[spectre] KONTRASTE 2012 - ELECTRIC SHADOWS / KREMS (AT): full programme now online

[Annette Wolfsberger]

KONTRASTE 2012 - ELECTRIC SHADOWS

Kontraste 2012 – Electric Shadows presents cutting-edge live performances, installations, films, lectures and sound walks in Krems/Austria from Oct 12 - 14. The festival is conceived as a ‘leap into the void’, a voyage through the electromagnetic spectrum, with audiovisual experiments that manipulate analogue and digital signals to amplify our senses, investigate the dark, and explore cosmological unknowns.


The complete programme is now online at www.kontraste.at

TICKETS
Weekendpasses for EUR 45,- / 41,- (discount), Daypasses for EUR 22,- / 20,- (discount) and Shuttlebustickets Krems-Vienna for EUR 9,- are available here from now on: http://www.kontraste.at/2012/tickets/


A preview to the programme:

LIVE PERFORMANCES - Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche

Friday, 12 October, 20:00 - 23:00
STROBOSCOPIC NOISE

Stroboscopic Noise  offers a stunning line-up of three acts that explore and play with flickering lights, stroboscopic effects and analogue noise.
http://www.kontraste.at/2012/12octoberenglish/stroboscopic-noise/
Matthijs Munnik - Citadels: Lightscape
Bruce McClure - As yours so mine to reconstruct
Synchronatorchestra feat. Gert-Jan Prins, Bas van Koolwijk, Justin Bennett, Robin Fox, Billy Roisz und Jérôme Noetinger

Saturday, 13 October, 20:00 - 23:00
BENDING LIGHT

Cinema: A light beam emits from a projector and reflects on a screen. But in its trajectory from projector to screen the light beam is bent, dispersed, refracted. A magical play of light, colours and shadows is presented to the audience. Bending Light showcases handmade enchantments and hypnotic audiovisual sorcery.
http://www.kontraste.at/2012/13octoberenglish/bending-light/
Gibson, Recoder & Block - Aberration of Light: Dark Chamber Disclosure
Optical Machines - (SHIFT)
Makino Takashi - 2012 act.4 

Sunday, 14 October, 19:00 - 21:30
SPECTRAL DISCHARGE

Laser beams shoot through transparent objects, creating speckle patterns. A double projection of digital images manipulates perception and emphasises retinal afterimages, and an arc of LED screens illuminates the space and serves as a stage for stunning vocal and electronic explorations. Spectral Discharge, ‘ghostly emissions’.
http://www.kontraste.at/2012/14octoberenglish/spectral-discharge/
Yamila Ríos & Joris Strijbos - COVEX 
Otolab - Bleeding
Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje & HC Gilje - audiovisual Performance for Voice, Electronics and 18 LED-Screens


INSTALLATIONS, SOUNDWALKS, LECTURES & FILMS
Friday 12 – Sunday 14 October 2012
Reflections in the Mind at Forum Frohner, Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche, Archiv der Zeitgenossen
Multi-sensory installations that play with visitors’ perception: They enable us to see with eyes closed, employ inaudible frequencies and generate images in the brain. With Ivana Franke’s (HR) Seeing with Eyes Closed, ~~Kulunka~~ by Yolanda Uriz (ES) and Matthew Biedermann’s (US) stunning Event Horizon.
http://www.kontraste.at/2012/category/installation-english/?l=english

Friday 12 – Sunday 14 October 2012 from 10:00–18:00 
Soundwalks in public space in Krems & Wachau

Probing Acoustic and Electromagnetic Waves
Justin Bennett’s (UK/NL) Spectral Analysis is a sound walk through Krems that unveils the shadow history of electromagnetic invention. there was always our voice is a playful new sound walk by Circumstance (UK) using location-aware mobile speakers. And Raviv Ganchrow’s (US/NL) site-specific sound intervention Fray reworks the immediate, everyday acoustic environment.
http://www.kontraste.at/2012/category/sound-walk-english/?l=english


Saturday 13 October 2012 at 14:30
Lectures at Kino im Kesselhaus

An Afternoon with Simon Ings, Raviv Ganchrow and Semiconductor
An afternoon of lectures with Simon Ings (UK) (editor of Arc, a digital quarterly of futures and fiction, author of several books including a natural history of vision), sound artist Raviv Ganchrow and filmmakers Semiconductor (UK) presents an opportunity to reflect on the theme of Electric Shadows.
http://www.kontraste.at/2012/category/lecture-english/?l=english


Saturday 13 October 2012 at 16:45, Sunday 14 October at 15:00 & 16:45
Film Programme at Kino im Kesselhaus

Shadow Play, Dark Side of the Sun and Distant Planets: three short film programmes take you on a journey through shadow landscapes and unknown territories.

http://www.kontraste.at/2012/category/film-english/?l=english





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