William Basinski (US)
William Basinski (born 1958 in Texas) is a classically trained musician and composer who has been working in experimental media for over 30 years in NYC and most recently, California. Employing obsolete technology and analogue tape loops, his haunting and melancholy soundscapes explore the temporal nature of life and resound with the reverberations of memory and the mystery of time. Basinski is best known for his four-volume album The Disintegration Loops (2002–2003), constructed from rapidly decaying twenty-year-old tapes of his earlier music. He collaborated with various artists such as artist-filmmaker, James Elaine on installations and films. Basinski will be touring the world in 2013 in support of Nocturnes, his latest album released in May 2013 on 2062/USA.
Emptyset (UK)
The Bristol-based production duo of James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas is exploring technomusic’s broad influences and compiling them to a studio template focused on tight production and detailed sound design. As Emptyset, the pair work to demystify the process of electronic production by reducing it to its absolute bare bones, and the results are often revelatory. Inspired by the city’s culture of bass lead production as well as the global renaissance of electronic music, the sound has been described as ‘techno meets dubstep folded back onto techno again’, a description which is perhaps the most insightful to date.
Most People Have Been Trained To Be Bored (PT)
Drummer and composer Gustavo Costa, a longstanding figure in Portugal’s music scene, presents his solo project Most People Have Been Trained To Be Bored. Since the early 90s he has wandered the fields of death/thrash metal with Genocide, punk rock with Motornoise, and contemporary improvisation with Red Albinos. Currently, he runs the Let’s Go To War label, while taking part in numerous projects within and around the scope of Soopa’s activity.
As Most People Have Been Trained To Be Bored, he explores his interests in the area of contemporary music practice, employing sources such as percussive objects, prepared piano and electronic synthesis in a body of work influenced by Iannis Xenakis and Giacinto Scelsi, but also by the political commentary of Crass and Dead Kennedys.
Marcus Fjellström (SE)
Marcus Fjellström is a Swedish-born, Berlin-based composer and multimedia artist. His work ranges from the purely orchestral through electronic music and audiovisual work. Amongst others he has worked with the Swedish Royal Ballet and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and his music has been released on labels such as Miasmah, Lampse and Aagoo. He will present “Lichtspiel Mutation 2: Alechsis”, which is an audiovisual composition/ music drama for live electronics and video projection. It is based on the 1948 film “The Amazing Mr. X” by Bernard Vorhaus. Rather than a conventional retelling of the story, the elements are transformed, misunderstood and mutated into an ambiguous, mythological adventure of almost epic proportions, told through diagrams and narrative devices inspired by late 1970’s text-based computer games.
Patric Catani a.k.a. Candie Hank (DE)
At MADEIRADiG’s aftershow we are happy to announce Candie Hank: The mischievous alter ego of Berlin’s notorious Patric Catani has been messing up the musical landscape from Tokyo to Sao Paolo for some time now. Next to releases with A*Class and Puppetmastaz as well as various theatre and film soundtracks, he released the albums Kimouchi on Gagarin Records, Brandy Cramps on Wwilko, the CD Messer Chups on Russian Solzne Records and the Groucho Running Album on Sonig. Hanks anarchistic approach: Taking and modifying statements in a plunderphonic way but giving it the spice and soul of Moog synths, 8Bit Roughness and the surreal twist of a Daniil Charms worshipping sample eating Bassmonster. Of course always in honour of Morricone, Rock Hunter, Hazil Adkins and the Euromasters.
Clara Hill (DE)
Born in East-Berlin, she did her first musical experiments on an East German Triola, a plastic guitar and a small plastic piano, while always playing by ear as she never learned to read music. Now she returns to her childhood inspirations – sound and nature – to combine them with the musical knowledge she has since accumulated. She also draws upon fresh musical inspirations gathered over the past few years, including Broadcast, Meredith Monk, Linda Perhacs, Cortney Tidwell, Tim Hecker, and Ben Frost. After a four year break from recording, the new album sounds like a disorientating blend of Folk/ Psychedelic Folk, experimental electronica and rock/ indie, at times both familiar and otherworldly, earthy and ethereal. She will perform a very exclusive record release concert.
TIMETABLE MAIN STAGE:
06 DEC – 21.30H
TARIK BARRI feat. LEA FABRIKANT (NL/LV)
MARCUS FJELLSTRÖM (SE)
07 DEC – 21.30H
GROUPER (US)
PHARMAKON (US)
08 DEC – 21.30H
WILLIAM BASINSKI (US)
EMPTYSET (UK)
09 DEC – 21.30H
MOST PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TRAINED TO BE BORED (PT)
PIERCE WARNECKE (US)
Grouper (US)
Grouper is the solo project for electro-acoustic ambient/ noise musician Liz Harris, of Portland, Oregon. Harris’ music is a mixture of softly-strummed guitar, Wurlitzer keys, and delicate vocals. Reverb and tape delay effects are used widely throughout Harris’ recordings. She layers ethereal vocals that feel less like floating in the clouds and more like sinking into the dark earth; her music is a downcast mix of strummed acoustic guitar and defiantly analog sounding drone and noise-makers. With this small clutch of elements, she’s made more than a half-dozen full-lengths and a number of singles and EPs, all of which sound like they could come from no one else. There are so many people making music that could fall under the broad heading of “dream pop,” but nobody sounds like Grouper.
Pharmakon (US)
Born in NYC, 22 year old Margaret Chardiet has been making power electronics/ death industrial music under the name Pharmakon for five years. As a founding member of the Red Light District collective in Far Rockaway, NY she has been a figurehead in the underground experimental scene since the age of 17. She points out that being there amongst so many other experimental artists (amongst them Yellow Tears & Haflings) inspired her to keep making increasingly challenging work. She describes her drive to make noise music as something akin to an exorcism where she is able to express, her “deep-seated need/ drive/ urge/ possession to reach other people and make them FEEL something [specifically] in uncomfortable/ confrontational ways.” Her performance at MADEIRADiG will be the final show of her first European tour.
Tarik Barri feat. Lea Fabrikant (NL/LV)
Tarik Barri is a traveller in audiovisual space. He created a synaesthetic universe where you listen to the light and watch the sound. In his live performances, he takes the audience on a mind-bending journey through ever-evolving constellations of beating, singing and dancing stars, shapes and patterns – making music literally ‘on the fly’ while freely navigating and exploring his own three-dimensional creations. His journey at MADEIRADiG will feature live vocals and visuals from performer Lea Fabrikant. In addition to his solo work, Tarik also works as a purely visual artist, collaborating with musicians such as Atoms For Peace, Nicolas Jaar or Monolake for their live shows. His audiovisual debut album will be released in 2014.
Pierce Warnecke (US)
A memory is a recording of senses with the mind as the medium. When a memory is recalled it is played back in our heads, but never as exact as the originally experienced moment. This makes human memory a volatile storage medium, subject to transience (degradation of memory with the passing of time). Conversely, digital audio/video recordings are theoretically immune to this decay caused by aging. ‘Memory Fragments’ explores recordings as memories by taking samples (sound, video, found objects) of a physical space (Madeira island) and then placing them in an imaginary process of transience that slowly erodes the digital recordings until disappearance.
Roedelius+Chaplin (DE/UK)
At Madeira Micro Film Festival’s aftershow we are very proud to present electronica, krautrock pioneer Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Christopher James Chaplin. They will perform their Sub Rosa release “King of Hearts” on our rooftop stage. Berlin-born Roedelius is a German experimental, ambient and electronic musician. He is best known as a co-founder of the krautrock groups Cluster and Harmonia and for his work in the ambient jazz trio Aquarello. Chaplin, born in Switzerland, studied the piano before moving to London to become an actor. In 2005 the youngest son of Charlie Chaplin returned to music and composition. After being asked by Roedelius to record and remix some of his material for a BBC broadcasting they subsequently continued their collaboration and thus King of Hearts was born.
DJs Chez Mieke & Ultraviolett (DE)
Chez Mieke and Ultraviolett are music lovers, vinyl diggers, and ambient dancers djing for more than ten years now. Some time ago at a hidden lake somewhere in a forest they started to collaborate spinning by chance. Ones roots in cosmic jazz, post rock, and instrumental hiphop the others in synthetic 90s bass, club, and timeless experimental music they both share a love for fragile electronica, dirty beats, and heavy cinematic atmosphere, tinkered. Listening the space whispering into the public address meanwhile they are converging the dancefloor secretly. Dancing in between praised by movers to never ever stop. Eventually, letting themselves pour into it.
AFTER-SESSIONS @ ESTALAGEM DA PONTA DO SOL
06 DEC | Candie Hank (DE) LIVE
07 DEC | Clara Hill (DE) LIVE | Chez Mieke & Ultraviolett (DJ‘s/DE)
08 DEC | MADEIRADiG‘s Friends and Family Stage (DJ‘s)
09 DEC | DJ‘s Bücker (Jean-Michel) & Rosen (D/B)