Syndicate: Tr: BURO.2 (paris): PAN SONIC-RYOJI IKEDA

["norman" <norman@wanadoo.fr>]

Dear Syndicate,

morning-after-remorse, zut, but never mind, for good, constructive reasons:
perhaps brutally saying there's (practically) "no art" here is not the most
constructive way of going about nurturing some, and perhaps it would be
more constructive to say that institutional weight means that glimmering
emerging energies are well and truly elsewhere... and perhaps this can tie
in more constructively with situations like Edi Muka's / Edi Rama's... The
"small corners of small structures" should have read "small corners of big
structures" - there are some interesting things going on at ZKM, and one
can catch up on them in particular by hanging out with the all-nighters,
those driven by their art (and deadlines, but sometimes the two converge). 

Essentially, though, the goal of this mail is to forward the following
info, a necessary counterweight to our moans and groans about ludicrous
Versailles-come-World-Cup acultural celebrations - this garage, which
recently hosted an Atau Tanaka concert and other things, seems to be
turning into a fairly vibrant arena of activity. Wouldn't want to be caught
wallowing in self-pity...

à bientôt
SJN





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De : sylvie astie+buro <airfrais@club-internet.fr>
A : buro-liste@easynet.fr
Objet : BURO.2 (paris): PAN SONIC-RYOJI IKEDA
Date : samedi 13 juin 1998 04:13

(followed by english version)

             BURO.2
est la prochaine soirée organisée par buro et consacrée aux nouvelles
musiques électroniques :

             PAN SONIC (fin.)
             RYOJI IKEDA (jap.)

+ film noir et blanc : Tony Conrad (usa), The Flicker (1966)
   installation vidéo-son : Nicolas Moulin (fr.), Visiover

             Le vendredi 26 juin à 19 h au Garage, 60F

Information : Wave 01 40 21 86 98 ou http://www.icono.org/buro
prévente : Wave, 34  rue keller, 75011 paris (metro bastille)
(Attention, prévente fortement recommandée : nombre de places limité...)


RYOJI IKEDA
"Moins c'est plus". Ryoji Ikeda semble avoir construit autour de cet adage
les fondations de sa musique, ascétique, électronique et minimale.
Fréquences pures, ondes, simples rythmes sont les seuls ingrédients de son
univers d'une épure totale.
Alors que tout ne pourrait être que malaise et agression dans cette mise à 
mal radicale du support digital, il s'en dégage une atmosphère sereine,
comme une invitation à un voyage tranquille, du signal au bruit.
Le concert du 26 juin sera l'occasion de découvrir pour le première fois
Ryoji Ikeda en concert en France.
(Ryoji Ikeda fait également partie de Dumb Type, collectif en
représentations remarquées au dernier Festival d'automne)

PAN SONIC
L'iceberg de la scène minimale techno. Deux albums à leurs actif, des
maxis, des projets parallèles, des remix et des collaborations clinquantes
(Bjork, KLF, Merzbow, Einsztürzende Neubauten, Alan Vega).
Ce duo finlandais, militant d'une esthétique analogique, travaille à partir
de générateurs de fréquences fabriqués ou piratés et d'une TR808
produisant ultra-sons, oscillations, beats combinés dans des structures
progressives et martelés par des rythmiques brutales et appuyées.
C'est sur scène que leur musique prend toute son ampleur, laissant une
grande part à l'improvisation; jouant de l'aléatoire des machines, leurs
performances live deviennent décousues et renversantes.


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RYOJI IKEDA
"minus is plus" Ryoji Ikeda seems to have constructed his ascetic,
minimalistic electronic music around that statement. Pure frequencies,
sound waves and simple rythms are the only ingredients of his universe of
total epuration.
Although everthing could only be agression and discomfort in this misuse of
digital media, his music brings out quiet atmospheres, some kind of
invitation to a peacefull journey, from signal to noise.
This show of the 26th of june will be the first solo show of Ryoji Ikeda in
France. (As part of the Dumb Type collective he has done a couple of shows
during the last Festival d'automne )

PAN SONIC
The iceberg of the minimalistic techno scene. They have recorded two
albums, a few singles, many parallel projects, remixes and astonishing
collaborations (Bjork, KLF, Merzbow,Einsturzende Neubaten, Alan Vega).
The finnish duo, militant of an analogic esthetic, bring their sounds out
of a TR808 and rebuilt frequency generators producing oscillations
ultra-sounds, beats combined in progressive structures hammered by brutal
rythmic interventions.
It is live that their music brings out all its strength, leaving a great
part to improvisation ;  playing with their machines randomness, their
shows become  amazingly  disconstructed.

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