Hranice experimentu: AGF & Mary C // Tim Shaw & Dirty Electronics
Master class a koncert v rámci další série Hranic experimentu v prostorách Domu umění města Brna
BORDERS OF EXPERIMENT
AGF & Mary C - How to be in this world
Tim Shaw & Dirty electronics - Transmission lines
6.00pm AGF & Mary C - Master class (If you would like to attend, please email vasulkakitchen@gmail.com in advance. Thanks!)
8.30pm Tim Shaw & Dirty electronics - Transmission lines
9.30pm AGF live
10.15pm Mary C dj set
Ondřej Merta about the dramaturgy of the evening:
"This evening will go beyond the previous boundaries of the experiment.
There will be more than one concert on the program.
Two different tours, one night. I wouldn't say they're part of the same scene, but they fit together more than anything else. Because this meeting brings up themes that sometimes I'm afraid to even think about. I hope to get rid of that fear at the AGF and Mary C master class, which we'll be starting all evening at 18 hours.
You are cordially invited to the concert and master class.
(I'm trying to suppress the urge to write that this will be the Brno concert of the year.)
ABOUT THE PROJECTS
AGF and Mary C come to discuss the burning issues of the scene. The pair of Tim Shaw and Dirtyelectronics are sure to be electrocuted, as they say.
Two approaches to the world, to music, two worlds and between them runs a line that I'm afraid to write about as a border."
AGF & Mary C team up to tour former Eastbloc territories by train in spring 2023 to connect and discuss pressing issues with other musicians and organizers around Eastern Europe and map current sound and political territories.
TOPICS:
- Systems of Power
- Sound, music and sound technologies, instruments, tools
- Deep Listening
- Degrowth
- Music industry - ethics and streaming, collapse of live music industry
- Organizing otherwise - access, care and mutual help
- Copyright, copyleft - sampling /ownership
- Live performance - vulnerability and multilogue vs one way confidence
- Eastbloc – east scene
- Feminism and anti-gender movements
- antifascism
- Co-opting important concepts
- sonicwilderness
- political sound & listening
- feminist transnational organizing
- networking, what works and what does not and how.
TIM SHAW & DIRTY ELECTRONICS –TRANSMISSION LINES
A new performance-installation for spark-gap transmission and electromagnetic spectrum. Spark gaps made from everyday objects used as conducting electrodes. Scrap metal, tin cans, chairs, barrels, cooking utensils, a bicycle wheel are hung and agitated by performative action and motor mechanisms to create intense electrical sparks and raw sound. Whilst radio waves omitted from the high voltage constructions are picked-up by DIY coils, sound-circuits and portable radios. Sequences of charged Xenon camera flashes, Franklin bells, Jacobs Ladders and electromagnetic pumps are folded into the environment. A wayfaring journey through the danger zone of high voltage light and sound.
Dirty Electronics & Tim Shaw’s Transmission Lines was developed during a recent residency in an old timber yard in Yamaguchi, Japan.
Album: https://opaltapes.bandcamp.com/…and
BIOS
AGF
AGF, poemproducer, Antye Greie-Ripatti is an artist & facilitator, sound recorder and music producer. she/her published more than 30 records, countless media projects and organizes sound interventions with others around the globe, initiated recon on rec-on.org and lectures around sound facilitation. Her work inhabits an augmented space where pounding {Berlin} experimental after-techno, spoken word, abstract video art, feminism and radical ecology create a self-sustaining environment. Originally from East Germany, she started to develop a DIY approach early on, while also using her voice to fight against oppression by supporting marginalized communities and calling out injustice, most recently through female:pressure, a support community and promotional platform for female-identified electronic musicians. Currently based in Northern Finland, Antye founded the local arts organization Hai Art in Hailuoto. Since its inception in 2011, Hai Art has been involved in numerous sound-related projects, focusing on working with children. Antye acts as its director, curator and workshop instructor. Active since the early 90's, she has collaborated with strong names in electronic music such as French pioneer Eliane Radigue, German legends Gudrun Gut and Ellen Allien, British avantgardist Kaffe Matthews, Finnish IDM treasure Vladislav Delay and classical composer Craig Armstrong.
AGF: @poemproducer
- https://systerserver.town/@poemproducer
- position: https://rec-on.org
- music: https://agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com
- https://stream.resonate.coop/artist/1056
- projects: https://antyegreie.com/
- locality: https://haiart.org/
networks: tw @female_pressure @eastblocsound
#sonicwilderness
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Mary C aka Andrea Beton
Curator, sound artist, DJ, organizer and co-founder of Synth Library Prague community space for sharing, learning, discussions and experiments not only in the field of electronic music and sound in general. Previously she worked as a host a producer of a radio show focused mainly on rap and electronic music of African diaspora in general presented on Czech Radio's youth station Radio Wave. As a music journalist she contributed to FullMoon Magazine or Artikl Magazine. As a DJ and sound artist she worked with sound designer and producer Martin Tvrdy on improvised project Hrubik or a mixtape Man of Progress. She recently collaborated with artists like Eva Kotatkova or Lucie Rosenfeldova on their audio visual installations providing sound design. Under her producer moniker Andrea Beton she contributed to Liptov compilation by Punctum tapes
Together with Martin Tvrdý she started a platform called Kreaton dedicated to share new ways of making music and introducing new instruments not only to kids. Currently they present series of interactive lecture for schools focused on listening, current electronic music and new instruments. She collaborated with Goethe Institut, Shape Platform or Palac Akropolis as a curator and held lectures or workshops at festivals like Heroines of Sounds in Berlin, Construction in Dnipro, Ment in Ljubljana, Electric Spring in Vienna or Nuits Sonores in Lyon an collaborated with project Futuropolis dedicated to transformative pegagogy. In 2021 she produced a podcast series called My Emancipaton Don't Fit in your Equation for Institute od Anxiety mapping the revolutionary and emancipatory thoughts in current music. She is a member of eastbloc antifascist sound alliance, with Synth Library she joined initiative Feminist Art Institutions and a work group Degrowth in Culture formulation an open letter to Ministry of Culture about sustainability and care in arts.
She co-founded a collective of women and non-binary artists in sound and electronic music called Trigger. In their first project they published a magazine dedicated to introducing many great women in sound and having a discussion on systems of power not only in the field of sound and sound technology.
synthlibrary.cz
- https://www.thewire.co.uk/audio/btr/below-the-radar-36/9
- https://kaput-mag.com/stories_en/danielle-de-picciotto-friends-in-conversation-_marie-ctverackova-it-still-surprises-me-how-women-are-treated/
John Richards explores Dirty Electronics focusing on shared experiences, social interaction and critical making. He is concerned with the performance of large-group electronic music and DIY electronics, and he has come to consider these activities as a holistic action. It is a fluid, live practice associated with the ideas of workshop-installation and performance-installation. His work pushes the boundaries between music, performance art, electronics, and graphic design and is transdisciplinary as well as having a socio-political dimension. He has also written numerous texts on DIY practices, performance of electronic music, and object-orientated and material approaches in relation to sound art.
Tim Shaw is an artist working with sound, light and communication media. Presenting work through performances, installations and sound walks Tim is interested in how listening environments can be constructed or explored using a diverse range of techniques and technologies. He works with field recordings, electronics, video, modular synthesis, sound objects, self-made hardware and DIY software.His artworks, recordings and writings have been featured in The Guardian, Arte Tracks, Neural, BBC Radio 3, We Make Money Not Art, The British Music Collection, The Field Recording Show, Alphr, Its Nice That, SHAPE and The Space.