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club transmediale.03
[PLAY GLOBAL !]
January 31th - February 8th, 2003
Maria am Ufer
Berlin
23/01/03
Sadly bad news don´t stay away forever: unfortunately SLOAR X, electronica wizard from Moscow will not make it to Berlin because of unsolvable visa-problems. He will not be able to perform on Jan 31 as announced. sorry ...
13/01/03
[PROGRESS]
the trieste-vladivostok ctm.03 line
The CD compilation produced by the Slowenian rx:tx label on the occasion of club transmediale.03´s [GO EAST] programme is now on sale. It will be available during the festival days. Read more ...
13/01/03
[FROM GDANSK TILL DAWN]
This is the title of a new CD compilation with contemporary experimental music from eastern europe - compiled by club transmediale.03 participant Susanna Niedermayr and her colleague Christian Scheib. More information and mail order:
> mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/lmj/
[ALT + F4]
The people of the Polish Polycephal label, participants at the festival] startet a new initiative as a response to club transmediale´s [GO EAST] programme and the Austrian line_in:line_out project, founded by Susanna Niedermayr - the ALT + F4 festival in Warsaw. Find more information here.
[PODEWIL SOUND SERVICE]
In cooperation with club transmediale.03 the Podewil presents sound installations during the festival. Musicians, interdiscplinary artists and architects not only plumb the depths of sonic, visual or spatial sound art but also make use of available technologies worldwide in order to bring societal and social aspects into focus. Sound art will be discussed in relation to architecture, recycling, copyright, consumption and politics. The show features discussions, concerts and sound installations by Ultra Red (US), Random Ind. (DE), Kim Cascone (US), Polycephal (PL),Philip Samartzis (AU) and others. It includes a special programme on Australian sound art. Curated by Elke Moltrecht.
> www.podewil.de
03/01/03
Susanna Niedermayr and Christian Scheib, participants of this years [GO EAST!] special programme also sign responsible for a number of radio features on contemporary music production in Eastern European countries: "Musik der Gegenwart" on SFB- RadioKultur 92,4 MHz, always 22.00 - 23.00 - don´t miss !
Monday 27.01. - Poland
Tuesday 28.01. - Hungaria
Wednesday 29.01. - Slowenia
Thursday 30.01. - Croatia
Friday 31.01. - Slowakia
Some bad news: Joshua Clayton and Sue Costabile, who were scheduled to appear with their 'Interruption' performance and a lecture on the 'Jitter' software unfortunately had to be canceled.
09/12
[CTM.03 CD COMPILATION]
The CD compilation made possible in cooperation with THE WIRE magazine is in production now. It features a selection of finest tracks by CTM.03 participants Soulcenter, Thomas Fehlmann, Pan Sonic, Pole, T.Raumschmiere, Roger Rotor, Are Dee, Luciano, FS Blumm, Ekkehard Ehlers, Mapstation, Dimbiman, Fenin (rmx of Daniel Meteo), Jan Jelinek, Radboud Mens, Rechenzentrum, Otto von Schirach and Ralph Steinbrüchel. It will be given away free to THE WIRE subscribers with the february issue. So you better are...
26/11
[GO EAST CD-COMPILATION]
Thanks to an iniative and the personal commitment of the people of Slowenian RX:TX label based in Ljubljana, a full lenght audio CD-compilation will be released on the occasion of the GO EAST special programme. The CD will be compiled by RX:TX members MARKO PELJHAN and TOMAZ SUSTAR and feature music of the GO EAST participants. It will be published and distributed by RX:TX. RX:TX will also perform on sunday 2nd.
[PERVERSION FOR PROFIT]
Worldweirdest broken beat masters OTTO VON SCHIRACH and DINO FELIPE, both on Miami based Schematic label, are now confirmed to participate in a clash with russian sound-twisters KLUTCH and DJ SWOP. Don´t miss this insane summit on friday february 7th.
[STAR CHROME]
Slick and dirty. This programme will feature ultra-high synthetic stimulation - it takes up the RETRO FUTURISTS-theme of the last festival and boosts it on the next level with a combination of exquisite motion graphics and elektrofunk. Bunker Records related Creme Organisation are going to appear with a bunch of artists on the rise: chartbreakers MACHO CAT GARAGE featuring LEGOWELT, MR.CLAVIO and BANGKOK IMPAKT - The perfect soundtrack for ARNO COENEN`s ironic videoworks and his sexual obsessive 3D-modeled lego/playmobile type dolls. More on the minimal side of the genre zhe sound of chilean musicians SIEG ÜBER DIE SONNE (t.b.c.) and LUCIANO will be illustrated by the visual work of FRANCOIS CHALET, best known for his famous MTV-Alarm spot. Last but not least MISS KITTIN will dash the dot over the i.
06/11
CTM.03 is going to cooperate with the SWISS MUSIC EXPORT foundation, which will give its support to present a bunch of cutting edge audio and visual artists from Switzerland. Among them will be famous graphic designers BUREAU DESTRUCT, RALPH STEINBRÜCHEL, ARE DEE and LUCIANO and lot more to be announced soon
02/11
THE WIRE magazine will be media sponsor for CTM.03. A CTM.03 CD compilation with exclusive contributions from 2003 participants will be included with THE WIRE's February issue for subscribers. The CD will also be available during festival events. Watch out.
30/10
[SPATIAL SOUND]
MARIJE BAALMAN and FOLKMAR HEIN, scientists researching at the Technische Universität Berlin, are going to present a new PA system - currently under development - to enable composers and musicians to distribute and localize sound events in a 3-dimensional matrix in real time, while performing.
RADIAN (Thrill Jockey) and MAPSTATION feat. M. Brandlmayr & Ras Donovan (Staubgold) are both confirmed to perform on Monday 03/02 together with EKKEHARD EHLERS (Mille Plateaux), and FS BLUMM (Staubgold).
28/10
A brief outline of elements of the CTM.03 programme as known at this time:
The opening event on 31/01 features the THOMAS MANN PROJEKT - a get together between THOMAS BRINKANN (Novamute), THOMAS FRANZMANN aka Dimbiman (Perlon) and THOMAS FEHLMANN (Kompakt), who will play his first live-set for years. Acts from the Slovenian TEHNIKA label and T.RAUMSCHMIERE (Shitkatapult) will join them.
JOSHUA KIT CLAYTON and SUE COSTABLE (Orthlong Musork) will present their interactive performance 'Interruption', created with the use of the new real time video software 'Jitter', which will also be explained by Kit in a special presentation.
[GLOBALPHONICS]
The programme features canadian plunderphonics godfather JOHN OSWALD presenting his new SPINVOLVER project and the first European appearance of NEGATIVLAND for more then 10 years: NEGATIVLAND : OUR FAVORITE THINGS - a presentation of a series of short videos in which NEGATIVLAND carries its love for found sounds and their critical and humorous re-use of mass culture over into the world of experimental movie making. MARK HOSLER, founding member of the famous musical activists, will be there in person to present the programme, with a Q and A to follow.
This presentation will be followed by audiovisual performances from PEOPLE LIKE US (UK), Berlin's cut-everything KEIN BABEL and Turkish madman SERHAT KOKSAL aka 2/5BZ, who will de- and reconstruct the output of the Turkish film industry from the 70's - a strange mixture of James Bond themes, martial arts and oriental tradition.
[DIS-LOCATE]
London's THE SPRAWL nucleus run by Douglas Benford aka SI-CUT.DB provides the context for this package featuring SCANNER, DAVID TOOP, TONNE and Benford himself.
24/10
club transmediale.03
[PLAY GLOBAL !]
January 31th - February 8th, 2003
Maria am Ufer
Berlin
Once more we're approaching an unmissable annual club event: club transmediale - taking place in conjunction with the transmediale festival for media arts - to be hosted this time by the newly relaunched club, Maria am Ufer, which recently reopened just 100 m away from its old venue. After a nomadic stroll that included locations like Haus des Lehrers (the venue for CTM in 2000) and the famous E-Werk in 2002, CTM now returns to where it all began, when in 1999 it was held for the first time at Maria am Ostbahnhof. This also means that CTM returns to a space already pre-defined as a club. But don't worry - it will still be as exciting as it can be - Maria won't look the same after having been prepared visually and acoustically for the grand opening of CTM03 on January 31'st 2003. Anyhow, this time some of the energy and resources that had to be invested into the venue's infrastructure in 2002 are set free to concentrate on the content and further enhancement of the programme.
The 2003 edition will present several new developments:
The discursive early evening programmes with screenings, panels and presentations will be extended.
For the first time CTM has a special programme - [GO EAST !] - where Eastern Europe's emerging electronica scenes will be featured.
The festival theme [PLAY GLOBAL !] provides the keywords for two panels which under the participation of artists, theorists, journalists and activicts will discuss a range of topics from strategies of a musical-political praxis to questioning local encodings of electronic music. The panels will be held at Maria am Ufer and at the transmediale conference in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
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