Performances > MAO > Hall

Deco 4: Transformer di Roboter + Video: Arno Coenen
(Deco. Klangkrieg, WMF rec., DE/NL)
Jason Forrest/ Donnasummer
(Sonig, Irritant, US)
Every Kid on Speed + Massaccesi
(Acid Fake, Retinascan, Phthalo, MK/US)
8 BIT
(Novosibirsk, RU)
Solar X
(Art-tek, Worm Interface, Hymen, Defective, RU)
Mumbleboy
Video (US)

The world is an archive. Chop it up and swirl the bits around and you can come up with some exciting results. This evening demonstrates what we'll be missing, if the copyright industries' wet dreams become bitter reality. It starts with part four of the Deco series featuring Berlin based Transormer di Roboter in collaboration with dutch video artist Arno Coenen: Already existing hits are altered, modulated, turned upside down and put into a complete new soundshape to become weired and catchy tracks, which show what this hit thing is really all about. Jason Forrest/ Donnasummer's musical high-speed collages don't give a damn about sample clearance. He masterly mixes poses from maestro on acid through to drunken autistic rocker. 8 Bit from Novosibirisk - appearing for the first time in Europe - are also characterised by a healthy disrespect regarding their musical piracy: Dub and Reggae classics are mixed with high-frequency childhood melodies and Japanese vocals. In between lies the territory haunted by Every Kid on Speed, from Macedonia, and Massacessi: using granular-synthesis terror, lap-top frizzle and atmospheric speech-snippets, they create their own cut-up universe. Musical counter-part is provided by Muscovite Solar X, who launches warm melodic clouds into the orbit in post-warp plucker style. Permanently new juxtaposition of minimal image sequences is central also to Flash animations by Mumbleboy. In his image flow, the motifs dissociate in a strangely artificial way and then re-configure in surreal scenes.