In October 2016 the German Speaking Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM – D-A-CH) met in Graz – with 70 researchers of popular music attending, who discussed different aspects of popular music and transgression. In November 2018 the conference proceedings were published via the BIS Verlag. The publication is Read the full article… »»»»
2018
Heroines of Sound Festival: 6th-8th of December 2018 @HAU2 Berlin
The 5th edition of Heroines of Sound will feature four comissioned works, seven premieres and two German premiers by 30 artists. With: Maryanne Amacher // Anne la Berge// Mary Ellen Bute // Suzanne Ciani/ / Mary C // Lucrecia Dalt // Nina Dragicevic //Jessica Ekomane //Gudrun Gut//Ensemble KNM Berlin // Electric Indigo // Fågelle&Beate Kunath // Read the full article… »»»»
celebrating 20 years of female:pressure @ Mensch Meier Berlin, November 9th 2018
!!This event is open for every sex/gender!! female:pressure* is celebrating its 20 year anniversary! We are working at full speed, to compile a weekend of celebrating, listening, learning and exchanging. In the foreground of course other will be first-class music and art contributed by the artists of our network, as well as the development of Read the full article… »»»»
Presentation @ POP-POWER-POSITIONS: 3rd IASPM DACH-Conference @ Bern (CH) 18th-20th October 2018
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE BRANCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF POPULAR MUSIC (IASPM D-A-CH) University of Bern & Bern University of the Arts Partner: Norient – Network for Local and Global Sounds and Media We will do a panel at the conference: Club Cultures between difference, representation and cosmopolitism (Club Cultures zwischen Read the full article… »»»»
Unsafe + Sounds Festival, 2nd – 13th of October 2018 Vienna
Unsafe + Sounds Festival for Adventurous Electronic Music + Arts Unsafe+Sounds wants to investigate the interrelatedness of the fundamental changes in our environment and aesthetics, and look for apt noises for our disturbed existence. Under the banner of “Brutal Times”, we gather workers from the musical frontiers to find some medication for this pathological time. Read the full article… »»»»
Is it dark? by 3ncore. Exhibition, discourse, party dedicated to Liza N Eliaz @ Het Bos Antwerp, 27th-30th Sep. 2018
I will participate in a discussion with Merle Vorwald of 3ncore and Federico Chiari on gabber/ speedcore – genres & subcultures in Antwerp, Belgium. Here are some infos about the project Is It Dark? “Finally the collectives ENCORE + SEXES are presenting the outcome of their residency at AIR Antwerpen. After looking extensively into the Read the full article… »»»»
Frankenstein or the 8 bit Prometheus, 26th of September 2018 Book presentation @ Echo Books
Cultural anthropologist and music journalist Bianca Ludewig introduces dj/producer Riccardo Balli who will talk about his Frankenstein, or the 8 Bit Prometheus ChiliComCarne.com editions, 2018. About the book/ from book back cover: -1818 First edition of Mary Shelley’s classic: Frankenstein – 2018 Frankenstein gone mad: the many horrifying uses of technology, such as Web 2.0 Read the full article… »»»»
Documentary The Cleaners, available on DVD by 08/24/2018
“A look at the shadowy underworld of the Internet where questionable content is removed. When you post something on the web, can you be sure it stays there? Enter a hidden shadow industry of digital cleaning where the Internet rids itself of what it doesn’t like – violence, pornography and – political content. Who is Read the full article… »»»»
Experimental music festivals in Austria – Part I: DONAUFESTIVAL , Krems 27.4.- 6.5.2018
In Austria there are plenty of festivals that showcase experimental and (post-)club music. Plus something else. In the following series I will discuss three of them. They happen in springtime: donaufestival, hyperreality and the heart of noise festival. This will happen at different platforms. Part I is published on the blog of the shituationist institute: Read the full article… »»»»
Superbooth, 3.-5. Mai 2018 @ Berlin FEZ Wuhlheide
Sorry this article is only available in German language. But you can find english infos, programme and past press articles about superbooth here: https://www.superbooth.com »»»»
Don’t Go To Resonate: Artists pull out of the Belgrade Festival 2018 because of payment issues
“Don’t go to Resonate Festival in Belgrade – a warning to artists and audiences“, posted Thomas Ankersmit on April 17th, a day before the festival started. He writes: “Phill Niblock and myself played a two-hour concert to a full house at the Resonate Festival in Belgrade in April 2017. A year later we, among many Read the full article… »»»»
Sensorium Festival, Bratislava 2nd-5th of May 2018
The first Slovak conference making sense of creative technology. Sensorium is a festival with conference, workshops & showcase bridging the fields of computational art, design and performance. For the third year, a multidisciplinary community comes together to envision artistic futures and its impact on society. Festivaltickets are 39€, for students 13€ – excluding workshops. It Read the full article… »»»»
Best of WiseUp 2018 #2: Rerun 3/2005 – Mike Patton
We continue the Rerun-issues 2018 with a show that was done long ago in March 2005 and transmitted via the free radio station in Hamburg FSK, where wiseup-radio started. It features an interview with Mike Patton about his album with the turntablists X-Ecutioners which was released back then, and it also features a short Read the full article… »»»»
donaufestival @ Krems AU, 27th of April-6th of May 2018: endless now
With: ZONAL feat. Moor Mother, Lotic, Perc, Lawrence English, The Space Lady, Mouse on Mars, Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois, Puce Mary, Demdike Stare, Deerhoof, Pan Daijing, Simon Reynolds and many more. Curatorial statement 2018 (Thomas Edlinger, donaufestival artistic director): You always have new messages; it just takes the next click for the next kick. Read the full article… »»»»
MaerzMusik – festival for time issues, Berlin 16.-25.3.2018
The festival 2018 Music offers time a centre. – This trope by John Berger puts the two main concerns of this festival – music and time – into a generative relation. Such a centre – in motion, elusive, non-geometric, plurimodal as it must be – would allow for a different point of view. From such Read the full article… »»»»
Festival as Lab – Cultural Practices and Potentials of Transmedia Festivals
This article was written in summer 2015 for the ECAS network publication “Networking Tomorrow’s Art for an Unknown Future” – documentation European Commission Culture Programme. It hasn’t been published as of yet. I am providing here up front the German original version as the publication will be in english translation. English Abstract: I sum up Read the full article… »»»»
Elevate Festival Graz, 28. Februar – 04. März 2018: Risiko/ Courage
Elevate Festival – Music, Art and Political Discourse Elevate is an annual interdisciplinary festival held in various central venues around the Schlossberg in Graz, Austria. With its unique combination of critical political discourse and contemporary music and art, the Elevate Festival stands out of the “usual” festival circus. Amongst the guests are Human rights experts, Read the full article… »»»»
Wiseup 12/2017 END OF THE YEAR REVIEW: Releases & Festivals 2017
In this Review Wiseup looks at the releases of the past year and plays its selection. Also Wiseup will review 2017 by looking back briefly at the visited festivals of the past year, which have been exactly 12, so I per month at average, starting in January with CTM Berlin and ending in December Read the full article… »»»»
Hardcore Territories, feature by bauhaus.fm
Feature by the experimental radio of Bauhaus University Weimar on our Input at Cynetart Festival: The lecture is in German. Vortrag „Hardcore Territories“ »»»»
CTM Festival 26.1.-4.2., Berlin
CTM – festival for adventurous music and art – is an event for electronic and experimental music, happening since 1999 in Berlin. CTM 2018 Theme: Turmoil Uneasy times demand uneasy music. The world is in turmoil. And so are many of us. No matter what perspective we take, what used to be familiar is becoming Read the full article… »»»»
Transmediale 31.1.-4.2.2018 @ HKW Berlin
transmediale is a Berlin-based festival and year-round project that draws out new connections between art, culture, and technology. The topic of this year issue is face value Things are what they are—but could they be different? transmediale 2018 face value aims to take stock of current affairs, to recognize things for what they are before Read the full article… »»»»
