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3/2/2005

Club Transmediale.05

Maria am Ostbahnhof, Berlin

Basics. Festival for electronic music and related visual arts

BASICS
Our experiential world is widely determined by technologies: Internet and mobile phones transform social relations; robotics revolutionises industrial production, while biotechnology affords a new relationship towards nature and body. Although technical products promise enhanced agency and security, we experience an increased disorientation: the ethical question of what one should do and take responsibility for, is eclipsed by an immense number of options.

Technologies open up fields of agency and provide interfaces for designing these personal and communal realities, - always also implying mechanisms of exclusion. However, in order to appropriate the creative potentials, it is necessary to know about the ethical and aesthetical effects of the technologies applied, as well as their limitations.

transmediale.05 explores the BASICS of artistic practice with digital technologies. The festival investigates the aesthetical and ethical foundations of a frantic and hyper-potential culture, and presents models of an artistic practice whose ethics derive not from past value systems, but from an appropriation of an extreme and contradictory, contemporary culture.

PERFORMANCE
Artists’ collaborations using real-time video and combining it with dance, electronic or unplugged music will perform at the grand opening and the three consecutive nights at Berlin's Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Related performances within the series “Live Cinema” can also be experienced at the club transmediale (Maria am Ostbahnhof). skoltz_kolgen from Montréal use kinetic, photographic and pictographic footage together with electronic sounds and sound objects. They create complex audio-visual worlds, equally abstract and baroque, in their performance "FLÜUX:/TERMINAL" (4.2., 20.30 hrs).

CONFERENCE
The conference deals with the BASICS of contemporary culture through topics like bio-technology, politics, and media art. The panel 'BASICALLY human' targets one of the key ethical questions of today: what are the boundaries of being human at a time when we willingly accept all sorts of technical extensions and modifications of our bodies? Are the BASICS of our existence being redefined in gene-technological laboratories, and how can we hack into this bio-technological knowledge? Security technologies are infringing the freedom of the individual - how much 'BASIC security' do we need?

AWARD
While during the last years, the transmediale award competition had three separate categories (Image, Interaction, Software), we are this year responding to various discussions by abolishing the separation into these categories. This move forms part of a general debate about the definitions and limits of 'electronic', 'digital', or 'media' art, and we hope that opening up the terrain of the competition will help to re-evaluate the connection between art and media technologies.

SUPPORT
The German Federal Culture Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes) decided in December 2003 to grant transmediale substantial base support for the five festivals 2005-2009. transmediale will be supported as a lighthouse (Leuchtturm) of contemporary German culture.

The overwhelming success of the last edition of CTM has set a landmark for the festival earning the reputation for being the most important meeting point for electronic music in the German-speaking countries. But CTM wouldn¹t be one of the most eclectic and interesting festivals for electronic music & culture without defining itself anew each year. The sixth edition in February 2005 will show a range of new topics, projects and formats.

What can you expect at CTM.05?

[CTM Weekends]
// CTM.05 Club Nights

CTM.05 appears in new structural clarity and sets opposite poles: Throughout the week our ³concert-ed² efforts take centre stage and investigate concentrated forms of listening and looking, whilst the weekends in accustomed opulent style are dedicated to long and lavish nights with the very best of electronic dance music.

With:
KRIKOR | AKUFEN | THE SOFT PINK TRUTH | ALTER EGO | SID LE ROCK | LES GEORGES LENINGRAD | DJ RUPTURE | MAD PROFESSOR | DJ MARLBORO and many more

[WASTED]
Two nights put together by offside music experts Jason Forrest and Pure, to explore the way in which Breakcore as a music genre is developing internationally.

With:
SHITMAT | SICKBOY | ROTATOR | DURANDURANDURAN | DROP THE LIME and many more
http://wasted.clubtransmediale.de

[Splendid Isolation]
// CTM.05 special focus This year's special focus throws a glance at the music production aside from the well known heavyweight major places of creativity like London, New York or Berlin. What happens beyond the big metropolitan areas? In more than a decade of the internet era we have seen a new generation of musicians grow up that are thouroughly networked in their medias and who are considering their seclusion as a creative potential rather than a drawback. Especially Norway and Europe's North-Eastern Regions are in the spotlight.

With:
SUPERSILENT | JOHANN JOHANNSSON | NILS PETTER MOLVAER | KILL | BENZO | MAJA RATKJE | ZAVOLOKA | BIOSPHERE | GOLDEN SEERENADES and more

[Le Placard 8 ­ Prologue]
The Berlin premiere of the Paris-based Le Placard headphone festival, founded by Erik Minkinnen. On two subsequent evenings sound artists, participants in the CTM.05 festival and all interested musicians will perform their concerts ­ amplified only through headphones

. [Ambiunix]
Two evenings of performances that concentrate on the spatial distribution of sound by utilizing the ambisonic sound system Ambiunix. Ambiunix is a multi-channel sound system that has been developed by Komponent ­ Scene for Electronic Activity, a project initiated and hosted by Copenhagen¹s LAB organisation. With:
SON OF CLAY | JACOB KIRKEGAARD & THOR MAGNUSSON | BJÖRN SVIN | PIXEL and more

[Live-Cinema]
// CTM.05 Special Feature A comprehensive programme of conceptional collaborations between musicians and visual artists about the interplay of moving images and sound. A series of audio-visual performances, workshops and panel discussions exemplifies historic references and throws a light on current discussion.

With:
SKOLTZ KOLGEN | PURE & DEKAM | SEMICONDUCTOR | TOPLAP | EDWIN VAN DER HEIDE and more

[Urban Rural Counterflows in Electronic Music]
file://CTM.05 conference
A new development in the program¹s structure is the conference ­ held for the first time on February 10 to 12 ­ that hooks up to the [Splendid Isolation] theme. Artists and theorists discuss the relation of urban and rural musical subcultures and networks in the context of global media culture. Internet, TV and radio today reach even the most remote places and dissolve the antogonism between city and countryside.

GRAND OPENING!
// Friday 4.2. / 10pm
club transmediale.05 opens on Friday 4th of February at 10pm with the opening performance „LSP – Laser Sound Performance“ by the dutch artist Edwin van der Heide. The performance “LSP” uses audio controlled lasers, to create a three-dimensional environment that totally immerses the audience and allows for a constant change of perspective. Image and sound originate from the same real-time computer generated sine wave composition. LSP represents a system of direct equivalence of image and sound, where frequency ratios in sound, de-tuning and phase shifts have their direct visual counterparts.

Following up in the Main Hall:

SAMPLEDELIC / CUT UP FUNK
Secondo & Video: Laurent Benner (Dreck Records, CH)
Ark (Telegraph, Perlon, Katapult, FR)
Krikor (root-down, Karat, FR)
Krikor + Cabanne (live jam, FR)
Cabanne (DJ, Logistic, Telegraph, Karat, Perlon, FR)
Akufen (DJ, Musique Risque, CA/QC)
Video: Marius Watz (NO) & TinyLittleElements (SoS)

The Microsamplinghouse-artists who popped up out of the blue at the end of the 90s – with the Canadian Akufen as the scene’s international figurehead – quickly discovered allies in Krikor, Cabanne and Ark, who were at that time busy assembling a social-democratic version of this genre in Paris, the stronghold of French House. The common thread between tonight’s artists is their healthy disrespect in dealing with genre-immanent codification. Consistently new arrangements pose a challenge to existent referential models and refine and develop them. Dub, Funk, Soul, Punk, Techno, Rock – the gigantic Cut-Up Machine solders it all to a brand new House universe. Cross-references, quotes and connecting threads might make you look over your shoulder, but there’s no danger of falling into a retro trap. Rather, you’ll be led across an historical musical landscape of such complexity that it’s reminiscent of Aboriginal songlines. And Marius Watz and TinyLittleElements will be projecting onto MAO’s walls tonight – a special treat for friends of computational design and a generative approach: visual splendour with conceptual acuity and an extreme degree of abstraction.

ENTER.TAINMENT
// Saturday 5.2. / 11pm / Main Hall

Snax (Mental Groove, Cpt. Comatose, US)
Soft Pink Truth (Tigerbeat 6, Soundslike, US)
Sieg UEber Die Sonne (Multicolor, CL)
Alter Ego (Klang, DE)
Der Dritte Raum (Virgin, DE)
Video: Tourette-TV (DE) & Contentismissing (DE)

This evening’s musical arc appears at first glance to span two widely distant poles: Functional instrumental club music on the one hand, and musical identity politics with rampant lyrics in the guise of entertainment on the other. The latter is in any event part and parcel of Snax’ Gay-Sexy-Motherfucker-Soul-Funk-One-Man-Band and also of Soft Pink Truth’s Cut-Up Elektronika, which pays hommage to 70s/80s gay Disco and House culture and doses them with a pinch of primal Punk: their way of lashing back at the worst excesses of neo-conservative backlash. By way of contrast, those pillars of Techno, Alter Ego and Der dritte Raum, both associated with Sven Vaeth’s Frankfurt „Harthouse“ label, are exponents of an extremely functional concept of Dancefloor. Despite being oriented more to the tonal than conceptual level they nonetheless stand for an open format of track-based club music and for those special social occasions that somehow get so very out of hand. Sieg ueber die Sonne, the German-Chilean duo, serve up highly vocal Elektro-Pop that is the perfect link in the programme. There’s an equally broad sweep in the visuals department tonight. Whilst Tourette-TV pushes its ironic brand of scene politics, the Berlin group Contentismissing devotes itself unstintingly to formal elegance. Let them entertain you!

WASTED – 2 days of Breakcore in Berlin

CTM has invited Jason Forrest and Pure – those offside music experts that we love to trust – to curate two club transmediale nights with the freshest Breakcore music arround. The two Wasted nights explore the way in which Breakcore as a music genre is developing internationally and spans a range from long time pioneers to the hottest new faces.

Friday 4.2. / 11pm / Second Hall
WASTED I
Christoph Fringeli (Praxis, Zhark, Sub|version, CH),
Terminal 11(Cock Rock Disco, US)
Drop the Lime (Ambush, Tigerbeat6, Peace Off, US)
Shitmat (Wrong Music, UK)
Society Suckers (Kool Pop, Peace Off, Lux Nigra, DE)
Noize Creator (Suburban Trash Industries, Ambush, DE)
Duran Duran Duran (Cock Rock Disco, US)
Donna Summer / Jason Forrest (Cock Rock Disco, DE/US)

Saturday 5.2. / 11pm / Second Hall
WASTED II
Pure (dOc, Praxis, Sub/Version, AT)
Curtis Chip (Zod Records, US)
Rotator (Peace Off, FR)
Sickboy (Breakcore Gives Me Wood, Junk, BE)
Droon (Breakcore Gives Me Wood, BE)
Slepcy (Ambush, Kool Pop, Suburban Trash Industries, PL)
Repeater (Peace Off, FR)

GENDERTRONICS
// Wednesday 9.2. / 8pm / MAO Lounge
// Book presentation

A reading from and presentation of the book “Gendertronics”, an in-depth study of questions raised by last year’s festival theme, Performing Sound, edited by CTM and Meike Jansen and published by edition Suhrkamp; with contributions from Olaf Arndt, Mariola Brillowska, Diedrich Diederichsen, Tom Holert, Thomas Meinecke, Pinky Rose, Birgit Richard, Terre Thaemlitz, amongst others.

When, in the early 50s, electronic music appeared on the scene with the promise of abandoning all physical limits of music-making this was – like much besides – a Promethian male fantasy. Indeed, this music subsequently led to everything but disembodiment. From the psychedelic trances of the 60s and Kraftwerk robotics of the 70s, through to Techno ecstasies, gender-political interventions in the 90s and laptop performance – the questions as to how, from whom, to what ends and in which contexts electronics and the human body might be cable-linked have continually had to be addressed anew.

funded by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds

in cooperation with: transmediale - international media art festival berlin

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An der Schillingbruecke
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