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----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 2:14 PM Subject: (313) Mutek 2004 > Full Line-Up Announced > > its easier to read on the html site... > > http://www.detroitluv.com/index.php?board=21;action=display;threadid=15297 > > > > > > WEDNESDAY JUNE 2 > > EX-CENTRIS > A showcase of interactions between conceptual extremes. > Naturalism vs. electricity, minimalism vs. maximalism, > and audio vs. visual. > > ANTMANUV (Canada/The Ceiling) > Captivated by the relationship between thunderstorms > and magnetism, Antmanuv uses strategically > placed microphones, modular synthesizers, > and a turntable. > www.antmanuv.net > SKOLTZ_KOLGEN > (Canada/MUTEK_REC/LINE) > Making use of state-of-the-art technology in sound > and image processing, Skoltz_Kolgen explore the > unconventional possibilities afforded when two > video screens are placed side-by-side. > www.skoltzkolgen.com > COH and Richard Chartier present CHESSMACHINE, a > strategic live music exchange in which each player anticipates > the other > > > s music, or moves. > COH (Russia/Raster-Noton/Mego) > Distinguished by the emphasized emotional content > of sound, Ivan Pavlov > s work veers away from > the path often taken by sound sculptors. > www.raster-noton.de > RICHARD CHARTIER > (USA/12k/LINE) Nominated for the Prix Ars Electronica, Chartier > s > minimalist work explores the relationship between > sound, silence, and the act of listening. > www.3particles.com > > S.A.T. > Diversions in beat-oriented music, where retro-fusion > sidles up against visions of future sonic possibilities. > MORE ACTS TO BE CONFIRMED. > > SMITH & HACK > (Germany/Smith & Hack) > Errorsmith and Soundhack come together to deconstruct > hekkish house into distorted, loopheavy, > agro-funk. > SCHNEIDER TM (Germany/Mute) > A Canadian premiere! This trio brings to mind > everything expressive and intangible in pop. Pet > Sounds for the 21st century? > www.schneidertm.com > JUNIOR BOYS (Canada/KIN) > Heralded as the next evolution of futuro-romantic > electro-pop, and in a niche all their own. > www.electrokin.com/artists/junior_boys/ > VITAMINSFORYOU > (Canada / Intr_version) > Playing sets as though they were narratives, Vitaminsforyou > takes blunted IDM and then builds > twists and turns. > www.sfeericle.com/vitaminsforyou/ > > > THURSDAY, JUNE 3RD > > S.A.T. > The THINKBOX COLLECTIVE takes over the SAT to deliver > some of Canada > s most progressive audio/visual > collaborations. > > CHRIS MCNAMARA > (Canada/Thinkbox) This Windsor-based video artist, writer, McNamara > also teaches New Media at the University of Ann > Arbor in Michigan. > MARK LALIBERTE (Canada/Thinkbox) > Primarily an exhibiting artist, Laliberte > s complex > installation works & independent objects have > been shown in exhibitions throughout Canada and > the U.S. > CHRISTOPHER BISSONNETTE > (Canada/Thinkbox) > Having performed alongside Scanner and Thomas > Brinkmann, Chris is a sound artist/graphic designer > who is currently working on a full-length CD. > STEVE ROY (Canada/Thinkbox) > An rhythmic experimenter, a software a? cionado > and effects peddler, Roy is constantly adding new > music to the Thinkbox website. > ROB THEAKSTON (Detroit/Thinkbox) > Self-described as a > consultant, democrat, dj, > editor, label manager, producer, promoter, radio > presenter, writer, visual artist, musician, and Manchester > united fan. > BILL VAN LOO (Detroit/Thinkbox) > A producer, DJ, musician and live performer, Van > Loo explores sound & the fusion of dub, reggae, hip > hop and jazz elements into electronic music. > All information on the Thinkbox Collective can be > found at www.thinkbox.ca > > EX-CENTRIS > An environment of excess sound and concentrated > space, dedicated to the ? ourishing visual interpretation > of dirty minimalism. > > DAVID KRISTIAN (Canada/Alien8) > A performance that will showcase atonalities, ? eld > recordings, and washes of ambient static. > www.davidkristian.com > NOMIG (Canada) > Presenting a new short ? lm that will capture the > essence of sonic planes for the eyes. > www.nomig.net > ILPO V > IS > NEN (Finland/Touch) > Half of legendary Finnish doom-minimalists Pan > Sonic, V > is > nen > s solo material bristles with organic > head music for the post-techno generation. > www.mego.at > PURE (Austria/Mego) > A post-industrial extremity, a must for all out-music > experimentalists, Pure invents moods and invokes > skin trickles with his haunted soundtracks. Playing > as part of PUREDEKAM. > www.mego.at > DEKAM (USA/dOc) > With a long history in the VIDVOX visual team and > a recent collaborator of Pure > s on a DVD project, > Dekam will be performing here as part of PUREDEKAM. > www.node.net > > S.A.T. > RASTER-NOTON NIGHT! The masters of experiential > electronics come together for a special performance on > one stage. > > SZKIEVE (Canada/Hushush) > Drilling into the mechanics of high frequencies and > noise pollution, Szkieve > s moods also lead him into > linear ambience. > www.szkieve.org > FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER > (Germany/Raster-Noton) > Bretschneider > s incorporates dry, laconic deepsound/ > hi-hat beats drive the background microloops > and delays. > BYETONE (Germany/Raster-Noton) > Considered one of four > core > Raster-Noton artists, > Byetone deconstructs the elements of rhythm with > the precise bravado of a surgeon. > NOTO (Germany/Raster-Noton) > A contemporary avant-garde master, Carsten Nicolai > incorporates deconstructed genre templates > with the atonal bursts and frequencies of the microsound > movement. > SIGNAL (Germany/Raster-Noton) > Komet, Byetone, and Noto together! A rare live collaboration > by some of the most integral electronicists > of the past ? ve years. > All information on Raster-Noton artists can be > found at www.raster-noton.de > > FRIDAY, JUNE 4TH > > S.A.T. > An event spanning the diversity of modern electronic > music, building from experimental abstraction to the latest > in dance music. MORE ACTS TO BE CONFIRMED. > > MILLIMETRIK > (Canada) Treated guitar, feedback, and drum loops with a > distinctly electronic edge. > www.millimetrik.com > DANIEL GARDNER/FRIVOLOUS > (Canada/Karloff) > With releases on Karloff, Proptronix, Poker? at, and > Background, Frivolous > s jazzy, off-kilter, experimental > house is quickly garnering international attention. > www.background-records.de > MOSSA (Canada/Complot/Cynosure) > Intelligent house with a strong dash of plastic and > static sounds. > www.complot.ca > > METROPOLIS > Some artists rise above genre into the sphere of individuality. > This evening celebrates two of them. > > PLASTIKMAN > (Canada/M-NUS/Plus 8/Novamute) > A highly ambitious audio-visual recreation of the > Plastikman discography, Richie Hawtin brings this > side of his persona back to the stage for its ? rst live > performance in over nine years. > www.plastikman.com > RICARDO VILLALOBOS > (Chile/Berlin/Perlon) > A ? gurehead in both the Chilean and Berlin scenes, > Villalobos creates some of the most intensive, careening > house performances in beat culture today. > www.mad-net.de/perlon > > SATURDAY, JUNE 5TH > > S.A.T. > This event showcases sampling pirates, improvisation, > loop fury, and diversions in techno. > > MAGALI BABIN (Canada/No Type) > A risk-taking improvisor who performs with metallic > objects, guitar pick ups, and electric guitar. > www.electrocd.com/bio.e/babin_ma.html > I8U (Canada/ORAL/Piehead) > Epic, organic, I8U is a coincidence of those momentary > bursts where deluges of street sounds > converge to a glimpse of musicality. > www.i8u.com > KPT MICHIGAN (Germany/Aesthetics) > Warm and melodic, Michael Beckett > s latest album > accounts a static- and feedback- riddled excursion > through sine tones and grey noise. > www.aesthetics-usa.com/bio/Kptmichiganbio.html > ERRORSMITH (Germany/Independent) > Deeply rooted in club-oriented electronic music, as > documented in the release of the MMM and Smithn- > Hack records, his work is based on research into > new forms of digital sound synthesis. > ANGEL (Germany/Bip-Hop) > A North American premiere! Ilpo V > is > nen (Pan > Sonic) and Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM), > sounding nothing like their original projects. > www.bip-hop.com > PORTABLE (UK/Background/Bip_Hop) > With traditional African rhythm structures underlying > the scratches and hisses of western modernity, > Portable > s lucid techno is a meditation in itself. > www.bip-hop.com > ORIGINAL HAMSTER > (Chile/Tigerbeat6) A mish-mash of huge electro, noisy house, marketing > concepts, and old fashioned > singing > music. > www.tigerbeat6.com > > METROPOLIS > A collection of the world > s most outspoken club rockers > come together for an all-night event! > > FAX (Mexico/Static Discos) > Deep and spare, Fax overlays high frequency clicks > and snippets over bottomless bass. > www.staticdiscos.com > EGG (Canada/MUTEK_REC) > Equal parts glitch, samples, and playfulness, EGG > ably sidestep the high brow of experimental electronics > through their cultivation of cartoon-tech > sensibilities. > www.poultryproduct.info, www.mutek.ca > RIP OFF ARTIST > (USA/Vertical Form/In? atbl) > Finally, the missing link between Akufen and Atom > Heart. Eclectic house chalk full of snips, crackles, > and blips! > www.ripoffartist.net > JASON FORREST > aka DONNA SUMMER (USA/Sonig) > A self-stylized sample terrorist who has taken on > the task of dethroning the musical embellishments > of 70 > s prog rock and disco. > www.cockrockdisco.com > KRIKOR > (France/Root Down/Karat) A consistent presence in the clubs of Paris and > Berlin, this young producer makes crunch-heavy, > no-nonsense techno-rockers. > mapage.noos.fr/krikor/ > ISOL > E (Germany/Playhouse) > This soulful, Stuttgart-based left-of-center maven > makes a rare North American appearance with his > disco-noir for insomniacs. > CRACKHAUS > (Canada/Onitor/MUTEK_REC/Risqu > e) > Scott Monteith (aka Deadbeat) and Steve Beaupr > > literally make cracked house. With a reputation as > one formidable performance team, the duo will not > disappoint! > www.onitor.de > HERBERT (UK/Soundslike/K7) > Creating some of the most sublime house from > the most unlikely of source material, Herbert is a > creative talent that can > t be denied. His DJ performance > will showcase his ever-developing tastes in > new music. > www.magicandaccident.com > > SUNDAY, JUNE 6TH > > S.A.T. > A night to explore the possibilities between traditional instrumentation > and electronics. Keep in mind that MUTEK > s ?nal > night is always ? lled with surprises > > > LOSCIL (Canada/Kranky) > Enraptured by the subaquatic, Loscil makes deep, > dubby, minimal techno for the sedate. > www.loscil.com > A rare performance collaboration between Burnt Friedman > and Can drummer, Jaki Liebezeit. > BURNT FRIEDMAN > (Germany/Nonplace/Scape) > A nominal instrumentalist and unabashed experimenter, > Friedman is a gifted collaborator who can deconstruct > any genre into his own sound. > www.nonplace.de > JAKI LIEBEZEIT (Germany/CAN) > In performance with Burnt Friedman, this legendary > Can drummer will bring to the Mutek stage ? ve decades > of rhythmic innovations. > GEOFF WHITE aka AEROC > (USA/Ghostly International/EDIT) > Having cultivated a reputation as a point of reference > in American techno, White > s latest project experiments > with the inner reaches of guitars. > www.edit-audio.com, www.ghostly.com > THE MOLE (Canada/Revolver) > Infatuated by loops and disco, The Mole snips funk into > fury. > www.techno.ca/revolver/revolver.html > JAMIE LIDELL (UK/Warp) > Billed as a > Lidell one-hour Fiasco > , tag team Lidell > and Fiasco have fashioned a new live set to stun, > puncture, then destroy all remaining squares. With > projections on the go, this is merely the tip of the poisoned > dart > > www.warprecords.com
