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Survolt (CAN)PL)
curated by Eric Mattson (ORAL / Montréal/CAN)
Self-made prepared record players, digestion noises and split rhythms
from musical wall clocks, broken copiers and secretly rustling attics.
One explores the physical meaning of music, the other investigates
the acoustic incontinence of bodies, and the third is dedicated to
the deconstruction of his instruments. Eric Mattson brings together
three wonderfully cranky musical approaches in his programme.
The first part presents an interesting facette of contemporary electronic
music from Canada. With Christof Migone and Martin Tétreault
two very different representatives of the very lively Candadian music
scene introduce their work.
In the second part the two Canadians meet the Polish musician Wojtek
Kucharczyk aka retro*sex* galaxy as an attempt to bring together their
differing working approaches and methods in a concert.
With the programme the Canadian music scene becomes the focus of attention,
it wants to encourage international artists’ collaborations and
by that resume the committed work of such platforms as ORAL and the
festival MUTEK.
> http://www.oral.qc.ca/
> http://www.mutek.ca/
1. Martin Tétreault
(CAN)
performance
Martin Tétreault, an internationally renowned Montreal DJ and
improviser, originally came from the milieu of the visual arts. His
path has been marked out by various productions on compact disc and
live performances with a range of collaborators: Diane Labrosse, René
Lussier, Jean Derome, Michel F. Côté, I8U, Otomo Yoshihide,
Kevin Drumm, Xavier Charles, Ikue Mori, and Many More. He has abandoned
the musical citation that he had been using in his work since he began
in 1985 and now explores the intrinsic qualities of the turntable:
the sound of the motor, of interference, and so on. He also uses needles,
prepared surfaces (with thanks to John Cage), and small electronic
instruments. The bruitiste approach of remaining analogical has allowed
him to leave behind the question But what about royalties? and to
get himself invited to electronic-music events! When he feels the
need for a break from music, he goes back to the visual arts, where
he sands, scrapes, cuts up books and magazines, and so on.
>
http://www.l-m-c.org.uk/texts/tetreault.html
> http://www.groovy.net
2. Christof Migone
(CAN)
performance
Christof Migone is a multidisciplinary artist and writer whose work
and research delves into language, voice, bodies, psychopathology,
performance, image, intimacy, complicity, endurance. For garage, he
will present "Back, back, back and forth, forth, forth (or <<<
- >>>)" in hommage to Michael Snow's 1969 film "Back
and Forth (also known as <->)." Migone recently edited
with Brandon LaBelle the book and CD "Writing Aloud: The Sonics
of Language" (Los Angeles: Errant Bodies Press, 2001). He is
a member of Set Fire To Flames (Alien8/Fat Cat) and is doing a project
with Fly Pan Am (Constellation). He recently performed at Mutek (Montreal)
and at Disturbances (Copenhague) and his 2003 solo CD release "South
Winds" (Oral) enlisted the participation of the legendary Petomane
(Joseph Pujol 1857-1945).
>
http://www.christofmigone.com/index2.html
3. Retro*Sex*Galaxy
(PL)
performance
Who is retro*sex*galaxy? The solo project of Wojtek
Kucharczyk, born 1969, usually known as co-leader of molr drammaz
(important and influential Polish adventurexperipopgroup) and founder/head
of mik.musik.!. label (more than 33 titles released until today, mostly
cdr). Multi-instrumentalist and graphic designer/teacher too. His
solo work as retro*sex*galaxy is characterized through the tension
between his love for a humorous, almost satiric approach and some
profound conceptual background. Sometimes it is politically and socially
infected, can be quiet or very loud. His first release as retro*sex*galaxy
in February 2000 was entirely based on a popular-science book on general
Physics published in 1955 by the soviet author Perelman. In his second
release »Dispop« he is dealing with interpretations of
the worlds most famous dancing rhythms like Rock, Hard Rock, Blues,
Samba, Rhumba, Lullaby and Waltz thru old Yamaha keyboard patches.
Third is about geography, fourth is about French chansons, fifth...
and so on so on. »Entertaining physics/Physik macht Spaß«
was reissued in spring 2003 on vinyl LP by Gagarin Records of Felix
Kubin. Wojt3k also releases under his own name, plays also in Pathman
and Go Underground To See More Animals (+ others) and makes visual
art exhibitions, presentations, installations etc from time to time.
> http://
www.mik.terra.pl
> http://
www.molr.terra.pl
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