[spectre] N.K.: ELI KESZLER/ ARNAU SALA/ BILL KOULIGAS/ VALERIO TRICOLI & PHANTASMATA

[Manuela Benetton]

With apologies for cross-posting
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**April, 16th 2011 *
Doors 21, Concert 22
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N.K. *
Elsenstr. 52
2.Hinterhaus Etage 2
12059 Berlin Neukölln

*l’ull cec Presents: ELI KESZLER/ ARNAU SALA/ BILL KOULIGAS/ VALERIO TRICOLI
& PHANTASMATA
*
l’ull cec is an independent initiative promoting sound experimentation and
the exploration of musical form in every possible domain. Currently split
between Barcelona and Berlin, its activities revolve around the organisation
of live performances, workshops, talks and artistic residencies.

http://lullcec.org

*Eli Keszler* is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Providence, Rhode
Island. He studied composition at the New England conservatory and primarily
employs percussion, bowed crotales, guitar and his own invented instruments
to create a unique whirlwind of sound that balances sparse droning harmonics
with intense, fast and free rhythms. His releases on REL Records (Tilt,
Mills, Untitled), his own label, and on Rare Youth (Livingston) and ESP-DISK
(Oxtirn) combine instrumental virtuosity with dedicated compositional work
and an extensive sound palette, evoking comparisons to figures such as Han
Bennink, Giacinto Scelsi, Iancu Dumitrescu, Edgar Varèse or Iannis Xenakis.
He has received rave reviews from The Wire, Arthur, Boston Phoenix and
Volcanic Tongue and performed, recorded or collaborated with the likes of
Jandek, Phill Niblock, Roscoe Mitchell, Loren Connors, Anthony Coleman,
T-Model Ford, Aki Onda, David Linton, Steve Pyne, Geoff Mullen, Ashley Paul
and pianist Ran Blake.

http://elikeszler.com
http://myspace.com/elikeszler

*Arnau Sala* is a sound and visual artist based in Barcelona. As a drummer
and percussionist he has been part of projects such as the guitar/drums duo
Les Aus, Bèstia Ferida (joining forces with his long-collaborator Adrián de
Alfonso and trumpet player Marc Cunningham from NY no-wave band Mars) and
Homenatges. His first solo release, ASDC (2003), kickstarted his intuitive
use of no-input mixer, bent electronics and self-built analog synths which
would come to define his later solo work and slowly be incorporated in his
improvisational practice. As a soloist, he has collaborated live and in the
studio with artists like Lydia Lunch, Mark Cunningham, Takehisa Kosugi,
Mattin, Agustí Fernández, Pato, Ferran Fages, Pablo Rega, Eli Keszler, Pato
and Macromassa. He has released abundant material on international labels
such as Scumbag Relations, Lotus Birth, Senseless Empire and Deep Fried
Tapes, among others and including his own, Ozonokids. In 2009, he was one of
the selected musicians to take part in Merce Cunningham’s Dance Company
event at Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona.

http://arnausala.info
http://ozonokids.com

*Bill Kouligas* is a sound artist and designer, better known for his solo
project Family Battle Snake. He also runs the sound art label PAN with vinyl
editions of electronic and experimental artists. His music captures a
variety of different sounds and time periods filtered through an imaginary
urban soundscape. Emerging through a noise underground, ominous like a cloak
of whispers, he now floats on a plane ebbing and flowing between electronic
tape music and gluey entropicalia. With the use of analogue synth, tape
manipulation and electronics he employs warm drones and a musique concrete
approach through structured perspectives on a journey across time.
Bill has collaborated with the likes of C. Spencer Yeh, Destroy All
Monsters, Sudden Infant, John Olson (Wolf Eyes), Joseph Hammer (LAFMS), Ralf
Wehowsky/RLW, Chris Corsano, Damo Suzuki, Christian Weber, Anla Courtis,
Astro, MV Carbon, Pete Nolan (Magik Markers), Valerio Cosi, Birds of Delay
and Kouhei Matsunaga to name a few.

http://pan-act.com
http://myspace.com/familybattlesnake

*VALERIO TRICOLI/PHANTASMATA
*
Valerio Tricoli, revox b77, strobes
Phantasmata, circuits, lights, strobes.

Premiere collaboration between Valerio Tricoli and fellow italian sound and
visual artist Phantasmata. Tricoli’s live tape manipulation will meet the
intense light emissions and electric streams produced by Phantasmata’s DIY
devices to create a deep, synesthetic and eventually psychotropic
environment.

*Valerio Tricoli*
His compositions bridge musique concrète and conceptual forms of sound (i.e.
the radical interest in how reality, virtuality, memory relate to each other
during the acoustic event): music, as a recorded or as a
synthetically-modeled sound, is always hovering between the “here and now”
of the event and the shady domain of memory – distant but at the same time
present, like a déjà–vu experience. Tricoli plays live music with electronic
instruments – most of them analogue – (reel-to-reel tape recorders,
synthesizers, microphones, light effects, ultrasonic speakers), however the
structure of the device is ever-changing, seeking multiple relations between
the performers, the device and the space in which the event takes place.

http://www.bowindorecordings.com

http://www.shiftingposition.org/

*Phantasmata* is the noise alter-ego of Xname, a multimedia artist from
Milan and currently based in London. Her live performances are developed
through the use of artificial lights, home-made micro-oscillators and sound
waves generators. The frequency and the dynamics of the electric current
which activates the lights are furtherly transformed – through purely
analogue means – into sonic frequency, while the sound, directly modulated
by the manipulation of the light sources, becomes tactile and synesthetic.
The result is an hypnotic spectacle dominated by stroboscopy and industrial
and noise-techno frequencies.

http://xname.cc/phantasmata
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