frank bretschneider
Frank Bretschneider will introduce his upcoming release: EXP is a music-visual work based on the idea that fine art should attain the abstract purity of music. An attempt to assimilate the qualities found in music – including movement, rhythm, tempo, mood, intensity and compositional structure – within visual phenomena. The music for the project was composed of specific generated and selected wavesforms, feedbacks, impulses, clicks, the sound of mechanics, electricity, magnetism, light and other radiation. In addition and since the animation is mainly driven by sound frequency and intensity, the sonic quality of these sounds makes it possible to obtain an optimal effect on the graphics motion. In combination with several other ways of controlling the animation – from MIDI programming to applying motion curves – the visualization represents an exact reproduction of the audible occurrences. As a consequence the computed images often attain an unexpected beauty, from simple geometrical patterns to extraordinarily complex forms. EXP will be out in January 2010 on raster-noton.
kyoka by Sylvia Steinhaeuser
Sensibility plays a central role in the work of Kyoka who likens the process of producing musical compositions to the creation of crystals out of finely ground sound powder. A magazine once described her as a freestyle broken pop beat artist, her style has seen her labelled as anything from a pop idol to a noise artist. Her fans range from the Japanese experimental king Ryuichi Sakamoto to Stooges/Minutemen bassist Mike Watt, who played her music almost every time of his recent podcast shows and who recorded bass for her sound.
morgan packard
Morgan Packard’s sound is rooted in a decade’s immersion in beat-based electronic music and informed by periods of intense study of jazz, western classical music, and computer programming. While his music may be wrangled into the minimal electronic category, he is actually eschewing minimal tropes in favor of highly wrought arrangements – fitting multiple sensibilities into music that could easily be mistaken for existing genres, though when explored carefully, hardly fits into any. Using the form of techno/house/breakbeat music as a beginning, not an end unto itself, Morgan arrives at a sound which manages to synthesize ideas from the worlds of electronics, jazz, and classical in a manner that has no hint of experimentation, but rather a purposeful, concrete rendering of his vision.
Artist Links:
Frank Bretschneider/ raster noton
Frank Bretschneider on myspace
Support:
A-Musik Mailorder Köln
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