ARCHIVE (2007):

ZAM@MusikTriennale:
computer.music.instrument

computer.music.instrument (c.m.i) was a three-day festival dedicated to the use of the computer as a musical instrument in live performance.

Concept & Organisation: Marion Wörle, Maciej Sledziecki und Thomas Gläßer
Promoter: MusikTriennale Köln 2007

Thursday,May 17th 2007

WORKSHOP:
10-17h /// LOFT

with Bob Ostertag
Composer, improvisor, and sampling legend Bob Ostertag (s.a. Friday, May 18th) will discuss works by students of both Cologne´s Music Academy and its Academy of Media Arts in a public master class. Admission is free.
www.bobostertag.com

LECTURE DEMONSTRATION:
16h /// Stadtgarten

mit Ekkehard Ehlers, Martin Parker and Lawrence Casserley
Before their evening concerts at 9pm, Ekkehard Ehlers, Lawrence Casserley and Martin Parker explain their artistic and technical approaches.
www.tinpark.com

CONCERT:
21h /// Stadtgarten

Ekkehard Ehlers, laptop
Many of Ehlers works are based on the transfer and transformation of archive material, from pop, field, film, or symphonic, into pieces of new, digital sound art.

Lawrence Casserley, signal processing instrument
Martin Parker, laptop, interfaces
Both hard- and software developers as well as trained instrumentalists, Lawrence Casserley and Martin Parker are cuttinmg-edge experts for live-electronics. Instead of the usual computer versus instrument live-electronic set-up, this concert will confront computer with computer.
www.tinpark.com

Friday,May 18th 2007

LECTURE DEMONSTRATION: 16h /// Stadtgarten

mit Bob Ostertag and Sven Hahne
Before their evening concerts at 9pm, Bob Ostertag and Sven Hahne explain their artistic and technical approaches.
www.bobostertag.com
www.zeitkunst.eu/frischzelle

OPEN ZAM-LAB:
17-19h /// Klanglabor der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln

mit Martin Brandlmayr, drums
Andrew Sharpley, cut-up/electronics
Hannes Hölzl, computer
Josef Suchy, electric guitar
Over the course of three days of experiment, exchange and rehearsal, the four musicians develop a concert performance on the blurring edges of computer/instrument, acoustic/electronic and analogue/digital (s.a. Sa., 19th May, 22 pm).The lab is open to public on Friday, 17.05. between 17-19h and on Saturday between 12-14h..
www.earweego.net
www.radian.at
www.polwechsel.com

CONCERT:
21h /// Stadtgarten

Sven Hahne, computer, live sampling
Xu Fengxia, guzheng
Deeply rooted in the traditional Chinese music she was socialized with and trained in, Xu Fengxia´s approach to improvisation has long since soaked up and incorporated a multiplicity of sounds and stilistic influences. On this night, she will premier in a duo with Cologne´s own Sven Hahne, who comes from an electronic music background and is now utilizing modern media technology in his live performance.
www.xufengxia-music.de
www.zeitkunst.eu/frischzelle

Bob Ostertag, computer, gamepads: „Special Forces“
"Special Forces" which premiered as a Living Cinema piece in Beirut/Lebanon this April, deals with the Israeli counterattacks on Lebanon last summer. All sounds are taken from computer games and are triggered by computer gamepads.
www.bobostertag.com

MIDNIGHT-LECTURE:
24h /// Stadtgarten

Bob Ostertag about "Art and Technology in the Age of Catastrophe"
As a composer, performer, political activist and Prof. of Technocultural Studies at Univ. of California/Davis, Bob Ostertag has tiome and again dealt with the aesthetic, social, political and ecological implications of computer technology .
www.bobostertag.com

Afterwards and in between DJ Louise Lambert on the turntables.

Saturday, May 19th 2007

OPEN ZAM-LAB: 12-14h /// Klanglabor der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln

mit Martin Brandlmayr, Schlagzeug
Andrew Sharpley, cut-up/electronics
Hannes Hölzl, Computer
Josef Suchy, elektrische Gitarre
Over the course of three days of experiment, exchange and rehearsal, the four musicians develop a concert performance on the blurring edges of computer/instrument, acoustic/electronic and analogue/digital (s.a. Sa., 19th May, 22 pm).
www.earweego.net
www.radian.at
www.polwechsel.com

LECTURE DEMONSTRATION:
16h /// Stadtgarten

mit DJ Sniff und Yutaka Makino
Before their evening concert at 9pm, DJ Sniff and Yukata Makino from Japan explain the artistic and technical approaches.
http://audile.org/

CONCERT IN THE PARK:
17h /// Stadtgartenpark, Venloerstr.40, 50672 Köln

Michel Waisvisz, electronic, interfaces
Paul Hubweber, trombone
John Edwards, doublebass
Ecstatic electronic improvisations, noise-trombone and an exceptional improv-bassist in dialogue with the acoustic ambience of Stadtgarten-Park.
http://crackle.org/

CONCERT:
21h /// Stadtgarten, Venloerstr.40, 50672 Köln

Audile:
Yutaka Makino, Laptop
Takuro Mizuta Lippit (dj sniff), Turntables
Two virtuosos from Japan utilize their own soft- and hardware in exploring the expressive potential of turntables and computer in live improvisations.
http://audile.org/

ZAM-LAB presentation:
Joseph Suchy: electric guitar
Martin Brandlmayr : drums, computer
Andrew Sharpley: cut-up, electronic
Hannes Hölzl: computer
Four musicians blurring the edges between instrument/computer, acoustic/electronic, analogue/digital.
www.earweego.net
www.radian.at
www.polwechsel.com

MIDNIGHT-LECTURE: 24h /// Stadtgarten, Venloerstr.40, 50672 Köln

Michel Waisvisz on "gestic/interfaces"
"If you don't open it, you don't own it" - Waisvisz, interface innovator and director of the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) in Amsterdam, encourages artists to develop and modify their electronic devices, to free their work from the limitations of serial hard- and software designs.

Afterwards and in between DJ Tomek Wozniakowski - "RICHTIG POLEN" - early electronic music from Poland
http://crackle.org/