KOMORA A
Komora A – the group are Dominik Kowalczyk (Wolfram), the indie-rock band Setting the Woods on Fire drummer – Karol Koszniec and Jakub Mikolajczyk - the owner of Monotype Rec. label.
The three of them share undoubtedly similar and yet nonidentical sensitivity for sound. As a result we have improvisation of more density and dynamism than we get with Wolfram's solo impressions. Our attention is focused on high sound entropy: Kowalczyk's raw meditation along with more extrovert and rapacious disposition of the other two reach the counterpoint and make the completeness.
www.myspace.com/komoraaa
MIA ZABELKA
Mia Zabelka's new solo »project m« focuses on the development of experimental improvisational techniques with the voice and violin, a process she calls "automatic playing". She explores the relationships between the body, gesture, sound, machines and space using also live electronics to expand the electro-acoustic sonic spectrum. She creates musical imageries in an ongoing process of experimentation and physical immediacy resulting in a melodic complexity and simultaneous transparency characteristic of her sound language. Mia Zabelka works with the sound on and of her own body using small contact microphones applied to her skin and hair, and also incorporates sounds from inside the body, which she records using medical equipment and transforms into electro-acoustic compositions. She combines these elements of body sound in her live performances with her improvisations on violin and with her voice.
www.miazabelka.com
MONOTYPE RECORDS is an independent label founded in Warsaw, in 2004. Stylistically, it focuses on the musical avant-garde, from noise, drone, musique concrete and electro-acoustic to minimal music, free jazz, or EAI. At present, it is one of the most active experimental European music labels. Its catalogue includes over 40 items (CDs, vinyl records, DVDs). Since 2009, MonotypeRec. publishes its own magazine (Irregularly) - "mi ". So far, we have organized several tours (also in cooperation with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute - Polish-German Year), and the artists grouped around the label are considered the leading creators of independent, avant-garde art. We cooperate with a range of media on a regular basis. Our records are reviewed and presented in newspapers and magazines such as Dziennik, Newsweek Polska, Gazeta Wyborcza, Machina, Polityka, Playboy in Poland and abroad in Wire, Sound Projector, The Bug, His Voice, Auf Abwegen, Rock’a 'Rolla, Pitchfork, radio stations (BBC, Radio France, RAI, Czech Radio, WFMU, Polish Radio Programme 2, Polish Radio Programme 3, Radio BIS, Roxy FM) and television (TVP Kultura). MonotypeRec records are available through official sales channels, both in Poland and abroad.
monotyperecords.com
upcoming: »komora a | mia zabelka« Sat 26.05.2012 20:00 @ klang.haus
David Foster Wallace kennt man vor allem durch sein Mammutwerk »Infinite Jest«, von Ulrich Blumenbach in jahrelanger Arbeit übersetzt. Wallace gibt es aber auch in kleineren Portionen: In
»Alles ist grün« hat Blumenbach sich seiner Kurzgeschichten angenommen.
Nie im richtigen Leben angekommen und keinen Erwartungen genügend - vor allem nicht den eigenen. Das Porträt einer Generation.
Bereits in den Sechzigern prognostizierte uns der kanadische Medientheoretiker Marshall McLuhan ein Leben im total vernetzten »globalen Dorf«. Zu seinem 100. Geburtstag ist nun eine ungewöhnliche Biografie von Douglas Coupland über ihn erschienen. Diese zeigt, wieso McLuhan zurecht als Prophet des Internets bezeichnet wird.
04.06@vienna,konzerthaus »Solo per Soli«
~ 31.05 -02.06 2012 ~
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