| | | Our concert series at radialsystem is underway this week with double-bill events spanning improv, sound art, experimental audiovisual performance, and an investigation into d/Deafness. The project »MAPS: Electronic Resonances Between Ecuador and Mexico« by Radio Lab commission winners Concepción Huerta and Fe Sexta aims to revive audio archives of pioneering electronic music composers in Mexico and Ecuador, active in the 1970s. A fixture in the international improv scene, Julian Sartorius has become known for a drumming style that plays with suspending time and testing infinity. Presenting the album Locked Grooves at CTM, he interrogates the idea of a static groove by unfurling a percussive suite gradating over tonal nuances, micro expressions, and shifting time signatures. What is deafness if not another mode of perception? What is a cyborg if not an exploded mirror of today’s corporeal experience? »Ex Silens« is part of the series I Am Your Body, a long-term project by Marco Donnarumma that investigates deafness, sound, and (artificial) intelligence through participatory research driven by and with d/Deaf and hard-of-hearing people. Friday, following a day of discussions, Eduardo Reck Miranda will present a concert of Quantum Computer Music showcasing pioneering systems and performances developed by his team at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR), Plymouth, UK.
On Saturday, award-winning composer, sound artist, and live performer SØS Gunver Ryberg meets the visual artist and CGI director Sybil Montet for »Weaving Fields,« an audiovisual journey where worldbuilding and scenic experience collide. The same night, NAH will present the debut of his new album and live AV show »Totally Recalled,« a guaranteed head-tripping adventure full of visual reflections on the confusion, disconnection, narcissism, anxiety and fear that pervades the Americanized modern experience.
Sunday, the series closes with the Musicmakers Hacklab grand finale. | | |
