20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin

26.09. – 04.10.2003 St. Elisabeth-Kirche, Villa Elisabeth 1983 – 2003  Adventures in Hearing Concerts / Performances / Events / Sound Art / Lectures / Parties The activities of Freunde Guter Musik are a Berlin tradition. Since 1983, the non-profit association “Friends of Good Music” has been dedicated to presenting and promoting new music and music in new forms. Freunde has invited artists from Berlin, from Germany, and from... weiterlesen

Record Player aka Laura Kikauka

04.10.2003 / 22:00 h Villa Elisabeth 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin RECORD PLAYER Lounge  Read More

Rodney Graham & Band

04.10.2003 / 21:00 h Villa Elisabeth 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V. BANDS ‘N’ ARTS Rodney Graham (singer, guitar) David Carswell (guitar, singer) Mike Ledwidge (keyboards, guitar, singer) Damon Henry (bass) Pete Bourne (percussion) Rodney Graham (Vancouver) has worked for many years on larger complexes of work about selected historical and cultural contexts, using various media such as printing, installation, photography, music,... weiterlesen

Martin Creed & Band

04.10.2003 / 20:00 h Villa Elisabeth 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin BANDS ‘N’ ARTS Martin Creed (singer, guitar) Keiko Owada (bass) Christopher Bell (drums) Siani Owen (singer) The artistic work of Martin Creed (London), the 2001 Turner Prizewinner, is distinguished by a conceptual and minimalist approach in which he questions, often with subtle humor, the presentational and representational systems of art. From the beginning, music... weiterlesen

The Beige Oscillator & DJ Attaché

03.10.2003 / 23:00 h Villa Elisabeth 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin RECORD PLAYER Lounge  Read More

Hudson Riv

03.10.2003 / 22:00 h Villa Elisabeth 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin BANDS ‘N’ BOYS Autumn in N.Y. – Glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel – Sven-Åke Johansson (singer) Alexander v. Schlippenbach (piano) Joe Williamson (bass) Autumn in N.Y.: How has the shadow of 9/11 tinged the sound of the famous songs of the swing era, which sing so emblematically about that New York feeling?An important piece is missing... weiterlesen

The No Ensemble

03.10.2003 / 21:00 h Zionskirche 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin BANDS ‘N’ BOYS Alex Hacke (guitar, singer) Rudi Moser (percussion) zeitblom (bass) The impetus to form The No Ensemble (Berlin) came while planning the themes for Freunde’s anniversary program. The musicians seized the opportunity and the trio was born. Berlin’s resident electronics artist zeitblom reconnects to his avant-rock roots and temporarily exchanges... weiterlesen

R.U.B.

03.10.2003 / 20:00 h Zionskirche 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin BANDS ‘N’ BOYS Ned Rothenberg (saxophone, clarinets) Uchihashi Kazuhisa (guitar, bass, daxophoen) Samm Bennett (electronics, percussion) Ned Rothenberg and Samm Bennett, who have been collaborators since the late ’80s in New York’s downtown scene, recently resumed their successful band work after Bennett’s move to Tokyo. With the Japanese guitarist... weiterlesen

Natascha Sadr Haghighian

01.10.2003 / 22:00 h Villa Elisabeth 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin RECORD PLAYER Lounge  Read More

Maryanne Amacher

01.10.2003 / 21:00 h Villa Elisabeth 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin FEMMES ELECTRONIQUES Excerpts: RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT, (Sound Characters Series 1998 – ) Multi-Channel Installation/Performance Maryanne Amacher (New York) became intensively involved with electronic music in the early ’60s, while studying with Karlheinz Stockhausen. She worked with John Cage and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, among others, realized numerous... weiterlesen

Eliane Radigue

01.10.2003 / 20:00 h Villa Elisabeth 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin FEMMES ELECTRONIQUES L’Ile Re-Sonante – 8-track / 3-part piece (2000) Eliane Radigue (Paris) studied with Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry in the ’50s, and for many years was Henry’s assistant. She did not, however, follow her mentor into the pastures of “musique concrète”, but turned rather to synthesizers as sound sources and went her own way.... weiterlesen

DJ Redo aka Werner Durand

28.09.2003 / 22:00 h Villa Elisabeth 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin RECORD PLAYER Lounge  Read More

Tenores di Bitti

28.09.2003 / 21:00 h Villa Elisabeth 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin CANTI Traditional Sardinian male choir Daniele Cossellu, Mario Pira, Pier Luigi Giorno, Piero Sanna For thirty years, the vocal quartet Tenores Di Bitti Remunnu ‘E Locu (Bitti, Sardinien), named after the famous poet from Bitti, has been carrying on the still-lively Sardinian tradition of polyphonic a cappella men’s singing, which has an exceptional position in Mediterranean... weiterlesen

Michiko Hirayama

28.09.2003 / 20:00 h Villa Elisabeth 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin CANTI Canti del Capricorno by Giacinto Scelsi (1915-1982) – voice solo Michiko Hirayama (Rome), now 80 years old, is the master singer to whom Giacinto Scelsi dedicated his works, and was his muse for many years. And thus, she is the designated and authentic interpreter of Scelsi’s magnificent cycle for solo voice under the sign of Capricorn. Hirayama, who had also... weiterlesen

zeitblom

26.09.2003 / 22:00 h Villa Elisabeth 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin NET MUSIC motion picture soundtrack – concert biomorph source music III/audiotracts – sound project in the Net, presentation Both performances by the Berlin electronic musician, composer and sound designer zeitblom (Berlin) are based on the idea of a biomorphic composing process, with sound as the micro-organism, which he developed while working on the installation trilogy... weiterlesen

Glenn Branca

26.09.2003 / 20:00 h St. Elisabeth-Kirche 20 Years Freunde Guter Musik Berlin MAXIMAL MINIMAL Symphony No.14 (Retrospective) – WP – Commission for rock band and electronics – Glenn Branca – overtone guitar Regina Bloor – guitar Ryan Walsh – bass Tony Cenicola – drums Glenn Branca‘s (New York) astonishingly powerful, harmonic (i.e.based on overtone series) microtonal music for massed groups of electric guitars and keyboards... weiterlesen