[Spectre] Digicult Screen Music Program

[Redazione Digicult]

Digicult productions presents:

///SCREEN MUSIC PROGRAM
http://www.digicult.it/En/2006/ScreenMusic.asp

Festival della Creatività
November, 30th - December, 3rd 2006
Fortezza da Basso - Teatrino Lorenese
Florence

Free Entrance

Audio/Video Livesets: Sleeparchive, Otto Von Shirack, Errorsmith, Alex 
Dragulescu, Motomichi Nakamura, Otolab, Kinotek, Boris&Brecht Debackere, 
Bern, Autobam/Tibor Fabian, Scary Grant, Micromusic 8 bit closing party

Screenings: Visual Music program (Semiconductor, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Reline 2, 
Tez, Karl Kliem, Meta, Jeffers Egan, Montevideo, Argos), Next Vision program 
(SUE.C, Agf, Matmos, Scanner, City Pulse, One Minute Suite, Clip Art, 
N.Est), Zerofeedback

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Screen Music is an idea of Gianni De Simone and is curated by Marco Mancuso, 
the creator and director of Digicult (www.digicult.it), with the precious 
collaboration of Andrea Mi, director of Videominuto (www.videominuto.it) and 
Federica Linke from Basebog (www.basebog.it)

Screen Music is part of the programme of the Festival della Creatività 
(Creativity Festival) , a new and innovating public performance promoted by 
Region Tuscany to affirm its role of "knot" in the net of global creativity, 
a "pop" event with a "high profile" communication that has the declared goal 
of becoming an interactive show window for the excellences of the different 
creativity fields, of innovation and of research.

In contemporary experimentation within new multimedia areas, artists invited 
to present their recent video productions and to realize live shows inside 
the marvellous location of Teatrino Lorenese della Fortezza da Basso in 
Florence , represent in different ways perfect examples of what today is 
said to be considered the most advances electronic research.


///LIVE PERFORMANCES:

Music, video, audiovisual synaesthesis, spirit of research, improvisation, 
design; elements that are present in each of the projects showed in Screen 
Music in an emotive crescendo starting from glitch and algid audio-video 
experimentations realized by artists such as the Italian project IDNLNY of 
the duo Autobam/Eclat, the Belgian electronic brothers Boris & Brecht 
Debackere with their incredible performance Rotor and the electronic 
audiovisual experimentation group from Milan Otolab who will present the new 
project Op7 developed on the subject of The Seven Heavenly Palaces of the 
artist Anselm Kiefer, following in the chaotic and absolutely live sound 
stream of real geniuses such as Errorsmith , the American experimenter Otto 
Von Shirak , and the new phenomenon of minimal techno, the German 
Sleeparchive .

Finally, the rhythmic compulsions of djs and experimenters of electronic 
beat such as the wholly Italian new project Scary Grant (ex Eclat) , the 
French dj of the moment Bern and the crazy group of 8bit micromusic in 
Micromusic Closing A/V party (music realized with the old Atari by Stu and 
Schmx, and videos realized with an old style Amiga by Otro).

The vj sets of some of the best national and international talented artists 
will accompany the performances of all the musicians : designers and 
video-artists who will build instantly the perfect scenarios, perfect to go 
with the widespread sounds of the Teatrino Lorenese. The renowned project 
Kinotek of Mattia Casalegno , the Japanese genius Motomichi Nakamura and the 
Romanian Alex Dragulescu , will know how to combine live the visual demands 
which is the central element of this kind of events with the spirit of 
improvisation and technique, which has changed the vjing from background 
element of the early days to major pawn of the present area of the media
performances.


///SCREENINGS:

A rich programme of projections with the video works of some of the 
international major figures of the contemporary digital creativity will open 
each of the three days of the festival.

- Visual Music is an exhibition managed by Mancuso for Digicult and 
requested by Festival Dissonanze 2006 , organized as an articulated path of 
utilization of the spontaneous and relentless analysis process which has 
characterized the audio-visual research of the last years, involving artists 
and projects which are part of performative which seem more fit to take our 
feelings towards the probable aesthetics of tomorrow. The monograph area 
regards artists like Karl Kliem, Semiconductor, Ryoichi Kurokawa and Jeffers 
Egan, which are considered essential for the development of the most updated 
digital aesthetics, while programmes as Montevideo, Argos and Reline 2 
Project represent many of the collaborations between musicians and visual 
designers from which we must expect the most advanced hypothesis of the 
audio-visual culture.

- Next Vision is a programme realized by Andrea Mi for the XIV edition of 
Videominuto as a combination of research and experimentation in different 
areas of electronic production: the poetic shots of SUE.C accompanied by the 
music of AGF , the Slomo videos of Matmos and Scanner which play with the 
concept of slowed down time, musical videoclip of the programme ClipArt , 
and the audio-video jams of One Minute Suite , and the Chilean urban 
symphonies of City Pulse and the Parthenopean ones of N.est .

Zerofeedback is a total preview of Screen Music dedicated to the first of 
the homonymous net-label, developed as a collection of audio-visual projects 
on DVD, realized in cooperation with the Japanese label Dejine-rec regarding 
the idea of social networks with Italian artists (among others Progetto 
Antenna, Besegher, Influx) and musicians (from Japan, England and the United
States) part of the community of Myspace.


///PROGRAMME:

- THURSDAY 30th November 2006

19.00 - 20.30:
Videoscreenings:
Visual Music Program - Monografie: Tez, Jeffers Egan - 60'
Next Vision - AGF+Sue.C (Ger) / Clip Art / One Minute Suite #4 - 30'

23.00 - 00.00:
Audovideo performance:
Autobam/Elec- Italy (IDNLNY)

00.00 - 01.00:
Live set + Video set
Errorsmith (Germany) + Kinotek (Italy)

01.00 - 02.30:
Dj set + Vj set
Bern (France) + Kinotek (Italy)

- FRIDAY 1st December 2006

19.00 - 20.30:
Videoscreenings:
Visual Music Program - Monografie: Karl Kliem, Semiconductor - 60'
Next Vision - The Next Big Idea (Usa) / Slo-Mo (USA) - 30'

23.00 - 00.00
Audiovideo performance:
Boris&Brecht Debackere - Belgium (ROTOR)

00.00 - 01.00
Live set + Video set
Otto Von Schirack (Usa) + Motomichi Nakamura (Usa/Japan)

01.00 - 02.30
Dj set + Vj set
Scary Grant (Italia) + Motomichi Nakamura (Usa/Japan)

- SATURDAY 2nd December 2006

23.00 - 00.00
Audiovideo performance
Otolab - Italy (op7)

00.00 - 01.00
Live set + Vj set
Sleeparchive (Germany) + Alex Dragulescu (Usa/Romania)

01.00 - 02.30
Micromusic Closing 8 Bit Party
Stu + Schmx + Tonylight + Otro - Switzerland/France/Italy

- SUNDAY 3rd December 2006

18.00 - 22.00
Videoscreenings:
Visual Music Program - Monografie: Reline 2 project, Ryoichi Kurokawa,
Meta.am - 90'
Visual Music Program - Montevideo Program / Argos program - 50'
Next Vision - City Pulse (Chile) / N.est (Ita) - 40'
Zerofeedback (Ita/UK/Jap/USA) - 50'

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Marco Mancuso
Journalist, critic, curator
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Label electronic music editor
Mixed Meda festival curator
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