[Microsound-announce] Concert: ORIENTAL SPACE / KELVIN ZERO - curated by Mazen Kerbaj

[robert van heumen]

STEIM presents: 

ORIENTAL SPACE 
Franz Hautzinger (Austria)  | trumpet
Helge Hinteregger (Austria) | sampler
Mazen Kerbaj (Lebanon) | trumpet
Sharif Sehnaoui (Lebanon) | electric guitar
 
KELVIN ZERO 
Basile Ferriot (France) | amplified percussion
Jassem Hindi (Lebanon) | lo-fi electro acoustic materials

Date: Tuesday, July 10
Venue: STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
Time: 20.30 hrs.
Entrance: 5 euros
Reservations and more information: knock at steim.nl
Curated by Mazen Kerbaj



ORIENTAL SPACE 
Franz Hautzinger (Austria)  | trumpet
Helge Hinteregger (Austria) | sampler
Mazen Kerbaj (Lebanon) | trumpet
Sharif Sehnaoui (Lebanon) | electric guitar
 
"Oriental Space" was formed in late 2003 by Austrian trumpet player Franz
Hautzinger following his two visits to Lebanon, the first to play
traditional quartertone trumpet with Palestinian folk singer Marwan Abado,
and the second to work and perform with Mazen Kerbaj in the frame of the
"Irtijal" festival for experimental and improvised music. The quartet came
as an enhancement of his ongoing duo work with Mazen Kerbaj, both bringing
in their most regular partners: Helge Hinteregger and Sharif Sehnaoui.
Hautzinger and Hinteregger have both been central figures of the prolific
Viennese contemporary and improvised music scene, taking part in the extreme
minimalist tendency of the 90s as well as electronic music. Recently their
style has diversified and they may take part in various projects ranging a
wide variety of styles both with their own groups: Regenorchester,
Zeitkratzer, Conforts of Madness... or in collaboration with artists such as
Radu Malfatti, Otomo Yoshihide, Phil Niblock, John Tilbury, Lou Reed, Luc Ex
or Roger Turner to name but a few.
Kerbaj and Sehnaoui have been two of the main boosts for the burgeonin
Lebanese improvised music scene that they contributed to launch in the year
2000, both by creating the "Irtijal" festival and "Al Maslakh" label. Their
style has primarily focused on dense textural improvisation based on an
extreme hijacking of their respective instrument by means of extended and
prepared techniques. They have widely performed around the globe both in duo
and with their main groups: "A" Trio, Moukhtabar Ensemble, Rouba3i... or in
collaboration with musicians such as Michael Zerang, Stéphane Rives, Lê Quan
Ninh, Axel Dörner or David Stackenäs among many others.
Franz Hautzinger's "Oriental Space" is the opening of an undetermined
subjective space that does not correspond or refer to any specific style of
music but rather to Hautzinger's unique inner experience of the orient that
he tries to share with both his partners and the audience.

KELVIN ZERO 
Basile Ferriot (France) | amplified percussion
Jassem Hindi (Lebanon) | lo-fi electro acoustic materials

Musicians from the young generation of free improvised music, Ferriot and
Hindi's approach focuses on an exploration of textures and raw sound
materials, primarily working through the antagonism between raw sound
material and musical gesture. Together they cast their pieces by piling up
materials and provoking blunt dynamic changes, building up sound layers
textured by percussions, field recordings, amplified objects, cut-ups,
feed-backsŠThe result is a field of sound stretching from "musique concrete"
to noise, crossed by Industrial, harsh noise or coranic chants.
They have also played with guests such as Toshihiro Koike, Martin Küchen or
Pierre Gordeff.


This concert series is partly funded by Gemeente Amsterdam.

More information on concerts: http://www.steim.org/steim/activity.php 

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STEIM              
(studio for electro instrumental music)
(studio voor elektro instrumentale muziek)

Achtergracht 19
1017 WL Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Tel: 020-6228690
Fax: 020-6264262
Email: knock at steim.nl
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