SubCurrent Music Festival 12 - 14 February 2004
In February 2004 CCA will present SubCurrent, an annual international music festival. The festival, which runs between 12 and 14 February, will be geared towards exposing the hidden wiring that links early experimental electronic composition with the new wave of contemporary electronica.
Curated by one of Britain's leading experimental music writers and journalists, David Keenan (The Wire, Sunday Herald), this new three-day festival focuses on the use of electronics in various outsider musics, from Improv to droneworks, noise and sound art. Performers include Nobukazu Takemura (12 February), Jim Sauter & Norbert Moslang and Masonna (13), Space Machine, Double Leopards and Kontakt Der Junglinge (14). Full line up below.
"Subcurrent will sample the cutting edge application of electronics across a multitude of platforms, from free improvisation through to industrial noise, drone, pop, techno and sound art. SubCurrent is also an attempt to generate a new performance context for electronic music, incorporating everything from interactive sound installations, creative visuals and new web technology through the creation of total synaesthetic environments." David Keenan
FULL LINE UP:
Nobukazu Takemura Thursday 12 February, 8pm
Brings his own brand of eclectic to the stage in CCA:5. The music of Japan's Nobukazu Takemura is entirely original and personal. A live band back up the oddly childlike tempos and pulses of Takemura's lap top whilst his voice, emulating programs, harmonise with Aki Tsyuoko.
A Contemporary Music Network Tour, produced by the Concert Clinic
Norbert Moslang & Jim Sauter Friday 13 February, 8pm
This battle of wills pitches Moslang with his 'cracked everyday electronics', against Sauter's deliriously manipulated saxophone. A shared drive to push beyond the boundaries of their chosen instruments will make this their first U.K show together, an experiment in new improvisory syntax an exploded circuitry.
MASONNA Friday 13th February, 8pm
Psychedelic noise rocker Maso Yamazaki is best known as Masonna (Jpn), an artist whose shows are configured around an explosive combination of punk performance art and electronics that impact like shrapnel.
Space Machine Saturday 14th February, time tbc
The psychedelic noise rocker Maso Yamazaki takes the analog electronics of first wave cosmonauts like Joe Byrd, Silver Apples and Tangerine dream and strips them of any remnants of framing rock structure, noising it up with vintage equipment.
Double Leopards
Double Leopards (USA) were birthed from two experimental ensembles, with members of punk-primitive Siltbreeze recording artists Un, joining forces with Chris Gray of destructo-rockers Wicked Finger to cut their first self-released album, The Axe Helve in late 98/early 99. They have been compared to early Throbbing Gristle's ferocious live sounds.
Kontakt der Jue nglinge (Ger)
Kontakt der Jue nlinge is a collaboration between two titanic German sound artists, Thomas Koe ner and Asmus Tietchens. Between them they span two generations of uncompromisingly inventive electronic sound.
All performances take place in CCA: 5. Tickets are �10/(�8 in advance) and �6 conc. Ticket Hotline 0141 352 4900.
CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
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