My 2 videos, “Dualism” and “Silent Treatment” selected for this festival. I had videos selected since 2007 at this festival so It’s the fifth year.
SIMULTAN FESTIVAL 2011 – Imaginary
6-8 oct. Timisoara, Romania
Sinagoga din Cetate, Cinema Studio, Casa Artelor
DETAILS AND PROGRAM:
http://www.simultan.org/festival
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The Simultan Festival is an annual festival for video, media art, experimental music and a/v projects.
The festival wishes to sustain and to stimulate the creative ways of the most modern visions of perceiving and recording the cultural realities in contemporary art. It presents the current processes and the way in which technology and society give rise to new forms of artistic expression by using the new media.
In the seventh edition of Simultan Festival, we would like to explore the possibilities and the limits of the imaginary. We are interested in the ways in which the circumstances of the real world that we inhabit determine the forms of the imaginary, and we want to make this interest visible both in the selection criteria for the videos that will be presented in the festival, as well as in the events of the festival. We wish to ask questions such as: Whose imaginary shapes the future? or What nurtures imagination in a world in which information that we have access to is filtered through search engines and it is manipulated through mass media?
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VIDEO ARTISTS
Anton Kaun (DE), Benjamin Funke (USA), Charmaine Ortiz (USA), Arístides Job García Hernández (SP), Harald Rettich aka rettnoise (DE), Katalin Tesch (HU), Lars Ullrich (DE), Max Hattler (DE), Ozan Turkkan (TR), Paul ODonoghue (UK), Roberto Musanti (IT), Sally Richardson (USA), Tonino Casula (IT), Arjan Brentjes (NL), Henry Gwiazda (USA ), Deborah Kelly (AU), LABOR 45 (DE), Nadine Arbeiter (DE), Sandra Dollo & Uli Berthold (DE), Csont Zsombor & Török Tihamér (RO), Nadja Verena Marcin (USA), Tamara Moyzes & Shlomi Yaffe (SK, IL), Daniel Nicolae Djamo (RO), Ellen Wetmore (USA), Allan Brown (CA), Steiner Balázs (HU), Benjamin Funke (USA), Coralie de Gonzaga (FR/A), Dania Reymond (FR), Anders Weberg (SE), Giada Ghiringhelli (CH), Henna-Riikka Halonen (FI) , Kuo Hsin-Hui (TW), Sugár János (HU), Klaus Pamminger (AT), Lucie Kim & Felix von der Weppen (USA, DE), Martin Mirko (DE), Monica Vlad (RO), Stefan Adamski (PL), Simon Wellch (UK), Zhenqian Huang (CN/FR), Adi Matei (RO), Miss Enabyme (USA/Israel), CAROLINE MONNET (CA), Corinne Mazzoli (IT), Mike Celona (USA), Ron Lambert (USA)
FESTIVAL VISIT
Videomedeja – video works from the festival
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LIVE PERFORMANCE PROJECTS (as in the program) – at Sinagoga din Cetate
TIGRICS (HU)
-> http://www.simultan.org/en/2011/liveperformance.html#tigrics
Róbert Bereznyei (born Tata, Hungary, 1975) is a prolific and highly consistent electronic musician hailing from Budapest, Hungary.
Highly regarded as one of the best eastern european producers of experimental music, his music has taken him all over europe, playing at festivals and clubs alongside the likes of Keith Fullerton Whitman, Leafcutter John, Ceephax Acid Crew, Frog Pocket, Shitmat and many more. He has released a number of past albums on smaller european labels.
http://soundcloud.com/tigrics
YVAT /boltfish, U-cover (RO)
-> http://www.simultan.org/en/2011/liveperformance.html#yvat
After 10 years of electronic music, and more than 25 released albums yvat might be considered one of the most vivid and productive exponents of the IDM scene, in Eastern Europe. His music is mature and highly developed, yet retains a fresh and experimental edge; the sound is always strong and clear, with an analogue profoundness, and composition has an aggressive touch in the framework of a melodic geometry reminding of Boards of Canada and early works from Autechre. Music is built on a combination of complex glitchy beat programming, darkly atmospheric textures and subtle melodic elements.
In the past years, yvat’s music has been produced by well known experimental labels from U.K., as Boltfish Recordings or Cactus Island.[...]
http://www.yvat.com/
DANIEL DOROBANTU & FELIX PETRESCU (RO)
“As far as we remember”
http://www.simultan.org/en/2011/liveperformance.html#dorobantu-petrescu
If compared to their biological age, D & F know each other for a very long time. More than half their lifetime. Since the proverbial times of the “Circle of Calculators”, first local official assembly for geeks in Timisoara.
Their bond become even stronger once F tried to double the size of D’s hard disk using some occult software of the time. It was a failure and so D was forced to initiate himself into the ways of the system reinstallation.[...]
www.dorobantu.com
www.facebook.com/makunouchibento
ALPHA BITE (RO)
-> http://www.simultan.org/en/2011/liveperformance.html#alpha-bite
Music is not precisely defined spatial and melodic sounds categorized as the perfect mix to make the `experimental pure fantasy to dream about.
For those who want to listen at home or in the headphones at a club and this genre of sound that can be included in their playlist the kind of music that relies on all `imaginary and beyond.
http://soundcloud.com/alphabite
‘megatsunami’ by OTOLAB (IT)
http://www.simultan.org/en/2011/liveperformance.html#otolab
Megatsunami is a live performance that has been realized using Lumanoise (a self-built instrument), strobe lights, laser and cold or incandescent lamps.
Modulating the diverse lighting sources largely through improvisation, the performers stratify sound and light waves and organize a rhythmically obsessive liveset characterized by an electrical, noise and industrial sound.
The outcome is a powerfully sensorial synaesthetic experience, both hypnotic and perceptively stimulating through the perfect synchronization between sound and light.
http://www.otolab.net/
PLEQ (PL)
-> http://www.simultan.org/en/2011/liveperformance.html#pleq
Pleq is the solo project of Bartosz Dziadosz,an experimental musician who combines elements of drone, down tempo, glitch and modern classical. He creates his work by fusing together independently synthesized sounds, often incorporates violin, the unexpectedly melancholic sound of a piano, sometimes female vocals.
Somewhere, something falls, something enters, rings… there’s a hissing and pop, like a short circuit on high voltage lines. Carried by strong focus, Pleq’s style is remarkably consistent, and may be described as: Glitch & Melancholy.”
http://soundcloud.com/bartoszdziadosz
SOMNOROASE PASARELE* (RO)
-> http://www.simultan.org/en/2011/liveperformance.html#somnoroase-pasarele
Somnoroase Pasarele a aparut in 2007, si reprezinta cautarile in zona muzicala a doi artisti plastici Gili Mocanu si Elena Albu. Au existat experiente anterioare, inregistrari pe banda magnetica inca din 1992 din partea lui GM, (colaborari cu Mugur Grosu), radacinile fiind izvorate din muzica contemporana (Iancu Dumitrescu, David Prescott). Tendinta generala a fost de a explora tipul de sonoritate si de teme a muzicii contemporane aduse intr-o forma comestibila pentru un public tanar. Desi ne ferim de termenul experimental, rezultatul este in zona acestuia. Daca la inceput ne-am “jucat” preparand instrumente clasice, mixand sunete naturale, analogice, inregistrari de tot felul, dupa 1997 lucrul a fost concentrat exclusiv pe relatia cu computerul, studiul compozitiei, a tonului si a non-tonului, structurii atipice, chiar si ocolirea neconventionalului pentu a obtine determinantele. [...]
http://soundcloud.com/somnoroase-pasarele
*concertul Somnoroase Pasarele este un eveniment Sambata Sonora in cadrul festivalului
THOMAS TILLY/Tô (FR)
-> http://www.simultan.org/en/2011/liveperformance.html#to
Artist-composer and self-taught musician, Thomas Tilly uses the microphone as his main instrument of work. In 2001 he creates Tô, a solo project of concrete music focusing on environmental sounds and foundobjects manipulations. In this view, the composition and publication on disc of such sound material have to be considered as a sonic synthesis of a place during a certain periode of time. (N.B. this method requires to stay, observe and study the architectural aspects of the place in order to formulate a personal view and interpretation of it).
The knowledge of Thomas Tilly is also used for sound-installations allowing to develop and enlarge the logic of specific datas collected in a place – via various systems of triggering/diffusion in situ.
http://www.fissur.com/
DIEB13 (AT)
-> http://www.simultan.org/en/2011/liveperformance.html#dieb13
Dieter Kovačič born in 1973, school and various studies in vienna. since the late 80ies he has worked continuously in rendering cassette players, vinyls, cd’s and harddisks into instruments.
Solo appearances as dieb13, dieb13, dieb14, bot, echelon, dieter bohlen…
Permanent collaborations include: eh, NotTheSameColor, siewert/dieb13, erik.M/dieb13, dieb13 vs. takeshi fumimoto, swedish azz, phil minton/dieb13, john butcher group founder of the klingt.orgestra.
Performances at various international festivals and locations including: phonotaktik wien, sonicacts amsterdam, beyond innocence osaka, lmc festival london, electrograph athens, maerzmusik berlin, kammermusiktage witten, musiktage donaueschingen, wien modern, musee de art moderne strasbourg, worldinformation.org beograd, turningsounds warszawa, piksel bergen, donaufestival krems, batofar paris, university of colorado springs.
Distributed by 1.8sec, absurd, amoebic, antifrost, charhizma, doc, durian, en/of, erstwhile, filmarchiv austria, for4ears, grob, hathut, mego, orf, pilot.fm, rhiz, sixpack, staalplaat,transacoustic research, unframed recordings.
Music for theater-, opera- and videoproductions and installations.
Runs the internet platform klingt.org
Dieter Kovačič is a conscientious copyright-objector and lives in vienna fuenfhaus
http://dieb13.klingt.org/
NAVA SPATIALA (RO)
-> http://www.simultan.org/en/2011/liveperformance.html#nava-spatiala
: deep-level noisenautics from outer spaces : beatless intercourse : alien sound fucks : hyper crazy next-level shit : unintentional sound hacks : highly experimental
http://soundcloud.com/nava_spatiala
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INSTALLATION – (Pygmalion Gallery at Casa Artelor)
“Sound Mathematics” by yvat collective
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXEF1QQ4U5s
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PRESENTATION/LECTURE
SÂMBĂTA SONORĂ / a presentation by Octav Avramescu
-> http://www.simultan.org/en/2011/lectures.html#sambatasonora
Sambata Sonora is a place for experiments in listening, a passageway to another kind of structure, context, attitude, (com)position, history, curiosity, silence or concentration.
We want to open doors and not only to be right, to see how much we trust taste, but to remain unattached, to survey academism and return all the more credibly to experimentation, to contradict ourselves through enthusiasm and to provoke answers.
We want to imagine that one day there will be a sound and music research lab, an experimental radio, a sound art class at some school, another stage for new music around here.
http://sambatasonora.blogspot.com/
THE FUTURE OF SOUND
by Miron Ghiu
http://mironghiu.wordpress.com/
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funder: Administratia Fondului Cultural National
partners: Societatea Filarmonica din Timisoara, Directia pentru Cultura Timis, Austrian Cultural Forum – Bucharest, H.arta group, Pygmalion Gallery, Sambata Sonora
media partners: Radio Guerilla, 24Fun, TvrTimisoara, Veioza Arte, Vice, feeder.ro, modernism.ro, hipmag, neaparat.ri, port.ro
sound & light: deBoot
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