Medium:
Interacting Sights, Sounds & Senses
8:00pm, 20 May, 2011

Osage Open
(4/F Union Hing Yip Factory Building, 20 Hing Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong)
Tickets: $120/$80

Ricardo da Silva (Electronics/Switzerland)
… (Electronics/Switzerland)
23N! (Electronics/Japan)

Guest Performer: KWC (Electronics/Hong Kong)

Co-organized by Re-Records and supported by Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, featuring new media artists from Switzerland and Japan, “Medium” is a cutting edge multi-media performance interlinking sight, sound and senses. With the use of unorthodox sound generating techniques, old-fashion television, and alcohol as the mediums, this is an interactive performance that goes beyond sight and sound.

For reservation and enquiry
http://www.osagegallery.com/Gallery3.html
Tel: 2793-4817 (Carman Ho)
Email: carmenho@osagesigma.com

Ricardo da Silva
Sight and sound performer, Ricardo da Silva comes from Portugal and is now living in Switzerland. He is especially interested in borderline relations between images and sound and considers both at the same time in his work.
For sound, he works with modular synthesizers, granular synthesis and live sampling. For his visual works, he works with live sampling, noise patterns generators and 3D lightcone sculptures. Active since 2005, he has been playing extensively across Switzerland and Western Europe under various names and collectives such as: Thomas More Project, CINE-NOISE, TV-NOISE, KOMINFORM and his regular name.
http://ricardo.skafka.net/blog/

…
Niko[la] Mounoud born chromosome XY at 46° 26′ 00” N, 6° 55′ 00” E. presents his solo project “…”.
Instead of using cords, wind or percussions, he prefers to focus his work on the feedback (larsen) of both analogue and digital materials. Impossible to be bored, challenging to dance, merging of all styles of music, it is a subtle crossover between hard composed parts and sweet improvisations. All of that condensed in a short time live that will definitely clean your ears and reconcile you with noises.
Niko is also curator of some itinerant music events and festivals in Switzerland such as Nocturnes MadeOneShot and LUFF – Lausanne Underground Film & music Festival. He is the co-founder of an independent laboratory for photography and cinema on celluloid called “On fait du l’art !” based in Lausanne, Switzerland.
http://ooo.merj.ch/
http://www.luff.ch/
http://www.onfaitdulart.biz/

23N!
23N! (Stéphane Shibatsuji-Perrin) is a noise music performer living in Tokyo and performing since 2007 with various projects such as Droise, The Ningen Dogs Orchestra, Kousenjuu…
For this Asian tour, he will be performing with two recent solo projects: Nunk on Droise and TV Bug. Nunk on Droise is a radical, bodily noise performance based on the live consumption of alcohol. TV Bug is a minimalist audiovisual performance and an elegy to analog television.
http://www.cho-yaba.com/works/

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Tactical Overload

Zbigniew Karkowski/Dickson Dee/Joao Vasco Paiva/Sin:Ned

A free form noise quartet featuring sonic artist Zbigniew Karkowski. Performed and recorded at Osage Soho Hong Kong on July 20th, 2010.

Tactical Overload (7:44)

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Sound Friction No.2

The Zen Ensemble
9:15pm – 11:00pm, 17 Dec, 2010

Videotage
(No. 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Rd. To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, HK)
Free Admission

mAtter (TOKYO)
Yukitomo Hamasaki + shotahirama (Electronics)
Go Koyashiki (Electronics)
Toshikazu Goto (Electronics) + Fumiko Ikeda (Voice)
kenhirama (Visuals)

with Alok (Electronics), KWC (Electronics), Sin:Ned (Silence)

As the second gig of the series Sound Friction, The Zen Ensemble will be the most noiseless and tranquil sound performance of this year.

Inspired by the concept of emptiness in Zen Buddhism, the dynamic Japanese multi-disciplinary group mAtter, together with selected Hong Kong sound artists, will bring us ‘The Zen Ensemble’ – a conceptual group that explores the composition and performance of silence.

For this special performance, a set of rules is composed to guide the artists to play ‘silence’ rather than making sound. In Zen Buddhism (an adaptation of Chinese Buddhism), it is said that our existence can only be found in the silence of the mind (or in fact, no-mind). The Zen Ensemble will be the first and only sound performance in Hong Kong that invites you to experience the absence of sound.

Together with stunning live visuals, this quiet sound revolution of The Zen Ensemble at Videotage is definitely a must-go for electronics and sound art lovers.

(Left to right: Go Koyashiki, Yukitomo Hamasaki, shotahirama)

About mAtter (www.matter.jp)

mAtter is a sound & design project, with works centering around Yukitomo Hamasaki. The label takes approaches from various media such as sound design, architecture, and product design, in which the members interpret and restructures these concepts in different ways based on their own perspection, and try to achieve the goal of constructing dense space. The members of mAtter are not fixed, they collaborate depend on the projects. Its members consist of musicians, architects, video artists, and writers.

Current mAtter members include:
Yukitomo Hamasaki (www.myspace.com/nothingsclear/)
Go Koyashiki (www.myspace.com/gokoyashiki/)
Junji Koyanagi (www.celescape.org/koyanagi/)
shotahirama (www.signaldada.com)

For reservation and enquiry
Tel: 2573-1869 (Kami Liu)
Email: info@videotage.org.hk

Sound Friction is a performance series jointly organized by Re-Records and Videotage.

Taking sonic art as the anchor point, the aim of Sound Friction is to develop a creative performance platform for cross-cultural, cross-media, cross-disciplinary and cross-genres collaboration between artists.

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Beat Vulgaris

iii

Cut from a 90 mins live recording, iii sampled/mixed/bent/mashed a selection of upbeat party hits and misses in their own eclectic yet peculiar style in Wikitopia Closing Party on Sep 18th, 2010 at Videotage, Hong Kong.

Special thanks to Ellen Pau, Alvis Choi and all at Videotage.

Beat Vulgaris (22:33)

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Sound Friction No.1

Live At Videotage

::vtol:: & Introducing Bent Orchestra
8:00pm – 10:00pm, 20 Nov, 2010

Videotage
(No. 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Rd. To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, HK)
Admission (incl. 1 drink): $120 (at door) / $100 (advanced)

Live Visuals: Wong Chung-Fai
Opening Act: Shelf-Index

When digital electronic music hardware and software is presenting us unlimited choices and options through a mass production industrial model, are we simply operators facing unlimited options? Or is there still room and possibility beyond such mass production model? Returning to the small scale family business model and the philosophy of “small is beautiful”, a group of advanced Circuit Benders have been designing and producing limited run of handmade electronic instruments of their own design.

Dmitry Morozov aka ::vtol::

They evolve directly from the “no rules” philosophy of Circuit Bending and insist on handcrafting creative chaos out of hardware limitation. Russia electronic artist ::vtol:: (Dmitry Morozov) is one of them. In Sound Friction No.1, he will be performing with his own handmade modular synthesizer system, demonstrating a new possibilities in electronic sound as well as generated visuals.

Synthesizer modules by ::vtol::, Astat (Left), Volfram

Using a collection of obscure handmade electronic instruments/devcies designed by famed sound artists/benders Folktek, BugBrand, Eric Archer and others, local Experimental Electro-Acoustic duo No One Pulse will be performing an improvisation set with ::vtol:: and his synthesizers as Bent Orchestra.

For those who are interested, few units of ::vtol::’s home built synthesizers are available to purchase at the show.

Matreshka Generators by ::vtol::

::vtol:: Presents Matreshka Generators Workshop
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm, 21 Nov, 2010 @ Videotage

Videotage
(No. 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Rd. To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, HK)
$350 (Reservation required, limited to 10 participants, incl. all parts & materials for the Matreshka Generators constructions)

In addition to the performance, ::vtol:: will presenting his Matreshka Generators Workshop introducing the basics of synthesizers and leading the participants to build their own Matreshka Generators, a sound generating object conceived by ::vtol::.

For reservation and enquiry
Tel: 2573-1869 (Kami Liu)
Email: info@videotage.org.hk

Sound Friction is a performance series jointly organized by Re-Records and Videotage.

Taking sonic art as the anchor point, the aim of Sound Friction is to develop a creative performance platform for cross-cultural, cross-media, cross-disciplinary and cross-genres collaboration between artists.

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MMXVIXIV

Alok

Founder of experimental music imprint Lona Records and a sound artist himself, Alok contributes this eclectic mix to RECeiver.

Featuring tracks by Yapoo, Hecker, Can, TG, Tindersticks, Miles Davis, Luc Ferrari, Q-Chastic (Aphex Twin), as well as a selection of unreleased materials consisting of a track by RiJoMa (members include artist Magdalan Wong from Hong Kong); a remix for electronic music producer Dead J’s forthcoming release, and an exclusive new track as a tribute to Sugar Jar, Beijing, titled “The Communist F”.

Cover Photo by Chen Man You @ 798, Beijing, China

MMXVIXIV (33:15)

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01. Salakapakka Sound System – Kadonnut jälkiä jättämättä
02. Nobile – Sponge Tree
03. Yapoo – Something Extra
04. Hecker – Set Iso to Lithops Mix
05. Dead J – Start (Alok Remix)
06. Wang ChangCun – Flicker 03
07. Wang ChangCun – Flicker 37
08. Acrane Device – Montage
09. Miles Davis – Medley: Gemini / Double Image
10. Pilotram – Caspian Airwaves
11. Hong Qile – Loop 3
12. Phon°noir – We Still Miss The Future (Alok Remix)
13. Luc Ferrari – Interrupteur 1
14. Woo – Space Divert
15. Tzil – Non
16. Alok – The Communist F (Exclusive Track)
17. Taylor Deupree & Kenneth Kirschner – 2002 01 27
18. RiJoMa – Air
19. Richard Johnson – The Meeting
20. Q-Chastic (Aphex Twin) – Untitled #C
21. Kronos Quartet – String Quartet No.4: II Toccata
22. Can – Smoke (E,F,S, No.59)
23. Mouse On Mars – Snap Bar
24. Le Mal D’Archive – Histories de Plage
25. Throbbing Gristle – I.B.M.
26. Tindersticks – Home

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