★After Action Review
Gaita Contra Computador
*In process of stocking* Vasco Alves is a sound artist living and working in Lisbon, Portugal. His work investigates the materialities of sound through uses of synthesis, amplification and unstable electronic systems. The results are often of a volatile nature, but also subjected to rigid live processing techniques. With his ongoing works for Gaita de Fole (Portuguese bagpipes), there is a distinct focus on the complementation and contrast between the acoustic voice of the Gaita set against comp…
Souffle (film sans images en cinq tableux vivants)
*In process of stocking* Perceptually the Mountain is a source of pleasure, alterity and danger. Acoustically transparent. Souffle (Fr: 'Breathe') is a film without images, conceived of and directed by Luca Garino - an Italian sound artist and composer, based in Turin. Souffle offers scenes of attentive and mimetic presences in dialogue with other presences. Interior and exterior environments, and the various forms of life and/or non-life that inhabit them. They are integral assets to these scen…
Skirting
*In process of stocking* Louie Rice and Luciano Maggiore work together as NO PA ON, performing score based works - both acoustic (without a PA system) and amplified (with a PA system). The duo was originally conceived to perform works by other artists as part of an event series at Cafe OTO in London. This series acted as a research period that went on to inform the action-based pieces that Rice and Maggiore are now writing themselves. These pieces explore physical actions and vocalisations in re…
Panzer Constellations
*In process of stocking* The music of Panzer Constellations was the result of a single occasion - by the invitation of After Action Review - to record a duo of soprano saxophones for the wonderful acoustics available at the former Heeresbekleidungsamt, Bernau - now an expansive abandoned building.