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Subcurrent Festival
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
12-14th February 2004
CCA Glasgow throws open its doors to the 1's and the 0's for the Subcurrent Festival bringing some of the most exciting musicians on the new and electronic music scene to Glasgow. In this, the first year, Subcurrent have teased the hidden wiring out of place and exposed some musicians who bridge the gap between the new wave and the experimental, pitching the electronic punk upstarts of today against there own founding fathers.
Taking place in CCA:5, the three-day festival pass allows you to see
all the weekend's events ensuring you don't miss a thing. Drink, eat, listen,
absorb, discuss.
Thursday 12 February, 8pm
NOBUKAZU TAKEMURA
Brings his own brand of eclectic to the stage in CCA:5. The music of Japan's
Nobukazu Takemura is entirely original and personal. In the wake of his series
of collaborations with Eye of mantric Japanese rock group Boredoms under the
umbrella of Audio Sports, Takemura has hooked up with everyone from Steve
Reich and DJ Spooky through Yo La Tengo and Tortoise. Tonight's show features two sets, the first an all-improvised laptop performance using sound sources that include electronic speech generated via programs developed to aid the physically handicapped. The second set sees Takemura in virtual big band mode, playing keyboard and guitar and introducing vocals from Aki Tsyuoko, bass from Matt Lux (Isotope 217), keyboards and guitar from Michael Jorgenson (Wilco), Jun Nagami on drums and Anna Mizoguchi on vibes, marimba and keyboard.
'The most accessible yet baffling electronic auteur since Aphex Twin'
A Contemporary Music Network Tour, produced by the Concert Clinic
Friday 13 February, 8pm
NORBERT MOSLANG & JIM SAUTER
Norbert Moslang first brought his 'cracked everyday electronics' to bear on
Jim Sauter's deliriously manipulated saxophone when Moslang's group Voice
Crack went head-to-head with Sauter's reprobate 'snuff jazz' trio, Borbetomagus, across a series of uniquely form-destroying sides. Both players have much in common, sharing a determination to push well beyond the limits of their chosen 'instruments', as well as a commitment to forging a new improvisatory syntax based around Ur-grunts, white noise and the dying squeals of exploded circuitry. This is their first UK show together.
MASONNA
Psychedelic noise rocker Maso Yamazaki is best known as Masonna, an artist
whose shows are configured around an explosive combination of punk performance
art and electronics that impact like shrapnel. Due to the physically demanding
nature of his performances, Maso limits himself to a handful of solo performances across the year and tonight - his first ever Scottish show - is a rare opportunity to catch him in full nosedive. Alongside Merzbow, Incapacitants, Solmania and Hijokaidan, Masonna is revered as one of the prime movers in the ferociously inventive Japanese noise scene. Expect the obliterating.
Saturday 14th February, 7pm
SPACE MACHINE
With Space Machine, Maso Yamazaki of Masonna takes the experiments in analog
electronics of first wave cosmonauts like Joe Byrd's United States Of America,
Silver Apples, Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream and strips them of any
remnants of framing rock structure, setting up cracked internal dialogues
using nothing but a clutch of day-glo patch leads and a wall of vintage
electronics. Manhandling some of the most beautifully designed and unpredictably responsive analog inventions, Yamazaki draws wails and oscillating gulps from his equipment, creating great tactile splats of sound that flash and collide in mid-air like so much trance inspired ectoplasm. This is Space Machine's first ever UK performance.
DOUBLE LEOPARDS
Double Leopards (USA) were birthed from two experimental ensembles, with
members of punk-primitive Siltbreeze recording artists 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. Double Leopards were
birthed from two experimental ensembles, with members of punk-primitive Siltbreeze
recording artists Un (who at one time also included Tara Burke who now plays
as Fursaxa) 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.
Since then the group have secreted themselves deep within the sub-
underground, loosing swarms of alien electronics via a couple of limited CD-Rs,
two LPs on Eclipse and a split vinyl with the Son Of Earth-Flesh On Bone Trio,
an alliance that has also given birth to an amalgam known as Shackamaxon.
Working with almost static forms in a similar way to Japanese Fluxus
operatives Taj Mahal Travelers, Double Leopards drop in elliptical melodies
and rainbow electronics that flare just beyond the horizon, briefly illuminated by auroral bursts of tone that strafe the sky. Like Coil, Throbbing Gristle or Mirror, there is so much detail to the group's conceptions that they feel inhabited, so much eerie, subliminal action that their instrumentals seem to be undeniably about something, a hunch given further credence by darkly evocative titles like "The Forest Outlaws" and "The Secret Correspondence". This is their first ever UK performance.
KONTAKT DER JÜ NGLINGE (GER)
Kontakt der Jü nlinge is a collaboration between two titanic German sound
artists, Thomas Kö ner and Asmus Tietchens. Between them they span two
generations of uncompromisingly inventive electronic sound. Tietchens
has been active since the Sixties, morphing found sound and primitive
electronics into cobwebs of wrought iron in the company of everyone from Cluster & Eno through Nurse With Wound and Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa, while Kö ner came to
prominence in the Nineties with some beautifully bleak minimalist recordings
under his own name and more rhythmic experiments via his Porter Ricks disguise.
With Kontakt der Jü nglinge (named in tribute to two pieces by avant composer
Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Kontakt" and "Gesang Der Jü nglinge") the sound of
harsh, degenerated electronics dominates, with throbbing sub-bass cementing
monolithic walls of fibrous, fluctuating drone. This is the duo's
first ever UK performance.
Saturday 14th February, 4pm. CCA:4.
£2 (free accompanying event on purchase of any performance ticket)
SUBCURRENT
PANEL DISCUSSION
Venue
All performances take place in CCA:5 on the first floor of the
building. Tickets Tickets for all concerts are £10 (£8 in advance on the day of
the concert) and £6 concession. Concessions are senior citizens, under 18s, students, registered disabled and those in receipt of Job Seekers allowance. Please remember to bring proof of eligibility with you when paying for tickets or picking up pre-paid tickets. Festival Pass Buy a ticket for the whole weekend and access all of the concerts as well as the panel discussion for a reduced price.
Festival passes are £24 and £15 concession
Ticket Hotline 0141 352 4900
Centre For Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
12-14th February 2004
CCA Glasgow throws open its doors to the 1's and the 0's for the Subcurrent Festival bringing some of the most exciting musicians on the new and electronic music scene to Glasgow. In this, the first year, Subcurrent have teased the hidden wiring out of place and exposed some musicians who bridge the gap between the new wave and the experimental, pitching the electronic punk upstarts of today against there own founding fathers.
Taking place in CCA:5, the three-day festival pass allows you to see
all the weekend's events ensuring you don't miss a thing. Drink, eat, listen,
absorb, discuss.
Thursday 12 February, 8pm
NOBUKAZU TAKEMURA
Brings his own brand of eclectic to the stage in CCA:5. The music of Japan's
Nobukazu Takemura is entirely original and personal. In the wake of his series
of collaborations with Eye of mantric Japanese rock group Boredoms under the
umbrella of Audio Sports, Takemura has hooked up with everyone from Steve
Reich and DJ Spooky through Yo La Tengo and Tortoise. Tonight's show features two sets, the first an all-improvised laptop performance using sound sources that include electronic speech generated via programs developed to aid the physically handicapped. The second set sees Takemura in virtual big band mode, playing keyboard and guitar and introducing vocals from Aki Tsyuoko, bass from Matt Lux (Isotope 217), keyboards and guitar from Michael Jorgenson (Wilco), Jun Nagami on drums and Anna Mizoguchi on vibes, marimba and keyboard.
'The most accessible yet baffling electronic auteur since Aphex Twin'
A Contemporary Music Network Tour, produced by the Concert Clinic
Friday 13 February, 8pm
NORBERT MOSLANG & JIM SAUTER
Norbert Moslang first brought his 'cracked everyday electronics' to bear on
Jim Sauter's deliriously manipulated saxophone when Moslang's group Voice
Crack went head-to-head with Sauter's reprobate 'snuff jazz' trio, Borbetomagus, across a series of uniquely form-destroying sides. Both players have much in common, sharing a determination to push well beyond the limits of their chosen 'instruments', as well as a commitment to forging a new improvisatory syntax based around Ur-grunts, white noise and the dying squeals of exploded circuitry. This is their first UK show together.
MASONNA
Psychedelic noise rocker Maso Yamazaki is best known as Masonna, an artist
whose shows are configured around an explosive combination of punk performance
art and electronics that impact like shrapnel. Due to the physically demanding
nature of his performances, Maso limits himself to a handful of solo performances across the year and tonight - his first ever Scottish show - is a rare opportunity to catch him in full nosedive. Alongside Merzbow, Incapacitants, Solmania and Hijokaidan, Masonna is revered as one of the prime movers in the ferociously inventive Japanese noise scene. Expect the obliterating.
Saturday 14th February, 7pm
SPACE MACHINE
With Space Machine, Maso Yamazaki of Masonna takes the experiments in analog
electronics of first wave cosmonauts like Joe Byrd's United States Of America,
Silver Apples, Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream and strips them of any
remnants of framing rock structure, setting up cracked internal dialogues
using nothing but a clutch of day-glo patch leads and a wall of vintage
electronics. Manhandling some of the most beautifully designed and unpredictably responsive analog inventions, Yamazaki draws wails and oscillating gulps from his equipment, creating great tactile splats of sound that flash and collide in mid-air like so much trance inspired ectoplasm. This is Space Machine's first ever UK performance.
DOUBLE LEOPARDS
Double Leopards (USA) were birthed from two experimental ensembles, with
members of punk-primitive Siltbreeze recording artists 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. Double Leopards were
birthed from two experimental ensembles, with members of punk-primitive Siltbreeze
recording artists Un (who at one time also included Tara Burke who now plays
as Fursaxa) 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.
Since then the group have secreted themselves deep within the sub-
underground, loosing swarms of alien electronics via a couple of limited CD-Rs,
two LPs on Eclipse and a split vinyl with the Son Of Earth-Flesh On Bone Trio,
an alliance that has also given birth to an amalgam known as Shackamaxon.
Working with almost static forms in a similar way to Japanese Fluxus
operatives Taj Mahal Travelers, Double Leopards drop in elliptical melodies
and rainbow electronics that flare just beyond the horizon, briefly illuminated by auroral bursts of tone that strafe the sky. Like Coil, Throbbing Gristle or Mirror, there is so much detail to the group's conceptions that they feel inhabited, so much eerie, subliminal action that their instrumentals seem to be undeniably about something, a hunch given further credence by darkly evocative titles like "The Forest Outlaws" and "The Secret Correspondence". This is their first ever UK performance.
KONTAKT DER JÜ NGLINGE (GER)
Kontakt der Jü nlinge is a collaboration between two titanic German sound
artists, Thomas Kö ner and Asmus Tietchens. Between them they span two
generations of uncompromisingly inventive electronic sound. Tietchens
has been active since the Sixties, morphing found sound and primitive
electronics into cobwebs of wrought iron in the company of everyone from Cluster & Eno through Nurse With Wound and Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa, while Kö ner came to
prominence in the Nineties with some beautifully bleak minimalist recordings
under his own name and more rhythmic experiments via his Porter Ricks disguise.
With Kontakt der Jü nglinge (named in tribute to two pieces by avant composer
Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Kontakt" and "Gesang Der Jü nglinge") the sound of
harsh, degenerated electronics dominates, with throbbing sub-bass cementing
monolithic walls of fibrous, fluctuating drone. This is the duo's
first ever UK performance.
Saturday 14th February, 4pm. CCA:4.
£2 (free accompanying event on purchase of any performance ticket)
SUBCURRENT
PANEL DISCUSSION
Venue
All performances take place in CCA:5 on the first floor of the
building. Tickets Tickets for all concerts are £10 (£8 in advance on the day of
the concert) and £6 concession. Concessions are senior citizens, under 18s, students, registered disabled and those in receipt of Job Seekers allowance. Please remember to bring proof of eligibility with you when paying for tickets or picking up pre-paid tickets. Festival Pass Buy a ticket for the whole weekend and access all of the concerts as well as the panel discussion for a reduced price.
Festival passes are £24 and £15 concession
Ticket Hotline 0141 352 4900
Centre For Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD
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