Artists

Lepke B
 (UK/DE)
Disturbing yet undisturbed,  Lepke B, lo-fi maverick now excellent renegade , finds the sounds of yesterday focused through the lens of 21st century banality, and creates a quantum portal into Jive Bunny Land.

 

Daniel Bauert w/ Samet Sengül (CH)
Daniel Bauert (b. 1980) and Samet Sengül (b. 1979) met for the first time in kindergarten. In the mid 90′s, they both started seperatly experimenting with computers and electronic music. By the end of 90′ their ways crossed again, and they decided to share a music studio. A moist room without daylight and just enough air to breath was the place to stay for the next few years. Their work resultet in radio shows, experimental concerts and dance music live acts.

Dolores Flores (a.i.p. artists in progress) (USA/DE)

Dolores Flores is an American interdisiciplinary artist, who works and lives in Berlin. She works in diverse media: musical audio visual room installation, vocal performance, poetry, video, sculpture and music. Her musical work ranges from spoken word to minimal hypnotic sound scape compositions to lyrical, melodic songs where the texts are sung in both languages English and German. Exploring issues of consciousness, personal space and the transiency of life cycle. Narrative, poetic, contemplative, the room installations are based on a parallel level of personal reception, where music is an essential component. Past projects include diverse solo and group exhibitions, vocal performances and in collaboration with Marius D. Kettler various live performances with the music project ART kustik. For the festival, Dolores Flores will perform live in the installation “zero control“, a vocal guitar intervention.
http://www.aip-info.com/

Christopher Fröhlich (DE)
For ten years, Christopher Fröhlich has been working with and studied Sound Art at UdK Berlin (Universität der Kunste). The artist is influenced by ‘musique concréte’ and ‘fluxus’. Using real sounds from everything from his appartment and the outside world, Fröhlich transform them and gives them a structure, a pattern. He records a part of those manipulated sounds on a cassette-tape and uses them in his performances. Using the modular-systems of Clavia, he also creates his own sound worlds. Fröhlich is more intrigued by the full analog and not as much the exact sound of records. In his performances every single concert is unique.

Jari Haanperä (FI)

Jari Haanperä is media-artist, director and light and sound designer. All his works are about light, sound and moving images. Haanperä’s interest is analog technology but he also uses digital technique. He is interested in early 20th century technology romanticism/mysticism as well as technical phenomenans of our time. He uses whole scale of moving image from pre-cinematic methods to videos and 35 mm fiction films. He fades the line between dream and reality and observes surrounding world in that light. In his installations Haanperä combines second hand low-tech and pre-cinematic methods with electric light, acoustic-electronic and digital sounds, motorized motion, optics and objects. For each installation he builds technical equipments that are not just objects but the center of the work in which motion and images are born. His installations are moving images alive without of film.

Heikki (Hepa) Halme (FI)

Hepa Halme has worked as a freelancer musician, composer, producer and organiser since the late 1970′s. His career spans a wide variety of musical contexts and situations. His experience in theatre, modern dance, performance, multimedia, electronic & computer music and sound art, European classical forms, free improvisation, dance floor jazz, rock ‘n’ roll is evident Halme’s sound world, where improvisation meets sophisticated compositional structures, hi-tech and lo-fi walk hand in hand. Since the beginning of the millenium Halme has released two albums on his own. He is specialized in utilizing his many woodwind -instruments in fresh and exceptional combinations, appearing as a one-man virtual woodwind ensemble. In addition to composing and producing he is leading his own band Halme Prospekt.

 Karl Marx Stadt (DE)

Karl Marx Stadt is electronic music artist Christian Gierden (b. 1978) working mostly in the field of heavy, fast & complicated but cheesy dance music. Overwhelmingly emotional melodies, radiant spacey atmospheres, intricate but strong rhythmic structures make for a rewarding listener’s experience. After slowly stepping back from the late 90′s mostly sample based hardcore project Society Suckers, recent years have spawned a love for analogue techniques, dub and stronger emphasis on melodic elements. Live shows can be an amusing blend of hyperenergetic Rave mixing and carefully paced Dubbing sessions incorporating circuitbending, synthesizers, childrens toys and of course, the universe. His new album Karl Marx Stadt III is to be released on September the 9th 2011 on Istari Lasterfahrer’s Sozialistischer Plattenbau.

Marius D. Kettler (a.i.p. artists in progress) (DE)  

Marius D. Kettler is a sound and video artist, composer and painter, who lives and works in Berlin. His sound installations vary from electromagnetic, interactive, mechanical hybrid installations to multichannel sound compositions, utilizing electro acoustic audio material, processed digital media, mechanical sounds, electro noise, instruments and field recordings. Kettler works thematically experimenting with spacial environments, artificial or natural. Visual and acoustic space collaborate with minimal aesthetics, researching the physical aspect of sound, acoustic transparency and site specific sound transmission. Investigating the boundries of sound where sensory characteristics, memory and association influence the perceptive moment. Past projects have included diverse solo and group exhibitions, production of conceptual music compositions for performers in exhibition context, collaboration with various artists, radio and video productions, and diverse live performances with the music project ART kustik in collaboration with Dolores Flores. For the festival, Marius D. Kettler will be presenting the active – interactive room installation: “Exceptance and Expectation“.
http://www.aip-info.com/

Teemu Korpipää (FI)

Teemu Korpipää has worked as a musician, recording engineer, sound designer and live mixer for numerous projects ranging from experimental and electronic to etchnic music and free music. lately he has been playing and developing live sampling-systems for interactive improvisation and composition.

 Kaspar König (NL)
Kaspar König is an independent artist with a focus on “conceptual and contextual” and with a degree in Industrial Design from the Berlin UdK. He moves in between sustainable design, sound & performance. He creates real inventions with recycling and re-use and transfers it into workshops & exhibtions and installations. He is initiator of the “artspace rondeel” and non-profit organisation “stichting de vier koningen” to catalyze culture in his context. Visit www.kasparkoenig.com for more information.

Mikko Maasalo (FI)

Mikko Maasalo (b. 1963) works with light, sound, moving image, paintings, objects and situations created with them.

Helge Meyer

Helge Meyer is an experimental electronic musician from Hamburg, Germany. Using a varying array of analogue Synthesizers and Boutique Pedals he tries to articulate his relations to musical subgenres such as Drone, Ambient or Noise. Since 2009 he presented his improvisations in a number of concerts and came to share a stage with people like Preslav Literary School, Pete Um, Romano Krzych and Felix Kubin.
http://soundcloud.com/helgemeyer

Mimosa Pale (FI/DE)

Sculptor and performance artist. Lives and works in Berlin and Pori. Mimosa Pale (b. 1980) studied art in Birmingham, Helsinki and Paris. Her artwork is a synthesis of sculpture and performance art. In her often interactive work humour, lust and celebration lead to carnivalesque staging. She likes to switch contexts being it museum, theatre, street or church. She acts in cabaret shows with her singing saw, creates haute-couture for everybody and makes fashion-shows in her Berlin flat. Mimosa Pale has visited various international performance art festivals and is running a hat shop HIMO in Berlin. In the performance Pimputin Mimosa Pale presents her self built instrument, which needs the body in order to sound.

Antti Pussinen (FI)
Antti Pussinen (b. 1984) is interested in the city as a network of dynamic communities shaping their inhabitants’ visual, audio, non-material and physical environments. He sees the city as a result of human communality. Nonetheless, the individuals’ opportunities to influence their own urban environment are limited. Bureaucracy keeps in motion concentric circles of decision-making and it is hard to know where to jump in. The superficially unsurprising nature of the urban environment creates the feeling of an eternally secure everyday existence, while making its inhabitants fear other change and divergence. Since temporary advertising campaigns are almost the only changing factor in the urban landscape, the inhabitants are made to remain consumers and unpredictable development is prevented. Through his work as an artist Pussinen seeks to empower people to experience their own opportunities and responsibility in creating and shaping their environments.

Michael Rabuske (DE)

Michael Rabuske is a musician and multi-instrumentalist. “Bassklarinette, Bassquerflöte, Querflöte, Klarinette, Saxophone, Gitarren, Bass, Klavier, Recorder, Perkussion und Didjeridoo” and much more. For 25 years Rabuske has played music ranging between various instrumentats and styles. He loves to improvise and communicate with music. He plays and teaches music with people form the age of 18 months up to the age of 75 years. He plays, runs and organises the exploratorium-berlin meetings and strives to connect artists and people – regardless of where they come from.

Pekka Sassi (FI)
Pekka Sassi (b. 1969) is a Helsinki-based artist whose output consists of experimental sound and video works, many of which are purely sound pieces and audio installations. Sassi’s works are characterised by creative integration of simple, and sometimes random, audial and visual worlds detected in the surrounding world. Described as a wide-ranging, yet uncompromising, artist. His works have been presented at several domestic and foreign festivals and he was awarded the annual AVEK Prize for audio-visual art in 2006. Beast film in European Media Art Festival, Osnabrücke 2010.

Jone Takamäki (FI)

Jone Takamäki (b. 1955) is a musician/sound-design and teacher/improviser from Finland. Instruments: Japanese shakuhachi and hocchiku flutes, Tsugaru shamisen, Koto, Tenor, alto and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet, Turkish metal clarinet, guqin, ocarina, Turkish neys, Egyptian neys, egyptian kaval, quray, futujara overtone flute, mey, ocean harp, oud, sintir, khaen, EWI, didgeridoo, balinese suling, bass bansuri, numerous other wooden flutes, Tuvanese throat singing, electronic instruments (devices), sitra, plastic toy instruments, percussion, Japanese nohkan flute, berimbau, bendir, doumbek, yaqui wind flute, etc..voice..breath..pulse….

Aldo Vio (IT)
Aldo Vio (b. 1972) has studied musical expression in Venice and in several other locations in Italy and abroad. Throughout his life he has met and absorbed the diagonals, tangents and paraboles – and other unforseen guidelines, that have brought him to his current sound state of mind. In his performance, the artist will show the development of his abilities in front of an audience, together with other more or less known artists. Be it what may, Aldo Vio will always perform with a tube in his mouth.

Also with:
Noelle-Anne Darbellay (CH)
Dominik Eggermann (CH)
Matze Schmitt (DE)
Samuel Stoll (CH)
Lucio Lo Gatto (IT)

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