Category: Concert

Andrea Young will be performing her newest compositions for voice and Kyma at CalArts California Institute of the Arts, 8 pm, February 13, 2013, as part of a presentation of her research into vocal feature extraction and its application to controlling live electronics in Kyma. The concert begins with a work for solo voice that exemplifies the parametic counterpoint singing techniques used to feed the unruly algorithms presented in the following works. Noise and oscillators are controlled by the voice, while contact mics and miniature mics make use of the differentiation between signals as yet another source of sound and musical data control.

The concert will also be streamed live via the ROD Webcast.

U.S.O. Project (Matteo Milani, Federico Placidi), in collaboration with O’ and Die Schachtel, present Sonic Screens, a concert of live electro-acoustic music on Saturday, December 1st at 8:00 pm.  Featuring premieres of two live Kyma pieces— Two Sound Pieces with Repertoire String Music by Agostino Di Scipio and Time Capsule by Federico Placidi.

Featuring sound spatialization, live interaction between electronics and performers, and including the venue itself as part of the interaction, the event will take place at O’ on Via Pastrengo 12 in Milan, Italy (5 €), with Matteo Milani as sound director. O’ is a non-profit organization that promotes various languages of art ​​through exhibitions, lectures, concerts, labs, performances and publications.

John Paul Jones is once more joining forces with Supersilent, this time for a whirlwind tour of the UK, demonstrating yet again that “the prolific multi-instrumentalist finds bigger thrills in charging into the abyss than reclining into the rock stardom he achieved decades ago” according to Dave Kerr in a recent feature article for The Skinny.

Supersilent have only one rule: no rehearsals!  And according to the Village Underground, on this tour, “they intend to push each other further, harder, wilder and freer into uncharted sonic zones.”

NOVEMBER:
14th – Birmingham, Town Hall | www.thsh.co.uk
15th – Glasgow, The Arches | www.thearches.co.uk
16th – Manchester, RNCM | rncm.ac.uk
17th – Bristol, Arnolfini | arnolfini.org.uk
18th – London, Village Underground | villageunderground.co.uk

Jones, as well as Supersilent members Helge Sten, Ståle Storløkken, and Arve Henriksen, each utilize Kyma in their live, improvised electronics performances.

Imagine yourself in a damp underground bunker at 4:30 AM when you hear this: A realtime Kyma improvisation by Cristian Vogel, recorded live, somewhere deep below the city of Eupen, Belgium.

The Exploding Tickets (Robert Landfermann – Bass ; Christian Lillinger – Drums ; Matthias Schubert – Saxophone ; Eckard Vossas – Kyma) are performing at the LOFT in Cologne on October 22, 2012 in a freely improvised, expressive, energetic, spontaneous and impulsive set of encounters between uncommon electronic sound experiments and natural instruments.

Eckard Vossas uses his Kyma system, controlled and tweaked by a Continuum Fingerboard and various other controllers like iPads and pedals, to create a unique individual style of improvised electronic music, sensitively modulating synthesized and artificial sound material with his fingertips, transforming and performing with the same expressivity as his acoustic improvisation partners with whom these sound transformations hold an intensive dialogue. It can be fascinating to hear how new and different the acoustic instruments – Saxophone, Bass, Percussion – can sound when they are confronted with experimental electronic timbres!

Concert at the LOFT starts at 20:30 (ticket information).