Noodlanding – Dreamtime with Youth Lagoon and Emptyset. Youth Lagoon (US)Â is twenty-two year old Trevor Powers (US). Intimate and dreamy electronic music. His debut album … Read more >
Bass frequencies abound on the opening evening of Sonic Acts. Beyond Time presents an audiovisual spectacle with dubstep, subsonic minimal techno and avant-garde electronica. Roly … Read more >
George Dyson (US) will kick off the festival with a keynote lecture about time in the digital universe: No Time is There: Why the Digital … Read more >
Paul Sharits Shutter Interface (1975, 32’50, four-projector installation, colour) In the hypnotic work Shutter Interface – recently restored by Greene Naftali and Anthology Film Archives … Read more >
Time only happens once. Time is precious because it cannot be reproduced. Time is irrevocable. We try to make good use of time, but maybe … Read more >
A programme with films that relate in different ways to historical performance practices of colour music. It includes the gorgeous documentation of a performance by Charles … Read more >
The second session on Friday is dedicated to Siegfried Zielinski’s Variantology research group. Variantology research seeks to move from reflections on the deep-time history of … Read more >
How to approach time in sound? How to go beyond the conception of time as a simple sequence of events? Inhabiting sound, working with infinite … Read more >
Paradiso’s Disco 3000 and Sonic Acts present a night with techno godfather Juan Atkins (US). In the 1980s Atkins was one of the driving forces … Read more >
On Friday, Sonic Acts pays homage to endless sound with a programme that includes music by the American composer Pauline Oliveros and her ideas about … Read more >
Paul Sharits Shutter Interface (1975, 32’50, four-projector installation, colour) In the hypnotic work Shutter Interface – recently restored by Greene Naftali and Anthology Film Archives to its … Read more >
Immerse yourself in a subtle drone, which after a while opens the portal to a different space, with Catherine Christer Hennix + The Choras(s)an Time-Court … Read more >
The exhibition at NIMk presents several installations, sound– and film works that explore different modalities of time. They seemingly halt the experience of time, deal with speed … Read more >
Time only happens once. Time is precious because it cannot be reproduced. Time is irrevocable. We try to make good use of time, but maybe … Read more >
Human perspectives on time have not always been the same. Since the advent of Modernity and the introduction of new technologies – first mechanical, later … Read more >
Programming allows for a different approach to time in music composition. Practical and theoretical aspects of composing with process, generative sound and image, building systems … Read more >
When the most radical ideas from physics, philosophy and technology are pushed to their limits, and when music is informed by these ideas, what is … Read more >
Natural Time is dedicated to biological rhythms, human speed, the cycles of stars and planets, the sounds that nature creates around us, and the natural … Read more >
Paul Sharits Shutter Interface (1975, 32’50, four-projector installation, colour) In the hypnotic work Shutter Interface – recently restored by Greene Naftali and Anthology Film Archives to its … Read more >
Immerse yourself in a subtle drone, which after a while opens the portal to a different space, with Catherine Christer Hennix + The Choras(s)an Time-Court Mirage. Hennix’s … Read more >
The exhibition at NIMk presents several installations, sound– and film works that explore different modalities of time. They seemingly halt the experience of time, deal with speed … Read more >
The longest string instrument of the world will be installed in the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ. On Saturday night Ellen Fullman will perform on her … Read more >
Time only happens once. Time is precious because it cannot be reproduced. Time is irrevocable. We try to make good use of time, but maybe … Read more >
Film frames competing to find a place in the viewers long term memory in an extremely slow development constituting a dense image reminiscence. J.J. Murphy Print … Read more >
Jean-Luc Godard famously stated that ‘[p]hotography is truth. The cinema is truth at 24 frames per second’. But cinema has long proven that this is … Read more >
Music without time, music that seemingly disregards rhythm and timing, in which time simply passes. The five-hour evening Post Time includes compositions by Michael Pisaro, … Read more >
Paul Sharits Shutter Interface (1975, 32’50, four-projector installation, colour) In the hypnotic work Shutter Interface – recently restored by Greene Naftali and Anthology Film Archives to its … Read more >
Immerse yourself in a subtle drone, which after a while opens the portal to a different space, with Catherine Christer Hennix + The Choras(s)an Time-Court Mirage. Hennix’s … Read more >
The exhibition at NIMk presents several installations, sound– and film works that explore different modalities of time. They seemingly halt the experience of time, deal with speed … Read more >
Time only happens once. Time is precious because it cannot be reproduced. Time is irrevocable. We try to make good use of time, but maybe … Read more >
Agustà Fernà ndez (ES) is one of the most important explorers of avant-garde music in Spain, combining his thorough knowledge of twentieth-century modern classical piano with … Read more >
Amador Vega (ES) is a doctor of philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg and a tenured lecturer at the Humanities Faculty of the Pompeu Fabra … Read more >
Amelia Cuni (IT) (voice) is a singer and composer. She trained her voice and acquired her musical skills in India, in the tradition of Dhrupad … Read more >
Barbara Hammer (US) is a visual artist working primarily in film and video and has made over 80 works in a career spanning 30 years. She … Read more >
Bart Vegter (NL, 1940–2011) made his first film in 1981, after participating in the Cineworkshop of the Vrije Academie in The Hague. Actually an autodidact, … Read more >
Much of Bill Dietz’s (US) recent work addresses the performance of listening and the genealogy of the concert. He studied composition at the New England … Read more >
(SE) is a composer and conceptual visual artist working with performance art, light- and sound installations and photography. His main tools are recording devices (camera, … Read more >
Catherine Christer Hennix (US/SE) (voice, computer, sine waves, electronics) is a composer, philosopher, mathematician and visual artist. In the 1960s and 1970s she worked with … Read more >
Montreal-based Japanese filmmaker Daïchi Saïto’s works explore the relation between the corporeal phenomena of vision and the material nature of the medium, fusing a formal … Read more >
David Edgerton (UK) is the founding director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, at the University of Manchester, where he … Read more >
Eleh was formed specifically to pay tribute to early experimental minimalist pioneers Charlemagne Palestine, La Monte Young, Eliane Radigue and Pauline Oliveros. The enigmatic Eleh … Read more >
Ellen Fullman (US) is a composer, musician and instrument builder. She is famous for her Long String Instrument, an installation of dozens of wires 50 … Read more >
Emptyset (UK) is a Bristol-based production duo, which explores the classic 1990s minimal techno on the M-Plant, Sähkö and Chain Reaction labels, suffusing them with … Read more >
Enda Duffy (IE) is a Professor in the English Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His central interests include post-colonial literature and … Read more >
Franz Hautzinger (AT) (microtonal trumpet) has worked with many groups since appearing on the Austrian jazz scene in the late 1980s. After a break of … Read more >
George Dyson (US/CA) is a historian and a philosopher of science and the future. The son of physicist Freeman Dyson, George grew up inside one of the … Read more >
Hillel Schwartz (US) is a poet, translator, public arts consultant, and cultural historian. His 1000-page Making Noise. From Babel to the Big Bang and Beyond … Read more >
Hilary Jeffery (UK) (trombone) is a trombonist and composer. He performs with a number of other groups and musicians, including Zeitkratzer, Lysn and The Mount … Read more >
Ian Helliwell (UK) is a self-taught audiovisual artist. His work includes short experimental films, and the composition of electronic music with instruments he designs and … Read more >
Icarus (UK) have always carved their own distinctive, eclectic path through the world of electronic music, from their sampler-based deconstructions of drum and bass in … Read more >
Jacqueline Schoemaker (NL) is artistic researcher, writer and editor. She is working on a book about ‘the undivided city’. http://jacqueline-schoemaker.nl/
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Joe Gilmore (UK) is a multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer working in the fields of computer music, video and algorithmic art. He is co-creator of … Read more >
Joel Ryan (NL/US) is a composer, inventor and scientist. He is a pioneer in the design of musical instruments based on real-time digital signal processing. … Read more >
John Geiger (US) is the bestselling author of The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible (2009), and four other non-fiction books, including the biography of … Read more >
Joseph Chen (US/CN) is a Professor of Physics. His research interest has been in atomic and molecular physics. He did pioneer work in vibrational excitations … Read more >
Juliana Borinski (BR/FR) works in the field of photography, videography and installations, experimenting with the conjunction between iconography and iconoclasm. Her works often integrate basic … Read more >
Julien Maire (FR) is a French new media artist who currently resides and works in Berlin. In his artworks and performances, he systematically re-invents the … Read more >
Keith Fullerton Whitman (US) is a composer/performer obsessed with electronic music, from its mid-twentieth-century origins in Europe through its contemporary worldwide incarnation as digital music. … Read more >
Konzert Minimal is a Berlin-based concert series and ensemble started by Johnny Chang and Koen Nutters in November 2010 with the aim of performing the complete … Read more >
Mark Fell (UK) is a multi-disciplinary artist. His projects range from minimal electronic music, to audiovisual and sound installations. He works with synthetic sound, light … Read more >
Michael Pisaro (US) is a guitarist and composer. He spent much of the last decade making field recordings, occasionally using them in his own work. … Read more >
Up until 2007, Model 500 was an alias for Juan Atkins. Then, Atkins partnered up with Mike Banks from Underground Resistance to form a Model 500 band. … Read more >
Norman McLaren (CA, 1914–87) was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including drawn-on film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation … Read more >
Okkyung Lee (KR) is a classically trained cellist who has extended her technique by incorporating elements from jazz, traditional Korean music and noise. Since her move … Read more >
Olaf Nicolai (DE) is a German artist whose conceptual approach and use of diverse media question the way in which we view our everyday environment. He … Read more >
Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (US), composer, performer and humanitarian, is an important pioneer in American Music – and electronic music. She has explored sound for five decades, breaking … Read more >
Paul Schwingenschlögl (AT) (flugelhorn, trumpet) is an open-minded musician who is fluent in many musical styles from modern jazz, soul, funk and afrobeat to contemporary … Read more >
Paul Sharits (US) was a visual artist who is best known for his work in avant-garde filmmaking, particularly in what became known as the Structural … Read more >
Peter Kubelka (AT) is a multifaceted artist and theoretician who has worked in film, cooking, music, architecture, speech and writing. He communicates through lectures, which … Read more >
The works of Philipp Lachenmann (DE) deal with images as surfaces of collective memories whose self-referentiality can be revealed through interventions in their formal appearance. … Read more >
The Pitch is a quartet from Berlin consisting of Michael Thieke (clarinet), Boris Baltschun (electric pump organ, sine tones), Koen Nutters (double bass), and Morten … Read more >
Painter, filmmaker, creator of kinetic sculptures and mutoscopes, Robert Breer (US) became known for his experimental animation. As a self-taught filmmaker, his first pieces were … Read more >
Robin Hayward (UK) (microtonal tuba) is a tuba player and composer. He has redefined the tuba’s potential both in the areas of noise and micro-tonality. His … Read more >
Rod MacLachlan (UK) studied sculpture at Glasgow School of Art. He works individually and also collaborates with the Bristol-based art collective Blackout Arts. His projects … Read more >
Roland Kayn (DE, 1933–2011) was a German composer who lived and worked in the Netherlands from 1970. He developed a unique approach to electronic sound … Read more >
Mixing drones, noise, dark ambience with classical textures Roly Porter (UK), formerly of Vex’d is taking bass-heavy music into unchartered territories. With Aftertime he presented … Read more >
Ryohei Shimada (JP) is a graduate of Takarazuka University of Art and Design and of the Image Forum Institute of Moving Image. http://www.maroon.dti.ne.jp/shimatrop/
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Siegfried Zielinski (DE) holds the chair of Media Theory – with a focus on Archaeology and Variantology of Media – at the Institute for Time … Read more >
Taku Sugimoto (JP) started playing guitar when he was a high school student. He has been member of the bands Piero Manzoni, Ghost, Hikyo String … Read more >
Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec (SI/NL) is an artist and musician who works with invisible ephemeral phenomena and the notion of space. His artistic practice is … Read more >
Thomas Patteson (US) is a writer, musician, and educator whose work centres on music, technology, and twentieth-century aesthetics. Currently a PhD candidate in music history … Read more >
Timothy Druckrey (US) is Director of the Graduate Photographic and Electronic Media programme at the Maryland Institute, College of Art. He also works as a … Read more >
Tino Sehgal (DE/UK) is a British-German artist whose works, which he calls ‘constructed situations’, involve one or more people carrying out instructions conceived by the artist. … Read more >
Youth Lagoon
Youth Lagoon is twenty-two year old Trevor Powers (US). Intimate and dreamy electronic music. His debut album The Year of Hibernation came out in 2011. Hidden beneath … Read more >
