Valerio Tricoli (IT) - Revox, lights, electronics
Thomas Ankersmit (NL) - Serge analogue modular synthesizer, computer, alto saxophone
DIE SCHRAUBER
Hans Tammen (NYC) - Endangered Guitar, realtime live sound processing
Joker Nies (Cologne) - Omnichord, circuit bent instruments
Mario de Vega (Mexico City) - SPK ®, glitch sampling
Videos:
DIE SCHRAUBER www.youtube.com/profile?user=hansteg
Thomas Ankersmit www.dailymotion.com/video/x47s2p_thomas-ankersmit-nl_music
Date: Thursday, June 5
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Time: 20.30 hrs.
Entrance: 5 euros
Reservations and more information: knock@steim.nl or 020-6228690
Tricoli / Ankersmit Duo
Valerio Tricoli and Thomas Ankersmit present duo improvisations using analogue modular synthesizer, reel-to-reel tape recorder, computer, saxophone and directional loudspeakers.
Complex interrelationships are constructed out of electronic and acoustic phenomena, analogue live-sampling and live-processing, and highly directional beams of sound projected into the performance space.
Patterns of sound are built up and discarded, swarms of electronic tones punctured by interference and feedback, sounds projected into multiple directions using both the PA system and prototypes of highly directional loudspeakers, ranging from fragile transparency to overwhelming intensity. A tense and detailed three-dimensional sonic environment shaped in real-time.
Valerio Tricoli (Palermo, 1977) is an electroacoustic composer and radical improviser on analogue electronic instruments. He lives and works in Berlin.
His compositions bridge musique concrète and conceptual forms of sound (i.e. the interest in how reality, virtuality and memory relate to each other during the acoustic event). Music, as a recorded or a synthetically-modeled sound, is always hovering between the "here and now" of the event and the shady domain of memory, distant but at the same time present, like a déjà–vu experience.
Tricoli plays live music with electronic instruments, most of them analogue (reel-to-reel tape recorders, synthesizers, suspended loudspeakers, microphones, light effects). However the structure of the device is ever-changing, seeking multiple relations between the performer, the device and the space in which the event takes place.
He is one of the founders of the Bowindo label collective ("arguably the best thing to come out of Italy since Luigi Nono", Dan Warburton, The Wire), and of the band 3/4HadBeenEliminated, a daring synthesis between improvisation, electroacoustic composition and avant-rock sensitivity.
"Metaprogramming From Within The Eye Of The Storm", his latest composition, was released in 2006 and welcomed with great critical interest.
Thomas Ankersmit (born 1979, Leiden, the Netherlands) has been working with saxophone, synthesizer and computer music independently and in collaboration with other artists such as Phill Niblock, Tony Conrad, Kevin Drumm, Jim O'Rourke, Keith Rowe, Axel Dörner, Gert-Jan Prins, Borbetomagus and Alvin Lucier since 1998.
His saxophone work focusses on the abstract, timbral extremes of the instrument, combining sustained streams of intense multiphonic sound with acoustically amplified micro-events occurring inside the instrument.
Often working closely with engineers and scientists, his recent performances incorporate modular synthesizers and computers with prototype hyper-directional loudspeakers producing spots and corridors of sound and silence in three-dimensional space.
Ankersmit has performed throughout Europe, the Americas and Asia. He lives in Berlin and Amsterdam.
DIE SCHRAUBER
DIE SCHRAUBER is an ongoing collaboration between Hans Tammen, Joker Nies & Mario DeVega involving live sound processing, circuit bending and glitch sampling. The trio was formed to investigate the overlap of various elements of their technical and aesthetic practices. A wide variety of dense musical textures, high-energy interaction, but also sparse and pointilistic statements result from the sophisticated and immediate control over their electronic instruments – Joker Nies with his resistance sensitive contacts, Mario DeVega’s Teleo-based proximity sensors, and Hans Tammen with his Endangered Guitar controller.
Just check out videos from their performances here: www.youtube.com/profile?user=hansteg. In this concert, the trio will introduce their new CD "Die Schrauber live in Mexico City", released on Acheulian Handaxe.
Hans Tammen (New York) works with a wide collection of mechanical devices on his "endangered" guitars, and uses an interactive software of his own design to rework his sounds in realtime. His music has been described as a journey through the land of unending sonic operations, his playing as reverse engineering of the guitar. - www.tammen.org
Joker Nies (Cologne) modifies or builds his instruments to his needs. Apart from other techniques, he acts as a connector of circuits not intentionally related. He touches and combines the circuitry of the instruments through skin-resistance, creating spontaneous and delicate music with subtle control. - www.klangbureau.de
Mario de Vega (Mexico City) works with real-time sample processing using external devices for data control and his own designed software SPK®. He combines glitch sampling with Teleo devices, body bending and real time signal processing in search of peculiar sound circumstances. - www.mariodevega.info