[spectre] FCMM - PERFORMANCE PROGRAM

[Natalie Melançon]

PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF NEW CINEMA AND NEW MEDIA (FCMM)
OCTOBER 11-21, 2001 / www.fcmm.com

As a film festival, the FCMM has been at the forefront of the revolution in
motion pictures and sound for some thirty years. This year, the New Media
section returns to celebrate its fifth anniversary and to once again tackle
new forms of artistic expression in the realm of digital culture. 

The Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal will showcase an international
selection of performance pieces characterized by the creative, innovative
and significant use of moving images, digital image and sound processing.
The Media Lounge, installed at SAT for its fifth edition, will host a
selection of audio-visual projects and electronic music artists,
demonstrating the vitality of digital culture.  

In all, there will be over 50 artists from 10 nationalities contributing
directly to the festive spirit of this 30th anniversary which, once again,
promises to be an event not to be missed.

Partial list of artists involved:
Anti-Pop Consortium (US), kid606 (US), Jetone (Canada), The Wire
Sound-System (UK),  Richard Devine (US), Phoenecia (US), Venetian Snares
(CA), Rechenzentrum (Germany), T. Raumschmiere (Germany), Fairmont
(Canada), Safety Scissors (US), Sutekh (US), Twerk (US),  Matthias Gmachl
(A), Martin Ng (AUS), Christian Fennesz (Austria), Hazard (Sweden), Phill
Niblock (US), Jon Wozencroft (UK), Markus Nikolai (Germany), Hakan Libdo
(Sweden), Felix Kubin (Germany), Herri Kopter (CA), Eboman (NL), DHS (US),
[The User] (CA), Zbigniew Karkowski (Sweden/Poland), Edwin van der Heide
(NL), Kurt Ralske (US), Lukasz Lysakowski (Poland), Deadbeat  (CA), Bob
Ostertag (US)

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DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS
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Friday October 12th / Media Lounge @ SAT / 9PM - 25.50$  

MEDIA LOUNGE OPENING NIGHT
*Eboman (Netherlands), Dimensional Holofonic Sound (US), Philip Sherburne -
DJ (US)

For the opening of the Media Lounge, we have concocted an exciting program
for your eyes and ears. First up is Eboman, a one-man multimedia orchestra
who playfully and spectacularly manipulates a wide range of sounds and
images. And then there is DHS, who perpetuates the tradition of
audio-visual scratching in the way of EBN and Coldcut - a distinctive
hybrid blend of dubby breakbeat.

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Saturday October 13th / Contemporary Arts Museum / 4PM & 9PM - 17$  

GAMEBOY POCKETNOISE 
*Christoph Kummerer (Austria)
Performance using POCKETNOISE, an experimental audio generating software
especially written to transform a Nintendo Gameboy cartridge into an
experimental music unit

SYMPHONY #2 FOR DOT MATRIX PRINTERS 
*[The User] (Canada)
A project in which the Montreal duo recycles obsolete technology in a
playful manner

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Saturday October 13th / Media Lounge @ SAT  / 10PM - 17$  

UNDERGROUND PERSISTENCE ( Presented in collaboration with The Wire)
*Anti-Pop Consortium (US), kid606 (US), Jetone (Canada), The Wire
Sound-System (UK), miau-miau.com + wildlifeanalysis.org - VJs

This night of sonic confusion and digital dyslexia promises a liberal dose
of hardcore techno, indie-punk, noise-rock, heavy metal, black poetry and
hip-hop with Bay Area's very own laptop punk beatmaster whizz, kid606, and
New York underground conspirators Anti-Pop Consortium.

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Sunday October 14th / Contemporary Arts Museum / 4PM & 9PM - 8.50$  

THE DRIVER MUST BE A MADMAN
*Eboman (Netherlands)
The art of storytelling as interpreted by Eboman, with digitally processed
audio-visual samples displayed in a non-linear fashion on 3 screens,
reinforcing the sense of immersion created by the viewing experience

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Sunday October 14th / Media Lounge @ SAT  / 10PM - 17$  

BLENDER BEATS (Presented in collaboration with Brave New Waves)
*Richard Devine (US), Phoenecia (US), Venetian Snares (Canada) 

An uncompromised journey through deconstructed and abstract forms of
electronica.  With representatives of the Schematic/Warp (Devine and
Phoenecia) and Planet Mu labels.

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Monday October 15th / Contemporary Arts Museum & Media Lounge / 9PM - 8.50$


NET_OSC REMIX
*Sensorband (Poland - Sweden - Netherlands - Japan)
NetOsc is the software instrument used by the Sensorband trio in network
performances. In this performance, Zbigniew Karkowski will perform at the
Media Lounge, Edwin van der Heide at the MACM, while Atau Tanaka will be
joining from Europe. The actions of the players are relayed via the
Internet to a server and dispatched to each remote space where they are
translated into sound and image.

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Monday October 15th / Media Lounge @ SAT  / 11PM - 8.50$ 

NIGHTCAP
*Felix Kubin (Germany), Herri Kopter (Canada)

Described as "A Devil in Gods Clothes", Felix Kubin is simultaneously
artist and master of ceremonies of a kitsch musical universe. His shows
with synthesizers, organs, and sometimes a plastic skull, are explorations
in a genre that could be termed Electronic Psycho Sci Fi Pop!

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Tuesday October 16th / Contemporary Arts Museum / 9PM - 8.50$  

A NATION OF NNs
*242.pilots (Norway - Poland - US), Deadbeat/guest musician (Canada)
Video-sound performance by the live video improvisation ensemble
242.Pilots, a trio composed of HC Gilje, Lukasz Lysakowski and Kurt Ralske.
Utilizing their own custom software created with the controversial
nato.0+55 programming environment, the trio expressively improvise rich,
layered video works in real-time, as soloists, in duets and as a trio 

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Tuesday October 16th / Media Lounge @ SAT  / 11PM - 8.50$  

NIGHTCAP
*Markus Nikolai (Germany) 
The return of the "hombre ojo", co-founder of the Perlon label with which
he scans the margins of electronic music, brewing his own blend of minimal
and playful house.

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Wednesday October 17th / Contemporary Arts Museum / 9PM - 8.50$  

RE_WORKS
*Steina Vasulka (US)
Steina Vasulka takes on the invitation of FCMM and will treat the audience
to elements of her work which range from installation to performance. The
proposed trajectory will comprise among others of the screening of three of
her three channels video recordings, as well as an interactive segment
featuring video works edited in real-time with the Imagine/ine software.

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Wednesday October 17th / Media Lounge @ SAT  / 11PM - 8.50$  

NIGHTCAP
*Hakan Libdo (Sweden)
First visit to Montreal for this highly anticipated Swedish producer -
prolific, eclectic, refined and entertaining. As he puts it himself, his
music is "structured, intelligent, serious and funky "

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Thursday October 18th / Contemporary Arts Museum / 9PM - 8.50$  

SOLLBRUCHSTELLE \sol* bruc-h" shtelle\ n.
*Gcttcatt + Soda (Austria - Australia - UK) 
Notably involving Matthias Gmachl - one of the members of Farmers Manual -
and Martin NG, this performance orchestrates multiple channels of
live-visuals and live-audio within a technical background that allows the
capture of a whole event in its complexity onto the most unexplored digital
media, the DVD

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Thursday October 18th / Media Lounge @ SAT  / 10PM - 17$  

DIGITAL VISIONS OF NATURAL WORLDS
*Christian Fennesz (Austria), Hazard (Sweden), Phill Niblock (US), Jon
Wozencroft (UK)

Presented by TOUCH, the audio-visual label that for over two decades has
worked with some of the most influential contemporary artists, this evening
promises an unforgettable experience of the sensual possibilities of live
performance. With Fennesz, a radical explorer of complex digital music,
Phill Niblock, New York-based composer and intermedia musician - an
underrated pioneer of the minimalist genre - and Hazard, a young composer
inspired by extreme weather conditions and its effect on humans

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Friday October 19th / Contemporary Arts Museum / 9PM - 8.50$  

BETWEEN SCIENCE AND GARBAGE
*Pierre Hebert (Canada), Bob Ostertag (US)
In this collaborative performance, experimental filmmaker Hebert draws and
scans images to make impromptu digital animations, while Ostertag composes
a soundscape through the manipulation of samples. Together, they combine
trash and technology to create a commentary on our disposable culture
 
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Friday October 19th / Media Lounge @ SAT  / 10PM - 17$  

LE FILM EST DEJA COMMENCE?
*Rechenzentrum (Germany), T. Raumschmiere (Germany), Fairmont (Canada)

After the last MUTEK, Rechenzentrum return to Montreal by special
invitation of the FCMM to perform a live remix of Maurice Lemaitre's
masterpiece of 'lettriste' cinema, "Le film est deja commence?", produced
in 1957. Joined by Berlin compatriot Marco Haas (Shitkatapult, Kompakt) and
the Toronto producer Jacob Fairley (Dumb-Unit), Rechenzentrum will also
play their most recent compositions of challenging electronic music

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Saturday October 20th / Contemporary Arts Museum / 3PM - 8.50$  

TIME, ENERGY AND CODE
*Woody Vasulka (US)
Woody Vasulka explores the way in which electro-mechanical machines contain
the principles of time/energy and code, presenting tools and images from
his rich archive.

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Saturday October 20th / Media Lounge @ SAT  / 9PM - 25.50$  

SAN FRANCISCO NIGHT (Presented in collaboration with XLR8R)
* Safety Scissors (US), Sutekh (US), Twerk (US), *Seed ( ) (US)

This evening promises to be an experience of total digital immersion.
Controlled by Seed ( ) - David Robert and David Tinnapple-, the
multi-screen set-up at the Media Lounge will be transformed into a complex
audiovisual installation. The system will run autonomously for a period of
time before introducing the musicians who will progressively bring the
evening from a quiet, experimental beginning to a festive crescendo.  

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Sunday October 21th / Contemporary Arts Museum / 4PM & 9PM - 17.00$  

WETFISH vs METROPOLIS
*Wetfish (Canada)
Electronic duo Wetfish bring you Fritz Lang's Metropolis as you've never
seen and heard it before. The original editing has been digitally
re-organised and manipulated. This new work  feature Wetfish original score
performed live withelectronics, cello, percussions and throat singing.