Wednesday Jan 7th 2015 Doors 19:30 Concert 20:30
RUSSELL
HASWELL + PAINJERK / RASHAD BECKER
@
NK
Elsenstr.
52 2.HH 2.Etage
12059
Berlin
More
info: http://nkprojekt.de
Russell
HaswellÂis
a restlessly forward-thinking, multi-disciplinary
artist, performer
and curator born in Coventry and currently based in
Suffolk, England.
With a background steeped in computer music, black
metal, noise,
techno, free-stye and solo improvisation, his practice
is renowned
for broaching the extremities of visual and sonic arts.
Heâs
performed in noted live and HDJ [hard disc jockey]
actions with Aphex
Twin, Gescom, Pan Sonic and Masami Akita (Merzbow),
among others, and
worked with Florian Hecker on Iannis Xenakisâ UPIC
system in their
Haswell & Hecker duo, whose âBlackest Ever Blackâ
(Warner
Classics) LP is widely considered a milestone of modern
electronic
music composition. Russellâs recorded work has also been
published
by a wide number of esteemed imprints, most notably the
8 track CD
catalogue âLive Salvage 1997 â 2000â (Honorable Mention,
Digital Musicâs, Prix Ars Electronica) for Editions
Mego, but also
for Warp, Downwards, and his OR label, home to worldâs
first
MiniDisc release. Most recently Russell collaborated
with Regis as
Concrete Fence on the combustible âNew Releaseâ EP for
PAN
Records, and is currently prepping a forthcoming release
for Powellâs
Diagonal Records and a forthcoming âhyper editâ
collaboration
with PAIN JERK.
http://www.haswellstudio.com/
PAINJERKÂis
one-man sonic project runs by Kohei Gomi (b.1963).
Gomi
began home-recordings of the experiment of the sound in the
mid-80s
when Tascam (Teac) just released 4 multi-tracks cassette
recorder
called âPorta One Studioâ for the beginers of
home-recording. He
mixed influence of the punk art (and primitives) and
influence of
method of psychosomatic surrealist. The recorded / performed
work
does not have each with the independent meanings and is the
pieces of
assemblage. And it is also the pieces produced by obsession.
PAINJERK
is one of the more prolific and influential sound artists of
the 90s,
and is one of the leading figures in the sound of dynamics /
brutality as electro-acoustic outsider. He covers a lot of
gaps like,
various noise-sounds, the experimental /electro-acoustic
music, music
concrete, techno, rave, electronica, sampling culture,
post-punk
methods and mixing them all through his filter.
This
is not the improvisation. This is not the composition. This
is kind
of the automatic-act by the encoded sound. It becomes the
machinery
and is beauty beyond extreme music.
He
has collaborated with artists like, Zbigniew Karkowski,
Russell
Haswell, Jackie Oblivia (aka Smegma), John Wiese & etc
and has
contributed to various festivals like, No Fun Festival (the
US),
Avanto Film & Music Festival (Finland), Avant Fesival
(Poland),
All Ears (Norway), LUFF (Swizerland), London Contemporary
Music
Festival (the UK), Multipletap London edition (Japanese
extreme
avant-garde show-case event) and toured in Poland, Spain,
Italy,
Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the UK, Germany, Swizerland, France
and
Belguim in the past.
Also
he has shared same stage with lots artists like, Brutal
Truth, Mika
Vainio, Mark Fell, Kim Gordon, Jim Oârourke, Norbert
Moslang,
NHKâKoyxen (aka Kouhei Matsunaga) etc etc.
It has been well
known some of are mentioned PAINJERK name in their
interviews like
Aphex Twin, Russell Haswell, Pan Sonic, etc in the past.
rashad
beckerÂwas
born in 1970 owing to unprotected coition.
he
was admitted to the fortress europe at age 12.
he
grew up to be a certified emergency medical technician and
ornamental
blacksmith but went on dedicating his professional life to
less
useful things.
since
about 2000 he eats miso for itâs delicious taste and
proclaimed
health benefits.
since
about 2002 he started losing his hair.
currently
his live sets evolve around the angle of `traditional music
of
notional species`, a semiabstract synthetic narrative that
seems
appealing to a surprisingly wide audience.
âBeckerâs
name will be known to a lot of people â indeed it
appears on many,
many records â but his music wonât be. His day job is as
the
mastering and cutting engineer in Berlinâs world-famous
Dubplates
and Mastering, where his role involves entering into a
creative
dialogue with the music of others, helping them to
achieve what they
set out to with their compositions in the final product.
Before he
got the D&M gig, he was originally a musician in his
own right,
and he continues with this as an irregular sideline,
making and
manipulating loops and electronic sounds.
What
wasnât a surprise about his performance was how precise it
all
looked and sounded as he carefully twisted dials to produce
a
sequence of very crisp and discrete tones, sparse and
improvisational
(if you had to pick something from Beckerâs other work to
compare
this to, it sounded like an early, experimental, Mego, a
less harsh
Pita or Hecker). What was more unexpected was just how
conversational
it all sounded. Most of the
frequencies used were within the range
of the human voice â it sounded like a long
stream-of-consciousness
sentence made up short syllables, electronic oohs and wahs,
sections
of muttering, and occasionally bickering. Whatever he does,
it seems
Becker has the knack of giving sound its voice.â The Liminal
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