the month they will tour together with british casseur Horacio Pollard touching Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, performing at Incubate festival in Tilburg and Echtzeitmusiktage in Berlin

Wed 08 – Stavanger , Nu Music festival – Checkpoint Charlie, Norway
Sat 18 – Antwerpen, Kavka, Belgium
Sun 19 – Tilburg, Incubate festival, Netherlands
Mon 20 – Amsterdam, Smart Project Space, Netherlands
Tues 21 – Bruxelles, Magasin 4, Belgium
Wed 22 – Aachen, Musikbunker, Germany
Mon 27 – Berlin, Echtzeitmusiktage , Germany

check this blog by the way

DadoSan & IbridoNeem Graduale-iconoclasta

with:

Eugenio Sanna: guitar
Edoardo Ricci: reeds and trombone
Pippo Picchietti: percussions
Fabio Bussonati: percussions
Filippo Daidone: percussions
Marco Giovannoni: clarinet
Francesco Donnini: cello
Luigi Guarnieri: flutes
Massimo Liverani: guitar

Terzo capitolo di Tono Lieve al parco dell’Anconella. A cura dell’associazione Officine Croma che in questa estate 2010 sempre negli stessi luoghi ha anche organizzato il  Florence Live Looping Festival e Passeggiando con Hildegard Westerkamp (tra i fondatori del W.S.P. – World Soundscape Project-  esperta di acustica ed ecologia sonora, parte del l’associazione FKL -Forum KlangLandschaft- e tra le prime ad inventare la pratica della passeggiata sonora, soundwalks.

Per questo lunedì 30 agosto l’appuntamento è con il progetto
DadoSan & IbridoNeem Graduale-iconoclasta con:

Eugenio Sanna: Chitarra
Edoardo Ricci: Ance e Trombone
Pippo Picchietti: Percussioni
Fabio Bussonati: percussioni
Filippo Daidone: Percussioni
Marco Giovannoni: Clarinetto
Francesco Donnini: Violoncello
Luigi Guarnieri: Flauti
Massimo Liverani: Chitarra

”In un orario in cui la maggioranza dei lobotomizzati locali si s-fanno in tutti i sensi in discoteche assordanti una satirica ma bilanciata provocazione dove DadoSan abituato ai pubblici della giungla ed ai suoi possenti ruggiti sarà costretto ad irretire gli ultimi visitatori del parco dell’Anconella assolutamente con suono lieve strutturato in forma graduale-iconoclasta. Una vera sfida.” (Officine Croma).

La programmazione è in collaborazione con Cambiamusica Firenze, Festival Diramazioni e NotturnAli.

h. 24.00 ingresso libero

Anfiteatro del parco dell’Anconella

Via di Villamagna, Firenze

Today we start officially the celebration of TWENTY years of Burp Enterprise activities.

Known internationally for our strechting time antagonist strategies we will celebrate for 16 months. Ending on 2012 new year’s eve.

Burp Enterprise was founded by myself and Nicotina in August 1990 in the Orkney Islands. On the main island of Hoy, to be more precise, when after a series of adventures we eventually found ourselves in a cosy queen-size bed. We had breakfast for a couple of days and, during the deep sleep we had, we both dreamt of making comics. The Burp Comix magazine was born under the heavenly protection of St. Olaf and with the earthly support of WJ Meatball.

Around that rag soon a group of people -originally based in Florence, Italy- sprang out, and to launch our music label Burp Sonic Inventions, which became after Burp Publications, was a natural consequence.  Jimmy Gelli, Gianni Agus, Sgwendoline, Connie Island and Albonoetus are the first five names coming to my mind of members -still on board from the beginning- of a large community of people who did the Burp history.

Many events, artefacts and banquets will come. You we’ll know it following loyally these web pages. Future never showed himself so bright!

Volcanian Greetings to All – With my fingers around my nipples

Yours Mat Pogo

ECHTZEITMUSIKTAGE 2010

20 years of real time music in Berlin – Restrospective and outlook of a scene

08.09. – 30.09.2010 @ Sophiensaele, ausland, St.Elisabethkirche, Festsaal Kreuzberg & Naher Osten

program overview: http://festival2010.echtzeitmusik.de

Over 60 concerts in September with Chris Abrahams, Thomas Ankersmit, Martin Brandlmayr, Tony Buck, Nicholas Bussmann, Antoine Chessex, Eckehard Ehlers, Jason Forrest, Heaven And, John Hegre, Groupshow, Margareth Kammerer, Annette Krebs, Christof Kurzmann, Perlonex, mo:ha!, Paul Lovens, Stephan Mathieu, Kapitalband 1, Andrea Neumann, Die Enttäuschung, Olaf Rupp, Ignaz Schick, Mika Vainio, Burkhard Beins, Clare Cooper, Vladislav Delay, Axel Dörner, Hammerriver, Sven Ake Johansson, Greg Malcolm, Mattin, Monno, Phosphor, Clayton Thomas and many more !!!

The term „Echtzeitmusik“ (trans. real time) means that the decision about what one plays happens in the moment of playing. So is Echtzeitmusik really nothing else than improvisation. Or is it that simple? Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Echtzeitmusik has tried to be something entirely different from the musical discipline “improv”. Maybe this new term was even chosen specifically to distance oneself from the established, insular Berlin improv and free-jazz circles.
Around the same time as the fall of the Wall a new generation of experimental musicians, improvisors and sound artists came to settle in Berlin. A scene started to form in in 1994 and 95 which became known as the so-called Echtzeitmusik scene. Its “members” came from all possible countries, having fled their origins due to the hopeless conditions for creative work their. Berlin on the other hand was going through a period of change and awakening. There was practically unlimited space and possibilities to try stuff out here and the living costs were low from the start. And so young, daring musicians flocked to Berlin in the first half of the 90s, formed projects and bands, or set out as solo acts looking for a new language of sound. Concerts were organised in the then still highly active squat scene or in otherwise empty buildings of which there were many. Right from the word go Echzeitmusik was characterised by a multitude of styles. It’s bandwidth stretched from electro-acoustic music, new reductionism, noise, jazz, avant rock, pop/songwriting, new composed music, performance, sound-art/installations all the way through to rock and club music (techno, electronica).

The Echtzeitmusik Festival 2010 presents this scene as compact and comprehensive as never before. A scene that has more resemblance to a beehive than a circle of insiders bound to a certain set of rules. And yet this swarm is one unified body. This body has developed a sense of common identity that is defined by its openness and curiosity. What unites the individuals that make up this group is a daring relationship with materials that produce sound. At the end of the day the “members” of this scene all have the desire for experimentation and an urge to search for new sounds and ways of expressing themselves. This also entails the consistent refusal of any form of formating. Wether one sees oneself as part of a scene or not is unimportant. Anyone looking for radical expression and who is ready to exchange this with others belongs to the scene. This is how musicians whose way of working is apparently contrary to the true meaning of Echtzeit music are able to move in Berlin’s Echtzeit circles. For many of them the music comes about BEFORE the concert, wether on computer or through intensive rehearsals. It’s pre-prepared and repeatable. The openness of the scene, which has always had a strong code, is evident in it’s
acceptance of such artists. It’s more about having an artistic attitude, originality, curiosity and being musically radical.

Festival curator Ignaz Schick has shaped the program in a way as to make themes and groupings recognisable. With subtitles like „the struggle continues“, „in exile / home again“ or „the world and the raw people“ individual currents within the scene will be gathered together thematically. And Schick has made sure that each evenings concert program is rich in contrast. Parallels in content and overlap in personnel are cleverly highlighted through a multitude of ensembles. That Berlin Echzeitmusik has become internationally recognised is not just evident through the worldwide tour calendars of the individual players. The massive influx of unknown as well as internationally acknowledged experimental musicians and sound artists says the same. At the same time, Echtzeitmusik within the city is enjoying a boom. So many performance locations have popped up that it’s hard to keep an overview of them all. And the scene remains flexible and nomadic at all times. If one concert venue disappears or is officially forced to close, house concerts will be organised instead or new venues open up immediately in other districts. In this way the Echtzeit scene has managed to survive the gentrification of entire districts such as Prenzlauer Berg, Mitte & Friedrichhain. And this is the reason that Berlin has managed to stay on top of other experimental music cities like New York, Chicago, London, Paris, Tokyo or Sydney.

http://echtzeitmusiktage.zangimusic.de

and here a link to the previous post we did about it

ON/OFF La Caletta Summer Festival

sabato 28 agosto a La Caletta (NU) nel Parco dell’ex Casello (fianco rifornitore Esso) ci sarà la prima edizione di ON/OFF
si entra GRATIS, si comincia alle 18:00 in punto e si va avanti fino a notte fonda…

…ON/OFF perché?
perché ci saranno tre palchi e una zona showcase che faranno “ping-pong” tra loro con i gruppi a rimbalzare da un palco all’altro… uno attacca (ON) e uno stacca (OFF)… nessuna sovrapposizione e nessun rischio di perdere un live-set!!!

ON/OFF dove?
in una bellissima area verde al centro del piccolo borgo marino di La Caletta, a due passi dalla bellissima spiaggia… La Caletta di Siniscola si trova in provincia di Nuoro, sulla costa nordorientale sarda, a 50 km da Nuoro e a 50 km da Olbia

ON/OFF cosa c’é?
ci sono tre palchi, una zona “indies” con etichette indipendenti/merchandise, area relax, zona djset, punti ristoro, stands di ogni tipo

ON/OFF chi suona?
palco ON:
KING HOWL QUARTET www.myspace.com/kinghowl
PRIMOCHEF DEL COSMO www.myspace.com/primochefdelcosmo
TRE ALLEGRI RAGAZZI MORTI www.myspace.com/treallegriragazzimorti

palco OFF:
THE EROTIK MONKEY www.myspace.com/theerotikmonkey
PLASMA EXPANDER www.myspace.com/plasmaexpander
FRONTIERA www.myspace.com/frontiera

palco RRRRRRRR:
AUCAN www.myspace.com/aucan
FISH’N'CHIPS djset www.myspace.com/fishnchipsvenue

area “INDIES”:
Here I Stay presenta: VANVERA www.myspace.com/vanvera

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ON/OFF La Caletta Summer Festival
ideato da KUNTRA e KALAROCK

21 agosto 2010

h 21,30
Corciano (Perugia)
Piazza Doni