Modulate are happy to announce that one of our favorite artists, Frank Bretschneider will come and visit us in Birmingham next month, and will give a performance at Modulate on Sat 31st May 2008. Support by Bobby Bird and Modulate AV collective.

Musician, composer, video artist, and co founder of the legendary German based Raster-Noton label, frank bretschneider aka komet 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, his music has variously been described as ’minimal funk’, ’delicately detailed, abstract pontillism’ (the wire), ’grainy but finely spun psychedelic minimalism’ (boomkat), ’Frank Bretschneider does to hypnotic echochamber pulsebeat what opiated dubs would do to your brain’(brainwashed), ’electronica at its highest quality (smallfish), ’ minimal, flowing, interwoven structures, determined by experiment and chance, representing my idea of a contemporary music’ (the artist).

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

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.