[microsound-announce] July 20th Berlin: Thomas Ankersmit/ Alberto de Campo/ Pierce Warnecke/ Louis Laurain and Nils Ostendorf

[Manuela Benetton]

Friday, July 20th - 21:00

at *Ausland*, Lychener Str. 60 10437 Berlin
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An evening of audio-visual performance, 4 channel electronic pieces and
improvised acoustic sets, ending a 2 weeks residency at ausland by Pierce
Warnecke for the project Textures*

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*Thomas Ankersmit* is a musician and installation artist based in Berlin
and Amsterdam. Initially an improvising saxophonist, his activities
expanded to include live electronic music and installation pieces based on
architectural acoustics and infrasound. He has been performing solo and in
collaboration with other artists such as New York minimalist Phill Niblock,
Kevin Drumm, Jim O'Rourke, Gert-Jan Prins, Borbetomagus and Alvin Lucier
since 1998. Since 2003, Ankersmit most frequently collaborates with Niblock
and electroacoustic improviser Valerio Tricoli. His saxophone work focusses
on the abstract, timbral extremes of the instrument, combining sustained
streams of intense multiphonic sound with acoustically amplified
micro-events occurring inside the instrument. His electronic music combines
realtime performance on analogue modular synthesizers with digital editing
and multitrack recording.

http://www.thomasankersmit.net/

*Alberto de Campo* studied classical composition and jazz guitar in
Austria. As guest researcher and later research director at CREATE, UC
Santa  Barbara, he worked with Curtis Roads on experimental synthesis
instruments,  and wrote the tutorial for SuperCollider2. He taught at the
IEM Graz, and at the  Academy for Media and Arts (KHM) Cologne. There, long
term collaborations  began with Florian Hecker, earweego, the band
powerbooks_unplugged, and  realtime research.  In 2004/2005, Alberto de
Campo held the Edgard Varèse guest professorship for Electronic Music at TU
Berlin. From 2005-2007, he was lead researcher in  the SonEnvir project at
IEM Graz, where an interdisciplinary team of scientists  studied the
applicability of sonification in diverse fields. With the team, de  Campo
wrote numerous publications, and organised a concert of sonifications  of
social data for the ICAD 2006 conference in London.  In 2007 he became
professor for Music Informatics at the Institute For Music And  Media
(IMM), Robert Schumann Music University Düsseldorf, and since 2009, he is
Professor for Generative Art/Computational Art at the Institute for Time-
based Media, Arts University Berlin (UdK).

*Pierce Warnecke *has been creating digital material since his studies at
Boston’s Berklee College of Music. Attracted at the same time by image and
sound, he develops modules to forge his own audiovisual elements. His work
stems from his interest in the effects of time on matter: modification,
deterioration and disappearance. Via an almost scientific process of
collecting, filtering and combining phenomena (objects, data, sounds,
images), he distills the subject via repetitive processes until it
approaches true abstraction. Whether focus is on the purity of digital
forms or the chaotic grit of natural objects, large scales of time and
space or microscopic detail, the goal of Pierce’s work is to readapt
existing materials into a parallel context where their signified meanings,
symbols and cultural connections have become residual ghosts. Sound works
explore combinations of pure synthetic sounds, electronic interferences,
field recordings and manipulations of found objects. Textural, drone,
noise, electronic and improvised music are areas of interest, explored
through solo works and collaborations. Video is created in real-time,
recorded, or generated and uses found items and moments: data sets, organic
matter and microscopic textures to create dense patterns and contrasting
forms.

http://piercewarnecke.blogspot.com

Born in 1984, *Louis Laurain* the trumpet as a self-taught musician. Since
2007 he has studyed improvisation at the Paris Superior Conservatory.
He is specialy interested by free forms of improvisation in music (energic
free-jazz, noise and minimalism). He ‘s currently working with the
free-jazz quartet ACTUUM (concert at the Vilette Jazz Festival in Sept 2009
and Best Band at the 2010 European Jazz Awards in Amsterdam). He also works
with the trio DOLSE (Warnecke/Laurain/Svensson). They recorded an album in
november in Berlin and they will be on tour in France at the beginning a
february. (Paris, Bordeaux, Marseilles, Lyon). He regularly performs
improvised duet or trio performances in Paris with the bass player Joel
grip (Umlaut records) and the saxophone player Yoann Durant.

*Nils Ostendorf *has developed a very individual approach on his
instrument, exploring the wide range between notes and noise by generating
frequencies using an extended embouchure technique, different mutes or
vibrating surfaces. He is influenced by natural sounds, contemporary music
and electronic music. Nils is active in various settings of improvised
music, with“The Silencers” with Benoit Delbcq, Toma Gouband and Kim Myhr,in
a Duo with saxophone player Michel Doneda, in the duo “Trigger” with
Matthias Müller, a trio with pianist Philip Zoubek and reed player Philippe
Lauzier and in duo with Kim Myhr . Nils works also as a performer,
composer, musical director and producer for theatre and dance pieces,
mainly with the german director Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubühne Berlin
and the Münchner Kammerspiele.
http://soundcloud.com/nilsostendorf


more info: www.ausland-berlin.de
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