C3 - Daily Program Descriptions
times listed are approximate!
Tuesday, 8 September 09
8 pm - German debut of “Cities Change the Songs of Birds”, Jacob TV’s latest multi-media work. Eminent Dutch jazz musicians join together with classical harpist Lavinia Meijer who, positioned between two projection screens, take the audience on a visually engrossing journey to the world of inmates, whores, junkies and beauty
9:30pm - Acoustic house and techno from Brandt Brauer Frick, a new trio consisting of club producer duo Daniel Brandt and Jan Brauer (aka “Scott”) and classical composer Paul Frick. Armed with an arsenal of prepared piano, vibraphone, percussion, brass and string instruments, rhodes, bass guitar and analogue synthesizers, the trio creates textures reminiscent of Steve Reich as well as old-school loop techno. Visuals by VJ Sniper.
10:30pm - Aftershow Lounge with DJ Terrible
Wednesday, 9 September 09
8 pm - Elysian Quartet set of works by Keith Tippet, Matthew Fairclough and live improvisation with electronics and visuals
9 pm- Powerplant set featuring Carbon Copy (Joby Burgess/Matthew Fairclough) where the ancient sounds of the African berimbau are cut, copied and re-mixed with scattered beats and urban overtones using live sampling and computer processing. Electric Counterpoint by Steve Reich places the soloist against a pre-recorded tape of themselves. The twisting lines are layered, often in canon with as many fifteen parts being heard simultaneously. Temazcal (Mexican for ‘burning water’) by Javier Alvarez consists of improvisations around rhythmic patterns taken from Latin American folk music, weave through a world of electronic noises and rhythmic shadows. Chain of Command, a work by Graham Fitkin constructed entirely from samples taken from speeches by George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld.
10 pm - Powerplant & Elysian Quartet Kraftwerk set with retro visuals featuring The Robots, Tour de France, Interlude (radiowaves), Radioactivity, Interlude (numbers), Pocket Calculator arranged by Joby Burgess and composer Ben Foster with improvised interludes.
10:45pm - Aftershow Lounge with DJ Terrible
Thursday, 10 September 09
8 pm - Kathleen Supové plays JacobTV’s The Body of Your Dreams, a piece based on samples and loops extracted from an American infomercial for the Abtronic exercise machine; Carolyn Yarnell’s The Same Sky; On Track (Anna Clyne) featuring speeches of Queen Elizabeth and sounds of Heathrow Airport; Randall Woolf’s bluesy, "Pulp Fiction" inspired work Adrenaline Revival and Digits by Neil Rolnick using American dance rhythms, delay lines, and overdubbing. Visuals by Eric Wenger, Joshue Ott, R. Luke Dubois and VJ Sniper
9:30 pm - Toca Loca set with Nicole Lizee’s Promises Promises, a piece based on synth punk, new wave and retro electronica; Andrew Staniland’s loopy, repetitive Adventure Music; Geof Holbrook’s Pep Formula;
Quinsin Nachoff’s Toca Loca, influenced by jazz, house and free improv; Steve Reich’s Piano Phase; Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together and Louis Andriessen’s Workers Union. Visuals by VJ Sniper.
11 pm Jeff Mills builds a purely electronic bridge from contemporary classical stage to the dance floor, examining the relationships between these two worlds
3am to 6am - Stefan Goldmann takes up where Jeff Mills leaves off, laying down classically-tinged electronic beats