Frank Bretschneider plays Modulate

Modulate are pleased to announce that one of our favorite artists,
Frank Bretschneider will visit us in Birmingham next month, and will
give a performance at Modulate on Sat 31st May 2008. Tickets available
now from htttp://www.modulate.org.uk.

Musician, composer, video artist, and co founder of the legendary
German based Raster-Noton label, Frank Bretschneider was born and
raised up in East Germany. After childhood and school in
Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz), graphic and painting studies, he begun
making his first electronic music experiments in 1984, with a strong
interest in the possibilities of an exchange between visual art and
music by various means such as computor graphics, video or graphic
composition. To add another dimension live he creates visual
realizations of frequency and amplitude behavior of the music which
are projected during his performances.

With numerous critically aclaimed albums, released on labels that
include Mille Plateaux and12k as well as Raster-Noton, under his own
name and as Komet, his music has variously been described as
'delicately detailed, abstract pontillism' (the wire), 'grainy but
finely spun psychedelic minimalism' (boomkat), 'electronica at its
highest quality (smallfish), ' minimal, flowing, interwoven
structures, determined by experiment and chance, representing my idea
of a contemporary music' (the artist).


Venue:Green Street Warehouse,
22 Green Street Birmingham B12 ONE.
£5 + 50 p booking fee at www.modulate.org.uk
Tickets £5 on door (booking recommended as numbers limited).
Doors Open 21.00

Frank Bretschneider is also a member of the the Raster-Noton
'supergroup' Signal, alongside Carsten Nicolai and Olaf Bender, who
will be performing at the ICA in London on May 30th as part of '12
years of Raster-Noton' hosted by the Wire magazine.

links: http://www.frankbretschneider.de/
www.myspace.com/frankbretschneider
http://www.raster-noton.net/