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ARTISTS BIOS MORITZ VON OSWALD feat. PAUL ST. HILAIRE | RYTHM & SOUND/TIKIMAN-GERMANY/DOMINICA
Moritz von Oswald (born in 1962), half of both Basic Channel and Maurizio, went on to become one of the most influential producers of techno music in the 1990s. In the 1980s he was percussionist for Palais Schaumburg and The Associates, but would segue into electronic music by the late 80s and early 90s. He did this first in 2MB and 3MB (with Thomas Fehlmann), and later he co-founded the Basic Channel label with Mark Ernestus, whose various releases came to epitomize minimal techno. As part of the Berlin/Detroit axis, Basic Channel characterized minimal techno along with other artists like Rob Hood, Jeff Mills, Mike Banks, and UR. Living in Berlin, von Oswald was also part of a music scene that pivoted around the Tresor Club and record label, as well as Hard Wax, the record store founded by Ernestus. Basic Channel and Maurizio records are characterized by a 4x4 beats with dub-inflected syncopated synth pads slowly modulated over time, most 12"s containing tracks that take up the entire side of each record. Their work was highly influential for Richie Hawtin, Thomas Brinkmann, Robert Henke (aka Monolake), Wolfgang Voigt, and later through artists whose records were released on the label Chain Reaction Records, part of the Basic Channel family. His work with Mark Ernestus as Rhythm & Sound fused his interests in dub reggae and techno even further, where Jamaican vocalists sing or speak over stripped down techno beats and bass. His most recent releases are with the Moritz von Oswald trio. Moritz von Oswald Facebook SETH HORVITZ / SUTEKH (Line / E.E.U.U.)
Seth Horvitz (b. 1973, Los Angeles) is an interdisciplinary artist, electronic musician, composer, and designer whose work focuses on the relationship between human perception, iterative process, and the idiosyncratic behavior of machines. Most known for his extensive discography as Sutekh, he has produced “paradoxical techno” since the mid-1990s for dozens of record labels including Force Inc./Mille Plateaux (Germany), Soul Jazz Records (UK), The Leaf Label (UK), Orthlorng Musork (USA), Creaked (Switzerland), and his own Context Free Media. As a performer, he has appeared at festivals, museums, and nightclubs across the Americas, Europe, Australia, and Japan.
Though Seth began his musical adventures as a self-taught misuser of electronics and community radio DJ, he has increasingly gravitated towards a studied approach to composition. 13 years after earning a bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley and five years after beginning private instruction in piano performance, harmony, and counterpoint, Seth enrolled in the MFA program in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College, where he composed a series of studies for computer-controlled piano among many other projects.
Since completing the program at Mills in 2010 and relocating to the east coast, he has presented his work at UC Santa Barbara’s Primavera Festival, Stanford University/CCRMA, the Mutek Festival (Montreal), and the White Box Gallery (NYC). He has also collaborated with visual artist Nate Boyce for a presentation at the De Young Museum (San Francisco) and performed at the Forward Festival (DC) and Berkeley Art Museum using an obsolete CRT monitor as an instrument. His first collection of “Studies for Automatic Piano” was published by the LINE imprint in June 2011, released under his given name.
Seth Horvitz (b. 1973, Los Angeles) is an interdisciplinary artist, electronic musician, composer, and designer whose work focuses on the relationship between human perception, iterative process, and the idiosyncratic behavior of machines. Most known for his extensive discography as Sutekh, he has produced “paradoxical techno” since the mid-1990s for dozens of record labels including Force Inc./Mille Plateaux (Germany), Soul Jazz Records (UK), The Leaf Label (UK), Orthlorng Musork (USA), Creaked (Switzerland), and his own Context Free Media. As a performer, he has appeared at festivals, museums, and nightclubs across the Americas, Europe, Australia, and Japan.
Though Seth began his musical adventures as a self-taught misuser of electronics and community radio DJ, he has increasingly gravitated towards a studied approach to composition. 13 years after earning a bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley and five years after beginning private instruction in piano performance, harmony, and counterpoint, Seth enrolled in the MFA program in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College, where he composed a series of studies for computer-controlled piano among many other projects.
Since completing the program at Mills in 2010 and relocating to the east coast, he has presented his work at UC Santa Barbara’s Primavera Festival, Stanford University/CCRMA, the Mutek Festival (Montreal), and the White Box Gallery (NYC). He has also collaborated with visual artist Nate Boyce for a presentation at the De Young Museum (San Francisco) and performed at the Forward Festival (DC) and Berkeley Art Museum using an obsolete CRT monitor as an instrument. His first collection of “Studies for Automatic Piano” was published by the LINE imprint in June 2011, released under his given name.
SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU (Type / Francia)
Sylvain Chauveau has made solo records on labels such as Type, FatCat, Nature Bliss, Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier and Creative Sources: minimal, quiet compositions for piano, strings, wind instruments, electronics, vocals.
He has performed worldwide (Europe, America, Asia) and has made remixes for several musicians or bands.
He runs the label Onement , whose aim is to release one-off, one-copy vinyl records.
He is composing an extremely long piece whose duration is seven years ("You Will Leave No Mark On The Winter Snow"), with very long silences inside (sometimes several months).
He has made soundtracks for feature films and for dance shows.
Sylvain Chauveau is also a member of 0 with Stéphane Garin and Joël Merah, of Arca (with Joan Cambon) and On (with Steven Hess).
He was born in 1971 in Bayonne, France. He lives in Brussels, Belgium.
http://www.sylvainchauveau.com/. TORE HONORE BOE | Origami Republika
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Origami Boe (Tore Honoré Boe) is a transmedia artist originating from Norway. These days he is often found performing live on his "homemade acoustic laptops"; wood boxes with tiny sound objects attached inside, and he also gives workshops where people are invited to create their own. He has toured extensively and is present on numerous releases
Boe has mainly worked within the fields of microsound, electro-acoustic, ambient, improv and extreme noise music, alone or with constellations of the Origami Republika open network, which he has coordinated since 1990. He has also worked with performance, visual art, street art, mail art and writing. In his worklog there are no separation between conceptual art and sound making, as any means of expression become part of his general collage work (and they include humour, contrast and cultural shortcircuiting). Originally a rockabilly/postpunk drummer in the bands AVE! and Kino Pravda in his hometown Kristiansand, he did continue to play "normal music" when he moved to Oslo, a.o. in the black-tango orchestra Tanz Fatal, and queer-core technoband Sadomaoistan. After some active years in Oslo (88-96) through the dBUT record shop, Club Verdensrommet and various origami activities like Origami Arktika and Origami Grafika, he moved to Trondheim (96-02) and became part of what is now known as "The Trondheim Scene", best known for the still running Klubb Kanin concept, Origami Replika and later The Nordic Miracle duos with noise colleague Lasse Marhaug. He has collaborated with people like Lasal, Lee Patterson, Bryan Day, Jochen Arbeit, Guido Huebner, Bjørn Hatterud, Michael F. Duch, Mark Spybey, Lasal, Guttorm Nordø, Michael Gira, Eric Cordier, Kai Mikalsen, Theresa Stroetges, Lasse Marhaug, N U Unruh, Ellen Røed, Derek Holzer, Jarboe and Terje Paulsen. From 1990-2002 he mostly appeared as ThB, Crashman or A22. From 1999-2004 he appeared under the artist name Tore Honoré Bøe (and his evil other; 2re), only to go through the Origami 13051826 private art process to reappear as Origami Boe in 2004. Boe now lives and works on the Canary Islands off the coast of Morocco. .
MOVING SILENCE
Moving Silence is a new platform and a network for contemporary silent movie culture. Behind this name works a group of musicians, artists and film professionals based in Berlin, who are interested in bringing the poetry of silent moving images back to the present. Moving Silence creates events in order to connect the roots of cinematography with the present aesthetics of image, the live music production and the potential of new technology. The Moving Silence initiative proposes a new contemporary silent movie experience as an alternative to the overloaded with information culture we are situated in. It embraces experimentation and merging between contemporary forms of visual and sound inviting artists by different parts of the world to join in.
Interactions with Canary Islands artists will be showcased during dis-play 2011 following the basic concept of Moving Silence which is: first having a film or visual without sound and after that we look for musicians and sonic artists who will add a soundlayer. Therefore Moving Silence proposed the following program of contemporary produced silent films for their live sonorizarion at Dis-play 11 Las Palmas :
Little Big Berlin: ( Audio: LOD | Vídeo: Philip Beuter) Notiz1: ( Audio: Lanzarote Notebook | Vídeo: Carsten Wagner) Lost in Translation: ( Audio: Nectar | Vídeo: Akile Nazli Kaya) In der Wüste: ( Audio: RVDJ | Vídeo: Torsten Krug and Christian Schrills) Nordwind: ( Audio: Sunday German Flowers | Vídeo: Thomas Vogel) Die Festung ( Audio: Gabiglezp | Vídeo: Fritsch & Wermke ) Le Cycliste: ( Audio: Acid Buda | Vídeo: Armin Mobasseri) Intelligent Design: ( Audio: Bas | Vídeo: Wojtek Skowron) .
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