BYETONE (raster-noton)
SCHRAUFF (Bio-mechanics, Elements)
Introduction: DJ Peco

www.raster-noton.net
www.youtube.com/watch

Admission free. Free entrance & Free ride from Ljubljana and back:

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BYETONE (DE)
Byetone (Olaf Bender) is together with Carsten Nicolai and Frank Bretschneider co-founder and curator of the German electronic label raster-noton, one of the most important labels of contemporary electronic music over the last two decades, which in the world of electronic music established its unique musical and visual aesthetics on the border between acoustic and electronic (digital) audio signal, image and object (via the formation of minimalist sculpture, installations, audio-visual connections, …), which echoes both in the galleries and museums of contemporary art in clubs with dance music and in major concert halls. Raster-noton’s aesthetics is rooted in the historical branch of minimalism, not only in music but also in contemporary art. At the same time this experience fits into a modern minimalism milliue of techno music, sound and audio-visual arts in the realm of sound interventions, minimalist sculptures and installations. Olaf Bender, Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider and their many companions (Ryoji Ikeda, Emptyset, Kandging Ray, …) woved conceptualism into a space of popular culture and trasnformed audio experience into a pulse, rhythm and signal, which is converted into a digital environment information and image. The work of Olaf Bender, acting under the name Byetone is characterized by abstract glitch electronics and more recently, minimal techno. With the last album Symeta he received numerous praise of critics and admirers. Another aspect of his music, in particular its live performanceis it’s of visual nature. It is an open platform based on the correlation of sound and image, and their complementarity. www.raster-noton.net Video: www.youtube.com/watch

SCHRAUFF (SI)

Schrauff is keeping it real with his long running techno and electro net-label Bio-Mechanics and firm Elements night series.He’s got his hands full hosting weekly electronica radio show X Machina at Radio Študent and indulging in nostalgic italo disco, synth pop, acid house …

www.bio-mechanics.org

More about SONICA festival: www.sonica.si

Venue: KIBLA PORTAL, Valvasorjeva 40, Maribor, Slovenia

Tuesday–Friday, 11 am–7 pm

The name for the joint festival platform MFRU-KIBLIX2013: When Worlds Collide was inspired by the 1951 science fiction classic. The symbolism of the movie highlights the split and the paradox of the gap between the developed and the underdeveloped third world. In this context, the MFRU-KIBLIX2013 festival symbolizes live nature, the reality which we live in, which is intertwined and dependent on the swift development of science, technology and consequently art and new forms of creativity.

Contemporary interdisciplinary forms of creative conceptions are intertwined inside complex junctions of different worlds and approaches, in the tension between the natural and the bio-technological, the virtual and the hybrid, the fake and the genuine principle, which – in an abundance of dialogs, contradictions and junctions – becomes visible in the form of artistic installations, digital records of process works, performances, lectures, presentations, workshops and audio-visual pleasures.

Program curators: Aleksandra Kostič and Nina Jeza.

Selectors: Aleksandra Kostič, Nina Jeza, Jože Slaček, Franc Vrbančič, Maja Smrekar, Saša Spačal, Robertina Šebjanič, Ida Hiršenfelder, Marianne Wagner.

Exhibited artworks:

KATHY HIGH (US), MAŠA JAZBEC (SI), KARL HEINZ JERON (DE), MAJA SMREKAR (SI), OSCAR MARTIN (ES), TIAGO MARTINS (PT), R. O’NASCIMENTO, A. ZINGERLE; YURI KLEBANOV, ROI RONN, YONATAN BEN YA’KOV (IL), TIAGO MARTINS (PT), VESELA MIHAYLOVA; RICARDO O’NASCIMENTO (ES), VISUALISING PALESTINE (LB), DORON SEGAL, JENNY BAHAR, ITAY KURGAN, SHAHAR YACOBY (IL), DRAGANA SAPANJOŠ (HR), THERESA SCHUBERT (DE), SAŠA SPAČAL, MIRJAN ŠVAGELJ, ANIL PODGORNIK (SI), ZORAN SRDIĆ JANEŽIČ (SI), ROBERTINA ŠEBJANIČ, ALEŠ HIENG – ZERGON (SI), NITSAN HOORGIN, JULIAN RUIZ, INBAL COHEN (IL), EVA PETRIČ (SI), VOJKO POGAČAR (SI), ORTOTIP (SI)

Supporting program:

MFRU ARHIV, Jože Slaček (SI), HIPER FILM MFRU, Uja Irgolič, Marko Batista, Jože Slaček, Miroslav Ničić, Marko Ornik, son:DA (SI), FEMINA (SI)