Creative Independents Network Market
// Date: FRI 05/02 & SAT 06/02
// Time: 15–12:00
// Venue: [.HBC]
// Entrance free
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.
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:
SKUG Magazine > skug.at | EYZ MEDIA > eyzmedia.de | RASTER NOTON > raster-noton.net | SAE INSTITUT > berlin.sae.edu | STAUBGOLD > staubgold.com | BEATPROVIDERS > beatproviders.org | BERLIN MUSIC COMMISSION > berlin-music-commission.de | BONGOUT > bongoût.com | MONIKA ENTERPRISE > m-enterprise.de | CRONICA > cronicaelectronica.org | DIS-PATCH > dis-patch.com | EI(S)KON:FEKT / SOUNDFRAME > soundframe.at | TENTABLE > tentable.de | STAALPLAAT > staalplaat.com | HEART & CROSSBONE RECORDS > hcbrecords.com | CENATUS CIC NETAUDIO > cenatus.org | CULTURE LAB > ncl.ac.uk/culturelab/ | AUTOPILOT MUSIC > autopilotmusic.com | OPEN BROADCAST > openbroadcast.ch | DEKORDER > dekorder.com | QWARTZ > qwartz.org | MUTEK > mutek.ca | PIKSEL > piksel.no | THE WIRE > thewire.co.uk | TRANSMEDIA AKADEMIE HELLERAU > t-m-a.de | DE:BUG > de-bug.de
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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
