Audiopleasures: Let's Dance,Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald,SCSI-9,Quantec,The Present,The Boats,OFFF,Sergey Podzolkov,State-X New Forms,Sarah Sze,Speaking Out Loud

Carl Graig / Moritz Von Oswald
" Maurice Ravel & Modest Mussorgsky -
Recomposed by Carl Craig & Moritz Von Oswald "
Deutsche Grammophon - 2008
Classical / Experimental
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At their most pure and powerful, the Detroit and Berlin techno styles can share an almost classical aesthetic and execution that combines a sensuous textural and rhythmic approach with a cool and futuristic attitude to musical structure and architecture. It’s an aesthetic that leads to sonic art with a sense of transport and transcendence that is at once spacious and inclusive: dub and DJ and adventurism combining in a democratic and utopian music for dancing and dreaming.

Carl Craig and Moritz von Oswald have been at the vanguard of efforts to extend techno into collaborations – with other artists, in other styles and genres – that go much deeper than just adding beats and filters to pre-existing approaches. Thus, their collaborative move to “recompose“ by deconstructing, rebuilding and expanding upon orchestrations by Maurice Ravel makes utter sense: Ravel himself was a master of modernist texture and surface who aligned cool and considered classicism with his passions for the more emotional expressions he found in American jazz and the ancient reach of Spanish/Moorish music. That Craig and von Oswald would choose to work with master tapes from the Deutsche Grammophon label featuring Von Karajan conducting the Berliner Philarmoniker makes sense, too: These are some the most glossy- surfaced, lush-yet-powerful orchestral recordings ever made. Kevin Macneil Brown - Dusted

Mp3 | Maurice Ravel and Modest Mussorgsky - Intro
Mp3 | Maurice Ravel and Modest Mussorgsky - Movement 1

SCSI-9
" Easy as Down " - Kompakt - 2008
Techno / Minimal
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Their fourth full-length and second for Kompakt, Easy as Down, sees these talents spread over eleven tracks of lava-lamp minimalism, with subtle nods toward slippery electronica and cozy chillout fare. SCSI-9 forge an effervescent comfort of sounds that blurs the fore- and the background. With its cheery synths and chugging rhythms, "Tu Eres Mas" resembles the permasmile pop of the likes of Lemon Jelly or Underworld's "Born Slippy," while the aptly named "Waterglide" resembles the opaque ambience and strobe-light synths of a label like Traum. Resident Adviser

Mp3 | SCSI-9 - Waterglide
Mp3 | SCSI-9 - Together

Quantec
" Unusual Signs " Echocord - 2008
Dub / Techno
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Following a succession of very well recieved 12" cuts for the likes of Styrax Leaves, Meanwhile and Millions of Moments, Sven Schienhammer returns to the home of some of his best work with a studied album of dub techno variants for Echocord. Sven's agenda is made clear with the title of the first track 'Amanita Muscaria', a familiar term to the trippier readers out there (Fly Agaric mushies to the more straight laced), signifying a love of or respect for psychedelic substances and sounds which are echoed in the esoteric dub depths of the opening cut. Boomkat

Mp3 | Quantec - Panaleous
Mp3 | Quantec - 2082 (bonus cd-track)

The Present
" World I See " - LOAF - 2008
Electronic / Experimental / Drone
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The Present is the new music project of legendary New York musician
and producer Rusty Santos (Panda Bear ‘Person Pitch’, Born
Ruffi ans ‘Red Yellow & Blue’, Animal Collective ‘Sung Tongs’). Described
by one band who worked with him as a hyper boy genius,
Rusty has always fi xed his attention on producing music that is
experimentally rich whilst remaining accessible. By attempting to
create music that arises unconsciously through improvisation, The
Present’s debut album ‘World I See’ hauls this ethos over its shoulders
as it tramples on musical boundaries and preconceptions, whilst leaving an album that is still capable of relating musically and emotionally to a wide audience.

Mp3 | The Present - The Hunt
Mp3 | The Present - Heavens On Ice

The Boats
" Faulty Toned Radio " - Flau - 2008
Electronic / Ambient / Experimental
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The 6th outing onto waters uncharted for the enigmatic Boats. Uncharted waters simply because The Boats refuse to be channeled into the niche so easily assigned to them.
Having been kindly approached by aus and the Flau stable from Japan, for a statement of their musical intent, The Boats obliged.
True to hearfelt form, they have generously delivered their most accomplished, and highly personal ships log to date. But listen closely, and dont get too comfortable with your dividing fencelines of genres as the horizon is blurred from on the ship's deck by the haze of distance from familiar isles. Flau

Mp3 | The Boats - Harry, Stop It Please
Mp3 | The Boats - The Boats Can't Save You Now

Now that 2008 is coming to its end , time to prepare 2009 .
OFFF 2009 , 7-9 May Lisbon.
International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture

Super early priced tickets are on sale until next November the 30th. This time each ticket comes with the official catalogue + an exclusive CD compilation by Raster-Noton specially published for OFFF with artists like Alva Noto, Byetone, Signal, Frank Bretschneider, COH, Kangding Ray, Pixel... If you want to join us, we encourage you to get your tickets in advance in order to avoid last hour sold-out surprises and, of course, to get advantage on the exclusive items we are giving out with our early-price offer. Hope to see you around!

Roots
Is the heart of the festival: the main stage where presentations, keynotes and live performances take place. More than 20 artists and collectives that represent the cutting edge of contemporary visual culture, commenting on their ideas and creative process, and inspiring the crowd with their words.

Loopita
The place for experimental electronic sounds. A comfortable area to listen to live performances of electronic music by the most important and innovative names in the internacional digital scene. Essential for music lovers who enjoy getting lost in sound, and of course for those creative professionals, -from filmmakers to motion graphic artists- who find in audio an essential component of their design projects.

Openroom
The area for the new names in the digital scene who are developing inspiring independent projects on the web or through digital technologies. A unique opportunity to use OFFF as a platform to grow and promote your work.

Cinexin
Screening room showing the OFFF Film Festival selected films, special sessions and retrospectives from the best names in animation, motion graphics, microfilms, opening credits...

Showplace
Is the main exhibition of the festival, where the audience has the chance to explore and interact directly with the latest projects from the participants in ROOTS and other big names in the international scene of digital arts. From interactive installations to generative software pieces to playful tools, sound art, illustration...

Mercadillo
The festival area for independent collectives and artist who want a space to sell their works, and other products like books, magazines, CDs and DVDs, merchandising...

Machina
Computer Room freely accessible to members of the audience to log on to the Web and check out the selected pieces in the OFFF Film Festival.

Chillax
The ideal place to chill out, relax and meet other visitors. A comfortable space with bar and restaurant where everything that happens is made by the OFFF audience.

Greetings, my name is Sergey Podzolkov. In the childhood I liked to play, instead of doing any serious things. Therefore, when I grew up and my friends became doctors, engineers, firemen and cosmonauts, I have continued doing different unserious stuff. For example Graphic design and Directing. Now I live in Moscow. I'll be glad to hear any interesting, creative offers.

Watch | Sergey Podzolkov Showreel

State-X New Forms 12 en 13 december in Den Haag , a festival for Avant-Rockers , Cutting Edge electronics and Nu-Art

Antistrot, Banditos, Black Dog, Bonne Aparte, Bruital Orgasm, Bumper, Church Of Music, Faces: 'Tijdlus', Ignatz, Inferno, Jack Rose, Jazzsteppa, Lau Nau, Lawn met Fries Symphonie Orkest, Midi Fanfare, Mugison, Peter Broderick, Present, Red Snapper , Rhys Chatham, Shit & Shine, Soap&Skin, Sobchek, Subtitle, Technician, Tiger Counter Of Drog Orkestar, Yuri Landman

Sarah Sze (born 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American artist and sculptor based in New York and Cambridge. She is known in particular for site-specific ephemeral sculptures, in which thousands of small everyday objects are assembled into fragile, sweeping forms.

Netherlands Media Art Institute
15-11-2008 / 24-01-2009

Speaking Out Loud centers on the processes of both “thinking out loud” and “speaking out.” Thinking out loud describes the associative, dynamic and rather uncontrolled process of simultaneously thinking and speaking about a particular topic. We think out loud to make a suggestion, to put forward an idea or a thought rather than to make a claim. Speaking Out Loud advocates this free and creative process of thinking out loud through artworks that enable a playful and surprising experience of language. This happens in the form of what could be summarised as experimental language exercises or canny transformations and alternations of language.

List of works:
Insults and Praises by Tim Etchells (UK) and Vlatka Horvat (CRO)
A New and Exciting Experience by Mukul Patel (UK) and Manu Luksch (AT)
Good and Evil by Charles Sandison (UK)
Interpreters by Christoph Keller (DE)
Time Based Text by Jaromil (IT) and Jodi (NL)
Gate peepin' and Misspelling Generator by Linda Hilfling (DEN)
Horde by KH Jeron (DE), in collaboration with Dr. Dominik Kuropka
A Conversation Piece by Tudor Bratu (RO)
Text and Semiotic Collider by Michael Hoepfel (DE)
The Voice Knitting Collection by Trikoton (DE)
Explicit Content Only by Evan Roth (US)

Wednesday, 5 November 2008

Let's Dance,Carl Craig & Moritz von Oswald,SCSI-9,Quantec,The Present,The Boats,OFFF,Sergey Podzolkov,State-X New Forms,Sarah Sze,Speaking Out Loud