Audition Records

Is a great pleasure for Audition to start 2012 presenting the sound work of one of the independent promoters for experimental music in Berlin, a sound artist, co-founder and curator of NK, who has supported us since the very beginning of the project in 2010, as collaborator and friend..

FARAHNAZ HATAM
www.nkprojekt.de
Laptop solo Supercollider Programming environment performed live by evaluating code that is preprogrammed with a time based score, allowing a window of time for each evaluation.

"I started as a visual artist and molecular biologist, I am still working as a molecular biologist, but I have moved more in the direction of working only with Sound... I co-founded NK 3 1/2 years ago with Julian Percy, previous to that we worked together with a larger artist collective in which decision making processes were incredibly difficult and lengthy, so we decided to start a smaller collective with a more concentrated interest, i.e. experimental music. Recently Manuela Benetton joined us as an independent curator."

Related to the music: “This algorithmic composition was written for a performance at Able Gallery. It was a room recording in which there were some sounds from the audience, such as coughing and so on, therefore I performed the score in the studio to get a recording without audience noise.”

And for the lovers of instrumental and powerful destructive jazz, here we have LOUP. Clement Edouard playing sax & electronics, and Sheik Anorak with drums & electronics also.

"LOUP started in early june 2010. This duo was born to play with Rangda (Chris Corsano, Ben Chasny and Sir Richard Bishop) at Grnd Zero in Lyon on june 8th 2010. I (Sheik Anorak) was supposed to improvised with other musicians from Grnd Zero as an openeing for Rangda, but instead I asked Clement to start a new improv/free jazz duo. And then LOUP was born".

LOUP can be considered as an avant-garde free jazz duo. The meeting of jazz background (Clement Edouard) and noise (Sheik Anorak). LOUP is beyond jazz and beyond noise, something like a link between comtemporary music, free jazz and art....something like"comtemporary art/jazz".

You will enjoy for sure the sounds of Christoph Petermann aka KAKAWAKA. A performance for amplified big kitchen fork with effect pedals & balloons at Loophole, an independent space also in Berlin ( run by ex- RAUM18 organisers). Be careful with your ears with the console recording! In this document we decided to share two versions of the same concert. One is the recording of the room with "the noise of the people", so you can hear the reactions of the audience. And the other track is from the mixing desk (quite distorted because the volume, but good reference anyway). We think that the first one catches the spirit of the gig and the ambient inspired by Kakawaka at Loophole night's. But you can choose by yourself.

ASTRO played after Kakawaka in the same night.

PD: if somebody want to help with grammar, erratas and style correction on texts of our website, the help is always welcome. Until february!

Upcoming... Anthea Caddy, Liz Allbee, Ute Wasserman, Monno...