MFRU-KIBLIX2013 – WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE

SONICA & MMC KIBLA kindly invite you to the closing AV night of the MFRU-KIBLIX2013: an audio-visual minimal techno performance by Byetone and local techno DJ Schrauff

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27. november 2013 ob 22.30
Kibla Portal, Maribor / AV performance & DJ act

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:

www.facebook.com/events/1410898952479041/

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

MFRU-KIBLIX2013 – Oscar Martin, C-drík Fermont – Workshops and conclusion of residencies in a frame of the Soft Control project (2012-2015)

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A follow-up to the busy festival activities ( November, 6–9) in the form of two workshops by Soft Control residency artists who are currently staying in Maribor.

Musicians and anyone interested in the possibilities of sonic expression, welcome!
A musical event is scheduled for 8pm, where Oscar Martin and C-drik Fermont will be presenting their work as part of their residency stay. Workshop participants will be joining them on stage.

Monday, 18 November, 10am–3pm

Oscar Martin (ES)/ [ rdxs]:__x=e Open Lab and generative systems

Residence artist Oscar Martin, together with workshop participants, explores the possibilities of {RdEs} generative systems.

Monday, 18 November, 4pm–7pm

C-drik aka Kirdec (BE)/ Open Lab: Music composition and improvisation from a single sound source

A workshop introducing composition from a single sound source, led by residence artist C-drik aka Kirdec. A presentation of music production possibilities with the Ableton live program.

Join us this Monday for a special music experience!

Info:
Tanja Grosman
++ 386 31 682 579
tanja(dot)grosman(at)kibla(dot)org

ELISABETH SCHIMANA + NOID (AT): Skin Body

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Elisabeth Schimana uses live electronic and acoustic elements. Project Skin Body consists sonically of “broken” rhythms, constantly oscillating membranes and diverse modulated levels of generated sound patterns, which the artist produces by playing the cello and electronic instruments. A sonic treat for bodily music tasting.

noid – his musical approach can be described as fundamental research and his works span a wide range of contradictory outcome, from solos to compositions for ensembles, from sound installations to videos. He uses electronics as well as acoustical instruments, consequently denying the borderline between music and sound-art.

Project link:
http://elise.at/db.php?lang=en&order=titel&id=33&table=Projekt

Artist Talk

Biography

Elisabeth Schimana has been working as a composer, performer and radio artist since 1983. She studied electro-acoustics and experimental music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and musicology and ethnology at the University of Vienna. Her work concentrated for many years on space / body / electronic. She has ongoing cooperations with the Austrian Kunstradio. She also focus on research in the field of woman, art and technology and founded IMA Institut für Medienarchäologie.

noid /aka arnold haberl, 1970, living in Vienna. He is a programmer for the “ppooll” project: an open source / copyleft / freeware project, designed for live improvisation, composition, interactive installations, etc. He has collaborated with artists of different fields, including choreographers and visual artists. As an improviser he performs, among others, with klaus filip, taku unami, o.blaat, axel doerner, christian weber, erikM, dieb13, kazuhisa uchihashi, burkhard stangl, yan jun, taku han-noda, carl stone, mattin etc.

http://noid.klingt.org/

MFRU-KIBLIX2013: GROOVY CARTOON CLOSING PARTY powered by Re:Fresh GROOVY CARTOON SESSIONS

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Dirty Hairy and Bakto decided to have some fun with cartoons. They dug deep into their LP and disc-piles and came up with some of their personal all-time favorites among cartoons and their accompanying scores, and definitely choosing the most psychedelic, jazzy and funky musical backgrounds to animated films from both sides of the iron curtain. From Dr. Seuss to Proffesor Balthazar!

AFTER featuring DJs Dirty Hairy, Bakto and Who

ELECTRIC INDIGO (AT)

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Electric indigo plays live multi-channel solo concerts of avant-garde electronic music or live-sets for dance floors. She loves to perform live alongside Pia Palme with experimental improvised music. Naturally, she is also a DJ. Her name stands for the intelligent and distinguished interpretation of techno and electronic music. Her DJ-sets are characterized by a wide variety and clarity of vision, and a depth that only comes from a deep understanding of the music and the art of the DJ. As a composer and musician, she emphasizes the spatial-temporal placement of subtly textured sounds.

Link: http://indigo-inc.at/electrici.html

Artist Talk

Biography

Electric Indigo, DJ, composer, musician, has performed in 36 countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. She received the “outstanding artist award Musik 2012” in the field of electronic and computer music and the national grant for composition 2013 from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture. Currently she is preparing a new piece for the hoergeREDE festival together with author Olga Flor, and working on her first solo album.

(SLO) MFRU-KIBLIX2013 – zaključni večer, sobota, 9.11.2013, organiziran avtobusni prevoz LJ–MB–LJ

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Sorry, this entry is only available in SLO.

PANEL: SOUND

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Moderated by: Žiga Dobnikar

Elisabeth Schimana, C-drik, Oskoff, johnsmith

Participants of this themed panel discussion will present their own practices and personal research in the field of sound art and musical experimentation – new interfaces, ways of documenting sound, transformations of non-sonic records into sonic, and expanding the ability of sound stimuli perception. An important component of the panel – apart from authorial poetics – will also be the open code principle and free access to copyright works and knowledge, which are the common thread of this year’s festival.

WORKSHOPOLOGY APPROACHES

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Moderated by: Katja Finec Kos

In the time of the festival, workshops will take place from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m., with the final panel commencing at 3 p.m. through 4 p.m., during which the panel’s participants will be addressing the key role of workshopology approaches within contemporary interdisciplinary artistic and pedagogic approaches.

Stella Veciana: Prevrednotenje spomina

Tomaž Grušovnik: Q:aRt

Ladies of the press

Tomaž Grušovnik: An urbanistic-informational intervention

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Cultural-artistic initiative WERCATOR:
Tomaž Grušovnik, Neža Mekota, Tina Merica

The Q:aRt project serves as the MFRU-KIBLIX preview event, offering information to the general public about the festival’s objectives and content through the means of generated codes, designed to redirect application users to a website which provides information about the festival. Thus, the project is investigating not only the potential of QR codes in informing the public, but also the potential contained in various city locations, spatial points and nodes to serve as informants via QR codes.

Tomaž Grušovnik is a philosopher, publicist and fine artist. He is the author of a scientific monograph entitled “Shades of Green”, a Fulbright grantee, a visiting professor at the University of Oslo and the “Messenger of Science 2012” prize winner.

Tina Merica is a landscape architect from Murska Sobota, whose creative activities cover an array of areas of the urban culture; she organizes music and visual events, conducts workshops and dedicates most of her time to cultural-artistic space interventions.

Neža Mekota is in her final year of studies at the Department of Landscape Architecture at the Biotechnical Faculty of Ljubljana’s University; she is currently writing her final thesis on “Reconstruction of Baroque park Turnišče near Ptuj”.

PANEL: WORKSHOPOLOGY

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Moderated by: Tanja Grosman

Gjino Šutić, Monika Pocrnjić, Žiga Kranjec, Robertina Šebjanič, Luka Frelih

Panel guests will be discussing the key role of workshops and the workshopology principle inside contemporary interdisciplinary art practices. Workshopology stands for the open code principle of sharing artistic, technical and scientific knowledge on the basis of transdisciplinary workshops, which cleverly interweave aspects of theory and practice. They open new channels for creativity and at the same time enable the public to become a part of processes that used to belong to closed scientific or artistic spheres.