[Nettime-nl] [ STEIM ] Residency Concert: Sonic Wargame & Derek Holzer

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STEIM Residency Concert:

Sonic Wargame - Xavier van Wersch (NL/HU)

Tone Wheels - Derek Holzer (US/DE)

Date: Wednesday, February 20
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Time: 20.30 hrs.
Entrance: 5 euros
Reservations and more information: knock@steim.nl or 020-6228690

Xavier van Wersch and Derek Holzer are both experienced computer  
musicians that challenge the conventions of today's electronic music.  
SONIC WARGAME introduces a new form of collaborative (or competitive)  
music playing where the skills, tactics and intentions of all the  
players are absorbed into a wonderfully constructed high/low-tech  
machine to create an evolving battlefield of sounds. TONEWHEELS is a  
complete departure from the laptop computer, only using light and  
analog circuitry to generate raw pulsing sounds that are tightly  
interlinked to the projected imagery. Both artists will be in  
residence at STEIM prior to the concert preparing for this performance.

Videos of Sonic Wargame
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2bkJwUX_tI

Videos of TONEWHEELS
http://www.soundtransit.nl/tonewheels/tonewheels_doc_web.mov






SONIC WARGAME
In a quadraphonic arena the battle for audibility is raging. While  
the referee keeps an ear out, musical gladiators engage in  
contrapuntal combat with an arsenal of electronic weaponry. Sonic  
Espionage, in-Filtration, Atonal Behaviour and Hostile Overdubs,  
it’s a Full Spectrum Attack

Sonic Wargame is a musical game for four players. Each player has a  
game console and a loudspeaker. The players have to vote for each  
other using a switch on their console. An electric brain will only  
pass a player’s sound if that player has two or three votes from the  
other players.

Although the audience hears different players all the time, the  
players themselves are interconnected in such a way that they can  
receive each other’s sounds all the time. This is because they have  
to sample and process each other’s material, resulting in a  
continuously self-regenerating quadraphonic organism of sound.

Sonic Wargame offers its participants a new way of playing together.  
Although there is a strong competitive element, the best results are  
achieved through collaboration. The distinction between being in  
control and being controlled fades away. There are no winners or  
losers. The sonic constitution oscillates between parliamentary  
anarchy to periodical dictatorship. Arbitrary consensus, election  
lottery and survival or the fairest
Sonic Wargame is a project of the re.Bug foundation for ecotronic  
art, supported by Paradiso-Melkweg Productiehuis, STEIM and MuziekLab  
Brabant. This project is realised with the financial support of Fonds  
voor de Amateur en Podium Kunsten, VSBfonds en Prins Bernhard  
CultuurFonds.

Concept: Xavier van Wersch
Artistic advisor: Roland Spekle
Production: Paradiso-Melkweg Productiehuis
Technical realisation: Dave Krooshof, Lex van den Broek, Xavier van  
Wersch

Xavier van Wersch obtained a degree in Sonology at the Royal  
Conservatory in The Hague after having studied art and philosophy.  
His work reflects an organical approach to the field of electronic  
music. In his compositions, performances and installations there is  
always an element of controlled chaos. He explores the relation  
between man and machine by conceiving the two of them together as  
hybrid systems in which erratic behaviour is the principal condition  
for interaction. Another common theme in his work is recycling. Like  
a modern Frankenstein, van Wersch constructs his machinery from parts  
of deceased equipment and disfunctional devices.

http://www.sonic-wargame.net/
http://www.xaflab.tk/
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TONEWHEELS:
TONEWHEELS is an experiment in converting graphical imagery to sound,  
inspired by some of the pioneering 20th Century electronic music  
inventions. Transparent tonewheels with repeating patterns are spun  
over light-sensitive electronic circuitry to produce sound and light  
pulsations and textures, while projected graphical loops and textures  
add richness to the visual environment. This all-analog set is  
performed entirely live without the use of computers, using only  
overhead projectors as light source, performance interface and  
audience display. In this way, TONEWHEELS aims to open up the "black  
box" of electronic music and video by exposing the working processes  
of the performance for the audience to see.

Derek Holzer [USA 1972] is a sound artist with a background in radio,  
webstreaming and environmental recording. His work focuses on  
capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various  
natural and urban locations, networked collaboration strategies,  
experiments in improvisational sound and the use of free software  
such as Pure-Data.

http://www.umatic.nl/tonewheels.html

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This concert series is partly funded by Gemeente Amsterdam.

More information on concerts: http://www.steim.org/steim/activity.php

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The Netherlands

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