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
EN/OF _ Exhibition
05.07. – 02.08.2003 heeresbaeckerei-kultur Editions Exhibition at guestroom Editions EN/OF: 001 Liam Gillick / Ekkehard Ehlers & Joseph Suchy 002 Olafur Eliasson / Heimir Björgúlfsson 003 Tobias Rehberger / Stephan Mathieu 004 Sarah Morris / Jan Jelinek 005 Henrik Håkansson / Alejandra & Aeron 006 Angela Bulloch / TV Pow 007 Gerwald Rockenschaub / The Rip-Off Artist 008 Carsten Höller / Wander 009 Simon Starling /... weiterlesen
EN/OF _ Finissage
02.08.2003 / 18:00 h guestroom / heeresbaeckerei-kultur Christina Kubisch & Boris Hegenbart “Elektrisches Pflichtjahr” – sound performance Christina Kubisch (Berlin) is internationally known as a sound artist. After having done no live performances for over 20 years, she performed together with dancer Lotta Melin in Umea, Sweden in spring, 2003. Tiny sound modules, activated and steered by light waves, were the acoustic materials... weiterlesen
EN/OF _ Concert
11.07.2003 / 21:00 h heeresbaeckerei-kultur Jan Jelinek Stephan Mathieu Wander Jan Jelinek (Berlin) has been working since 1998 under different pseudonyms in various contexts: on a new assessment of soul music phrases (as Farben); on a reduced approximation of dancefloor (as Gramm) and, under his own name, on manipulating linear second-long loops from jazz samples. In his ongoing collaborations with artists, Jelinek is concerned with directly connecting... weiterlesen
EN/OF _ Lounge
05.07.2003 / 22:00 h heeresbaeckerei-kultur Millionaires With Guitars Gerwald Rockenschaub Opening of the show EN/OF and lounge with Millionaires With Guitars (Frantek Brandt, Markus Linnenbrink – guitars, Julius Linnenbrink – drums) and Gerwald Rockenschaub (DJ). Millionaires With Guitars is an engaged amateur band that has been playing together regularly for 1 1/2 years in its rehearsal space in Dortmund. The few public appearances of... weiterlesen
