[Nettime-nl] [ STEIM ] STEIM presents Turntable Music Night vol.1

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STEIM presents Turntable Music Night vol.1

Martin Tetreault (CA) & Ignaz Schick (DE)
Maria Chavez (PE/US)
dj sniff (JP/NL)

Date: Friday, March 9
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Time: 20.30 hour
Entrance: 5 euros
Reservations and more information: knock@steim.nl or 020-6228690
Curated by Takuro Mizuta Lippit
*Turntable Music Night is in collaboration with Keir Neuringer of the  
TAG Gallery, Den Haag. Tetreault/Ignaz duo will be playing the  
previous night at TAG.
  The concert was made possible with funding by the city of Amsterdam.


It has always been my dream to organize a concert series featuring  
only turntable musicians. Naturally, such an event at STEIM would be  
in the context of experimental/electro-acoustic/improvised music with  
more crackles and hisses than scratches and cuts. However, I hope not  
to only invite artist from this particular genre because if one can  
characterize STEIM as a center for artist driven technology, then  
Grandmaster Flash (one of my personal heros) who opened his DJ mixer  
and added a headphone pre-amp to realize a revolutionary technique in  
Hip-Hop music and the Jamaican Dub selectors who built their own  
studios and sound systems with little resources are equally in the  
context of STEIM. I believe that turntable music embodies an  
important lineage and inspiration for artists who seek an  
expressional voice with technology.
 - Takuro Mizuta Lippit ( dj sniff )

Artist Biographies:
Martin Tetreault & Ignaz Schick
Martin Tetreault & Ignaz Schick first time met at the Garage Festival  
Stralsund in August 2003 and performed their first duo collaboration  
in April 2004 in Munich commissioned by t.u.b.e. (Gallery for  
Radiophonic Art). They have refined their work on two European tours  
in February & June 2006 with concerts in Germany, Poland, Belgium and  
Switzerland.
Martin Tetreault is most known for his unique style of turntabalism  
and his special approach of manipulating and adapting needles and  
cartridges & has been quite influential on various young turntable  
players.
Ignaz Schick's electronic work has gone through different phases of  
instrumentation from simple bedroom tape collages & vinyl  
manipulations via md field recordings to hard & software samplers.  
Over the years his scepticism towards digital technology and  
computers has grown and in parallel has his collection of little  
sound making objects. "Objets trouvÃs" which he has used in many  
different musical contexts. Within the last two years the turntable  
came back to interest as a simple, fast and reactive interface and it  
was only a little but important step to leave the (own) history of  
sampling/plunderphonics for exploring the machine in its most direct  
and basic way: a rotating plate with its surface creates friction and  
makes objects vibrate and resonate.
http://www.actuellecd.com/bio.e/tetreault_ma.html
http://www.zangimusic.de
http://www.myspace.com/ignazschick

Maria Chavez
Maria Chavez is an avant-turntablist from Peru who focuses on electro  
acoustic sound of vinyl and needle. She has a collection of needles  
from immaculate to ruined that she calls her "pencils of sound" and a  
collection of records that provide the palette. She has toured with  
Christiina Carter (Charlambides, Scorses), recorded with Kaffe  
Matthews, and performed with Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth in her New  
York City debut. The artist in residence at Issue Project Room in  
Brooklyn during the fall of 2006, she was recently selected to  
participate in a 2008 residency program with Merce Cunningham Dance  
Company at the Dia Foundation's museum in Beacon, New York.

dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit)
dj sniff believes in the instrumental autonomy of the turntable and  
the musicianship of the DJ. His music focuses on the reconstruction  
of phonographicly amplified sounds through electro-acoustical methods  
and techniques of turntablism. He has performed in numerous venues  
and festivals around the world including the U.S., Japan, Russia,  
Romania, Austria, Italy, Germany, France, and the Netherlands.
dj sniff was born in the U.S., raised in Japan. While studying art  
history and philosophy in Tokyo, he was active as a DJ in the  
underground electronic music scene and formed a collective called  
smashTV productions which organized genre-mixing events such as anti- 
Gravity and bistro-Smash!. In 2002, he moved to New York to pursue  
graduate studies in computer music and physical computing at NYU's  
Interactive Telecommunications Program. He is currently residing in  
the Netherlands, working as the visiting Artistic Co-Director and  
researcher at STEIM, Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music in Amsterdam.
http://www.smashtv.org/djsniff



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