Matter Club welcomes Karl Bartos to perform his audio-visual programme.

Karl Bartos’ Live Cinema refers to the classic form of cinema as well as to media art. Together with Mathias Black – on deks and vocoder – he performs his new programme “The Rhythmic Screen”. The large screens are home to films, video loops and animations of cleanly simple pictograms – emphasizing the surrealistic flow of information within our media.

Attending to his set, the audience will have the chance to experience some of his past and present works; The electro classics in which he took part as co-author like “Numbers”, “Computer World”, “Homecomputer”, “Computer Love”, “The Man Machine” or “The Robots” as well as samples of his critically acclaimed solo work “Communication.”

“You can dance to the music while you watch the screens”, he comments. “It’s all about rhythm: How the rhythm of the moving images and the rhythm of the music converge into an all-over audio-visual performance.”

13.03.2009 UK, London, Matter Club

Eröffnung der Sonderausstellung im Deutschen Museum München

Fotografien von Jürgen Scriba / Klangraum von Karl Bartos

am Montag, den 28. Juli 2008, um 19.00 Uhr in der Abteilung Foto+Film

Begrüßung
Dr. Walter Hauser
Leiter Hauptabteilung II., Deutsches Museum

Einführung
Dr. Cornelia Kemp
Kuratorin, Foto+Film, Deutsches Museum

We are very happy to open for public viewing the first edition of 'CROSSTALK' at our white cube section. The program holds twentyone films, remixes, coverversions, mashups from Sweden, Belgium, Netherland, Germany, United Kingdom, USA and Japan.

Contributions include: auditory works by Martin Böhm, Electric Moose, Electrolad, Keith Hill, Wolfgang Kulas & the Roboband, Andrew Lagowski, Rheingold, Sveta & Nikita, Tan, The Weathermen, Yamaoka Yasuhiro, Richard Yerardi, Jens Zimmermann; audio-visual works by Bread, Holden Caulfield, Jan Hämler, The Mobile Homes, J.Scriba, Televela, Testify; computergraphics by Korefuji Sakaki.

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If you close your eyes, what sense takes over? Do you consume the world in sound bites? Are you moved by the art of noise? Issue 53 of Visionaire is dedicated to the theme of Sound.

Visionaire 53. SOUND has been launched at Art Basel Miami Beach December 6–9. 2007.

Visionaire 53. SOUND features more then one hundred original sound pieces by leading artists, musicians, and personalities.

Contributors include: musicians David Byrne, Courtney Love, Michael Stipe, Adam Horowitz (Beastie Boys), Antony & the Johnsons, Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran), Karl Bartos, Andrew WK, Chan Marshall (Cat Power), Danger Mouse, Malcolm McLaren, Ruyuichi Sakamoto; artists Robert Wilson, Yoko Ono, Christian Marclay, Doug Aitken, Gary Hill, Sylvie Fleury; DJs Miss Kittin, Trevor Jackson, Towa Tei, Michel Gaubert; fashion designers Alexander McQueen, Helmut Lang; bands U2, Littl'ans, Fischerspooner, Unkle, Animal Collective, Sunn O))) and many more.

Visionaire 53. SOUND consists of five 12-inch vinyl picture disc records packaged inside a dome case.

Coverversion, remix, graphics, cut-up, mashup… what are you up to?

At regular intervals we are getting offers for remixes or any kind of collaboration. Usually the requests are based on the decontextualisation of Karls material.

Yes – we are really up to it, though we never liked the idea of a competition.

So, if you can't wait to send in a remix, cut-up, mashup, graphics or a video (mashup or recorded) to one of Karls tracks, you are welcome. Please let us know. A cut-up of the lyrics could be possible as well.

To give all those pieces an outlet we provide the WHITE CUBE page on our webside

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It would be great to get a picture of the participant along with the media. A few words on the work would be appreciated.

One last thought: please don't send in any remix or other work on the music of Karls former band – you know, the electro pioneers from Düsseldorf.

If we can count you in, please send us a word document, pdf, jpeg and/or a mp3 file or a YouTube address to kbdirect@karlbartos.com and we will get back to you soon.

Sorry, we can't give away audio extracts or midi files. Please be aware it's not gonna be a competition it's gonna be rather an exhibition! If there is demand for dialogue, please use the forum.

Okay – we are looking forward to your input!

Kind regards, cheers,

the AudioVision gang




Glossary:

A remix is an alternative version of a song, different from the original version. A remixer uses audio mixing to compose an alternate master recording of a song, adding or subtracting elements, or simply changing the equalization, dynamics, pich, tempo, playing time, or almost any other aspect of the various musical components.

The cut-up technique, also known as fishbowling, is an aleatory literary technique or genre in which a text is cut up at random and rearranged to create a new text.

Mashup (music), a musical genre of songs that consist entirely of parts of other songs.

Mashup (video), a video that is edited from more than one source to appear as one.

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Karl Bartos will be awarded for the U.S. radio airplay achievements of "Talk" recorded by Coldplay, featuring the song "Computer Love," as well as "Fergalicious" recorded by Fergie, which features another of his songs "It's More Fun To Compute."

The invitation-only gala will be held on Tuesday, October 16th at the London's Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane.

Between the KW records "TOUR DE FRANCE" (1984) and "ELECTRIC CAFE" (1986) work at the Kling Klang Studio, the band's long-time home, hit a snag. But Karl knew how to make good use of the uncalled-for spare time. Being a classically-trained percussionist he tied in with his studies at the Robert Schumann institute and started to compose several pieces for percussion instruments. In 1990 the "Fifteen exercises for two snare drums" were released by the renown publisher Zimmermann in Frankfurt, appearing in the series DUO FOR PERCUSSION.

These intermediate duets for snare drum contain fifteen studies, which include the use of frequent dynamic changes, all standard meters, embellishments, and rolls of varying duration.

Karl Bartos: "The purpose of this text is to provide the intermediate student with practical duets which will aid in developing the rhythmic discipline necessary for ensemble playing."

New in stock: "FÜNFZEHN ETÜDEN FÜR ZWEI KLEINE TROMMELN" by Karl Bartos, appearing in the series DUO FOR PERCUSSION, published by Zimmermann Frankfurt 1990.

Order at: http://www.karlbartos.com

Electronic regards,
Your AudioVision Team

Finally the new website has arrived!

New design, new functionality, and new sections: from now on, the Karl Bartos homepage will appear in a new, improved form. Regular news bulletins will keep you updated, and will enable you to follow the planning and implementation of Bartos' latest project: AudioVision. The content will include information about live dates, lectures, new music, and film projects.

The complete AudioVision universe. Live dates: information concerning current performances and venues as well as retrospectives on previous shows, facts about the various AudioVision members, music and texts to listen to and read, free downloads pertaining to varying subjects, and a shop with rare collectors' items and regular surprises.

In sound and vision: a new and comprehensive databank, containing photos, videos and printed material for music fans and professional users alike, can now be accessed in the multimedia section – there has never been so much Bartos and AudioVision available.

Electronic communication und interaction: apart from the popular guestbook, visitors can now use the community area to interact with each other. This facilitates active participation, allowing the guests to exchange ideas and opinions, hold discussions, and offer suggestions. As time progresses, we will ask you to submit audio-visual material relating to varying subjects. The results will be documented at www.karlbartos.com.

Action: as we launch our new homepage, we expressly encourage both criticism and praise, as well as suggestions for improvement and other stimulating ideas.

Let's get into electronic communication!

Electronic regards,
Your AudioVision team

Karl Bartos will collaborate with the prestigious art & fashion publication Visionaire, New York, on their upcoming issue dedicated to "SOUND" alongside Lalo Schifrin, Michael Stipe, Bjork, Malcolm McLaren, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Johnny Marr, Courtney Love, Yoko Ono, Kanye West, and Grace Jones.
www.visionaireworld.com

Get The Message: The Best of Electronic to be released in the USA - including tracks co-written by Karl Bartos

(Rhino) Two of the most recognizable sounds from a pair of the most influential alternative rock bands of the '80s -- the melodic melancholy of New Order's Bernard Sumner and the sharp hooks of The Smiths' Johnny Marr -- joined together in 1990 for the single "Getting Away With It." A Top 20 hit in the U.K. featuring guest vocalist and co-writer Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys, the song marked the beginning of a decade-long collaboration between Sumner and Marr. Rhino Records brings together a compilation featuring favorites selected from all three of the band's studio albums along with alternate mixes and rarities.

Taking 10 of its 13 tracks from the group's studio albums, the collection contains music from 1991's self-titled debut, 1996's follow-up, Raise The Pressure, and 2000's Twisted Tenderness. The compilation also includes the single-only "All That I Need" (the B-side of "For You,") and 1996's "Imitation Of Life," the B-side of "Forbidden City."

Throughout Electronic's first decade, the group featured Sumner and Marr performing together with a shifting cast of collaborators that included Tennant; Denise Johnson, who sings on several tracks including "Get The Message"; Karl Bartos formerly of Kraftwerk, who joined the group for much of Raise The Pressure and co-wrote several singles, including "Forbidden City", "For You", "Until The End Of Time", "If You..ve Got Love", "How Long", "Time Can Tell", "I Feel Alright", "Imitation Of Life", "A New Religion".

Not only does GET THE MESSAGE span the group's career but it also spotlights the band's range of sounds from the insistent rhythms of 1991's "Feel Every Beat" to the ringing majesty of 1996's "Forbidden City".

GET THE MESSAGE: THE BEST OF ELECTRONIC Track Listing

"Forbidden City"
"Getting Away With It"
"Get The Message" -- Single Mix
"Feel Every Beat"
"Disappointed" -- Single Mix
"Vivid" -- Radio Edit
"All That I Need"
"For You"
"Imitation Of Life" -- New Edit
"Out Of My League"
"Like No Other"
"Twisted Tenderness"
"Late At Night" -- Radio Edit

Thanks to for the submission and informations
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