NK PRESENTS Hannes Hoelzl Joker Nies Alberto de Campo Mario de Vega
http://www.nkprojekt.de/


Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 8:00pm
WHITE RABBIT Potsdamer Straße 98 / 10785 Berlin
http://www.white-rabbit-be..rlin.com/



Hannes Hoelzl was born 1974 in Bolzano/I; he studied audio engineering in Graz/A and graduated as an MA in Sound&Music Technology at the Utrecht Arts Academy/NL. He works in various disciplines and constellations, always orbiting around the central focus of sound; with digital sound treatment and particulary the Open Source environment SuperCollider being his fundamental working tools.
His developments in music aim at improvisation interfaces that enable the computer to keep up with the directness of the instrumentalists; at sound spatialisation with a similar improvisational approach, and at pseudo-intelligent sound objects that might be able to surprise the performer with unforseen turns, often inspired by outworldly electronic circuits like the ones that his fellow musician Joker Nies employs.
Beyond acting as a performing musician, he works as a sound artist, designer, composer, software developer and instructor.
He has played internationally in Europe and China, and his installative works have been exhibited, amonst others, in the Venice Biennale (2001, 2006), in ZKM Karlsruhe (D, 2006), Hamada children's Museum, Japan, and in London's National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He has held lecures and workshops at Universities and Conservatories in Wesleyan/Connecticut, Duesseldorf, Prague, Oslo, Tokyo and Beijing.
Recently, he was involved in a project for the international Arts Biennial Manifesta in Italy (www.manifesta7.it), where an old austrian fortress with 77 armoured rooms was turned into a huge listening space.

Joker Nies lives and works in Cologne, Germany, as a musician, sound-designer, sound-engineer, fotographer and technical editor for the German Keyboards magazine.
Since the early 80´s, Nies experiments with all kinds of electronic sound-sources, like modular-analog synthesizers, individually designed electronic devices, DSP-based systems (like Kyma/Capybara) and software based sound-sources. During the early 90´s, modifying the Omnichord became his initiation to what is known as circuit-bending. Since that time a steadily growing number of devices has been converted from simple toys into alien sound devices.
For his live-performances the focus has completely moved away from computer hosted sound enviroments and shifted to analog electronics instead. His instruments, beneath the Omnichord, are carefully selected and modified electronics, and the outstanding instruments Rob Hordijk has built for him. Recent activities include software synth-design in MAX/MSP for the german Keyboards magazine, and production and sound design for radio-plays. Nies also leads workshops and tutorials about circuit-bending, DIY-instruments and synth-design in MAX/MSP.
His musical activities are centered around an improvisational aproach, like with the Trio Die Schrauber or The KØP. He also cooperates in composition-based projects like the activities of the multimedia project REALTIME-RESEARCH and QUANTUM QUASI dance-projects.
Joker Nies performed on festivals in all of Europe, USA and Mexico, with artists like John Butcher, Ernst Reijsinger, Birgit Uhler, Thomas Lehn, Alan Silva, Dave Tucker, Seth Josel, Hans Tammen, Mario De Vega, Gino Robair and many others.
CDs: Pair a Dice - Snake Eyes (1996), Near Vhana (1998) Electroshock - I woke up braindead (1999) Wollie Kaisers Timeghost - new traces for old faces (2000) Kölner Saxofon Maffia - 20 Jahre Saxuelle Befreiung (2001) The Yahoos - Yahoos (2001) U.R.L. - Konfabulation (2002) The Earthieves - Earthieves (2002)
Die Schrauber - Live in Mexico (2006)
The KØP - Köln-Oslo-Protocols (2009)
http://web.me.com/klangbur..eau/Studio/Joker.html
http://web.me.com/klangbur..eau/DIY/Workshop.html
http://www.tammen.org/ens_..schraub.html

Prof. Dr. Alberto de Campo (* 1964) hat Komposition und Jazz-Gitarre in Österreich studiert, und elektronische Musik in den USA. Er war Visiting Scholar und Research Director am CREATE (an der UC Santa Barbara); danach hat er am IEM Graz und an der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM) gelehrt. In Köln haben langjährige Zusammenarbeiten begonnen, u.a. mit earweego (Ho, Hölzl) und realtime research (M.Mainz).
Im Wintersemester 2004/5 hatte er die Edgard Varèse-Gastprofessur für Elektronische Musik an der TU Berlin inne. Von 2005-2007 war er lead researcher im Forschungsprojekt 'SonEnvir' (am IEM Graz), das mit einem interdisziplinären Team die Anwendbarkeit der Sonifikation von Daten für verschiedene wissenschaftliche Disziplinen experimentell untersuchte. In diesem Projekt verfasste er zusammen mit dem Team zahlreiche Publikationen, und organisierte ein Konzert mit Sonifikationen von sozialen Daten für die ICAD 2006 in London ('Global Music - The world by ear').
Von 2007-2009 war er Professor für Musikinformatik am Institut Fuer Musik Und Medien der Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf, und seit
2009 ist er Professor für Generative Kunst / Computational Art am Institut für zeitbasierte Medien an der Universität der Künste Berlin.
Aktuelle Projekte
* powerbooks_unplugged - ein Ensemble, das just in time programming auf unverstärkten Laptops praktiziert.
* Konzerte mit InstrumentalistInnen, u.a. Quiet Noise Quartet, Syntopia Ensemble, earweego, ...
* BlippooHazard - vier Instrumentalisten spielen den gleichen analogen Synth, die Blippoo box von Rob Hordijk - 'Das Ganze ist die Differenz seiner Teile' (mit hans w koch, Joker Nies, Hannes Hölzl).
* Mit Florian Hecker: Neben Live-instrumenten und studio-tools, die spezielle Syntheseverfahren implementieren, u.a. die Installationen 'Asynchronous Jitter', 'Spazio Jens Blauert' (Manifesta 7, 2008), zuletzt 'No Night No Day' mit Cerith Wyn Evans, Biennale Venedig 2009, demnächst 'Auditory Objects' in Bordeaux.
* Mit Marcus Schmickler und Carsten Goertz: "Bonner Durchmusterung", Sonifikation und Visualisierung astronomischer Daten für das Jahr der Astronomie, Bonn, Juni 2009.

Mario de Vega (Mexico City, 1979). Works & lives in Berlin.
His work explores relations between stability, failure, simulation and ambiguity with site-specific projects, sculpture, sound events, documentation and sound improvisation.
As sound improviser his work involves a wide range of customized objects, analog and modified electronics, turntables and computer based interfaces in different combinations. Unpredictable situations by the manipulation of fragile objects and the potential of their failure using motors, magnets, acoustic surfaces and electronic devices.
His work has appeared in different contexts including Museums, Galleries and Independent Spaces throughout Mexico, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, The Netherlands, United States, Japan, Argentina, Korea and Spain.
http://www.mariodevega.inf..o/

Project Oriented Advanced Max/MSP/Jitter Workshop with Pure

December 16th 2009, 14-18:30 (with 30 min break)

Participants should be familiar with the basic concepts of Max/Msp. This workshop is intended for those who are currently working on a project and need help with its realization.

Requirements:
* Own Computer (Mac OS X/Win XP) IMPORTANT: with an authorised Max, or a running Demo.
* Basic knowledge in computer based music creation
* Headphones
* If possible bring your own MIDI Controller or MIDI Keyboard

Teacher: Pure has been using Max/MSP/Jitter since the last ten years as his main tool for music creation. As well as being an experienced Max instructor who has taught in several Universities and Media Labs all over Europe since 2001, he is has also released many albums with such labels Mego, Cronica and Staalplaat.. More info about him can be found at
http://pure.test.at, http://www.myspace.com/pvr..e,
http://www.heartchamberorc..hestra.org

The workshop will be held in English and German.

Location: NK / Elsen Str. 52 (2. Hof) 2. Etage
12059 Berlin, DE
Telephone: +49 (0)176 20626386
www.nkprojekt.de

Fee: Course Participation fee 40 Euros.

Registration is required for this workshop and can only be done via email to: enka_nk@gmx.de
Please register early to ensure a place. Places are limited to 12.

Note: If you are interested and cannot attend this time drop us an email and we will keep you informed of upcoming workshops, since this is the first workshop of a forthcoming series.

Zbigniew Karkowski
Born in Krakow, Poland, in 1958, Zbigniew Karkowski is one of the most significant artists working in the field of experimental and contemporary music.

For the first time in Berlin, he will give a workshop for sound artists,
musicians or composers who are interested in his approach to composition and live performance on both the technical and formal level. This workshop gives the participants an opportunity to gain insight into the working methods of on one of the most challenging composers / performers of electronic music today.

Karkowski will teach the participants about his aesthetic and conceptual approaches towards composition through an in depth analysis of some of his own pieces as well as exploring the compositional concepts that are inherent to the design of his Max and Super Collider patches. Along these lines aesthetic approaches towards the use of sound textures, timbres and the technical aspects of sound production will also be covered and finally he
will share his experiences and ideological beliefs about live performance and composition.

Karkowski studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg’s Department of Musicology, and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology. After the completion of his studies in Sweden, he has studied sonology for a year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Haag, Netherlands. During

these years, he attended many summer composition master courses (Centre Acanthes in France) where he studied with Pierre Boulez, Iannis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, and Georges Aperghis.

He has produced numerous works in the fields of both acoustic and
electronic music and has written 3 pieces for large orchestra, an opera and several chamber music works. Karkowski was also a founding member of the electroacoustic music performance trio
“Sensorband” (with Atau Tanaka and Edwin van der Heide) and collaborated with artists like Francisco Lopez, Blixa Bargeld, Merzbow, Pita, Hafler trio,...

Based in Tokyo, Karkowski has a large collection of releases and regularly presents his work all over the world.

http://www.myspace.com/zbi..gniewkarkowski



VALERIO TRICOLI+DOMINIQUE VACCARO
http://www.last.fm/music/Valerio+Tricoli
http://www.myspace.com/dominiquevaccaro


Tuesday 10th November 10pm
@ RAUM 18
Ziegrastraße 11
12057 Berlin
http://raum18-berlin.com/

AUSREIHAUSREIHE in Cooperation with NK Presents : Electronic Music Concert 03

Lineup a-z:
Alberto De Campo (AT) Berlin - Computer Improvisation
DJ Sniff (JP) from steim/Amsterdam - Experimental Turntablist
EVOL (ES) from Barcelona - Extreme Computer Music Cell
Kaffe Matthews (UK) from London - 8 Multichannel Performance
Suk-Jun Kim (KR) Berlin - Imaginary Electroacoustic Music

Date: 21st Nov, 2009
Time: 22:00 open / 23:00 start
Fee: 8 EURO
Venue: Heimathafen Neukölln - Studio
http://www.heimathafen-neu..koelln.de/
Address: Karl-Marx-Straße 141
12043 Berlin, Germany

Alberto De Campo (AT) Berlin - Computer Improvisation
Alberto de Campo has studied classical composition, jazz guitar, and
electronic music in Austria and the US. After working at UC Santa
Barbara, designing experimental software instruments with Curtis
Roads, he taught at Media Arts Academy Cologne, the Institute for
Electronic Music in Graz, and at TU Berlin. He held a professorship
for Music Informatics at Music University Duesseldorf, and currently
is Professor for Generative Art at Arts Univ. Berlin.
He plays with powerbooks_unplugged (just in time programming on mostly
unamplified laptops); improvisation groups with acoustic instruments
such as Quiet Noise Quartet, Syntopia Ensemble, and ad hoc
constellations; electronic music with BlippooHazard (four musicians
playing the Blippoo Box, a hardware synth by Rob Hordijk).
Recent projects include creating software instruments and sound
installations with Florian Hecker, e.g. 'No Night No Day' at Biennale
Venice, and AuditoryObjects (Bordeaux), and collaborating with Marcus
Schmickler and Carsten Goertz on "Bonner Durchmusterung", a project
involving sonification und visualisation of atronomical data.

DJ Sniff (JP) from steim/Amsterdam - Experimental Turntablist
believes in the instrumental autonomy of the turntable and the
musicianship of the DJ. He is a turntable musician working in the
field of improvised and experimental music. His music focuses on the
live reconstruction and narratization of the phonographically
amplified - the music, the sound, the technology and the past. To
achieve this, he uses a unique setup consisting of hand-made hardware
interfaces and a custom Max/MSP software along with one turntable and
DJ mixer. He is also a concert/event curator for electronic music and
a researcher of music technology. Since 2005 he has been involved with
STEIM's (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam) R&D lab.
From 2007 on, he is STEIM's Artistic Director, curating public events
and representing the institution through performances and lectures.
dj sniff regularly performs with computer musician Yutaka Makino as
Audile and with saxophonist Keir Neuringer and Bassist Raed Yassin.
http://djsniff.com/

EVOL (ES) from Barcelona - Extreme Computer Music Cell
EVOL is a computer music cell started in Barcelona in 1996. Their work
has been released on internationally acclaimed record labels such as
Mego, Entr'acte, Lucky Kitchen, Diskono, Scarcelight, Antifrost,
fals.ch or their own ALKU.
In 2003 the group started a series of electroacoustic pieces entitled
'Punani' which addresses some of the main aspects of their work,
namely: algorithmic composition, noise, psychedelia, system
trajectories and the musical application of fractal geometry and other
mathematical phenomena, somewhere in between Denis Smalley's concept
of "spectromorphology", black magic and what Agostino Di Scipio called
"functional iteration synthesis". Recently they have released 'Punani
Xerrameca', a 10" on ALKU, and 'Fart Synthesis' a cassette on Presto!?
http://vivapunani.org/

Kaffe Matthews (UK) from London - 8 Multichannel Performance
Kaffe Matthews was born in Essex, England, and lives and works in
London. Since 1996 she has been making new electro-acoustic music
through a system of self designed software matrices through which she
pulls and pushes different sounds live. The variety of sounds, things
and places she has worked with have ranged from self played violin and
theremin, sounds of spaces, kite strings on an uninhabited Scottish
Island, flight data from NASA scientists, Scottish and Irish pipers,
melting ice in Quebec, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, vibrating
wires in the West Australian outback and recently a Vietnamese
monochord and seaside sounds processed with 11 year olds to be
dispersed by visitor pedalled bicycles. She has just returned from a
month of working with sharks and conservation scientists on the
Galapagos Islands.
http://www.kaffematthews.n..et/

Suk-Jun Kim (KR) Berlin - Imaginary Electroacoustic Music
A Korean Composer whose main output is electroacoustic music, Suk-Jun
Kim’s music focuses mainly on the sense of places that are fantastic,
imaginary, magical, and realistic, where listeners can visit, stop by,
and dwell on. His music has received a number of international awards:
Métamorphoses (2000 & 2008), Regional Composition Prize at 2008 ICMC
in Belfast, CIMESP (2007), Bourges (2001), ASCAP/SEAMUS Student
Commission Competition (2001) as well as mentions and finalists in
MUSICA VIVA (2005) and MUSICA NOVA (2002 & 2005).
He now lives in Berlin as an Aritist-in-Residence composer at DAAD.
His research concentrates on listening and imagining in
electroacoustic music and a framework based on ‘acousmatic reasoning,’
a listening process using both spectromorphological and semiotic
listening modes, which listeners of electroacoustic music employ to
‘make sense’ out of the acousmatic experiences.


AUSREIHE
http://ausreihe.com/
AUSREIHE is an independent organization dedicated to experimental
electronic/computer music, founded in Berlin, Germany 2009.

NK
http://www.nkprojekt.de/
NK is dedicated to Sound Art practices, situated at Elsenstr 52 in the
Neukölln area in Berlin.




Recommendation for our guests :
On the same day Sat 21st Nov, there is also a wonderful event
HOERENSEHEN 2.0 going on in Berlinische Galerie presented by
KLANGNETZ.ORG.
You could check there before AUSREIHE concert begins.
KLANGNETZ.ORG and AUSREIHE would like to see you in both sites.
Further info about HOERENSEHEN 2.0 - http://hoerensehen.net/

NK PRESENTS
http://www.myspace.com/enka52

JUSTICE YELDHAM
What's been described as "a trumpet player trapped in a two dimensional universe" is in fact the unique audio work of Justice Yeldham, a maverick musician with an unhealthy obsession with sheets of broken glass. His now infamous show has astonished and bemused countless people, instilling them with a mesmerizing fear as he presses his face and lips against the glass' sharp edges whilst deftly employing various vocal techniques ranging from throat singing to raspberries. Turning discarded shards of glass into crude musical instruments, the results are a wide variety of cacophonous noises that are strangely controlled and oddly musical. A one of a kind act re-defining the expression "don't try this at home" this show quite simply needs to be witnessed to be fully appreciated, let alone understood.
Lucas Abela (Justice Yeldham)
http://www.myspace.com/justiceyeldham

Ophiolatreia
http://www.myspace.com/knifeladdermusic

Ratbag vs
http://www.myspace.com/ratbag_

Yann Keller
http://www.myspace.com/yannkeller

Mutant Cunt Sniffer
http://www.myspace.com/thefestivaloflight

Ohmnoise
http://dienstbar.info/

Raum 18
http://raum18-berlin.com/

 

 



 

@ NK
http://www.myspace.com/enk..a52
Elstr. 52 - 2nd Backyard
Berlin - Neukölln
doors open 9.30 concert starts 10pm sharp




Dave Phillips

1986 - 1988: founding member of Fear of God, hardcore-thrash/grindcore-

Theoretical and Aesthetic approaches to composition - a 2day Workshop with Zbigniew Karkowski

Born in Krakow, Poland, in 1958, Zbigniew Karkowski is one of the most
significant artists working in the field of experimental and contemporary
music.

For the first time in Berlin, he will give a workshop for sound artists,
musicians or composers who are interested in his approach to composition and
live performance on both the technical and formal level. This workshop
gives the participants an opportunity to gain insight into the working
methods of on one of the most challenging composers / performers of
electronic music today.

Karkowski will teach the participants about his aesthetic and conceptual
approaches towards composition through an in depth analysis of some of his
own pieces as well as exploring the compositional concepts that are inherent
to the design of his Max and Super Collider patches. Along these lines
aesthetic approaches towards the use of sound textures, timbres and the
technical aspects of sound production will also be covered and finally he
will share his experiences and ideological beliefs about live performance
and composition.

Karkowski studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg,
Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg’s
Department of Musicology, and computer music at the Chalmers University of
Technology. After the completion of his studies in Sweden, he has studied
sonology for a year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Den Haag,
Netherlands. During

these years, he attended many summer composition master courses (Centre
Acanthes in France) where he studied with Pierre Boulez, Iannis Xenakis,
Olivier Messiaen, and Georges Aperghis.

He has produced numerous works in the fields of both acoustic and
electronic music and has written 3 pieces for large orchestra, an opera and
several chamber music works. Karkowski was also a founding member of the
electroacoustic music performance trio

“Sensorband” (with Atau Tanaka and Edwin van der Heide) and collaborated
with artists like Francisco Lopez, Blixa Bargeld, Merzbow, Pita, Hafler
trio,...

Based in Tokyo, Karkowski has a large collection of releases and regularly
presents his work all over the world.

http://www.myspace.com/zbi..gniewkarkowski


location: NK
Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage
Berlin 12059
Tel nr. +49 (0)17620626386
http://www.myspace.com/enk..a52

When: Nov 2 & 3 ,2009

Fee: 100€
Number of participants is limited to 15.
Preregistration is highly recommended and can be done by sending an email
to enka_nk@gmx.de