yes, yes… the flyer is done. Use it at will!
OPN3 Introduxxxions: Blue Shift
Behind Blue Shift goes one Cybele Collins from Providence, Rhode Island in the USA, who plays the violin as if it was part of the rite of Exorcism: stomping her feet and making the instrument scream, sigh and howl. Wim “Mangenerated” van Gelder made a great documentary on her. It’ll tell you more than our silly words.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gezrpEl71wc]
OPN3 Introduxxxions: Kakawaka
Yay! Optimus Prime 3 is coming up on the 12th of June! Another night of howling noise mayhem from allmost all over the world. If we’re not too lazy (or too busy with “organizing”) we’ll try to post some info about every act every day. And today we start off with Germany’s noise clown Kakawaka!
Christoph Petermann is his real name and as Kakawaka he has set the standard for the so-called Krovastyle. Chewing and re-chewing the grassroots of noise? We dunno. Mostly to be seen running around with a big fork and dressed in fashionable yellow, trying to scare the shit out of people. You’ll love him!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5UBN9mdAUQ]
Japanese iPhone mania in Seoul
Almost four months ago I swapped Tilburg for Seoul, South-Korea. It’s not number one noise city, but for those who think nothing is happening here: you couldn’t be more wrong. Two weeks after my arrival for the first time I was playing in Yogiga, a underground (literally) expressionist gallery which is THE place for experimental music. Every last sunday of the month there’s a night (afternoon actually) called Bulgasari. Locals as the Japanese Seoul-resident Sato Yukie (you might have seen him around Europe last year) are playing every time among lot’s of Americans, Japanese and so now and then other foreign artists. The whole thing actually feels like being at a Vatican Analog night.
Yesterday there were some good artists, but especially the Japanese media-artist Masayuki Akamatsu was a pleasant surprise. He showed up with twenty (20) iPhones and a laptop. He made two circles of the iPhones, connected them on a wi-fi network and controlled the settings of the devices from his laptop. The sound is generated by his application at his laptop and/or touching the screens of the iPhones. From beautiful melody’s to cacophonic noise; everything is possible. Akamatsu – professor at the university of media arts in Japan specialized in iPhone applications – didn’t really turn out to be a great musician nor noiseartist though. It all sounded pretty random,but well, impress people by showing off (wheter that’s stuff or appearance) most of the time will to the job . So for those with a better sense for music or noise: save some money and buy 20 iPhones (hint: Akamatsu made a rental deal). And in case you are in Seoul too: this week he will give lectures in Soongsil University.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy4tO8iuhkE&hl=nl&fs=1]
CHORA opening for SONIC YOUTH at the London Scala tomorrow
Earlier this month, we organized a triple droner at 013 with UK’s Lanterns, Helhesten and Chora. The latter is opening up for Sonic Youth tomorrow at the London Scala. Tickets already sold out and if you weren’t at our party… well, too bad! But future opportunities will arise at the horizon where their massive slabs of psychedelic chaos will take you once again on an amazing and at points frightening kaleidoscopic journey!
some pics of the SPOONO and CAM DEAS gig
As expected, it wasn’t a huge crowd that exchanged the amplified mayhem of Roadburn for some acoustic guitar picking at my place, but it was a successful evening nonetheless. Both SPOONO and CAM DEAS left behind a pleased crowd and I’m thinking about organizing these kind of intimate concerts more often in the future. Below some pics to give you an impression.
Tonight: guitars and 8bit polkaaa
Besides the livingroomconcert at Staplerfahrers (wanna come, mail sdeturck@home.nl) Wouter (Franz Fjödor) will dj tonight at Hall of Fame in Tilburg as DJ Das Gezicht. He will spin some 8 bit gabba gabba and techno records. Be there!
VR. 24 APR ———-
SPINDEMTUNES # 4
DAS GEZICHT | KIJK EEN STER | NYSTAGMUS
notitie: vince the prince = cancelled
vervanger: das gezicht [8bit polka]
dj party/beats/8bit polka/bass/electro/hiphop
CTRL-Z | 21:30 – 01:00 | € vrijwillige bijdrage
OPTIMUS PRIME NOISEFEST!
Hey everybody,
Your favorite organisers from Tilburg, Holland are back in business. This June (12th/13th/14th) we are organising the 3rd OPTIMUS PRIME NOISEFEST here in our beautiful town. Last time we did a festival of one day with around 30 acts and this time we want to at least triple that amount of acts, so we made it into a three day festival. You wanna come and play?
The rules:
– every act plays 12 minutes.
– we want noisemusic, so no ambient, electro or industrial: noise is noise.
– don’t expect much moneywise, we don’t get funding, it’s DIY all the way, but we give gasmoney to the travellers.
– local acts play for free
– we try to provide every foreign act with a sleepingplace (but please take a sleepingbag / matress with you)
Further:
No guestlist, no presslist, no ego’s, only noise for the masses!
Still wanna come and play (you should): send an email to wouterjaspers@gmail.com
More info on the previous OPTIMUS PRIME NOISEFEST:
youtube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_t … EFEST&aq=f
Acts performing on the last Optimus Prime Noisefests:
Kasper van Hoek(NL), Mental Heart Fix (NL), RA-X (NL), Abso lut, Bart Hard (NL), Bitter, Diskoster (be), Doornen & Terg (NL), Ero Babaa (fr), Fckn Bstrds(NL), Gays With Machines ft. Gay – Z (nl/uk), Hybrid Packaging(NL), Levi van Huijgevoort(NL), Pentothal (r) (be), Pu:ppkakkbaggrlull (NL), Staplerfahrer(NL), Sten Ove Toft (no), Strom Varx (fra), Vomir (fra) Kirdec (BE), Rossa Merda (UK), Rinus van Alebeek (DE/NL), Grieffer (CA), NxFxTxEx (DK), Zyrtax (NL), Brutophilia (CA), Seppuku + Mutant Ape (UK), Bas Verbeek (NL), Shortlife (FRA), Gokkuchan (BU), Raaskalbomfukkerz (NL), Portable Noise Kremator (BE), Belch (NL), Antoine Chessex (CH), Monopolka (RU), Bucketovscissors (DE), Pupp:kakkbaggrlull (NL), No John (BE), NIHIL IS ME (IT), Neurobit (NL), Peter Quistgard (NL), Man Manly (DE), Androgene Collective (NL), Impostor (BE), Penthotal® (FR), Laffe Mietjes (NL), Bram Stadhouders (NL), Solar Skeletons (BE)
for those who not only want to go to Roadburn this friday…
Fusing the intricate guitar magic of John Fahey with the beauty of Debussy. Next Friday, Spoono and Cam Deas from the UK will showcase their impressive technique mixed with cascades of echo and haze in the intimate setting of a living room concert. Come on over and allow yourself to let the mesmerizing sounds captivate you.
Spoono is 24-year old guitarist Jack Allett (who is also half of Towering Breaker), who takes the Takoma School of John Fahey, Robbie Basho et al. as the starting point for his compositions and improvisations, and goes on to incorporate psychedelia, neoclassicism, minimalism, jazz and more into his unique take on modern folk/blues fingerpicking. He has a new album out on Blackest Rainbow Records.
http://www.myspace.com/spoonowoolfe
Since the dissolution of his previous band, Cameron Deas started a solo career under the name Cam Deas. He has released various EPs under the record labels Blackest Rainbow, Dead Pilot, Dirty Demos and others. Deas plays the guitar, and notably the 12 String Guitar. His music is a mix of acoustic and electronic sounds, which “conjures up an air of ancient smoke-wreathed ritual with ghostly moans and 12 string acoustic guitar ragas that disappear into cascades of echo, haze and distortion.”
http://www.myspace.com/camdeasmusic
more info: sdeturck@home.nl
Staplers saturday
Whoa…Wouter and i got up at 3:45 am last saturday, after sleeping little less than 3 hours. This due to the fact that friday we scheduled in a little poker night at my place and the previous plans to go to bed early that night, did not really succeed. Anyway, after the obligatory tooth brushing we stepped into the car and were on our way Düsseldorf Weeze Airport, because saturdaynight we were going to attend the “20 years of Sudden Infant” party in Berlin!
Yes, our friend Joke Lanz has been performing under the “Sudden Infant” moniker for 20 years now, and he is going to celebrate this anniversary by hosting a mini-festival at the Ausland venue in Berlin. We are so much looking forward to this that the lack of sleep is almost forgotten when we cruise down the empty Dutch highways.
Around 5:45 am we arrive at Weeze, so just in time for our flight that leaves at 6:30. Why so early? Well, it was the cheapest way… Upon touching our seats in the plane we fall asleep, not waking up again before we arrive at Berlin Schönefeld: first power nap of the day! Brrr… we were hoping for some good weather but instead Berlin is cold and grey. Whatever. We head into town and take the U-Bahn to Rathaus Neukölnn, where we take a little walk and find us a place to have some breakfast.
It’s after nine now and still we have a long day ahead of us. After breakfast we go out for a walk and make a phone call to our friend Christoph “Kakawaka” Petermann with whom we make a date for noon at Hermannplatz. Inbetween we nourish some Turkish tea at a place nearby the former “O Tannenbaum” and enjoy Berlin a bit further. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I feel so at home every time that I’m here. This city seems to be so alive and vibrant, and you walk into another world with every block that you cross. Bliss around every corner.
With Christoph we go to a bar, where he once met up with John “Massaccesi” Fanning. The latter apparently enjoyed this bar so much, which made us eager to go there as well! We talk about renting apartments in Berlin, since Wouter is planning to move there later this year. We have lunch, say goodbye to Christoph and walk on to the new Staalplaat store for our date with Rinus van Alebeek. Staalplaat moved places this weekend and will re-open in about a week, hence the endless boxes of cd’s and lp’s scattered all over the place. Rinus is going to start a coffee corner in the back of the building and that’s where we meet and have a… beer. After updating each other of the latest developments we have a second power nap that day. Two hours later we join Rinus to his apartment where he treats us on some excellent bread with exquisite herring in a dille sauce: very yummy! Around 8 pm we leave him so that he can watch “Germany’s next Topmodel” and head for the “20 years of Sudden Infant” party! Yay!
When we arrived at the Ausland, we meet Joke in the doorway and he greats us with “Tilburg is in the house!” which makes us feel very welcome. The place is already pretty packed and among them we see many familiar faces, which in effect builds up to the “feeling at home in Berlin” vibe. I guess at its peak there where about 150 people in there, and with them we enjoy some excellent performances by a.o. Dick Tourette, Family Battle Snake and Raionbashi. But highlight of evening was without a doubt Joke’s performance together with his son Celeste: blowing on whistles while playfully (and in turns) carrying each other on the back and stumbling through the audience (and at the same time a soundcollage was playing in the background). An emotional and magical moment! The overall atmosphere and the organization of the night was great by the way, and I guess some photos and videos will pop up somewhere soon, because everything was well documented. Around 4 am we say goodbye to Joke and start our trip back to the airport. Before we get on the U-Bahn we have a falafel at one of the many places that are open 24-7 and contemplate back on a crazy but great day in Berlin. Our plane would leave again at 8.