12 Feb 2020: Screening: Reynols "Sinti Botuva Tapes" (+ Q&A)
LUDO MICH
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POSTPONED TO MARCH 15th
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MAANDAG 9/12/2019: Art & Film: Ludo Mich: LYSISTRATA + ARTHUR IS FANTASTIC (http://www.filmhuismechelen.be/tag/ludo-mich/)
ZONDAG 26/1/2019: LUDO IS FANTASTIC: screening + performance (MICH/GOUDBEEK) + expo @ grambacht, keizerstraat 42, mechelen
K-Group: Abstract experimental music in a pop format
Paul Toohey, the man who went out shopping and came back 16 years later.
Paul Toohey, the man who went out shopping and came back 16 years later.
You recorded a 7" for I Dichi Del Barone. Why are there 16 years between the last K-Group release from 2003 and this new 7"?
Paul Toohey: I don't know. I could say family life, work, going to the shops. A lot of spare time got used up on house
renovations, playing football, that sort of thing. But I kept recording
all through that period, and I was trying out some new ways to make
sounds and record with a computer. It was only moderately successfully
and even when I made something I liked, I was in no hurry to release it,
because I was out of touch with the music world. But I knew the time
would come again so I never really went away. I definitely missed
playing with Surface of the Earth. When I moved to Auckland Rosy Parlane
and Torben Tilly encouraged me to resurrect K-Group for some live shows
so the last two years have been quite productive. A few shows, lots of
recording.
Can you tell me, in your own words, what am I listening to when I listen to this 7"?
Side
A - processed guitar. The flip side came about after applying a
computer effect to a sound that I can't quite remember the source of.
Possibly some synthesiser that has been pitch shifted and had its tempo
dramatically altered.
Do
you think the 7" format fits your kind of drone music? Because one of
the things I like about your drones is that they don't go on forever.
When
we had our label World Resources one of the ideas that appealed to me
was making abstract, experimental music and presenting in a 'pop' format
- the 7". I'm still interested in that idea. Same thing with albums
really, 8-10 tracks around a 4-6 minute mark. Trying to work with the
format of music I grew up listening to in the late 70s and 80s.
Sometimes it's possible to do longer tracks but in general I prefer
short ones. Live I think it can be a bit challenging for the audience
because the music sometimes ends just when people seem to be drifting
off with the sound and getting comfortable.
How did you get into ths kind of music? Was it a record? Or an artist? Or an instrument?
Most
of the stuff I really liked when I was kid had some kind of drone
element. I was listening to the obvious stuff so guitar players like
Bernard Sumner, Bruce Gilbert and Johnny Ramone made their mark on me
when I was in high school, particularly the sound of their guitars and
the economy of it all. I liked the synthesiser too and remember
'Autobahn' on the radio. I loved it, and of course much later discovered
all the German music like La Dusseldorf. Back in the mid 80s I was
making recordings with Tony from Surface of the Earth and also on my
own. Some of the drone elements were already there, and largely because
of my limitations as a guitar player. Some of the classic New Zealand
Flying Nun 80s bands always had some kind of drone going on. I'm going
to see Michael Rother in Berlin in three weeks in Berlin, I can hardly
believe it.
What is it that attracts you in drone music?
I
don't think I can say I listen to a lot of drone music, but I like
hearing people using drones in rock or pop music. Someone like Dean
Wareham has been doing it for years and he's very skilful and I already
mentioned the German stars. I suppose the idea of getting lost in sound
appeals to most people who love music. As for playing it, I think it's
all I can do really, as I am limited as a guitar player.
Which gear do you use, for making your music and for recording?
The
K-Group CD on Corpus Hermeticum was a guitar album, recorded to
cassettes, like Surface of the Earth. It took me ages. In the last few
years I've been using the computer a lot, but not really in a high tech
way. So now I generally I record guitar drones - using the overdrive
pedal I've had since the 80s, a basic practice amp and a little reverb -
onto a little handheld recorder. I transfer the sounds to computer and
process them. I sometimes layer a couple of tracks, but because the
recordings are quite low fidelity, there's already a bit of texture and
there's a lot detail missing. This is generally a good thing, as it
gives me something to work with. I don't like too many layers - overdubs
stress me - so I try to keep it as sparse as possible.
Did the music of Surface Of The Earth influence your solo work?
Well
I play a similar role in K-Group to the one I have in Surface. I've
really only got a couple of moves on the guitar so it's difficult for me
to come up with something different, but I still try. Some
recent K-Group recordings are probably not drone music so I'm finally
branching out a bit. One of the enjoyable things about Surface
of the Earth is we don't talk about anything, we just record. Because
of the guitars of Donald and Tony, Surface recordings are more detailed.
In K-Group I spend hours and hours over things and often end up nowhere
anyway. K-Group is more 'controlled' and 'constructed' I suppose but it
definitely contains less elements.
Why did you want to do K-group as a solo thing?
Mainly because I moved from Wellington in the mid 90s, and because I've always recorded on my own anyway.
What does the name K-Group refer to?
I can't remember, exactly - probably obfuscation. I'm stuck with it now.
You tour Europe in this autumn. Is this your first European tour?
It's my first tour anywhere.
(interview by joeri bruyninckx)
TORBA (it)
sound collage, musique (in)concrète, field recordings and electronics.
"Torba is a solo project by Mauro Diciocia, a crude sonic collage that combines sounds and techniques hijacked from the musique concrète/tape music tradition with a modern and acousmatic approach to noise music and post-industrial soundscapes. Active since 2009, torba is an object in perpetual motion where the only constant element is represented by the organic use of field recordings/found footage and their manipulation through magnetic tapes and digital processors.
He released material on labels such as Angoisse, Total Black, a dear girl called Wendy, Mazurka Editions, Fragment Factory, Monorail Trespassing, Cønjuntø Vacíø among others.
He shared the stage with Sewer Election, Damien Dubrovnik, Puce Mary, Croatian Amor, Ketev, Dave Phillips, Gordon Ashworth, Pedestrian Deposit, Neutral, Arv & Miljo, Tommi Keränen, Fejhed, Umpio, Rashad Becker, Händer Som Vårdar, MAAAA, Broken Lights, Daniel Löwenbrück, Marcellvs L and more."
http://www.aaltra.it/torba/
https://torba.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/torba
http://www.fragmentfactory.com/
ROXANE MÉTAYER (fr)
"strates de violon hydrophone et de matière sonore sylvestre"
Fragile violin and field recordings from 1/2 of Sage Alyte who played a great set at the Meakusma festival.
https://soundcloud.com/roxanem-tayer
https://soundcloud.com/sage-alyte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVJKuIDCdKw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB4vElWB3Ow
https://metayerroxane.wixsite.com/roxane/
5 EUR
SHOWS 17:00
Knotwilg & gr'ambacht present:
K-Group (nzl) + Taku Sugimoto / Minami Saeki (jap)
"K-Group is Paul Toohey's solo drone project. In mid/late nineties he was member of arguably one of the most influential drone outfits ever Surface Of The Earth. A band whom have set a bookmark in feedbacking drones worldwide. K-Group just followed this road with a cd on Corpus H. while the Fusetron/Fisheye outputs teamed him up with the electronics from Omit. The biggest difference with other drone outfits being they are going deeper, and know how to stop a good track and not dragging it endlessly.
This resulted in legendary releases from both projects on Fusetronsound and Corpus Hermeticum. Some of these are reissued on Keith Utech or will be on Thin Wrist Recordings. A K-Group 7" is also scheduled on the notorious @I Dischi Del Barone for this year.
NZ fans shouldn't be convinced by this news (and i do know every single fan of you within Belgium haha) but how to convince musicfans whom are totally unaware of this? Obviously for people whom love Tony Conrad and other minmalists. But also for Pita/KTL fans for instance. And i am pretty sure Sunn O))) fans might dig this. Stephen O' Malley probably listened even very closely.
But have a listen and Judge for yourselves
https://kgroup.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5dumuMTLjs
https://utechrecords.bandcamp.com/album/surface-of-the-earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zH1mkH1oLg "(J. Loones)
Taku Sugimoto
"composer / guitarist / improviser
Currently he is more active in composing, while maintaining an interest in improvisation.
These past few years he has performed, worked, and collaborated closely with Radu Malfatti, Manfred Werder, Stefan Thut, Cristian Alvear, Christian Kobi, Simon Roy Christensen, Johnny Chang, Takeshi Masubuchi, Denis Sorokin, Fredrick Rasten, and Minami Saeki.
He is a member of Suidobashi Chamber Ensemble, an ensemble focusing on performing compositions of contemporary or experimental music."
http://www.japanimprov.com/tsugimoto/index.html
http://soundamerican.org/sa_archive/sa17/idobata-kaigi.html
https://takusugimoto.bandcamp.com/
Minami Saeki
"film actress, singer, and dancer
born in Nagasaki on the 18 February 1990.
she studied classical ballet, contemporary dance, classical singing, etc. she has acted in films, e.g., “Village on the Village” (Yukihiro Kurokawa) or “Natsu no Musumetachi-Himegoto” (Teiichi Hori) among others.
she is active as a singer and has performed with Taku Sugimoto, Junichiro Tanaka, Wakana Ikeda, Masafumi Ezaki, Takashi Masubuchi, Manfred Werder, Stefanut, Vincent Laju, among others in the fields of both pop and experimental music. “Songs” is a collaborative work with Taku Sugimoto."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrgCVM3gtiA
6 EUR
14 August: Masubuchi / Augusteyns / Mota / García
Takashi Masubuchi (jp)
+
Jürgen Augusteyns (be)
Manuel Mota (pt)
Margarida García (pt)
"Takashi Masubuchi was born in 1984.Besed in Tokyo.
He started solo improvisation to use electric guitar from 2010.
He focus on playing an acoustic guitar from 2017.
His play inspired by Prewar blues.Morton Feldman's composiion.
and After the 1990s japanese improvised music.(it is sometimes called an「Onkyo」)
These past few years he has performed and collaborated with
Cristian Alvear.Joachim Badenhorst.Wakana Ikeda.Yoko Ikeda.Yasumune Morishige.Toshimaru Nakamura.Straytone.Taku Sugimoto and Shizuo Uchida."
https://takashimasubuchi.tumblr.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amvDFj3UY3s
http://headlightsrecordings.blogspot.com/
https://jurgenaugusteyns.wordpress.com
http://margaridagarcia.blogspot.com
ism stad Mechelen
30 april 2019
CHIE MUKAI
"Born in Osaka, Japan.
1975: MUKAI Chie studied music under KOSUGI Takehisa Music Workshop at BI-GAKKO (alesthetic school) in Tokyo.
She started playing the er-hu and performed various improvised music such as "East Bionic Symphonia" and "STEREOS".
1981: She started her group "Che´-SHIZU".
Now it is known as a lo-fi dream psyche folk rock band.
She also performs in collective improvisation groups "dadunr", "IoGanymede" and works with butoh dancers / performance artists.
1998: She started producing the mixed media art festival "PERSPECTIVE EMOTION", and holds improvisation workshop in both Japan and Europe."
http://www.kilie.com/mukai
https://chiemukai.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwl83hJrmds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH3DRw24OIU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZJK13rGa0
JORIS DE RYCKE
"heel klassiek, weinig klassieke gedichten voorbrengen"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPRr2Pv6MUA
https://soundcloud.com/sloowtapes/lotuseters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vcnx8Lz7W4
https://www.flickr.com/photos/37405627@N05/
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