On January 19 The Commune of Nightmares will be publicly performed for the first time at West Germany,
Skalitzer Str. 133 / 10999 Berlin (close to Kottbusser Tor).
It’s the 13th label birthday of Karlrecords. Also playing are hÄK/Danzeisen.
Doors at 8 pm, admission 10,- € (cash only).
My new tape/album The Commune of Nightmares is due to be released on Karlrecords on January 26 and is up for preorder here.
The Commune of Nightmares stems from the idea that nightmares are the logical reverse of ‘capitalist realism’: an uncanny undercurrent of daily experiences and an algorithmic haunting of dreams that at the same time is a shared – communal – experience of everybody. All songs are based on tapeloops that were cut arbitrarily from a stash of cassettes, some of which found on the street, others from a stockpile of 4 track tapes recorded in the late 90s and early 2000s – a musical game of cadavre exquis played with random strangers and former versions of the self.
The C40 tape comes with a download card and an eight page booklet containing some theoretical background on the songs.
On January 19 there will be a release concert at West Germany in Berlin.
Improvised noise performance with Elena Victoria Pastor at Frappant Hamburg, December 7 at 8 pm
Opening of Implantations exhibition.
Implantations takes root in the memory of trees, engaging the arboreal as mnemonic, method, and mode of relation. Featuring video, paper-based, poetic, and performance works by Elena Victoria Pastor and ruïns collective (Elias Parvulesco and Teta Tsybulnyk) this project reflects upon the incorporation of trees into anthropocentric remembrance structures, while also engaging with the subjectivity of trees as deeply reciprocal entities that are not just in the world, but of it.
Trees, among other plants, are indistinguishable from their environs, consistently reacting to and changing what surrounds them. They participate in what Emanuele Coccia calls a “mutual compenetration between subject and environment, body and space, life and medium.” This compenetration extends to memory itself, which is shared by bark and brain, leaf and limb, bough and body. As the works in Implantations suggest, if we turn our attention to the arboreal and speak with its embodied articulations of the past, present, and future, we can learn how to better enact modes of mutuality with a dynamic and vibrant network of entities and forces.
Join us between 19 hrs –21 hrs for the opening on December 7, featuring a performance activation and sonic improvisations by Elena Victoria Pastor in collaboration with David Wallraf at 20hrs.
Curated by Maya Hayda from Collective Rewilding.
Poster: Lia DiBitonto
Here’s the recording of the show I played at Kulturbunker Bremen in October. It’s in two parts due to the file being to large for Bandcamp.
One more evening with At Land and Meshes of the Afternoon by Maya Deren this year. I’ll play live scores for both films at Kommunales Kino Hannover on November 16, 8 pm.
Kunsthaus Hamburg is celebrating its 60th birthday with a symposium. I was invited to do something with sound on the occasion: „interactive live sampling“. I’ll be recording the different panels/speakers and use that as source material for two improvisations. At the least it will be „discourse on art turned into art“, maybe even a comment on something.
At Kunsthaus Hamburg, Klosterwall 15 / 20095 Hamburg. November 4, from 10 am to 6 pm. My performances at 1 pm and 6 pm.
In der Reihe Positionen des Kunsthaus Hamburg nehme ich an einer Podiumsdikussion über Sound Art mit Adnan Softić und Julia Nordholz teil. Am 26.10.23, 18:00 Uhr im Kunsthaus Hamburg.
There’s a new compilation out on IN:EX from Chemnitz: Anthroprocene Tresholds (how much space waits between those noises). A C90 tape in interesting packaging containing tracks by Chemiefaserwerk, Mattin, Philippe Petit, Monad Node and many more.
My contribution is titled Inertia and Rust.
It is the sister track to Darkness and Mold, released earlier this year on the Stanislav Lem tribute compilation by Machina ad Noctem.
Upcoming show with friends and Econore-labelmates Philomena Lauprecht and Jeans Beast
Tintin Patrone has a an artist residency in Monheim am Rhein and invited me to play a show there on August 24. Coincidentally I spent the first three years of my life in that place.
Also coindidentally on August 25 there’ll be live scores for the Maya Deren films At Land and Meshes of the Afternoon at Kunstverein Leverkusen.
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