Relevante Musik

19 – 21 July 2013 Villa Elisabeth, St. Elisabeth-Kirche and events in public space Festival of political media art, performance and music In recent years, discussion in the field of contemporary music has been dominated by the question of how to promote it. Dealing with the music itself has seemed secondary to the “goal [of] strengthening the presence of new music in cultural life, so as to increase public awareness and reach a new audience”... weiterlesen

Relevante Musik – installations

19 July 2013 / 7 p.m. – opening Villa Elisabeth installations on view:  20 – 21 July 2013, 5 – 10 p.m. Gerhard Schultz: Care Of Merchandising (2013) with Lucrecia Dalt, who is working on her new album for Care Of Editions: www.careof.co An installative presentation of the conceptual record label that subverts the music industry’s current business model. Online record store and live production of a new release. Realized with the support of... weiterlesen

The Argument of the Street

19 July 2013 / 8:30 p.m. Villa Elisabeth opening concert Lothar Voigtländer: Maikäfer flieg (1985) – stereo playback Lothar Voigtländer, live diffusion Bob Ostertag: All the Rage (1993) – string quartet and playback string quartet of the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin Hiwa K.: This Lemon Tastes of Apple (2011) – video (sound) Frederic Rzewski: Lost and Found (1985) for solo percussionist Matthias Kaul, performance The opening concert... weiterlesen

Giuliano Obici

19 July 2013 / from 9 p.m. Villa Elisabeth Giuliano Obici: Buy Auri (2006) – performance for street vendors with audio files Giuliano Obici and Fernanda Farah, performance The performance deals with the illegal street sale of bootlegged CDs in Sao Paulo and subverts the music industry business model by turning the consumer into a paid listener. Additional dates: 21 July 2013 / 5 – 7 p.m. and 9 – 10 p.m. Villa Elisabeth  Read More

Avant-garde and/as Politics – panel discussion I

20 July 2013 / 7 p.m. Villa Elisabeth panel discussion I with Boris Filanovsky, Erhard Grosskopf, Georg Katzer, Bob Ostertag and Frederic Rzewski moderation: Matthias Osterwold  Read More

Media Attacks and Interventions – panel discussion II

21 July 2013 / 7 p.m. Villa Elisabeth panel discussion II with Hiwa K., Richard Barrett and Kees Tazelaar, Robin Minard, Giuliano Obici, Gerhard Schultz and Richard Teitelbaum moderation: Björn Gottstein  Read More

Media Attacks and Interventions – video concert

21 July 2013 / 8:30 p.m. Villa Elisabeth video concert and live installation Manami N.: The L and R Problem (2013, premiere) – video, electronics and voice Manami N., performance !Mediengruppe Bitnik: CCTV – A Trail of Images (2009/13) Carmen Weisskopf and Domagoj Smoljo, live installation Since Japanese have an “L and R problem”, the words for “light” and “right” sound the same to them. Manami N. relates... weiterlesen

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

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