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Apparatjik live at CTM.10 – Norwegian Television Special

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

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Apparatjik live at CTM.10

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Finally live on stage, Ulver. The Norwegian Black Metal legends turned into dark sonic experimentalists, have exclusively been a studio project during the past 15 years. Now they decided to play a number of selected european shows. The concert on February 8, is their only show in Germany.

Ulver are conceptual artists who’ve exaggerated and blurred the lines between every musical form they’ve enveloped. Earlier in their career they won praise for introducing folk, jazz, minimalism and filmic soundscapes to black metal, offering this generally conservative genre liberties it was once afraid to embrace.

After completing their initial conceptual trilogy the band have astounded some with the elegance, intelligence and multiplicity of their current material. When Ulver appeared live in concert for the first time in 15 years at the Norwegian Festival of Literature in May 2009, Norwegian media described the show “as something more than music, an artistic experience and a historical event.”

> Video: Ulver “It is not SOUND”

Live on stage the band will feature:
- Kristoffer Rygg (also of Aethenor)
- Jørn H. Sværen
- Tore Ylwizaker
- Daniel O’Sullivan (also of Guapo, Mothlite, Aethenor)
- Lars Pedersen

> www.myspace.com/ulver1
> www.jester-records.com/ulver/
> www.volksbuehne-berlin.de

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SUN 7.2 – CTM.10 AFTER HOUR!

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

CTM would like to say a big THANKS to everyone who came down to and participated in this year’s CTM Festival.

Join us at the After Hours today in Panorama Bar to celebrate the end of CTM’s 11th edition!

CTM.10 After Party today in Panorama Bar from 12.00 with Edwin Oosterwal, Pitto, Joris Voorn & Deetron.

Free entrance w/purple wristband / €5!

A GREEN ODDYSEE ...

Joris Voorn [NL] / Edwin Oosterwal [NL] / Pitto [NL] / Rejected ft Joris Voorn & Edwin Oosterwal [NL] / Deetron [CH]
SUN 07.02.
12:00
BP

CTM, Green and Extrema Music present Joris Voorn and cohorts for an unforgettable close to the 2010 festival at Berlin’s most renowned electronic music venue. See the Rejected team at the top of their game – Joris Voorn had a huge 2009 producing some of the summer’s top tracks and landing in RA’s top ten DJs of the year – and experience the total immersion of Berlin’s international centre of democratic techno and time suspension: Berghain’s Panorama Bar.

> extremamusic.com
> myspace.com/greenassociation

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SUN 07.02.
16:00
.HBC

Berlin Philharmechanic Cobra Youth Orchestra

Presentation of the Workshop by Staalplaat Soundsystem [DE/NE] and participants.

At the end of the workshop the participating kids take their self-build instruments on stage and together with the Staalplaat Soundsystem form “The Berlin Philharmechanic Cobra Youth Orchestra”. Together they create a special ‘kid’s version’ of John Zorn’s famous game piece ‘Cobra’, using a set of rules and cards in order to musically communicate in a collective improvisation happening and to generate fun for both players and audience.

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SUN 07.02.
TIME:20:00
HKW

MYTHS OF THE NEAR FUTURE

FM3_Zhang [CN] / Xu Wenkai (Aka Aaaijiao) [CN] / Feng Mengbo [CN] / Ben Huang [CN] /

In collaboration with Shanghai eArts Festival and CTM.10, transmediale.10 presents a night of performance and music examining China as one of the motifs of its theme ‘Futurity Now!’. With China often presented as the future of artistic practices and markets, the festival gives the stage to Chinese artists who reveal the relationship between China and the future to be in fact complex, dialogic and in a process of continual self-definition.

Featuring four artists who represent a new wave of Chinese practitioners working beyond the constraints of social, political or geographical identity, Myths Of The Near Future will open up an axis between China and Berlin, exploring a future dialogue based on shared values of experimentation, digital practice and cultural exchange. The evening begins in Cafe Global with a special reception to announce eARTS 2010 and is followed by Auditorium performances from Feng Mengbo, FM3_Zhang (Zhang Jian) and Aaaijiao (Xu Wenkai). Having been invited to Documenta in 1997 and 2002, Feng Mengbo is recognised as one of China’s leading media artists. With FM3, Zhang Jian has gained exposure all over the world as the creator of the Buddha Machine. Aaajiao (Xu Wenkai) is an international blogger and the creator of we-need-money-not-art.com. Ben Huang, the man responsible for bringing Beijing’s club scene to Europe (and vice versa) completes the evening with a DJ set in the Cafe Global of HKW.

The concert is part of this year’s series of concerts and performances, jointly programmed by transmediale and CTM > read more.

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SAT 6.2 – CTM.10 PROGRAM – THE FINAL DAY/NIGHT!

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

TODAY AT HBC: DAY 2 OF THE CREATIVE INDEPENDENTS NETWORK MARKET

February 5 & 6 are earmarked for the second edition of the Creative Independents Network Market, an event at which we warmly welcome anyone active in the field of independent audio and media cultures. Entrance free.

PARTICIPANTS:

> read on

TODAY AT .HBC: PRESENTATION OF WORKSHOPS AND PROJECTS

The results and findings of some of the numerous workshops taking place over the course of CTM.10 will be presented and made accessible to visitors.

Spectroscopy I
Open Studio Installation
SAT 06.02.
15:00 – 21:00
SPA

Sound art lab NK, Jo FRGMNT Grys, Martin Kuentz and the participants of the “Spectroscopy” workshop invite visitors into their scientific laboratory of experimentation and present the various devices conceived and constructed during the workshop days.

> See also > SPECTROSCOPY

Open Stage
Short presentations
SAT 06.02.
15:00
.HBC

This timeslot is reserved for project presentations from festival participants and visitors. Those interested in giving presentations can, at short notice, reserve a spot beforehand at the .HBC info-counter. Participants are offered a maximum of 10 minutes for their presentations, including Q&A. Presentations may include images, video or audio; participants must bring their own gear.

radio aporee ::: sound/tracks
Presentation by Udo Noll [DE], John Grzinich [US/EE] and particpants.
SAT 06.02.
19:00
.HBC

Media artist and developer of radio aporee Udo Noll will introduce the concept and the technology behind his project and explain the possibilities it offers. Together, Noll and workshop participants will present sound recordings, mappings, narrations and other project ideas created and developed during the radio aporee ::: sound/tracks workshop at CTM.10.

> See also > RADIO APOREE ::: SOUND/TRACKS

Spectroscopy II
Presentation and Performance by Jo FRGMNT Grys [DE], Martin Kuentz [DE] and participants.
SAT 06.02.
20:00
.HBC

Sound art lab NK, Jo FRGMNT Grys, Martin Kuentz and the participants of the five-day “Spectroscopy” workshop will give practical insights into their scientific laboratory of experimentation with an in-depth, mixed format presentation combining performance and lecture.

> See also > SPECTROSCOPY

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TRANSMEDIALE AWARD CEREMONY

SAT 06.02.
21:00
HKW

On the evening of Saturday, 6. February, at 21:00 the winners of the transmediale Award – jointly hosted by transmediale and CTM – will be announced in a festive ceremony.

Barbara Kisseler, Permanent Secretary of the State of Berlin, will moderate the evening together with the members of both juries: Sabeth Buchmann, Marcel René Marburger (DE), Oliver Grau (DE), Michelle Kasprzak (CA), Doreen Mende (DE), Li Zhenhua (CN), José Luis de Vicente (ES) und Yves Bernard (DE).

SURFACE REFINEMENT
Errorsmith [DE] / visomat inc. [DE] / Telematique [DE]
SAT 06.02.
22:30
WMF 1st Floor

visomat inc. and telematique, two longstanding friends and allies of CTM, together with musician Errorsmith perform a live audio-visual composition on and with their large scale installation “Surface Refinement”.

The installation “Surface Refinement” is project in progress and a result of a long time research and development. It has first been shown at CTM.09. For CTM.10 the installation has been expanded, adapted and altered. It can be seen as an architectural study: modular, geometric styrofoam and synthetic polystyrole mirror elements are arranged on the walls and ceiling of the WMF to create a large-scale, adaptive spatial structure. Projections precisely map the forms and silhouettes and create an interaction between the geometric bodies, light and sound.

At WMF, “Surface Refinement” elegantly adapts to and transforms the existing architecture where it covers parts of the main hall’s walls and ceiling. Video projectors are used to animate the structure by precisely tracing individual elements with light. It describes a path towards form and delivers a massive, sensual re-definition of space. Styrofoam and polystyrole are industrial materials; completely synthetic products. Both stands for functionality, simplicity and minimalism, exactly the qualities that the installation references in contemporary architecture and interior design.

> halbzeug.visomat.com

CONTINUAL REAL-TIME
The Modern Deep Left Quartet & Guests [INT] feat. Cobblestone Jazz [CA] / The Mole [CA] / Deadbeat [CA] / Tikiman [DE/DM] Visuals Gabriel Coutu-Dumont [CA/QC]
SAT 06.02.
23:00
WMF 1st Floor

After a gala ceremony announcing the winners of the transmediale Award at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, transmediale and CTM join forces for the Award Party, offering the continual real-time opportunity of an eight-hour live set, a rare luxury in a festival context. Consumate improvisors MDLQ and friends are poised to take full advantage. Four of Cananda’s best – Danuel Tate on keyboards, Tyger Dhula and The Mole programming, and Mathew Jonson on SH-101 – have invited Deadbeat and Tikiman to taste the extended pleasures of a full-night spread: freestyle techno, cosmic jazz, psychedelic disco.

RASTER.NOTON.UNUN
Grischa Lichtenberger [DE] / Senking [DE] / Aoki Takamasa [JP] / Atom TM [DE/CL] / Ulf Eriksson [SE]
SAT 06.02.
23:00
WMF 2nd Floor

The disconnect between art and science – romantic dualism – and the creative overlap of the ‘two cultures’: these tensions are Raster-Noton’s raison d’être. Tonight, CTM presents two artists from Raster-Noton’s new Unun series, each instalment derived from the Greek atomic numbers in the periodic table, Senking with his new album, and, in a rare appearance as Atom™, Uwe Schmidt with a live performance of Liedgut, his meditation on machines, Romanticism and timelessness. To round-out the night, Ulf Eriksson, co-organizer of the Full Pull festival, will work the dance floor with a Detroit inspired DJ-set.

The concert is part of this year’s series of concerts and performances, jointly programmed by transmediale and CTM > read more.

> raster-noton.net

SELECTORS CHOICE
Last.fm DJ Team [UK]
SAT 06.02.
23:00
WMF Lounge

The Last.fm DJ-team will surprise the audience with a wild, eclectic mix, extracted from the playlists of the users who joined the club transmediale group on Last.fm – a sonic portrait of the festival’s network.

> lastfm.de/user/DISK-CTM

SUNDAY FROM 12:00 ON: CTM.10 AFTER HOUR AT BERGHAIN

CTM, Green and Extrema Music present Joris Voorn and cohorts for an unforgettable close to the 2010 festival at Berlin’s most renowned electronic music venue. Free entrance with purple CTM.10 wristband.

A GREEN ODDYSEE …
Joris Voorn [NL] / Edwin Oosterwal [NL] / Pitto [NL] / Rejected ft Joris Voorn & Edwin Oosterwal [NL] / Deetron [CH]
SUN 07.02.
12:00
BP

> extremamusic.com
> myspace.com/greenassociation

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FRI 5.2 – CTM.10 PROGRAM

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Creative Independents Network Market
// Date: FRI 05/02 & SAT 06/02
// Time: 15–12:00
// Venue: [.HBC]
// Entrance free

In its first decade of hard-won existence, CTM has earned itself an impressive international following among audio and media professionals – and it continues to grow. In 2009, well over 1000 institutions, initiatives and businesses from music, design, media and the arts applied for joint accreditation to CTM and its concurrent sister festival transmediale – International Festival for Art and Digital Culture. Today, the two festivals have become a vital port of call on the international circuit, a venue where not only visiting professionals, but everyone can learn about the latest creative innovations, make new contacts, initiate projects and found partnerships.

That’s why we are once again offering visiting professionals a networking-forum: the Creative Independents Network Market. On the 5 & 6 February, on some 1000 sqm. in one of this year’s new Festival venues – the .HBC on Alexanderplatz in Berlin-Mitte – any representatives of institutions, initiatives, projects and businesses who are committed to independent audio and media cultures can take the opportunity to present their activities and products to a broad public.

Entrance to the market is free, so stand-holders can reach not only visiting professionals but also our young festival fans, whose interest in music, arts and media is clearly alive and kicking.

PARTICIPANTS:

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Morphing and Mingling: Sound and Art

Lecture: Art as Party, Party as Art – From Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable to Today
Cornelia & Holger Lund [DE]
FRI 05.02.
15:00
.HBC

Music performance, projections, light shows, dancers, performative actions, participation, transgression, elimination of boundaries – the party unites many aesthetic and social demands of the artistic movements of the 1960s. In their lecture, the two art historians Cornelia and Holger Lund examine the entanglement between the phenomenon of the party and its culturally close relationship to music with contemporary art practices. Spanning the period from early audio-visual experiments of expanded cinema and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, the happenings of the Fluxus movement and New York’s pop art, up to today’s club culture, they outline the role of the party as an experimental artistic space, where the concept of intermediality is central. On an aesthetic level, parties are centred on two key ideas: the accumulation of media and the intersection of media.

Lecture: Sound and Art – an Institutional Perspective
Jesper N. Jørgensen [DK]
FRI 05.02.
16:30
.HBC

Separation and overlap – a shift of identity and the role of the artist and the musician seen in relation to dependency and liberation from the institution within art, sound and music production.

Presentation: See This Sound: Sound–Image Relations in Art and Media
Sandra Naumann [DE] / Dieter Daniels [DE]
FRI 05.02.
18:00
.HBC

Sandra Naumann and Dieter Daniels are presenting the “Audiovisuology” books and the comprehensive web archive (see-this-sound.at), both outcomes of their “See this Sound” project at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research. in Linz, Austria.

> beta.see-this-sound.at
> See also > EXPANDED PERCEPTION: THE INTENSIFICATION OF THE SENSE IN AUDIOVISUAL SPACES

Talk: Put Your Ear on the Wall – Tuned City: Platform for Examinations in the Field Between Architecture and Sound
Carsten Stabenow [DE] / John Grzinich [US/EE] Sam Auinger [AT/DE] Derek Holzer [US/DE]
FRI 05.02.
19:00
.HBC

During the initial tuned city event in Berlin in the summer of 2008, almost 100 artists, architects and thinkers gathered together in a variety of locations around the city to discuss issues of sound and architecture. The ongoing project draws the traditions of critical discussion about urban space within architecture and urban planning discourse – as well as its strategies and working methods – into the context of sound art. This expanded discussion reinforces the potential of the spatial and communicative properties of sound as a tool and means of urban practice. tuned city continues as a platform, exploring other cities and locations with their own cultural and social settings, working theoretically and practically on the question how sound and architecture are related. The panel will introduce general ideas that mark the field of research and present recent planning developed by tuned city for ISEA 2010 (in collaboration with the KHM Cologne) and for the European Cultural Capital Tallinn in 2011.

// [.HBC] CTM MAIN DAY VENUE

Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 9
10178 Berlin-Mitte

Public transport:
U2, U8 > Alexanderplatz
S3, S4, S8, S9 > S-BHF Alexanderplatz
S3, S4, S8, S9 > S-BHF Hackescher Markt
Bus 100

7 minutes walking distance from WMF.

> www.hbc-berlin.de

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SPECTRAL CONTINUUM BERLIN 2010
Charlemagne Palestine [US]
FRI 05.02.
20:00
DOM
Gendarmenmarkt 5
10117 Berlin-Mitte

The pioneering musician Charlemagne Palestine will give a 90 min evening concert on the Eule organ and grand piano of the Französischer Dom (French Cathedral), at Berlin’s Gendarmenmarkt. American composer, musician, performer and artist Palestine has close links with American Minimalist music of the 1960s. However, he chose to follow his own path early in his career. In contrast to the more light-hearted minimalism of his contemporaries La Monte Young, Phillip Glass, Terry Riley and Steve Reich, Palestine took a more ritualistic approach. For more than forty years, he has used the existential intensity of his drone-based ‘resonant music’ to fathom the transcendent qualities of sound.

Palestine is probably best known for his works for piano and organ. By slowly superimposing and thus transforming overtones and drones over lengthy periods of time, he lures from his instruments a chilling crescendo of sound that may culminate in noise. One feature of Palestine’s musical style is the so-called ’strumming’ effect, percussive repetitions that give rise to dense, hypnotic rhythms. A sparse yet persistent scattering of alternating notes generates shimmering overtone clusters with rich and unusual timbres.

Often of several hours duration, Palestine’s performances are akin to shamanistic rituals. Both his music and the way he performs it are a testament to physical intensity taken to its outermost limits and, simultaneously, to otherworldly transcendence. Palestine seeks an expansion of time and space; the trance-like experience. Music critic Brian March describes the experience thus: “There’s a transcendent timelessness about Charlemagne Palestine’s music that makes me feel as if it will always be around”. The very title that Charlemagne Palestine has chosen for his performance in the extraordinary space of the Französischer Dom – ‘Spectral Continuum Berlin 2010′, emphasizes that experience. Palestine’s music is vertical in the sense that it generates a state of vertical temporality or of timelessness. His pieces have neither a beginning nor an end. Rather, they consist of stratifications marked by an absence of linear progression. Although they exhibit an overwhelming dynamism, his pieces remain substantially unchanged throughout their course. What we hear seems to be an excerpt from a continuum that may well ring for eternity, an infinitely extended present that makes past and future fade away.

The concert is part of this year’s series of concerts and performances, jointly programmed by transmediale and CTM > read more.

PLATTENSPIELER AT CTM
Thomas Meinecke [DE] / Tobias Rapp [DE]
FRI 05.02.
21:00
HBC

No revolution without songs, no biography without music! When Thomas Meinecke invites a guest to appear in his ‘Plattenspieler’ series at Berlin’s HAU theater, it is not just about contemplating the socializing power of music, which can be seen as as a kind of soundtrack to personal thoughts and lifestyles, but it is also a conversation about the socio-political influences, discourses and the attitudes which this transports. It is not only the music being played, but also the album covers which make a statement. They become a biographical emblem for the guest, which is countered by the surprising replicas of the host based on the principle of explaining the large in miniature. But it really gets exciting when Plattenspieler is held as a guest performance in .HBC during CTM.10: the explicit rejection of the gesture of authenticity in pop as manifested by Meinecke will meet a representative of the authentic pop discourse, Tobias Rapp. Rapp is surely one of the foremost experts on the Berlin techno and club scene, whose book Lost in Sound (Suhrkamp 2009) outlines the current Berlin techno culture and its locations, and is a homage to the current DJ culture and its prime medium, ‘the vinyl record’.

In cooperation with HAU.
> hebbel-am-ufer.de

CORNUCOPIA
Serengeti & Band [US] / Kelpe [UK] / Four Tet [UK] / Dan Deacon [US] / Funckarma [NL] / Visuals: Transforma [DE]
FRI 05.02.
23:00
WMF 1st Floor

Cornucopia promises to be a warm and joyfully colourful club night with a mix of live performances aimed both at the serious listener and the dance floor. Expect a splendid abundance of sounds and brilliant musical ideas that combine shrewd jazz inspired percussion, heavy bass and loaded drums, wonky instrumental hiphop, dense textures and multi-layered sampling, abstract beats, psyched-out disco, funked IDM and a heavy touch of cosmic krautrock – seamlessly melded together in a mesmerizing process of alchemical refinement. A sonic adventure playground for grown-ups that brings together some of the most engaging live performers to pioneer a visionary of out-of-the-regular dance music that defies genre boundaries.

MUTATIONAL AGENTS
Mount Kimbie [UK] / Joker [UK] / Scuba [UK] / 2562 [NL]
FRI 05.02.
23:00
WMF 2nd Floor

The dubstep aesthetic has seeped into larger contexts, and with it, a new sensibility has taken hold, one that liquifies time signatures like acid, corroding genres and mutating rhythms into surreal, hypercoloured dance structures. The agents of this sensibility come from not only the fringes of dubstep, but techno, electronica and the murky, dark, nameless areas in between. CTM is proud to team-up with Hotflush, one of the premier mutational beats imprints, for a fascinatingly mellifluous night.

> hotflushrecordings.com

SELECTORS CHOICE
The Wire Sound System [UK] / Superclub DJ-Team [DE]
FRI 05.02.
23:00
WMF Lounge1

Experience The Wire’s Office Ambience live in the WMF lounge as the Wire Sound System DJs from London present some modern music adventures. The Wire is an independently published British music magazine, founded in 1982, and described as ‘the most essential music magazine of the contemporary era’ (Forced Exposure). The Superclub DJ Team are DJ Andrè Herzig and DJ Maurice Navarro, longstanding activists of Berlin club life and experts on all forms of ghettotech, bass, electro, rap, house and break beats across Miami, Detroit, Chicago and the rest of the world.

> thewire.co.uk
> super-club.org

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THU 4.2 – CTM.10 PROGRAM

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Friends, Helpers, Deflectors: Networks, Gadgets and Mobile Media

Lecture: This is not a Game – Alternate Realities: Expanding Digital Narratives into Real Life
Winfried Gerling & Christina Maria Schollerer [DE]
THU 04.02.
15:00
.HBC

Christina Maria Schollerer and Winfried Gerling have designed several cross-media formats in conjunction with students from the European Media Studies program (University of Applied Studies Potsdam and University of Potsdam) in recent years – such as an alternate reality game in parallel with the development of a new TV format. Currently they are working on a MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) based on a German soap opera in cooperation with Grundy UFA. The lecture will examine the evolution of Web 2.0 away from primarily screen-oriented communication through to meetings in physical spaces. The strong trend toward the feedback of digital data to real places (see: Google Earth, Flickr, smart phones, RFID, etc.) or the direct linking of this data with real spaces is a crucial turning point in the penetration of digital media into our everyday lives. Conversely, it can be observed that MMORPGs and other online formats more and more often reflect the events of ‘real life’, for example, a funeral service in World Of Warcraft for a deceased player. Against this background, game scenarios and forms of action which link online formats with events in the ‘real world’ will be critically observed and presented.

Presentations and discussion: “Gadgets & Apps – A Medium for Artists?”
Jason Forrest [US] / Ralf Kollmann [DE] / Ali Demirel [TR] / Bryan McDade [CA] / Andie Nordgren [SE] / Moderator: Thaddeus Herrmann [DE]
THU 04.02.
16:00
.HBC

In short presentations, current music gadgets and music applications for mobile electronic devices developed by artists and designers will be introduced. Afterwards, the editor of De-Bug magazine, Thaddeus Hermann, and the participants will discuss the artistic and economic potential of these new formats and applications. Are they used as an independent artistic medium, or are they merely expansions and accessories of known formats? Do they open up new artistic perspectives and new earning opportunities? How does the collaboration between artists and technology developers work? What has been the experience so far, and how do the panelists foresee the near future of this field?

Lecture: Hack A Day. Gadget Cultures: From Consumer Fetishism to Prosumer Play to DIY Makeaway
Verena Kuni [DE]
THU 04.02.
19:00
.HBC

A gadget is, by definition, a small, specialized mechanical or electronic device. A contrivance. Something considered a useful, life-enhancing helper. However, some prefer to call it thingamajig. Some simply buy it. Some would even die for it. Yet, straightforward fetishism can turn out to be incredibly boring, right? That’s why we want our gadgets to be toys. But if we’re already toying around with them anyway – what about getting really into it, build, rebuild, twist, turn and play them our own way?

// [.HBC] CTM MAIN DAY VENUE

Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 9
10178 Berlin-Mitte

Public transport:
U2, U8 > Alexanderplatz
S3, S4, S8, S9 > S-BHF Alexanderplatz
S3, S4, S8, S9 > S-BHF Hackescher Markt
Bus 100

7 minutes walking distance from WMF.

> www.hbc-berlin.de

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POWER
artificiel [CA/QC] “POWEr”
THU 04.02.
20:30
HKW

‘POWEr’ is a performance for which the only visual and sound source is a Tesla coil. Named after its inventor, the coil generates a very high-voltage alternating current that discharges in the form of visible arcs of electricity. artificiel control and modulate the voltage frequency using electrical signals. The arcs ionize the surrounding air at the same frequency as the signal, sending it into a plasma state. This creates oscillations in the air pressure, which can be heard as sound waves. The coil becomes a musical instrument. At the same time, the artists convert the sound and light events generated by the coil into digital signals. They then use computers to create an intricate, real time audiovisual composition.

‘POWEr’ impressively demonstrates that sound is first and foremost physical energy. It theatrically conveys how energy, when converted into pure information, can be manipulated in any way. It is a vivid example of ‘atemporality’ in the manner it employs century-old technology (the Tesla coil developed by Tesla at the turn of the century), and digital technology to create an entirely new performative phenomena. It is also shows how the aesthetics and methodologies of natural science feed into the creation of a new ‘materiality’ of electronic music.

‘POWEr’ is part of this year’s series of concerts and performances, jointly programmed by transmediale and CTM > read more.

‘POWEr’ is a commission for the 10th edition of MUTEK. This project has been supported by the Canada Arts Council and the Conseil des arts et lettres du Québec. artificiel also thanks Steve Ward for his contribution to the development of the audio-modulated DRSSTC.

NEEDLE THE NERVES
Dan Friel [US] / Holy Fuck [CA] / Etienne Jaumet [FR] / Oni Ayhun [ ] / Visuals: Jeffers Egan [US]
THU 04.02.
21:00
WMF 1st Floor

Analogue synthesizers and machines, handmade electronics and whirring oscillators are unbeatable when it comes to generating thick, organic, psychedelic and, especially, nerve-racking sound hypnoses. All the better if you can even dance to it, like at this evening. Dan Friel and Holy Fuck make euphoric electronic noise rock, full of anarchic spontaneity, somewhere between krautrock, Slayer and disco: 100% raw, 100% handmade, 100% energy. The pulsating spiral worms created by Etienne Jaumet combine the blood-freezing tension of a John Carpenter soundtrack with beats that push forward à la Carl Craig. Oni Ayhun’s brilliant techno tracks spread a nervous restlessness with their complex melodies and deep atmospheres, matching the obscure persona of this mysterious producer.

EXTENDED ECLECTICS
Alex Nowitz [DE] / dj sniff [JP/NL] / Justin Bennett [UK/NL] / TokTek [NL]
THU 04.02.
22:00
WMF 2nd Floor

Amsterdam’s STEIM (Studio for Electro Instrumental Music) is a unique entity. Its focus – over its four decade history – has been unwaveringly on live electronic music performance; the only independent centre for research and development of interfaces, instruments and tools for performers of its kind in the world. Four artists closely associated with the organisation, including artistic director Takuro Mizuta Lippit, tonight help mark STEIM’S remarkable, important forty years of operation.

> steim.org

SELECTORS CHOICE
Andy Votel [UK]
THU 04.02.
21:00
WMF Lounge

Manchester-based Andy Votel (Andrew Shallcross) is renowned for his eccentric compilations of obscure folk, prog and psych: 2003’s Music to Watch Girls Cry, 2005’s Songs in the Key of Death, 2007’S One Nation Under A Grave and 2008’s Brazilika. Label founder of indie imprint Twisted Nerve Records (with Badly Drawn Boy) and Finders Keepers, Votel is also a producer and sought after remixer.

> twistednerve.co.uk
> finderskeepersrecords.com

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Zeitraffermaschine 1.0 @ ctm 2010

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Zeitraffermaschine 1.0 @ ctm 2010 from autokolor on Vimeo.

The video above was generated by Timm Ringewaldt’s installation at clubtransmediale 2010. The installation is run by a network of five computers which constantly take pictures and transforms them into several timelapse sequences. These sequences are presented on six large displays at the festival.
All editing and compositing is done automatically by the installation. Current pictures are added to the timelapse stream after about three minutes.
You can watch it live at Berlin’s WMF Club until saturday 6th of February 2010.
Hardware: Five mini/iMacs, two 350D/40D Canon cameras, six plasma/lcd Displays 52″ and 65″.
Software: Max/Msp+Jitter, Applescript, Keyboardmaestro, Synchronize Pro

Special thanks to satis&fy who sponsored the displays!

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WEDS 3.2 CTM.10 PROGRAM

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Lecture: Sonic Interaction Design – Some Recent Projects
Christopher Salter [CA/US]
WED 03.02.
15:00
.HBC

While interaction has been discussed in a broad range of artistic projects focused on new technologies, the area of sound has usually been ignored in favour of screen-based, visual interactive media. More recently, however, a large-scale European Union Sonic Interaction Design (SID) network and a forthcoming new book from MIT Press in 2011aims to throw light on this burgeoning field. From early sensory driven musical instruments like the theremin to recent projects involving ubiquitous computing and wireless sensing technologies, sound has always been explored as material to be shaped, manipulated and transformed in real time. This talk will be an introduction to some recent projects and techniques in the growing field of Sonic Interaction Design. How does sound as an indicator of non visible processes, as a trigger of emotions and affect get researched and explored by artists in the design of new technological interfaces, the augmentation of everyday objects with sonic behaviour and the creation of interactive acoustic environments that continually transform our perception of the listened world?

Lecture: Defining your own instrument
Takuro Mizuta Lippit (DJ Sniff) [JP]

WED 03.02.
16:00
.HBC

STEIM’s artistic director will look into how one can find new means of expression by creating highly customized instrument setups. He will present recent projects developed at STEIM that follow a set of strict criteria based on artistic results rather than academic research or gear fetishism. Between the endless possibilities offered by software and the countless generic controllers sold on the market, how do musicians find inspiring performance and production setups? STEIM, a centre for research and development of instruments and tools for performers in the electronic performance arts, is located in Amsterdam.

> www.steim.nl
> See also > CONNECT – MAP – MUSIC
> See also > EXTENDED ECLECTICS

Lecture: Functionality to be Specified
Robert Henke [DE]
WED 03.02.
17:00
.HBC

A computer is not a musical instrument; it is an arbitrary collection of possible functions. A ‘real’ musical instrument is a highly specialized, optimized and structurally static object that can be mastered by a player. Which strategies do the creators of computer instruments follow when building instruments? How can a user make the most sense out those offerings? What is the role of craftsmanship on both sides? What could ‘playing music’ in the context of computer software mean?

Lecture: Computational Formation
Yutaka Makino [JP]
WED 03.02.
18:00
.HBC

Yutaka Makino is an artist and researcher currently based in Berlin with the Berliner Künstlerprogramm DAAD. His research seeks to amalgamate the historic precedents of computational composition and science, involving research in spatial perception, complex dynamical systems and new materiality. In the presentation he will give an insight to his work, which ranges from sculpture to sound works including computer music compositions and spatial sound installations that utilize spatial projection processes such as Wave Field Synthesis. The focus of his talk will be a dialectical relation between computational systems and the artist.

Discussion: Interface and Instrument-Design – How Technology Affects Music
Takuro Mizuta Lippit [JP] / Robert Henke [DE] / Yutaka Makino [JP] / Christopher Salter [CA/US] / Moderation: Tony Herrington [UK]
WED 03.02.
19:00
.HBC

The guests tonight have been active for many years both as electronic musicians/artists/performers and developers of audio soft and hardware. Together with Tony Herrington, editor of the music magazine, The Wire, they discuss the impact of technological developments on the progression of musical aesthetics. Are new technical opportunities such as those offered by the automated recording of music, electronic synthesizers, the electric guitar or modern music software the true motors of progress when it comes to musical forms? Who programmes whom? What role does creative vision play – and what role artistic experiment? How should new musical instruments and tools be designed, in order that their own internal parameters won’t overly determine creativity but instead facilitate an open-ended artistic process? Or, given the sheer unending potential of computers, is the task of musical interfaces in fact to impose limitations and thus ultimately to lend depth to the artistic process?

http://www.clubtransmediale.de/ctm-festival/day-program/day-schedule/03.html

// [.HBC] CTM MAIN DAY VENUE

Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 9
10178 Berlin-Mitte

Public transport:
U2, U8 > Alexanderplatz
S3, S4, S8, S9 > S-BHF Alexanderplatz
S3, S4, S8, S9 > S-BHF Hackescher Markt
Bus 100

7 minutes walking distance from WMF.

> www.hbc-berlin.de

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Thomas Köner & Jürgen Reble [DE] “Marteria Obscura” / Ryoji Ikeda [JP] “test pattern [live set]”
WED 03.03.
20:15
HKW

The two audiovisual performances of this program address the materiality of moving images. The title of the evening is a reference to William Gibson’s book of the same name, which is an examination of the human desire to detect patterns or meaning in what might appear to be meaningless data. Both performances are deep explorations of the forms which emerge when materials and data are analysed and made visible in unexpected ways. The evening can be seen as an extension of the themes explored in the transmediale.10 exhibition, ‘Future Obscura’, which presents artistic work that uses the materials, mechanisms and machines of image-making to illuminate and define our relationship with atemporality – the collision of past, present and future. At the same time the transdisciplinary and synaesthetic nature of the performances – combining sound, programming, computer graphics and film – refer to CTM.10’s theme, ‘Overlap’.

The concert is part of this year’s series of concerts and performances, jointly programmed by transmediale and CTM > read more.

Thomas Köner & Jürgen Reble [DE] “Materia Obscura”
Our universe consists mostly of dark and imperceptible matter. This performance is a door to enter this world. The visual source material for ‘Materia Obscura are approximately 25.000 scans in high resolution of 16mm ‘chemograms’ that filmmaker Jürgen Reble produced in the past. These ‘chemograms’ are made by unique alchemical transformations of the film material itself. The editing of the image streams will happen live on the computer. It is a visual expedition into crystallized salts and dyes which are changing rhythm and structure constantly between moving images, reveilling the bizarre richness and beauty of its materiality. In his music, Thomas Köner always moved towards the borders of perception, as if it was a means of communication with the beyond. The quadrophonic staging of ‘Materia Obscura expands the performance space, where the horizontal flow of time meets with the sonic impulse and creates a vertical dimension, in which premonition, memory and splinters of Here and Now become perceptible as the darkening of the observed Materia.

Ryoiji Ikeda [JP] “test pattern [live set]”
‘test pattern’, the latest audiovisual work in the ‘datamatics’ series of Japan’s leading electronic composer/artist, Ryoji Ikeda, presents intense flickering black and white imagery, which floats and convulses in darkness to a powerful, highly synchronised soundtrack. Through a real-time computer program, Ikeda converts the audio signals into tightly synchronised barcode patterns on screen. The velocity of the moving images is ultra-fast, some hundreds of frames per second, so that the work provides a performance test for the audio and visual devices, as well as a response test for the audience’s perceptions.
Produced by Forma.

MONADIC ZERO
Hildur Guðnadóttir [IS] Habsyll [FR] OM [US]
WED 3.02.
22:00
WMF 1st Floor

Three entirely different approaches with a similar effect: in the gifted hands of these musicians, music becomes a psychotropic substance, transporting the listener to within himself and simultaneously opening the expanses of inner space. Accompanied by trumpet and saxophone, the stately, melancholy melodies of cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir unravel with mysterious dark beauty and cinematic atmospherics. The abysmal, nihilistic drone doom of Habsyll opens a black void like the eye of a storm in the midst of cathartic feedback and extreme heaviness. The spartan instrumentation of bass and drums in the stoner mantras of OM combine minimalist repetition and dynamics with immense physical intensity to create spiritual meditations – psychedelic masterpieces in widescreen formation.

SELECTORS CHOICE
Markus Detmer [DE]
WED 3.02.
22:00
WMF Lounge

Markus Detmer founded the label Staubgold in Cologne in 1998. In the ensuing years, the label has become an acclaimed brand representing experimental and electronic music around the world. Its roster boasts internationally known names like Faust, To Rococo Rot, Mapstation, Ekkehard Ehlers, Rafael Toral and Oren Ambarchi. In 2003, the label shifted its base from Cologne to Berlin. As a DJ, Detmer has presented his sensitive sound collages of minimal music, avantgarde and techno at festivals and in clubs around the world.

> staubgold.com

MAKING CONTAKT (THE DOCUMENTARY)
Film by Ali Demirel, Richie Hawtin, Niamh Guckian and Patrick Protz (2010, approx. 90min).
WED 03.02.
22:30
Kino Babylon

In collaboration with m-nus and the Kino Babylon, CTM is proud to present an exclusive preview of the documetary “Making CONTAKT”, followed by Q&A with Richie Hawtin and Ali Demirel.

In 2008, the Minus record label – operated by Richie Hawtin and home to artists such as Magda, Troy Pierce, Konrad Black, Marc Houle, Heartthrob and others – celebrated its ten year anniversary with CONTAKT – a free-flowing, improvisational show involving the label’s top DJs and live performers backed up by state of the art visuals. This fly-on-the-wall documentary edited by Niamh Guckian (Totally Wired Movie) superbly documents the journey, offering a unique, behind the scenes look at what makes this crazy, passionate and highly focused group of individuals tick, as they attempt to redefine the conventional clubbing experience.

Interspersed with a running commentary from the artists, friends and backroom staff who made the event possible, it’s a warts & all appraisal of the highs, lows, triumphs and near catastrophes that accompanied the tour, revealing exactly what it takes to get a performance of this magnitude on the road and keep the electronic movement pushing forward. The film will be relased on DVD on February 26th, 2010.

> www.m-nus.com
> www.babylonberlin.de
> See also > GADGETS & APPS – A MEDIUM FOR ARTISTS?

http://www.clubtransmediale.de/ctm-festival/night-program/night-schedule/03.html

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TUE 2.2 – CTM.10 PROGRAM

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Sound in the Data Sphere – How Statistics and Social Technologies Change the Music World

Presentation: Incubate – A Social Festival Model
Joost Heijthuijsen [NL]
TUE 02.02.
15:00
.HBC

Joost Heijtjuijsen gives an introduction to the ’social festival model’, the aim of which is to allow every festival-goer to contribute to the policy development of the Incubate Festival for Independent Culture in Tilburg. The model is based on ideas and concepts discussed in Tapscott and Williams’ 2006 book Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, and is comprised of a set of methods and online tools used to both stimulate organizational co-creation and learning within their organization, and to foster knowledge transfer in the form of an open-source business model.

> www.incubate.org
> www.socialfestivalmodel.org

Presentation: How to… Open Broadcast
Thomas Gilgen [CH]
TUE 02.02.
15:30
.HBC

Open Broadcast is the first fully user-generated radio in Switzerland, with a license for innovative music, culture and knowledge. In order to realize this ambitious program, the organizers are looking for dedicated players in the fields of culture, media and science, creative people in music (artists, bookers, promoters, labels, etc.) and music obsessives of all shades, from radio producers to radio freaks, who want to actively shape Open Broadcast as users.

> www.openbroadcast.ch

Lecture: Music Similarity is not Music Recommendation
Pedro Cano [ES]
TUE 02.02.
16:00
.HBC

The computer scientist and engineer Pedro Cano is an expert on music recommendation systems, the operation mode of complex networks and the concept of the Semantic Web. In his lecture he gives an overview about the state of the newest research and technologies in the field of music recommendation. These systems are nowadays the basis for a number of new online music services and will have a great impact in the near future on the reception and distribution of music. Music recommendation systems analyze the preferences of the consumers and the structure of songs with complex statistic methods to propose applicable similar songs or musicians. Cano will focus on the problematic question of how to curb the system’s promotion of already popular bands and songs, which creates an overly homogeneous marketplace. The goal of his research is to develop a new recommendation system that reflects the true variety and diversity of the music market and introduces the so called ‘Long Tail’ to the public and the commercial markets.

Lecture: Damaged Goods: Taste Statistics, Commodity-form Problems and the Question of Good Music.
Mark Terkessidis [DE]
TUE 02.02.
17:00
.HBC

Statistical evaluation of an audience is one way to assess the behaviour of consumers who, today, are no longer in the least prepared to passively consume whatever the industry offers them. Such consumers, even though at times they may make highly subjective decisions and justify them, for example, in blogs, nevertheless also act in a statistically underpinned fashion. As they are mainly motivated by personal sensibilities and a desire to be socially embedded they often seek affinities and orient their tastes to other people’s lists and profiles. This gives rise to ongoing ’series’ of perception. In his lecture Terkessidis describes these statistical spheres and asks how, in this context, the question of genuine critique might be addressed.

Discussion: Change of Use – The Evolution of Online Music Services
Stefan Possert [AT] / Caspar von Gwinner [DE] / Thomas Gilgen [CH] / David Noël [BE] / Anna Ufer [DE] / Moderator: Ji-Hun Kim [DE]
TUE 02.02.
18:00
.HBC

The spectrum of online music services is rapidly expanding. The internet currently offers place enough for a diverse range of parallel concepts to co-exist in harmony. Yet every project develops its individual focus by putting a different degree of emphasis on either metaphors (digital record store, radio, magazine, archive, library or community), strategies (crowd sourcing, personalization, editorials) or technological applications (recommendation services, track recognition, meta-search engines), as well as by bringing into play various ways of making money (ad sales, pay per download, subscription, flat rate). Every platform aims for specific target groups and hence implies that there are different ways of using music. This is why, behind every concept, there’s an individual viewpoint not only on the cultural role and everyday use of music but also on what motivates the people who write, produce and listen to it – ultimately manifesting both in content and user statistics. But how close are the concept and real-life use of a product? What do end users make of the things on offer? The panel discussion brings together experts active in the strategic and conceptual development of online music services. What prognoses, prospects and visions will shape developments in the coming years?

// [.HBC] CTM MAIN DAY VENUE

Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 9
10178 Berlin-Mitte

Public transport:
U2, U8 > Alexanderplatz
S3, S4, S8, S9 > S-BHF Alexanderplatz
S3, S4, S8, S9 > S-BHF Hackescher Markt
Bus 100

7 minutes walking distance from WMF.

> www.hbc-berlin.de

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TINTINNABULATIONS FOR TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
Charlemagne Palestine [US]
TUE 02.02.
19:00
HKW

The commencement of transmediale.10 will be announced by the resounding sound of pealing bells, rung by the pioneering musician Charlemagne Palestine. This extraordinary concert takes place at the Tiergarten carillon, next to the House of World Cultures. The Tiergarten carillon is one of the world’s largest and most distinctive carillons, comprising 68 bells weighing a total of 48 tonnes. It is a striking modernist element of contemporary Berlin, and a unique auditory quirk in time, space and history.

The concert launches transmediale’s exploration of futurity in a location inherently bound to the concept of time. Bell towers were, in the past, important tools to communicate events within daily life which marked the passing of time. Before the invention of the mechanic clock, it was the bells of church towers which manifested a concept of shared, public time, specifically the canonic time of the church, which varied by region and season. When the first mechanic clocks were invented, they were built into the towers of churches and town halls. In combination with the automatic chime, the mechanical clock and the bell tower became the heralds of a new conception of an invariable precise and linear time. This invention in many ways has to be seen as the starting point for the following acceleration in science, commerce and technology leading to industrialization and global communication. Thus there seems no better place to begin a festival examining futurity as a condition of contemporary technologised life, than a bell tower, that traditional demarcator of time.

Charlemagne Palestine was born in 1945 in New York and studied at New York University, Columbia University, Mannes College of Music and at the California Institute of the Arts. He is a professional cantor and one of the world’s few contemporary carillonists. In the 1960s he worked as a bell ringer in St. Thomas’ Church in New York, which is why his earliest compositions were created specifically for bells. “I lived near the bells, played them right next to my body. The sound became physical, visceral, each crack of the clapper was like a small earthquake”, says Palestine.

The concert is the beginning of this year’s series of concerts and performances, jointly programmed by transmediale and CTM > read more.

> See also > SPECTRAL CONTINUUM BERLIN 2010

A MAZE – JUMP’N RUN BONUS CHEAT
Angel Galàn & M. Lastra [ES] / Wiij Timski [NL] / STU /w Raquel Meyers [CH/ES] / The Horrible Plans of Flex Busterman (Patrick Catani) [DE] / Notic Nastic [DK] / Geis&BaBa [DE] / DJ Christian Candid & DJane Rippe [AT/UK]
TUE 2.02.
21:00
WMF 1st Floor

For the closing party of the A MAZE. Interact program within CTM.10. a mix of game-inspired music, live acts, and DJ-sets combined with interactive installations, playful visuals, and exhibits based on computer games will be presented. By integrating the medium of the computer game into the performative space of the club the ideology of play is directly confronted. A club usually creates a space for spontaneous events, computer games on the contrary are based on rather rigid sets of rules. By subverting these differences, the night celebrates the convergence of games, art, and music.

Three installations will be shown next to the music and audiovisual performances:

Chris Sugrue (US) & Damian Stewart (NZ) ‘A Cable Plays’
A performance inspired by the hidden codes of human behaviour and the hidden logic of games. Two players interact in this installation. An augmented video projection displays visuals generated during play. Chris Sugrue is a teacher, artist and programmer. Damian Stewart works as a professional software programmer and a musician. Both are part of the openFrameworks development group.
> www.csugrue.com
> www.frey.co.nz

Tine Papendick (DE) ‘Digital Puppetry’
Interactive, animated installation by Berlin media artist Tine Papendick. The piece enables users to playfully manipulate their own video image by applying different illustrated objects to the video. The hand-drawn illustrations can be dragged across a video screen by placing pink post-it notes on the screen.
> www.ti-pi.de

Julian Oliver (NZ) & Steven Pickles (UK) ‘Fijuu2′
3D audiovisual interactive installation – a synaesthetic composition, tool operated via six unique 3D objects. Controlled with standard game pads the results of the interaction can be recorded to a 3D track, transforming the installation into a performance engine. ‘Fijuu2′ is the sequel to the performance-project ‘Fijuu’, turning it into a public installation. The installation successfully blurs the borders between the virtual and the real.
> www.selectparks.net

> see also > A MAZE. INTERACT

OVERLAP
EMW Orchestra
TUE 02.02.
20:00
WMF 2nd

Taking CTM.10’s theme as its starting point, the EMW Orchestra will explore the concept of ‘OVERLAP.’

The nerve and the sinew, the retina and the fingertip flicker and spark in the will to self-expression, and in so doing slowly trace out the two layers which constitute the Orchestra’s performance this evening: firstly the emergence and overlap of bodies and shadows in the form of the human/animal hybrid and secondly the description of the compositional act in its very moment of creation.

Audio and visual are not treated as mutually exclusive materials, nor do they merely accompany one another; rather, conjoined they describe the invisible and the inaudible, the sense-able and the inevitable.

The EMW Orchestra comprises students from the department for European Media Studies at the FH Potsdam and Potsdam University and is coordinated by lecturer and musician Simon Vincent.

> emw.fh-potsdam.de

SELECTORS CHOICE
Computadora [DE/ES]
TUE 02.02.
21:00
WMF Lounge

His sounds come from the C64, Amiga and Atari XL/ST, while his passion comes from early computer demo scene fanaticism. DJ Computadora aka Herr Galatran originates from Madrid but is based in Berlin. He also runs the Bleepstreet Records label.

> bleepstreet.com

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