Quwack (E)
with Janek Schaefer, Infinite Livez, ???????, Isambard Khroustaliov, Bela Emerson, Man From Uranus, Vi, My Ambulance Is On Fire, Artamonova, Twocsinak, Leadtowill, Katapulto, Alexander Thomas, James Scatter
(Sat 22nd Sep 2007 / 2pm & 7pm / £4 adv for one, £6 adv for both)
Featuring 14 acts, two stages, 2 continuous performances, two sound systems, electronics, stop clocks and Quadraphonic DJ’s, QuWack (e) celebrates a roll-call of extraordinary musicians from an evergrowing micro-climate.
After all-male and all-female events, QuWack (e) is all-electronic and features 14 solo electronic performers. Get lost in a maze of voltage surfing control freaks, 21st century composers and unhinged solo show stoppers presented on two stages, within customised gallery conditions. These include an overhead video projection stream that will revisualise and then track each musician's performance.
The rules are simple. Each act has 15 minutes to perform on their own to their heart's content. In the spirit of a musical tag team, each performance will be bookended by two 5 minute collaborations with the previous and next acts, who will be set up on the other stage. The result will be one continuous stream of performance where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One performance in the afternoon and another in the evening, each featuring new artists and strange juxtapositions. Quadraphonic DJ’s either side.
Janek Schaefer - Be it minimal delay lines, modified turntables, field recordings, off beatz or sound-art he is one of the most erratically compelling composers of our time. Exhibited with Scanner, Philip Jeck and Brian Eno. Played with Christian Marclay and in Sydney Opera House
Infinite Livez - Gameboy programmer, comic book artist, and soft toy lover puts out wonky hip hop on Big Dada, plays with electro jazz boffins and self-releases freestyle noise cds for fun
Isambard Khroustaliov - An early intro to Warner Brothers cartoons (and the music of Carl Starling) fused with the fastidiousness of an IRCAM composers training battle it out in an over-enthused psyche. AKA Sam Britton of Icarus (Leaf)
??????? - Arrhhh of course…the mystery component, guest, wild card. As with all other QuWacks an unknown performers enters the fray at the last minute, to up the intrigue and through a final spanner in the works.
Man From Uranus - Uses analogue oscillator boxes, reel to reel tape, toy sequencer, and TV/shortwave receiver – all wired together into one great synaesthetic sound machine
Bela Emerson - The art of cello is reflected through the looking glass and into a parallel world of cosmic electronics. She was spellbinding at this year's Supersonic Festival
Artamonova - a composer and improviser from Russia. She appears in hysterical art-noise act SWPOU and as White Nightie, this guise sees her on that wild edge between acoustic folk and lo-tech electronics
Twocsinak - A self-styled autodidact who may yet be famous (although he is feted by Matmos) with a very distinct, mischievous, obscenely detailed collage/ege sound world
Vi - There is a sense of Richie Hawtin’s dedicated vision, Kraftwerk’s dis/utopia and Pan Sonic’s harnessing of powerful instruments within his music. He has that self absorbed electronic sound that is well worth fetishising
My Ambulance Is On Fire - Histrionic vocalisation made intoxicating by electrification. An obsessive cine-pile, who plays in Geisha, loves Italo-Disco and whose stance is always a provocative one
Katapulto - Broken and smashed beat genius from Rzeszow, Poland. He wants to take over the UK music charts and pays tribute to Phil Collins, “the King of England"
Alexander Thomas - coaxes delicious ripples from his Theremin. Vaudeville, mad-cap hip-hop and ghostly soundscapes are all defined and then re-defined by his sense of otherworldiness
Leadtowill - Plays Throat Synth, Jar Wind Chimes and a Pringles microcontroller to perform sonic brain massage. Half of Leadtowine and loves to home brew
James Scatter - One half of glitterbeat duo Hook & The Twin this man is coming in from the unknown to spice up the proceedings with his raffle style
QuWack (e) is inspired by Eastern European professors, Rave, Merzbow, cartoon audio collage, Italian futurism, aristocratic outcasts, low end Hip Hop theory, Top Of The Pops, Guardian supplements, Japanese street technology, plastic in parks, Laurie Anderson, thunderous storms, ‘Mad’ Mike Banks, inharmonics, John Carpenter, B-movies, post Cold War divisions, Chris Morris, generative music, neon lights, People Like Us, Dr Who, e-politic, Joe Meek, Tomorrow's World, Pierre Shaffer and Timbaland.
QuWack (e) is supported by the PRS Foundation for New Music's 'Live Connections' scheme.
After all-male and all-female events, QuWack (e) is all-electronic and features 14 solo electronic performers. Get lost in a maze of voltage surfing control freaks, 21st century composers and unhinged solo show stoppers presented on two stages, within customised gallery conditions. These include an overhead video projection stream that will revisualise and then track each musician's performance.
The rules are simple. Each act has 15 minutes to perform on their own to their heart's content. In the spirit of a musical tag team, each performance will be bookended by two 5 minute collaborations with the previous and next acts, who will be set up on the other stage. The result will be one continuous stream of performance where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One performance in the afternoon and another in the evening, each featuring new artists and strange juxtapositions. Quadraphonic DJ’s either side.
Janek Schaefer - Be it minimal delay lines, modified turntables, field recordings, off beatz or sound-art he is one of the most erratically compelling composers of our time. Exhibited with Scanner, Philip Jeck and Brian Eno. Played with Christian Marclay and in Sydney Opera House
Infinite Livez - Gameboy programmer, comic book artist, and soft toy lover puts out wonky hip hop on Big Dada, plays with electro jazz boffins and self-releases freestyle noise cds for fun
Isambard Khroustaliov - An early intro to Warner Brothers cartoons (and the music of Carl Starling) fused with the fastidiousness of an IRCAM composers training battle it out in an over-enthused psyche. AKA Sam Britton of Icarus (Leaf)
??????? - Arrhhh of course…the mystery component, guest, wild card. As with all other QuWacks an unknown performers enters the fray at the last minute, to up the intrigue and through a final spanner in the works.
Man From Uranus - Uses analogue oscillator boxes, reel to reel tape, toy sequencer, and TV/shortwave receiver – all wired together into one great synaesthetic sound machine
Bela Emerson - The art of cello is reflected through the looking glass and into a parallel world of cosmic electronics. She was spellbinding at this year's Supersonic Festival
Artamonova - a composer and improviser from Russia. She appears in hysterical art-noise act SWPOU and as White Nightie, this guise sees her on that wild edge between acoustic folk and lo-tech electronics
Twocsinak - A self-styled autodidact who may yet be famous (although he is feted by Matmos) with a very distinct, mischievous, obscenely detailed collage/ege sound world
Vi - There is a sense of Richie Hawtin’s dedicated vision, Kraftwerk’s dis/utopia and Pan Sonic’s harnessing of powerful instruments within his music. He has that self absorbed electronic sound that is well worth fetishising
My Ambulance Is On Fire - Histrionic vocalisation made intoxicating by electrification. An obsessive cine-pile, who plays in Geisha, loves Italo-Disco and whose stance is always a provocative one
Katapulto - Broken and smashed beat genius from Rzeszow, Poland. He wants to take over the UK music charts and pays tribute to Phil Collins, “the King of England"
Alexander Thomas - coaxes delicious ripples from his Theremin. Vaudeville, mad-cap hip-hop and ghostly soundscapes are all defined and then re-defined by his sense of otherworldiness
Leadtowill - Plays Throat Synth, Jar Wind Chimes and a Pringles microcontroller to perform sonic brain massage. Half of Leadtowine and loves to home brew
James Scatter - One half of glitterbeat duo Hook & The Twin this man is coming in from the unknown to spice up the proceedings with his raffle style
QuWack (e) is inspired by Eastern European professors, Rave, Merzbow, cartoon audio collage, Italian futurism, aristocratic outcasts, low end Hip Hop theory, Top Of The Pops, Guardian supplements, Japanese street technology, plastic in parks, Laurie Anderson, thunderous storms, ‘Mad’ Mike Banks, inharmonics, John Carpenter, B-movies, post Cold War divisions, Chris Morris, generative music, neon lights, People Like Us, Dr Who, e-politic, Joe Meek, Tomorrow's World, Pierre Shaffer and Timbaland.
QuWack (e) is supported by the PRS Foundation for New Music's 'Live Connections' scheme.