Mo. 26.03.2012,
Einlass: 20.00h, erstes Konzert: 20.30h
Eintritt: AK 10 / VVK 7 EUR
aufabwegen präsentiert: broken sound #11
Daniel Menche (USA)
Shamanic noise out of Portland / Editions Mego
&
Robert Piotrowicz (PL)
High octane electroacoustic dynamics
Studio 672/Stadtgarten
Venloer Str. 40, 50672 Köln
In der elften Folge der Konzertreihe „broken sound“ geht es um drastische Sounds, um die Möglichkeiten, mit Noise das Gefühl für Raum und Zeit aus den Angeln zu heben. Beide Akteure stehen für unterschiedliche Ansätze: Menche ist der Krach-Malocher, der sich auf seine Intuition verlässt. Er baut in schamanisch anmutenden Noise-Ritualen eine physische Energie auf, die sich direkt auf das Publikum übertragen soll. Der Beat zum Vibrieren der Schädeldecke, quasi. Robert Piotrowicz ist zählt zu einer jüngeren Generation Musiker und ist einer der wichtigsten Experimentatoren in der noch frischen Szene in Polen. Er ist der Gründer und Kurator der Musica Genera Festivals, das zahlreiche Improvisatoren erstmals nach Warschau brachte. Piotrowicz bezieht sich in seinen Klangverschachtelungen sowohl auf Industrial und Noise, als auch auf Elektroakustische Musik und Akusmatik. Er arbeitet mit einem modularen Doepfer-Synthisystem und peitscht gnadenlos Klangpartikel durch den Raum.
„broken sound“ wird kuratiert von Till Kniola/aufabwegen und gefördert durch das Kulturamt der Stadt Köln und das Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Flyermotiv/Collage: Robert Schalinski
DANIEL MENCHE
Working within sound since 1989, Daniel Menche spills musical blood in a manner invested with a deeply personal sense of wonder and humanity that pours from the speaker channels, casting him as a totally singular figure in the world of audio limit-pushing. Gushing waterfalls, storms, throat, skin, heart, massive drums, kids choirs, acoustic instruments, pianos and organs, junk electronics, high tech electronics, garbage, dirt, gold and diamonds . . . There are no rules. Any and all sounds are possible conduits to music. For Menche there are absolutely no barriers or biases in what can be used. Everything he produces, be it records, live performances, field recordings or video documents, can be seen to explore immersive sensory experience in new, raw and invigoratingly honest ways.
With scores of releases on cornerstone labels like Editions Mego, Important, Touch and Sub Rosa and close ties with a host of similarly broad-spectrum adventurers from Stephen O’ Malley through to Vicki “People Like Us” Bennett, Menche is an invigorating and engrossing onstage force, whether coaxing relentless and all-enveloping waves of sound from his own body via metal objects and a bank of pedals or in accompaniment to his own eye-poppingly intense visual work, with the uncompromising majesty of the natural world a recurring theme.
Photo: Daniel Menche
http://danielmenche.blogspot.com/
ROBERT PIOTROWICZ
Robert Piotrowicz – sound artist, composer, improviser.
He works on contemporary electroacoustic music field. Piotrowicz is an instrumentalist whose main tools are modular synth and guitar. He’s an experienced improviser, working with world’s top artists.
Composer, author of many solo projects (recordings, performances), interdisciplinary projects (scores for theatre plays , literary and radio projects) and abstract sound installations. He participated in many art events around the world. Musica Genera label/festival co-founder and curator, and – since 1999 – many other contemporary sound art festivals and projects in Poland and abroad.
Piotrowicz is one of the most prolific artists in the Polish experimental and improvised music scene. He develops his own solo projects and also collaborates with world’s leading sound artists and musicians.
As an instrumentalist, he works mainly with his own live performance setup, developed around his electric guitar and analogue modular synthesiser. He is both an accomplished performer of his own music and experienced improviser in different instrumental configurations wit other artists. His other activities include electro-acoustic studio compositions, composing for theatres, participation in interdisciplinary art projects and sound installation.
Piotrowicz has developed his trademark sound of intense dynamics seized in dramatic and balanced form. Several albums with his solo music had been released, the last one so far, „Lasting Clinamen“ in 2008, highly acclaimed by the critics around the globe.
Robert Piotrowicz as instrumentalist and composer works most often with Anna Zaradny also Burkhard Stangl, Valerio Tricoli. Other collaborators in recent yerars included Oren Ambarchi, Jerome Noetinger, Martin Klapper, XavierCharles, Lasse Marhaug, John Hegre, Tony Buck, Kevin Drumm, and others.
Discography:
Robert Piotrowicz – Rurokura meets Jelito mini cdr (polycephal)
Robert Piotrowicz / Burkhard Stangl / Anna Zaradny – Can’t Illumination cd (musica genera)
Robert Piorowicz – The Path To The Death cdr (phase!)
Robert Piotrowicz – Rurokura and Final Warn cd (emd records)
Robert Piotrowicz / Xavier Charles – /// cd (emd records)
Robert Piotrowicz – Lasting Clinamen cd (musica genera)
Robert Piotrowicz “Rurokura and Eastern Europen Folk Music Research vol.2 7” (bocianrecords)
Robert Piotrowicz / Carl Michael von Hausswolff split LP (bocianrecords)
Kevin Drumm / Jerome Noetinger / Robert Piotrowicz “Wrestling 7” (bocianrecords)
Photo: Szymon Roginski