KOMPONENT 29: Radar@LAB
Friday the 27th and Saturday the 28th of September
NOTE: For up-to-date information and timeschedule on these events, please see: [fidse.org]
DATE: Friday the 27th of September
PLACE: LAB, Vesterbrogade 107b, baghuset
ENTRANCE: DKK 60,-
TIME: 20-03
Friday night Radar and Komponent has planned a program at LAB which gives the audience a possibility to listen to two artists, signed respectively at the recordcompanies TRAUM [http://www.traumschallplatten.de] and ECHOCORD [http://www.echocord.com], namely Proces (UK) and Mikkel Metal (DK). Furthermore the owners of these companies Triple R (D) and Ned Flanders (DK) will be DJ'ing stuff from their own catalogues, approaching releases and other goodies from the electronic stage.
Proces (TRAUM) aka Steve Barnes belongs to the English minimal electronic dance scene. His beaty as well as non-beaty tracks focuses on timbre as a musical parameter. Process attempts to explore the musics relation to space and built on the heritage from the English electro minimal scene like LFO and Sweet Exorcist.
Mikkel Metal aka Mikkel Meldgaard from Copenhagen has just released two vinyl-records at ECHOCORD which shares the style of Process and also in a minimal way works in a crossfield between dubby techno, ambient, clicks'n'cut and IDM as a starting point.
Mikkel Metal has previously released a record at the Berlin-company 'Hal 9000' and is at the moment working on a release at TRAUM.
As performing DJ's, Triple R aka Riley Reinhold and Ned Flanders aka Kenneth Christiansen, are guarantors that the audience this night will be guided through an exciting soundscape of new sly electronic releases.
VJ'ing: Effekt (DK) [http://www.effekts.dk]
DATE: Saturday the 28th of September
PLACE: LAB, Vesterbrogade 107b, baghuset
ENTRANCE: DKK 60,-
TIME: 17-03
Saturday Komponent and Radar presents a packed program including a lot of young Danish electronica composers, but also two Mille Plateaux [http://www.force-inc.com/mp/] artists Thomas Köner (D) [http://www.koener.de] and SND (UK) will be guesting LAB this night.
Multispeakersystem
Free Independent Diffusion Speaker Experience aka F.I.D.S.E.
Komponent has established a large scale of speaker setup at LAB which will give the audience a different experience of sound. Space is integrated in the electronic composition as a musical parameter. Komponent will describe the functionality of the speakersystem. A sample of the speakers capability will be given by LAB's inhouse band --bB and seven electronica-composers from the cambium of Copenhagen which has spent the week up to the Radar event composing music for the F.I.D.S.E. speakersystem. The seven comoposers are:
Slaphead Faun (Jacob Madsen)
- asks the listener to a cracked-dance with his distorted beats and an often furious tempo. His music is related to the genre drill'n'ambient Ð beats of wild ecstacy, lashing out around some pleasant, soft synthesizer-chords and nice little melodies. Slaphead Faun is a former drummer, and it is obvious that we are dealing with an absolute first class beat-equilibrist.
Orchard (Lars Bo Jandrup)
- produces rare harmonies and melodies containing subtle, tripped beats. He often works on the edge of a groove, and the attentive listener is thus really involved, since the music is permanently in search of a steady rock. Orchard's tracks are characterised by short, crispy machine sounds, cut-up, dashing around the soundscape and creating motion.
Jacob Kirkegaard
- works within various genres. His ambient works are full of fragile sounds, containing lo-fi noise and creating new musical universes. His more experimental works are also explorations into the unknown, and they are related to the sonic art tradition.
Jonas Olesen
- works especially within two fields for the time being, cutting edge and sonic art. Within the former, dainty tracks of fragmented sounds are produced which are both original continuations of Oval-sounds as well as being completely cutting edge sounds. The more experimental sonic art works are darker and more exploratory. Especially the parameters of harmony and texture are searched.
Pixel
- is the Nordic equivalent of Alva Noto. Pixel works in a super tight and minimalistic way with very simple click-beats containing improvised keyboard-sounds. However, a certain amount of jazz has also survived in the music (Pixel is a former saxophone player). In simple, groovy ways Pixel creates an intense atmosphere for the listener.
Rune Søchting
- explores the particularities and possibilities of sounds. The material is developed and manipulated according to the immediate, sensuous quality of each sound. His work is centred around form, sound, texture and substance, explored and manipulated in a universe in constant motion.
txture (Jakob Weigand Goetz)
- From all possible soundsources, he collects fragments that are put together in the compositional process, forming a kind of palimpsest-texture. Loops slowly changing form and colour that are mixed with noisy sounds of reality from the urban melting pot often form the basis of txture's composition. His aim is a kind of 'fluid architecture'.
Else Marie Pade revisited and remixed
In 1958 Else Marie Pade (born 1924) created the first piece of existing Danish electronic music. This 7 minute long piece was remixed this spring by six young electronic composers. By attending the result of these individual composers we will gain an insight into in the various ways of handling a specific composition. The composers are:
Thomas Knak alias Opiate, Christian Vester alias Goodiepal, Ejnar Kanding, Hans Sydow, Jens Hørsving and Bjørn Svin. The six remixes has previously been performed once at the Mix.02 festival in Århus and this second performance at LAB is simultaneously an introduction of the remix-cd released by Resonance.dk [http://resonance.dk] and SeeSound/Museeum of Contemporary Art [http://www.mfsk.dk/] in Roskilde.
For more information about Else Marie Pade, the remix-project, new electronic music and the SeeSound festival see: http://happynewears.com
As earlier mentioned LAB on Saturday night will also be guested by the Mille Plateaux artists Thomas Köner and SND, and in its entirety this evening will be one long underlining that timbre and space as musical parameters (rather than melodic and harmonic) is being explored these years. In terms of genre this evening will contain ambient/illbient, sonic art, drill'n'ambient and beaty pointillism.
VJ'ing: Iben West (DK)